Michael MoriartyNationality:
American Birthdate:
04/05/1941 Birthplace:
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biography
A stage, screen and TV actor, Michael Moriarty came to prominence with his sensitive performance as baseball pitcher Henry Wiggen in the acclaimed 1973 drama, "Bang the Drum Slowly". Not all of Moriarty's subsequent work has lived up to that early promise, nor has he proven to be "box office", yet he has remained in demand for stage and TV roles. Additionally, he has branched out as a composer and jazz pianist.
Moriarty has worked extensively on the stage, beginning soon after his graduation from Dartmouth in 1963. He was Octavius Caesar in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Credits
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milestones
Year
Milestone
1963
Stage debut as Octavius, "Antony and Cleopatra" at the New York Shakespeare Festival
1971
Film debut, "Glory Boy"
1973
Henry Wiggen in "Bang the Drum Slowly"
1973
TV movie debut, "A Summer Without Boys"; Jim in "The Glass Menagerie"
1974
Julian Weston, "Find Your Way Home", Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NY
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