Michael Lally (born May 25, 1942) is an American-born poet and the author of more than 30 books of poetry.
In 1962 he joined the United States Air Force, where he spent more than four years as an enlisted man, and later used the G.I.
In the Fall of 1968, while living in Iowa, Lally actively campaigned for the position of Johnson County Sheriff as part of the Peace and Freedom Party ticket.
[5] In 1972 he wrote the autobiographical South Orange Sonnets which received a New York Poetry Center Discovery Award.
He was seen in films including Basic Instinct (1992), White Fang (1991) and Cool World (1992), as well as on TV as Captain Bubb in Deadwood (2004), Walter Hoyt on NYPD Blue (1995–97) and Detective Frank Costa on JAG (1997–98).