Michael Moriarty
Moriarty as Ben Stone
Born	April 5, 1941 Detroit, Michigan
Height	6'4"
Notable roles	Ben Stone on Law & Order

Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is a Tony-winning and Emmy-winning American actor. He is best known for his role as Ben Stone on the long running TV series Law & Order. Image File history File links Ben_Stone. ... ... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... Nickname: Motor City, Motown Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area    - City 370. ... ... This article is about the original TV series. ... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... An Emmy Award. ... ... This article is about the original TV series. ...

Early life and career

Moriarty was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the University of Detroit Jesuit High School, and then matriculated at Dartmouth College in 1963, where he was a theatre major. After he received his degree, he left for London, where he enrolled in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, after receiving a Fulbright Scholarship. Nickname: Motor City, Motown Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area    - City 370. ... Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  Ranked 11th  - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 491 miles (790 km)  - % water 41. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... An academic major is a general scholarly pursuit in a specific area of study which often yields, at the end of a tenure usually of four years, a bachelors degree. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Main LAMDA building on Talgarth Road The MacOwan Theatre The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), founded 1861, is a leading British drama school in west London. ... The Fulbright Program is program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. ...

In 1973, Moriarty was cast to play the egocentric Henry Wiggen in Bang the Drum Slowly, a film about friendship between two unlikely baseball teammates (the second being Robert De Niro, a slow thinking catcher who becomes terminally ill). Moriarty had a strong baseball background on which to draw for the role, as his grandfather George Moriarty had been a third baseman, umpire and manager in the major leagues for nearly 40 years. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Egocentrism is the practice of regarding oneself and ones own opinions or interests as most important. ... Bang the Drum Slowly was Mark Harriss most celebrated baseball novel, a sequel to The Southpaw (1953). ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The position of the catcher Catcher is also a general term for a fielder who catches the ball in cricket. ... George Joseph Moriarty (June 7, 1884 – April 8, 1964) was an American third baseman, umpire and manager in Major League Baseball from 1903 to 1940. ...

In 1973, Moriarty starred in a TV movie adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie with Katharine Hepburn. Coincidentally, the film also featured Sam Waterston (who replaced Moriarty as the Executive Assistant District Attorney on Law & Order in 1994.) Moriarty's role in Menagerie won him an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actor of the Year ^[1] Tennessee Williams (1965) Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911–February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. ... The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams. ... Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. ... Sam Waterston as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy on Law & Order Samuel Atkinson Sam Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an Oscar nominated American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of EADA Jack McCoy on the long-running NBC television series Law & Order. ... This article is about the original TV series. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... An Emmy Award. ... Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an accolade given by a group of film or theatre professionals in recognition of the work of supporting and character actors. ... Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an accolade given by a group of film or theatre professionals in recognition of the work of supporting and character actors. ...

He won a Tony Award in 1974 for his work in Find Your Way Home. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Moriarty's career on the screen was slow to develop, while his theatre career was flourishing. He starred as a Nazi bureaucrat who degenerates into a coldblooded murderer in the television miniseries Holocaust (which earned him another Emmy). Through the 1980s, Moriarty starred in such Larry Cohen movies as Q, The Stuff, It's Alive 3, and A Return to Salem's Lot, as well as Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider and Hanoi Hilton. National Socialism redirects here. ... A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy, usually within an institution of the government. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Holocaust was a television miniseries broadcast on NBC in 1978. ... An Emmy Award. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The Larry Cohen Collection Larry Cohen (born 15 July 1941, Kingston, New York, USA) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. ... Q (also known as The Winged Serpent and as Q - The Winged Serpent) is a 1982 horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark and Richard Roundtree. ... The Stuff is a 1985 science fiction/horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Michael Moriarty, Garrett Morris, Andrea Marcovicci, and Paul Sorvino. ... A Return to Salems Lot (1987) is an unofficial sequel to Salems Lot, a vampire novel by Stephen King which had previously been filmed by Tobe Hooper. ... This article refers to the actor/producer/director. ... Pale Rider is a 1985 English language Western film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. ... The Hanoi Hilton in a 1970 aerial surveillance photo. ...

