Shiloh Cast

THE CAST
	Golden Globe, Tony and two-time Emmy winner MICHAEL MORIARTY (Ray Preston) first came to national attention with stunning performances in the film "Bang The Drum Slowly"; the television movie "The Glass Menagerie," for which he won his first Emmy; and with his Tony-winning performance in the Broadway production of "Find Your Way Home," for which he also took home Theatre World and Drama Desk Awards. Moriarty was honored with a second Emmy and also a Golden Globe award for his haunting portrayal of a Nazi SS officer in "Holocaust. He followed this with the acclaimed NBC-TV movie "Too Far to Go," later re-released theatrically by Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Films, earning him the San Remo Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Moriarty starred in Hallmark Hall of Fame's "Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn"; and HBO's "Crime of the Century," based on the Lindbergh kidnapping, directed by Mark Rydell. He also starred in the features "Courage Under Fire," "Who’ll Stop the Rain?," "The Hanoi Hilton" and "Pale Rider." His other television credits include the eight-hour CBS miniseries "Children of the Dust"; a "Cagney & Lacey" CBS special; four seasons as assistant district attorney Ben Stone in the hit series "Law and Order" (for which he won Emmy and Golden Globe nominations); HBO's "Tailspin"; NBC's television movie "Born Too Soon"; and "Starfire," an episode of "The Equalizers" series for which he earned another Emmy nomination. On Broadway, Moriarty starred as Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady"; and as both Captain Queeg and later attorney Barney Greenwald in "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial." In London, he starred in the William Saroyan play "Don't Go Away Mad." Also a playwright, Moriarty wrote the GeVa Theatre production of "Flight to the Fatherland," the Joe Papp Theatre's "The Ballad of Dexter Creed" and the East Coast Theatre's "A Special Providence." Also the New York Quarterly published the first of his three-book poem "Evergrowth." Proficient as a classical and jazz composer/pianist, the multi-talented artist is active in performing his own music in concert halls and clubs around New York. Moriarty lives in Beford, Nova Scotia with his wife Anne Martin and son Matthew Christopher.
	SCOTT WILSON’s (Judd Travers) break-through film was "In Cold Blood," in which he played one of the killers in the movie based on Truman Capote's famous book. He also co-starred as Eugene in the film adaptation of another Capote book, "The Grass Harp," with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Wilson portrayed Brother Albert in the l997 film "Our God’s Brother," a feature about a Roman Catholic saint, based on a story written by Pope John Paul II before he became the Pontiff. And in Wilson’s most recent picture, "The Jack Bull," which was shot late last year (l998), he stars as Wyoming’s governor in the state’s formative years. One of Wilson’s most memorable roles was as the murdering garage owner in "The Great Gatsby." He also recently played Commander Salem in Ridley Scott’s "G.I. Jane," with Demi Moore. His other dramatic roles have been in such feature films as Tim Robbins' "Dead Man Walking," Steve Kloves' "Flesh and Bone," "Young Guns II," two Walter Hill films "Johnny Handsome" and "Geronimo" and "Judge Dredd." In addition, he played the romantic lead in Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi's "A Year of the Quiet Sun," which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Wilson was born and raised in Atlanta, GA, and upon graduation from Thomas High School there was awarded a basketball scholarship at Georgia's Southern Tech University to study architecture. However, becoming an architect was more his building contractor father's idea than his own. Instead, Wilson hitchhiked to Los Angeles just "to see what it was like." One day after arriving in Hollywood, he met an actor in a bar who took him along on an audition. Invited to participate, Wilson read a monologue from "The Long Voyage Home." He failed to get that part but the chance meeting led the director to later cast him in "The Importance of Being Earnest." He did about 20 plays in Hollywood over the next five-and-half years. Wilson made his motion picture debut in Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night," starring Rod Steiger and later co-starred as Steiger's son in "Lolly Madonna." Steiger remembered Wilson's considerable talent, felt he would be perfect for Judd Travers, and suggested he be cast in Shiloh. His other feature film roles include Sydney Pollack's "Castle Keep," Robert Aldrich's "The Grissom Gang," Richard Fleisher's "The New Centurions" and "On the Line," for which he was Best Actor co-winner at the Cartagena Film Festival. His role in "The Ninth Configuration" won him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Wilson lives on the west side of Los Angeles with his wife, Heavenly Wilson, an attorney and also a professional painter and sculptor.
