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Characters Of Deadwood
This article contains descriptions and biographies of fictional characters appearing in the HBO original television series '' Deadwood'' and in 2019's '' Deadwood: The Movie''. Cast Main cast Recurring cast Main characters Seth Bullock Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) leaves Etobicoke, Ontario and becomes a marshal in Montana. Soon he hears stories of gold in Deadwood. Rather than searching for gold, Bullock opens a hardware store with his best friend and longtime business partner, Sol Star. At the camp, he meets Wild Bill Hickok. When Hickok is murdered, Bullock pursues the killer into the Black Hills and captures him, taking him back to Dakota for trial. After his return, he becomes sheriff of Deadwood. Bullock, one of the few honest men in the camp, is soon enlisted to look after a gold claim for Alma Garret, an upper-class woman from the East Coast whose husband was murdered by Al Swearengen's men over the claim. Eventually, the two become sexually involved, despite the ...
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Dayton Callie
Dayton Callie (born 1946) is an American actor, best known for playing Charlie Utter on HBO's '' Deadwood'', former Police Chief Wayne Unser on ''Sons of Anarchy'', and Jeremiah Otto on AMC's '' Fear the Walking Dead''. He has also voiced Whitaker in Valve's ''Left 4 Dead 2'', appeared in '' Halloween II'', and had small roles in episodes of ''The Unit'' and ''Seinfeld''. He was also in two episodes of the short-lived NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ... series '' The Cape'' as the Mayor, and had a three-episode arc on '' CSI''. Filmography Film Television Video Games Awards and nominations References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Callie, Dayton 1946 births American male film actors American male television actors Living peop ...
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Brent Sexton
Brent Sexton (born August 12, 1967) is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series '' Bosch'', '' The Killing'', ''Life'', and '' Deadwood''. He has guest starred in several other television series, such as ''The Expanse'', '' Justified'', '' That's Life'', ''Birds of Prey'', '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', and ''Judging Amy''. He has also appeared in several motion pictures, such as ''In the Valley of Elah'', ''Flightplan'', ''Radio'', and ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence''. In 2006, Sexton, along with the cast of ''Deadwood'', was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. Early life Sexton was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at Missouri State University and Elon University. Career Sexton toured internationally with a theater company as both Officer Krupke and Detective Schrank in ''West Side Story ''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by A ...
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Jack McCall
John McCall (); (1852/1853 – March 1, 1877), also known as "Crooked Nose" or "Broken Nose Jack", was the murderer of Old West legend Wild Bill Hickok. McCall shot Hickok from behind as he played poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory on August 2, 1876. McCall was executed for the murder on March 1, 1877. Early life Many details of McCall's life are unknown. He was most likely born in the early 1850s in Jefferson County, Kentucky. McCall was raised in Kentucky with three sisters and eventually drifted west to become a buffalo hunter.''Buffalo hunters''
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By 1876, he was living in a camp outside Deadwood, under the ...
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Garret Dillahunt
Garret Lee Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom ''Raising Hope'', for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in '' Deadwood'', and John Dorie in '' Fear the Walking Dead'' (2018–2021). He has also appeared in ''The 4400'', '' ER'', '' Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'', '' Justified'', and ''The Mindy Project'' (2015–2017). He starred in the Amazon Studios drama series '' Hand of God'' (2014–2017). In film, Dillahunt has played supporting roles in ''No Country for Old Men'', ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'', ''Winter's Bone'', ''Looper'', and '' 12 Years a Slave''. Early life and education Dillahunt was born in Castro Valley, California, and grew up in Selah, Washington. He was born into a family of three boys, with two brothers: Bre ...
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Titus Welliver
Titus B. Welliver (born March 12, 1962) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayals of the Man in Black in ''Lost'', Silas Adams in '' Deadwood'', Jimmy O’Phelan in ''Sons of Anarchy'', and the title role in the television series '' Bosch'' and '' Bosch: Legacy.'' He is also known for his collaborations with Ben Affleck, starring in his films ''Gone Baby Gone'' (2007) and '' The Town'' (2010). Early life Welliver was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, Neil Welliver, was a well-known American landscape painter who was a professor of fine art at Yale University before becoming dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Fine Art. Welliver's mother, Norma Cripps, was a fashion illustrator. Welliver studied drama at New York University in the early 1980s before his film and television career began. Welliver befriended Adam Sandler in a comedy writing class while attending New York University. Welliver's life has been marked by losses. His ...