On Law & Order

From 1990 to 1994, Moriarty starred as Ben Stone on Law & Order. He left the show in 1994, alleging that his departure was a result of his threatening a lawsuit against then-Attorney General Janet Reno, who had cited Law & Order as offensively violent. Moriarty was repulsed by what he saw as an attempt by the Federal Government to censor TV content by pressuring network executives. He claimed that not only did Janet Reno want to censor shows like Law and Order but also such innocuous fare as Murder, She Wrote. In his account of what occurred, he was deeply upset that his objections to this move on the part of the government was not only not taken seriously by Law & Order executive producer Dick Wolf, but that Wolf and other network executives seemed to be caving into the unreasonable unwarranted demands of the Attorney General on this issue of "TV violence". Moriarty published a full page advertisement in a Hollywood trade magazine, calling upon fellow artists to stand up with him against this attempt to censor TV show content and was rocked to his foundations when Hollywood did not seem to notice or take care of the alarm bells he was trying to ring on this issue. He subsequently wrote and published The Gift Of Stern Angels, a book about his account of this time in his life. (Moriarty, Michael (1997). The gift of stern angels. Exile Editions. ISBN 1550961837.) ... In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions. ... Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the 78th Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001), and was the first woman to hold that post. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... Murder, She Wrote is a long-running television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. ... Richard A. (Dick) Wolf, (born December 20, 1946, New York City), is one of American television’s most respected drama series creators and is an Emmy Award-winning producer. ... A trade journal is a periodical, magazine or publication printed with the intention of target marketing to a specific industry or type of trade/business. ...

Dick Wolf and others working on Law & Order tell a different story, however. On November 18, 1993, Moriarty and Wolf, along with other television executives, met with Reno to dissuade her from supporting any law that would censor the show. According to Wolf, Moriarty greatly overreacted to the threat that any planned law was likely to have on the show. Series and network officials deny any connection to his departure and Janet Reno. Wolf also denies that the show has become less violent, graphic or afraid of controversy since 1994.^[2]

Musical career

In addition to his acting career, Moriarty is a semi-professional jazz pianist and singer, as well as a classical composer. He has recorded three jazz albums (though the first, "Reaching Out", went unreleased), and has performed live regularly in both New York and Vancouver, with a jazz trio and quintet. In a 1990 concert review, New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden called Moriarty "a jazz pianist of considerable skill, an oddball singer with more than one vocal personality, and a writer of eccentric, jivey jazz songs." [1] Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ... Pianist Claudio Arrau, Carnegie Hall, 1954. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Later career and political activism

Shortly after leaving Law & Order, Moriarty moved to Canada, declaring himself a political exile. He lived for a time in Halifax, where he was granted Canadian citizenship, and Toronto before settling in Vancouver. He performed in Courage Under Fire, Along Came a Spider, Shiloh, Emily of New Moon and James Dean, for which he won his third Emmy. EXILE is a 6-member Japanese pop music band. ... Motto: Template:Unhide = E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea) Logo: Location City Information Established: April 1, 1996 Area: (former city) 79. ... Citizenship in Canada can be obtained by a permanent resident who lives in Canada for three out of four years before applying for citizenship and be able to speak English or French. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... Courage Under Fire is a motion picture, released in 1996, starring Denzel Washington as Lieutenant Colonel Nate Sirling, Meg Ryan as Captain Karen Emma Walden, and Matt Damon as Specialist Ilario. ... Along Came a Spider is a 2001 American mystery film. ... Shiloh may be: Shiloh (Biblical) Shiloh (river), river in the Samarian region of the West Bank Shilo (town), an Israeli settlement near the location of Biblical Shiloh Shiloh (book), the Phyllis Reynolds Naylor novel Battle of Shiloh, a major 1862 battle of the American Civil War Shiloh and Other Stories... Emily of New Moon was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. ... James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American film actor who epitomized youthful angst. ... An Emmy Award. ...

Moriarty today lives in British Columbia, where he still acts, writes and plays music, and has become politically active, describing himself as a "centrist." According to Moriarty's own writings on the subject, he describes himself as a "realist".^[3] Apparently one of his most passionately held beliefs is his opposition to abortion. For example, in response to a recent interview question as to what the most pressing issue facing the nation was, he said: Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 36 6 Area... In politics, centrism usually refers to the political ideal of promoting moderate policies which land in the middle ground between different political extremes. ...