	BLAKE HERON plays Marty Preston, an 11-year-old boy who befriends a sad, little beagle hunting dog he finds by Shiloh bridge near his home high in the rural hills of West Virginia. The dog follows Marty home, and Marty, incapable of turning away the forlorn animal, accepts his role as protector and names the dog Shiloh. During the next several weeks, overcoming tremendous obstacles, the boy successfully rescues the dog from its abusive owner. Marty's love and compassion for this abused stray beagle is the gentle touchstone of the film's story. Since completing "Shiloh," young Heron essayed the important role of Cybill Shepard's blind and autistic son in CBS's made-for-TV movie "Journey of the Heart," directed by Karen Arthur. Heron has also guest-starred in the award-winning series "Cybill" and "Picket Fences." In addition, he has had starring or co-starring roles in HBO's "Don't Look Back"; ABC's TV movie "Trilogy of Terror," helmed by Dan Curtis; and director Peter Hewitt's Walt Disney Pictures' "Tom and Huck." Heron's hobbies include basketball, shooting pool, boogie-boarding at the beach and reading Calvin & Hobbs. The young actor says he was inspired to enter the acting profession by Eddie Murphy after seeing the comic's "Beverly Hills Cop." Born in New York and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, 14-year-old Heron, now a high school freshman, has recently relocated to Southern California where he lives with his dog Gigi, cat Hobbs and his mother, Liz Heron, a licensed chiropractor.
	Oscar and Emmy winner ROD STEIGER’s (Doc Wallace) career has spanned four decades. Steiger's recent feature film starring roles include "End of Days," as a Catholic priest opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger; "Crazy in Alabama," with Melanie Griffith, directed by Antonio Banderas; "The Red Door," with Diane Lane; "Legacy," with David Hasselhoff; "Animals," with Tim Roth and, currently, as a cop in "The Last Producer," starring and directed by Burt Reynolds. He also starred in Showtime/MGM’s remake of the classic John Garfield starrer "Body & Soul," playing the rising boxer’s trainer. His other starring roles in features awaiting release are "Revenant," "The Kid," "Cypress Edge" and the BBC’s animated version of "Moby Dick" as the voice of Captain Ahab. Additionally, his other starring roles include "Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story," with Dana Delaney; HBO's "Pursuit of Honor," with Don Johnson; and "Op Center," with Harry Hamlin. Born Rodney Stephen Steiger in Westhampton, Long Island, New York, and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Rod first began acting in grammar school productions. Acting came easily to the young performer since his parents were a traveling song-and-dance team. After one year at Newark's West Side High School, he lied about his age and enlisted in the U.S. Navy during the second World War and seeing action with the Third and Fifth fleets at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. After leaving the Navy, Rod studied at various acting schools including New York's American Theater Wing, the Dramatic Workshop and the Actors Studio. Dozens of television roles followed. Shortly after winning his Emmy for "Letters of Heloise and Abelard," he made his stage debut as a bit player in the road company production of "The Trial of Mary Dugan" and his Broadway debut in the Equity Library Theater revival of Clifford Odets' "Night Music." Rod went on to star in a number of plays such as "Seagulls Over Sorento" and Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" and then stepped up his television activity with roles in more than 250 live television shows including the title role in Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty." For "Marty," as well as for his portrayals of Rudolph Hess, Andrei Vishinsky, Rasputin and Romeo in the "You Are There" series with Walter Cronkite and of the radar operator in "My Brother's Keeper," he was honored with Sylvania Awards. After making his motion picture debut in "Teresa," Steiger received his first Oscar nomination for his now legendary role opposite Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront." He followed with starring roles in one classic film after another including "The Pawnbroker," "In the Heat of the Night," for which he won the Best Actor Academy Award, "Doctor Zhivago," "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell," "The Harder They Fall," "The Loved One," "Jubal," and proving his versatility, the film version of the musical hit "Oklahoma," in which he sang on-screen for the first time. Steiger's lifetime body of work consisting of 72 movies includes "Al Capone," "No Way to Treat a Lady," "The Illustrated Man," "Waterloo," "W.C. Fields and Me," "The Sergeant," "The Chosen," "The Life of Pope John XXIII," "The Naked Face," to name a few. Steiger was was recently honored at the Chicago Film Festival Festival's 30th Anniversary program honoring Steiger with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
