Early life

Stacy was born Maurice William Elias in Los Angeles to an Irish-Scottish waitress and a Lebanese-American bookmaker.

Career

Stacy made his film debut Sayonara in 1957, and his television debut in Highway Patrol. He had a recurring role as "Fred" in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet from 1958 to 1963. During the 1960s he made guest appearances in television shows, including Gunsmoke, Hazel, The Donna Reed Show, Have Gun - Will Travel, Perry Mason, and Combat!. In 1966 he appeared in the final episode of Perry Mason as actor and murder victim Barry Conrad in "The Case of the Final Fade-Out".

Stacy is perhaps best remembered as a star of the western series Lancer, along with Andrew Duggan, Wayne Maunder, and Paul Brinegar. Lancer aired on CBS from 1968 to 1970. Stacy played the character "Johnny Madrid Lancer", a former gunslinger, the son of Duggan's character, Murdoch Lancer. Stacy acted in several motion pictures from the 1950s through the 1970s, including a minor part in the musical South Pacific.

Motorcycle accident

On September 27, 1973, Stacy was taking Claire Cox for a ride on his motorcycle in the Hollywood Hills when a drunken driver struck them. She died and Stacy lost his left arm and leg. Stacy's ex-wife, actress and singer Connie Stevens, organized a 1974 celebrity gala to raise money for his expenses. The gala, whose attendees included Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, raised $118,000 for his expenses. In 1976, he won a $1.9 million lawsuit against the bar that had served the drunk driver.

The 5/13/1996 People Magazine article states that it was Mr. Stacy's girlfriend, a waitress, Pia Isataki, who was the passenger on the motorcycle who was killed.

Comeback

After his recovery, Stacy appeared in roles created to accommodate his handicap. His comeback film was the 1975 Kirk Douglas Western Posse, in which he was cast as newspaper editor "Harold Hellman", a part Douglas had written for him. In 1977, he starred in the TV movie Just a Little Inconvenience, playing a double-amputee Vietnam veteran. The role earned him his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Special. In 1980, Stacy starred in and produced the TV movie, My Kidnapper, My Love. His brother, Louie Elias, a character actor and stuntman, wrote the screenplay, based on the novel by Oscar Saul, to accommodate Stacy’s handicap. Elias was also the associate producer.

Other television appearances included Hotel, Cagney & Lacey (for which he was nominated for a second Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series), and Highway to Heaven. His last TV role was in five 1990 episodes of the cop series Wiseguy, playing "Ed Rogosheske."

Personal life

Marriages

Stacy has been married twice. He married actress and singer Connie Stevens on October 12, 1963 in Hollywood. They were divorced in November 1966. Stacy's second marriage was to actress Kim Darby in 1968. They had a daughter, Heather, before divorcing in 1969.

Arrest and conviction

In November 1995, Stacy pleaded no contest to a charge of molesting an 11-year-old girl. On December 7, 1995, he failed to appear for sentencing in Ventura County Superior Court and was arrested the next day in a Honolulu, Hawaii, hospital after having fled California. He attempted suicide by jumping off a cliff. After recovering, Stacy waived extradition and returned to California. On March 5, 1996, he received a six-year prison sentence. The prosecutor in the case initially said she believed Stacy might have been eligible for probation for the molestation, but his post arrest behavior, coupled with two arrests in June 1995 for prowling at the homes of other girls, led her to seek a prison sentence. He served his sentence at the California Institution for Men at Chino.

TV and filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1956-63	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet	Fred	19 episodes
1957	Highway Patrol	Young Man in Car	Episode: "Female Hitchhiker"
1957	Sayonara	Reporter	Uncredited
1958	South Pacific	Sailor/Seabee	Credited as Jim Stacey
1958	Lafayette Escadrille	Alan Nichols	Uncredited
1962	Shannon	Cracker Coe	Episode: "The Jungle Kid"
1962	Have Gun - Will Travel	Johnny Tully	Episode: "Man in an Hourglass"
1962	The Donna Reed Show	Danny Steve	2 episodes
1962	Cheyenne	Luther James	Episode: "Showdown at Oxbend"
1963	Summer Magic	Charles Bryant
1963	Hazel		Episode: "The Baby Came C.O.D."
1964-66	Perry Mason	Scott Everett Barry Conrad	2 episodes
1964-73	Gunsmoke	Various roles	5 episodes
1965	A Swingin' Summer	Mickey
1965	Like Father, Like Son	Art	Credited as Jim Stacey
1965	Winter A-Go-Go	Danny Frazer
1965	Mister Roberts		Episode: "Just Getting There Is Half the Fun"
1966	Baby Makes Three	Dr. Peter Cooper	Television movie
1966	The Monroes	Perry Hutchins	Episode: "Ride with Terror"
1966	Combat!	Farley	Episode: "The Bankroll"
1968	Premiere	Andrew Bass	Episode: "The Freebooters"
1968	Cimarron Strip	Joe Bravo	Episode: "The Judgment"
1968-70	Lancer	Johnny Madrid Lancer	51 episodes
1969	Flareup	Joe
1971	Paper Man	Jerry	Television movie
1972	Love, American Style		Segment: "Love and the Alibi"
1972	Heat of Anger	Gus Pride	Television movie
1972	Medical Center	Neil	Episode: "Cycle of Peril"
1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Peter Forrest	Episode: "Whose Little Boy Are You?"
1972	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Phil Darrow	Episode: "Jason Be Nimble, Jason Be Quick"
1972	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law		Episode: "Starting Over Again"
1973	Ordeal	Andy Folsom	Television movie
1975	Posse	Harold Hellman
1977	Just a Little Inconvenience	Kenny Briggs	Television movie
1980	My Kidnapper, My Love	Denny	Television movie
1983	Double Exposure	B.J. Wilde	Alternative title: Model Killer
1983	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ed, the Bartender
1985	Hotel	Jeremy Hale	Episode: "Saving Grace"
1986	Cagney & Lacey	Ted Peters	Episode: "The Gimp"
1987	Highway to Heaven	Joe Mason	Episode: "The Hero"
1990	Wiseguy	Ed Rogosheske	5 episodes
1990	Matters of the Heart	Glen Harper	Television movie
1991	F/X2	Cyborg	Alternative title: F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion

[ Source: Wikipedia ]