Michael Moriarty

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Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is an American-Canadian stage and screen actor and jazz musician.

He was given an Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award for his first acting role on American television as a Nazi SS officer during the 1978 mini-series Holocaust, as well as a trophy in the play Find Your Way Home.

On the television show Law & Order, he appeared as Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone for the first four seasons (1990-1994).

Moriarty is also known for his appearances in films such as Bang the Drum Slowly, Who'll Stop the Rain, Question: The Winged Serpent, The Stuff, Pale Rider, Troll, Courage Under Fire, and Shiloh.

Early life

Michael Moriarty was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 5, 1941. He is the son of Eleanor (née Paul) and George Moriarty, a surgeon. George Moriarty, his grandfather, was a third baseman, umpire, and boss of major league baseball for almost 40 years.

Moriarty attended middle school at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills before heading to Detroit Jesuit High School, graduating in 1959. In the class of 1963, he matriculated at Dartmouth College, where he was a theatre college major. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree, he moved to London, England, where he studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), where he earned a Fulbright Scholarship.

Personal life

Moriarty then escaped to Canada, claiming himself a political exile. He lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was granted Canadian citizenship, and Toronto, before settling in Vancouver.

In 2006, Enter Stage Right Moriarty wrote that he was a "very bad drinker," but that he had been sober for two years as of 2004.

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Acting career

Moriarty appeared on television for several years as an actor at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis before gaining fame in film. Moriarty was depicted in Bang the Drum as the egocentric Henry Wiggen, the young catcher who plays terminally ill. Moriarty appeared in a television film version of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, starring Katharine Hepburn. Sam Waterston appeared in the film, who later replaced Moriarty as the Executive Assistant District Attorney on Law & Order. Moriarty's role in The Glass Menagerie (as "Jim," the Gentleman Caller; Waterston played the son "Tom") earned him the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1974, Moriarty appeared as rookie detective Bo Lockley in the renowned police drama Report to the Commissioner.

In 1974, Moriarty received a Tony Award for his work in the play Find Your Way Home. His film career was slow to progress, but his acting career was flourishing. Erik Dorf, the German SS officer, starred in the television miniseries Holocaust, winning him another Emmy. Moriarty appeared in such Larry Cohen films as Q, The Stuff, It's Alive III: Alive, and A Return to Salem's Lot, as well as Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider and The Hanoi Hilton. He appeared in the fantasy science fiction film Troll in 1986, portraying Harry Potter Sr. (unrelated to the Harry Potter Sr. series).

Moriarty appeared in the HBO film Tailspin (1989), which dramatized the Soviet Union's takedown of Korean Air Lines flight 007 in 1983. Major Hank Daniels of the United States Air Force was largely ignored (if not mocked) for pointing out how the ill-fated airliner had strayed off course into air space that was not expected by the Soviets to be used by US Air Force electronic surveillance planes as they approached Soviet air space.

Moriarty appeared on Law & Order from 1990 to 1994. He left the show in 1994, saying that his departure was a result of his assault of then-Attorney General Janet Reno, who had referred to Law & Order as offensively insensitive. Moriarty slammed Reno's remark and said she intended to block not only shows like Law & Order but also Murder farewells, but also farewells, as Murder. He later accused Law & Order executive Dick Wolf of not taking his concerns seriously and claimed that Wolf and other network executives were "caving in" to Reno's "demands" on television violence. On September 20, 1994, he made an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, appointing that if Dick Wolf was fired, he would return to his role on the program. Moriarty released a full-page advertisement in a Hollywood trade magazine urging fellow artists to support him against efforts to restrict TV show content. He wrote and published The Gift of Stern Angels, his account of this period in his life. The Ben Stone character in the fictional Law & Order universe resigns from the D.A. After a witness in one of his cases was murdered, a witness in one of his cases was assassinated, the office was established in 1994. Sam Waterston's character, Jack McCoy, appears in Law & Order's February 7, 2018, which includes a eulogy at Stone's funeral.

Wolf and others researching Law & Order have a different story to tell, however. Moriarty and Wolf, as well as other television executives, met with Reno on November 18, 1993, to prevent her from accepting any law that would censor the show. Moriarty overreacted to any effect the law was supposed to have on the show, according to Wolf. Moriarty was allegedly forced to leave the series due to "erratic conduct," an example of which occurred during the episode's director Arthur Forney's report that Moriarty was unable to deliver his lines in a straight face. Any association between his departure and Janet Reno is denied by the series and network experts. Wolf also denies that the show has gotten less violent, graphic, or controversial since 1994.

Moriarty appeared in The Last Detail, Courage Under Fire, Along Came a Spider, Shiloh, Emily of New Moon and James Dean for which he received his third Emmy Award. In 2007, he premiered his first feature-length film as screenwriter and played the role of a man who believes he is Adolf Hitler in Hitler Meets Christ.

Musical career

Moriarty is also a classical composer and pianist as well as a professional jazz pianist and singer. He has released three jazz albums (though the first, Reaching Out, was unveiled). He has performed regularly in both New York City and Vancouver with a jazz trio and quintet. Moriarty was "a jazz pianist of considerable talent, an oddball singer with more than one vocal voice, and a writer of eccentric, jivey jazz songs," according to New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden.

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