Malachy McCourt

He is also a regular guest artist at the Scranton Public Theatre in Pennsylvania having performed in Inherit the Wind Love Letters and A Couple of Blaguards which he co-wrote with brother Frank McCourt. Politics
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 McCourt announced that he would seek to become governor of New York in the November 2006 election as a Green Party candidate. He is also one of the four founding members of the Manhattan Rugby Football Club in 1960.

He is the younger brother of Frank McCourt. He was the 2006 Green Party candidate for governor in New York State losing to the Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer. Malachy Gerard McCourt (born 20 September 1931) is an Irish-American actor writer and politician.