James Keach

James Keach is an American actor and filmmaker from a performing family: his father was the actor and drama coach Stacy Keach Sr., and his older brother is the actor Stacy Keach. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he earned degrees at Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama and trained as a Shakespearean actor. He is best known as a producer and director, though his most famous screen role was Jesse James in The Long Riders (1980), which he also co-wrote and produced; he later produced Walk the Line. He took supporting parts in films including National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), The Razor's Edge (1984) and Wildcats (1986), and a leading role in Moving Violations (1985). He directed the series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and the documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, and won a Grammy as a producer of Linda Ronstadt The Sound of My Voice.