Maurice William Elias (December 23, 1936 – September 9, 2016), known professionally as James Stacy, was an American film and television actor who starred in the late 1960s TV western Lancer.

Stacy was born Maurice William Elias on December 23, 1936,[1] in Los Angeles to an Ulster-Scots waitress and a Lebanese American bookmaker.

His brother, Louie Elias, a character actor and stuntman, wrote the screenplay, based on the novel by Oscar Saul, to accommodate Stacy's disability.

Stacy's other TV appearances included Hotel, Cagney & Lacey (for which he was nominated for a second Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series) and Highway to Heaven.

[9] 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 he fled California.

The prosecutor 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,[2][10] led her to seek a prison sentence.

[2] On September 9, 2016, Stacy died of anaphylactic shock in Ventura, California after being administered an antibiotic injection at the office of Dr. Cedric Emery.

[13] Stacy is portrayed by Timothy Olyphant in the 2019 Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.