Michael Moriarty
Highest Rated: 100% King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017)
Lowest Rated: 14% Neverwas (2005)
Birthday: Apr 05, 1941
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 83% | King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen | Himself (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 94% | The Yellow Wallpaper | Mr. Isaac Hendricks (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Hitler Meets Christ |
Hitler (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 12 Hours to Live | Donald Saunders (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Santa Baby | T.J. Hamilton (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 14% | 65% | Neverwas | Dick (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Deadly Skies | General Dutton (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Don't Call Me Tonto! | Callohan (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mob Princess | Eddy (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Talking to Heaven (Living with the Dead) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | House of Luk | Mr. Kidd (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Swimming Upstream | Morris Bird II (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 32% | 53% | Along Came a Spider | Senator Hank Rose (Character) | $74.1M | 2001 |
| 93% | 76% | James Dean | Winton Dean (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Out of Line | Larry Frank (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Children of My Heart | Rodrique Eymard (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Children of Fortune | Sheriff Bast (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bad Faith | Mark Solomon (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Becoming Dick | Director (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Art of Murder | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 70% | 62% | Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season | Ray Preston (Character) | $40.4K | 1999 |
| 97% | 80% | The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg | Himself (Character) | $1.7M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Woman Wanted | Richard Goddard (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Earthquake in New York | Captain Paul Stenning (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Major Crime | Gordon Tallas (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 73% | 64% | Shiloh | Mr. Preston (Character) | $1M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Managua | Unknown (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions | Matthew Wylie (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | Crime of the Century | Governor Harold Hoffman (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Calm at Sunset | Russell Pfeiffer (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 85% | 66% | Courage Under Fire | Brigadier General Hershberg (Character) | $59M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | A Good Day to Die | John Maxwell (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Born Too Soon | Fox Butterfield (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Full Fathom Five | McKenzie (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Secret of the Ice Cave | Manny Wise (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy | Richard Burt (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Nitti: The Enforcer | Hugh Kelly (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Windmills of the Gods | Ellison (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | The Hanoi Hilton | Williamson (Character) | $39K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | A Return to Salem's Lot | Joe Weber (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 50% | 17% | It's Alive III: Island of the Alive | Jarvis (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 6% | Dark Tower | Dennis Randall (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 30% | 28% | Troll | Harry Potter Sr. (Character) | $4.5M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Odd Birds | Brother T.S. Murphy (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 16% | Blood Link |
Keith Mannings/ |
- | 1985 |
| 93% | 83% | Pale Rider | Hull Barret (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 71% | 45% | The Stuff | David `'Mo'` Rutherford (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 70% | 42% | Q | Jimmy Quinn (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sound of Murder | Charles Norberry (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 23% | The Winged Serpent | Jimmy Quinn (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Reborn | Mark (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Too Far to Go | Richard Maple (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Winds of Kitty Hawk | Wilbur Wright (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 73% | 64% | Who'll Stop the Rain? | John Converse (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deadliest Season | Gerry Miller (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 40% | 67% | Report to the Commissioner | Bo Lockley (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shoot It: Black, Shoot It: Blue | Herbert G. Rucker (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 92% | 62% | Bang the Drum Slowly | Henry 'Arthur' Wiggen (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | The Glass Menagerie | Jim O'Connor (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Summer Without Boys | Abe Battle (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 89% | 87% | The Last Detail | Marine O.D. (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 67% | 57% | Hickey & Boggs | Ballard (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Old Man's Place | Trubee Pell (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Glory Boy | Trubee Pell (Character) | - | 1971 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs | Unknown (Character) | 2019 |
| 63% | 89% | Masters of Horror | Jim Wheeler (Character) | 2006 |
| 95% | 81% | The 4400 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Taken | Unknown (Character) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1997-1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strange World | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Poltergeist: The Legacy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dead Man's Gun | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Children of the Dust | Unknown (Character) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law & Order | Asst. D.A. Ben Stone (Character) | 1990-1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Equalizer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Twilight Zone | Unknown (Character) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Holocaust | Erik Dorf (Character) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Holocaust | Erik Dorf (Character) | 1978 |
QUOTES FROM Michael Moriarty CHARACTERS
Henry Wiggen says: From here on, I'll never rag anybody.
Henry Wiggen says: From here on in I rag nobody.
Henry Wiggen says: Power plus brains is the difference between nobody and somebody.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: There nobody here but you?
Gas Station Attendant says: Well, don't you wanna wash your hands or something? I put in a new towel!
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: The only thing Chocolate Chip Charlie knows better than fighting is running.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Pick a direction!
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Are you eating it or is it eating you?
Fletcher says: Let go of it, Mr. Rutherford. You can't stop it.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: I can shut you down.
Fletcher says: (laughs) - I don't know. I really don't know. I don't think anybody would pay too much attention to a disreputable guy like you. You're a rogue; you're a crook in the pay of the ice cream companies just out trying to screw the competition.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: I could always kill you.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: That stuff comes right out of the center of the Earth and straight into our supermarkets.
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: You are not thinking about going after it!
David "Moe" Rutherford says: I hope you got a gun on you, Charlie!
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: How many times am I supposed to tell you my hands are lethal weapons?
David "Moe" Rutherford says: I hope you're right, 'cause if that thing tries to kill me, you kill me first!
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Okay, lethal hands, kill the door.
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: Watch out for splinters.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Well, everybody has to eat shaving cream once in a while.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: You're Chocolate Chip Charlie!
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: Well, I sure as hell ain't the Kentucky Colonel!
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Did you find anything out?
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: What you gonna find out, man, in a town that has just dried up and blown away, man? ...Must be a side effect of eating too much dessert; an urge to migrate.
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: What you gonna find out, man, in a town that has just dried up and blown away, man? Must be a side effect of eating too much dessert; an urge to migrate.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: The name's Mo Rutherford. They call me that 'cause when people give me money, I always want mo'.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: No one is as dumb as I appear to be.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: What do you think, Charlie?
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: The man is not in proper operating order.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Absolutely.
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: I'd like to take him someplace and get him X-rayed.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Yeah, but what if he doesn't wanna come along with us?
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: We snatch him.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Oh, now, Charlie, I run a high-tech operation. I don't go in for things like that.
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: I got a few low-tech solutions for our problem. We hit that sucker over the head.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Oh, well, ummm...we could do that.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: Oh, well, ummm, we could do that.
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: We throw him in the trunk of the car.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: We could do that, too.
Chocolate Chip Charlie says: And we take off.
David "Moe" Rutherford says: In whose car?