Gravel-voiced and hard to pin down, Keach moved between cop dramas, Westerns, stoner farce, a cult Aussie thriller and a late turn in black and white. Pick the performance that lingers longest.
1Fat CityJohn Huston's 1972 boxing drama set in Stockton, California, with Keach as the fading fighter Billy Tully alongside Jeff Bridges.1000pts
2Escape from L.A.John Carpenter's 1996 sequel to Escape from New York, with Keach as Commander Malloy, who sends Snake Plissken into Los Angeles.551pts
3The Long RidersWalter Hill's 1980 Western about the James-Younger gang, with Keach as Frank James; he also co-wrote and executive-produced it.551pts
4The Ninth ConfigurationWilliam Peter Blatty's 1980 psychological drama, with Keach as Colonel Kane, a psychiatrist running a military asylum in a remote castle.551pts
5DocA 1971 revisionist Western directed by Frank Perry, with Keach as Doc Holliday opposite Harris Yulin's Wyatt Earp.466pts
6The Heart Is a Lonely HunterA 1968 adaptation of Carson McCullers's novel, Keach's feature film debut, in which he plays the restless drifter Jake Blount.466pts
7Batman: Mask of the PhantasmA 1993 animated feature spun off from Batman: The Animated Series, in which Keach voices the mob-linked businessman Carl Beaumont.466pts
8American History XTony Kaye's 1998 drama about a reformed neo-Nazi, with Keach as Cameron Alexander, the white-supremacist leader who recruits young men.363pts
9LutherA 1974 American Film Theatre adaptation of John Osborne's play, with Keach in the title role of Martin Luther.0pts
10Up in SmokeCheech and Chong's 1978 stoner comedy, in which Keach plays the hapless narcotics officer Sergeant Stedenko.0pts
11Road GamesRichard Franklin's 1981 Australian thriller, with Keach as a truck driver tracking a serial killer across the Nullarbor alongside Jamie Lee Curtis.0pts
12The New CenturionsA 1972 Los Angeles police drama directed by Richard Fleischer, with Keach as rookie officer Roy Fehler partnered with George C. Scott.0pts
13NebraskaAlexander Payne's 2013 black-and-white road film, with Keach as Ed Pegram, the old business partner of Bruce Dern's Woody Grant.0pts