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Sean Bridgers
Sean MacKenzie Bridgers (born March 15, 1968) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer, known for his role as Johnny Burns on the HBO series '' Deadwood'' and on the SundanceTV original series ''Rectify'' as Trey Willis. Additional to many roles in television and film since 1991, Bridgers received acclaim and awards for the independent film ''Paradise Falls'', which he wrote and produced. He received praise for his lead role in Lucky McKee's horror film '' The Woman'' and another Moderncine film, '' Jug Face'', as well as notable roles in ''Sweet Home Alabama'' and ''Nell''. He played Old Nick in the 2015 film ''Room''. Personal life Bridgers was born in 1968 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Ben and Sue Ellen Bridgers. Ben was the tribal attorney for the Cherokee Indian tribe and published a memoir and books of poetry. Sue Ellen Bridgers is a novelist with seven published novels. He graduated from St. Andrew's-Sewanee School and Western Carolina University. In interv ...
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Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Duncan Jones (born September 28, 1946) is an American character actor, best known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in ''Amadeus'' (1984), Edward R. Rooney in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986), Charles Deetz in ''Beetlejuice'' (1988), Dr. Skip Tyler in ''The Hunt for Red October'' (1990), Eddie Barzoon in '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1997), and A. W. Merrick in both '' Deadwood'' (2004–2006) and '' Deadwood: The Movie'' (2019). His career started in Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and advanced to London and Broadway. In film and television, Jones has had many roles which capitalized on his deadpan portrayal of characters in unusual situations, often to comic effect. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in ''Amadeus'' and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the ensemble cast of ''Deadwood''. In 2003, Jones pleaded no contest to a charge of soliciting a minor to pose for nude photographs and had subsequent arrests for failing to u ...
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Martha Bullock
Martha Marguerite Eccles Bullock (1851–1939) was an American pioneer woman who was the wife of Seth Bullock, one of the leading citizens in early Deadwood, South Dakota. She and Bullock were married in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1874. Martha Bullock and daughter Margaret were sent to live with her parents in Michigan in 1876 when Seth Bullock first left for Deadwood, then a wild lawless frontier town and no place for a family; after the town had become more orderly, largely as a result of the efforts of Bullock himself as sheriff, they joined her husband in Deadwood. She became a leading member of local society and excellently managed their household. They subsequently had another daughter, Florence, and a son, Stanley. In popular culture Martha Bullock appeared as a supporting character in the HBO television series '' Deadwood'' and '' Deadwood: The Movie'' where she was portrayed by Anna Gunn Anna Gunn (born August 11, 1968) is an American actress. She is best known for h ...
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Anna Gunn
Anna Gunn (born August 11, 1968) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Skyler White on the AMC drama series ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–2013), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2013 and 2014. She has also played Jean Ward in ''The Practice'' (1997–2002), and Martha Bullock in '' Deadwood'' (2004–2006). Early life Gunn was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the daughter of Sharon Anna Kathryn "Shana" Gunn (''née'' Peters), an interior designer, and Clemens Earl Gunn Jr., who worked in real estate. She graduated from Santa Fe Preparatory School in 1986, then attended Northwestern University, where she majored in theater and graduated in 1990. In the fall of 1988, she spent a semester abroad to study at the British American Drama Academy. She moved to Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, where she shared a house with Pamela Adlon. Career Gunn is known for her role as Sk ...
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Kim Dickens
Kimberly Jan Dickens (born June 18, 1965) is an American actress. Her film debut was in the 1995 comedy film ''Palookaville (film), Palookaville''. Dickens played lead roles in the films ''Truth or Consequences, N.M. (film), Truth or Consequences, N.M.'' (1997), ''Zero Effect'' (1998) and ''Mercury Rising'' (1998). Her other films include ''Great Expectations (1998 film), Great Expectations'' (1998), ''Hollow Man'' (2000), ''House of Sand and Fog (film), House of Sand and Fog'' (2003), ''Thank You for Smoking'' (2005), ''The Blind Side (film), The Blind Side'' (2009), ''Gone Girl (film), Gone Girl'' (2014), ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'' (2016), ''Lizzie (2018 film), Lizzie'' (2018), ''Land (2021 film), Land'' (2021), and ''The Good Nurse'' (2022). On television, Dickens had regular roles in the drama series ''Deadwood (TV series), Deadwood'' (2004–2006; Deadwood: The Movie, 2019), ''Treme (TV series), Treme'' ...
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Powers Boothe
Powers Allen Boothe (June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017) was an American actor. He won an Emmy in 1980 for his portrayal of Jim Jones in '' Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones''. He also played saloon owner Cy Tolliver on '' Deadwood'', "Curly Bill" Brocius in '' Tombstone'', President Noah Daniels on '' 24'', and Lamar Wyatt in ''Nashville''. He was also the voice of Gorilla Grodd in the DC Animated Universe shows ''Justice League'' and ''Justice League Unlimited''. Early life Boothe, the youngest of three boys, was born June 1, 1948, at home on a cotton farm in Snyder, Texas, to Merrill Vestal Boothe (1924–1985), a rancher, and his wife Emily (née Reeves) Boothe (1924–1999). His father named him after his best friend, who had been killed in the Second World War. Boothe attended Snyder High School, where he played football and appeared in school plays. He was the first in his family to go beyond high school, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southwes ...
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