Michael P. Moran

Michael P. Moran was an American actor and playwright. Born in Yuba City, California, he moved often because his father was an Army officer. He began in theater under Gilbert Rathbun at Seton Hall University, though not as a student, and in Paramus at the Theater on the Mall with Robert Ludlum before he turned to novels. After moving to New York City in 1966, he studied at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and joined the Manhattan Project and the Cooper-Keaton Group, both of which staged his plays, including Call Me Charlie with Danny DeVito. He appeared with the New York Shakespeare Festival and in off-Broadway shows such as The Rivals in 1984, and acted in Horton Foote plays at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, among them The Prisoner's Song in 2002. In 2002 and 2003 he played Fred Rose in Hank Williams: Lost Highway. He died in 2004.