We will find abortion and the despotic Roe v. Wade Decision revealing itself as a virtual burning of the Declaration of Independence and our "inalienable right to life…when created"… not gestated. So, the pressing issue will, inevitably, be the Third Millennium's version of American slavery: ABORTION. ^[4]

Moriarty announced his intention to run for President of the United States in 2008 in an interview in the November 2006 issue of Northwest Jazz Profile. He also has been a frequent contributor of numerous political columns to the ESR (Enter Stage Right) online Journal of Conservativism. Holding Texas laws criminalizing abortion violated womens Fourteenth Amendment right to choose whether to continue a pregnancy. ... A declaration of independence is a proclamation of the independence of an aspiring state or states. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Controversial statements

A website devoted to Moriarty, MMUUUHP (the "Michael Moriarty Unofficial, Unauthorized, Unsanctioned Home Page"), contains editorials by Moriarty, and these, in addition to posts on ESR, contain scathing denunciations of a wide array of eclectic targets, including Bill Clinton, Thanaticism, abortion, embryonic stem cell research, anti-Catholicism, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George W. Bush, both major U.S. political parties, Halliburton, the College of Cardinals, and most of Catholic theology. Historically, he has been a supporter of the Republican Party. ^[5] A recent interview contains the following quotes by Moriarty: William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Mouse embryonic stem cells. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Halliburton Energy Services (NYSE: HAL) is a multinational corporation with operations in over 120 countries. ... The Sacred College of Cardinals is the body of all Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...

Like the collaborating Vichy government in France under the Nazis, America will surrender to laws and ideologies that contradict the American Constitution and the most simple Human Rights. The Supreme Court took a once individually free nation and corrupted it by the lie of Science that fetuses are, in their first two trimesters, no more than egg yolk. Ultimately, our American Intellectual Supremacists bought the "Population Problem," in the same way Europe fell under the thrall of the so-called "Jewish Problem." and Image File history File links Cquote1. ... The Opera in Vichy. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Page I of the Constitution of the United States of America Page II of the United States Constitution Page III of the United States Constitution Page IV of the United States Constitution The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and is... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... The supreme court in some countries, provinces, and states, functions as a court of last resort whose rulings cannot be challenged. ... A human fetus A fetus (or foetus, or fÅ“tus – see below) is a developing mammal after the embryonic stage and before birth. ... Islam, in and of itself, however, is an Allah-worshipping, Kamikaze Nation, exactly like pre-World War II Imperial Japan. It's Bible, the Koran, can be read like Hitler's Mein Kampf. It demands to rule the entire human race. Islam's only idea of freedom of religion is the freedom of Islam to rule everything. Islamic Political Parties should be no more trusted than neo-Nazi, White Supremacists and David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan have been trusted. Tragically, the only language Islam, like Hirohito's Japan, understands is violence. The measures Harry Truman took to end the war with Japan may prove tragically necessary with Islam. [6] Islam (Arabic:  ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the Quran, its principal scripture, whose followers, known as Muslims (مسلم), believe God (Arabic: الله ) sent through revelations to Muhammad. ... Allah is the Arabic language word referring to God, the Lord and, literally according to the Quran, to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Abrahamic religions. ... Navy Kamikaze pilot with the rank of Lieutenant (Chui) receives orders, pilots stand at attention in formation. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... The ensign of Imperial Japanese Navy was a prominent symbol of Imperial Japan. ... The word Bible refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity. ... The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Cover of Mein Kampf (First Edition) Mein Kampf (English translation: My Struggle, My Battle or My Fight) is the signature work of Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitlers political ideology of Nazism. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... White supremacy is the variety of white nationalism that believes the white race should rule over other races. ... David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former Louisiana Republican state representative, and former Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... Hirohito (Japanese: ) (April 29, 1901 – January 7, 1989) was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 to 1989. ... For the victim of Mt. ...

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Other personal details

On the blog Enter Stage Right Moriarty writes that he was a "very bad drunk", but that as of May 29, 2006 he had been sober for two years. ^[7]

On the website MMUUUHP, he states in an imaginary dialogue with Hillary Clinton that he was sexually molested when he was 12. According to Moriarity, the incident happened in the front seat of a car at a drive-in movie with a United States Marine. However, he also claims to "still love the man for teaching me courage." Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947), was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton. ... Sexual abuse is physical or psychological abuse that involves crimes in most countries. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces to global crises. ...

References

1. ^ Internet Movie Database awards page for Moriarty
2. ^ Courrier, Kevin, Susan Green (November 20, 1999). Law & Order: The Unofficial Companion. Renaissance Books, 136, 140. ISBN 1580631088.
3. ^ http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/2001/moriarty/qtr3/0828.htm
4. ^ http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/17212.html
5. ^ http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/2004/moriarty/qtr4/1119.htm
6. ^ Conservative Voice
7. ^ Enter Stage Right

See also

• Censorship in the United States

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External links

• Official website
• Michael Moriarty at the Internet Movie Database
• Yahoo Movies: Michael Moriarty
• Michael Moriarty UUU fan site: includes semi-regular blog posts by Moriarty