	ANN DOWD’s (Louise Preston) feature film career includes starring or co-starring roles in Jonathan Demme's "Philadelphia," Andrew Bergman's "It Could Happen to You" and George Miller's "Lorenzo's Oil." She also performed important roles in the films "All Over Me," "Bushwhacked," "Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long," "Appearing Live" and "Green Card." For television, Dowd guest-starred in the Lifetime series "Molly Dodd" and two episodes of NBC's "Law and Order" series; She also essayed important roles in the television movies "Homecoming," NBC's "Guy Hanks," HBO's After School Special "Babysitter's Club," Fox TV's "Against the Law," CBS's "First Steps" and the ABC miniseries "North and South." The actress's New York stage work includes starring roles in "The Bay at Nice," "Candida," "Remembrance," "New York 1937," "The Crucible" and "The Lark." Also, in Hartford, at the Hartford Stage she starred in "The Paper Gramaphone"; and in "Major Barbara" at Milwaukee's Chamber Theatre. Dowd began her career on the stage in Chicago with major roles in such productions as "Ballerina," "A Different Moon," "Kennedy's Children," "Much Ado About Nothing," "The Misanthrope," "The Philanthropist," "The Rivals," "Arms and the Man," "Heartbreak House," "Uncle Vanya," "Orestebia," "The Mound Builder," "The Normal Heart," "The Nerd" and "The Glass Menagerie." For her performances in the legitimate theater, Dowd has been honored with a number of awards including the 1993 Clarence Derwent Award For Most Promising Broadway Debut; the 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Supporting Actress; and both the 1984 and 1983 Joseph Jefferson Citations for Outstanding Performance. Dowd earned her M.F.A. at Chicago's Goodman School of Drama where she won the school's highest honor The Sarah Siddons Award.
	BONNIE BARTLETT’s (Mrs. Wallace) most recent starring roles have been in the feature films "Ghosts of Mississippi" and "Primary Colors." Her other important feature film roles include "The Grass Harp," "Twins," "Frances," "All Night Long" and "Promises in the Dark." Her starring roles in made-for-TV movies are "Family Blessings," "In the Name of Love," "Take Me Home Again," "Perry Mason," "Donato & Daughter," "Right to Die," "Deadly Intentions," "Celebrity," "Dempsey," "A Long Way Home," "Lizzie Borden," "Death in Cannan," "See Jane Run," "Murder in the Family," "Where are My Children," "Victim of Love," "The Big One," "Deliberate Stranger," "Malice in Wonderland," "V," "Rape and Marriage," "Ike" and "She Drinks a Little." She starred as a regular cast member in the TV series "St. Elsewhere," and has had key recurring roles in the sitcom "Home Improvement," the drama series "Midnight Caller" and "Little House on the Prairie." Her TV series guest-starring roles include "I'll Fly Away," "L.A. Law," "Golden Girls," "Wiseguy," "Seaquest" and "Matlock."
	J. MADISON WRIGHT plays Samantha, young Marty Preston's little friend who keeps his secret that he has found Shiloh and helps him build a make-shift doghouse for the abused canine. Madison, at the tender age of 13, has already landed a co-starring role as a series regular in "Earth II"; and will be seen soon on "The Osiris Chronicles," for CBS. She has also guest-starred on NBC's "ER," CBS's "The Nanny" and ABC's "Grace Under Fire," in which she sang the song "Annie" from the Broadway musical "Annie." An accomplished singer and dancer, the young performer co-starred in the musical "Really Rosie," at the Groundlings Theatre. Originally from Kentucky, the young actress started her career at the age of six in New York City and soon became a top child model for the Ford Agency before moving to Hollywood.
	SHIRA ROTH plays Dara Lynn, the oldest of Marty's two sisters. Now a sixth grader, Shira began acting at the age of five, appearing on the "Kid Songs" video series, and is currently on the "Kid Songs" television series. She has appeared on such television series as "Melrose Place" and "Sisters," where she has had a recurring role, and has numerous national television commercials to her credit. Recently, Shira provided he singing voice for a character in the animated film "The Prince of Egypt," being produced by Dreamworks for release in 1998. On the stage, Shira has appeared in "A Mid Summer Nights Dream" and "Women & Wallace." She lives in Central California and when time allows, likes to snow ski, jet ski, dance, read and, like most girls her age, talk on the phone and just hang out with her friends.
	TORI WRIGHT plays Becky, the younger of Marty's two sisters. Tori began working professionally when she was signed by the Ford Modeling Agency at age one, and has done work for such companies as Macy's, Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue. She lives in Los Angeles and includes among her interests doll collecting, singing, dancing and hiking.