Henri Charriere

February, 1971

At 29, he may be his own hardest act to follow. In the past year and a half, Stacy Keach has scored on Broadway, as Buffalo Bill in Indians; on film, first as Horner in End of the Road, then in the title role of The Traveling Executioner and, more recently, in an improvisational cameo as the 120-year-old third Wright brother in Brewster McCloud. Of his latest venture—as the protagonist in Frank Perry's Western Doc, recently completed in Spain—Keach says: "Doc Holliday is the most demanding...