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Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941), is an American actor who was born in Detroit, Michigan. Tall and lanky, this 6'4" actor is known most for his role as Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone on the long running TV series Law & Order;. He attended Dartmouth in the 1960s, 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 Arts, after receiving a Fullbright Scholarship.In 1973, Michael was cast to play the egocentric Henry Wiggen in Bang the Drum Slowly, a film about friendship between two unlikely teammates (the second being Robert De Niro, a slow thinking catcher who becomes terminally ill). Moriarty's career on the screen was slow developing, while his theater career was flourishing. He starred as a Nazi bureaucrat on the miniseries "Holocaust".
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.
From 1990 to 1994, he starred as Ben Stone on Law & Order. He ended up leaving the show in 1994, alleging that his departure was a result of his threatening a law suit against then-Attorney General, Janet Reno, who had cited Law & Order as offensively violent. He moved to Canada[[, declaring himself a political [[exile and lived for a time in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto before settling in Vancouver. Recent projects he has acted in include Courage Under Fire, Along Came a Spider, Shiloh, and James Dean.
Moriarty today lives in British Columbia, where he still acts and has become politically active. desribing himself as a libertarian or conservative on most issues.
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