- He was a playwright, novelist, and character actor on Broadway and in movies. He was an artist-in-residence at several colleges.
- He started his career working as a stage, radio, television, and film actor in the 1940s.
- He began writing plays in the 1960s, including A Party For Lovers and The Long War.
- In 1993, O'Morrison played Cliff Reed in Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
- He played the lead actor in the TV series Charlie Wild, Private Detective (1950-51) for the first seven episodes. The series began on CBS Television, and then moved to ABC, and finally DuMont.
- Among the plays he published or had produced were The Long War, A Party for Lovers, The Morgan Yard, Ladyhouse Blues and Dark Ages.
- O'Morrison, who also wrote novels, was a founding member of the nonprofit organization PEN Washington, which worked to protect freedom of expression for writers everywhere, and served as an artist in residence at several colleges and universities.
- A native of St. Louis, O'Morrison in 1938 had a walk-on in Orson Welles' innovative play Caesar, produced for Broadway by the director's Mercury Theater company. He also appeared on the stage in Winged Victory and The Rose Tattoo.
- O'Morrison played a prizefighter in the classic film noir boxing drama The Set-Up (1949), directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan, and was another pugilist in The Golden Gloves Story (1950).
- Occasionally billed as Kenny O'Morrison, he made his movie debut in Dear Ruth (1947), starring Joan Caulfield and William Holden, and then appeared in Ida Lupino's Never Fear (1949).
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