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), '' The Town'' (2010), '' Argo'' (2012), and '' Live by Night'' (2016).

Early life

Titus Welliver was born March 12, 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut, and was raised in Philadelphia and New York City, surrounded by poets and painters. 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. His mother, Norma Cripps, was a fashion illustrator. Titus moved to New York in 1980 to learn his craft. He studied drama at New York University in the early 1980s before his film and television career began. He enrolled in classes at New York's HB Acting Studios while attending New York University. To support himself, he held a variety of jobs including bartender and construction worker.

Career

Film

He has worked on several film projects, including ''The Doors'' (1991), '' Mobsters'' (1991), '' Mulholland Falls'' (1996), '' Rough Riders'' (1997), '' Once in the Life'' (2000), '' Biker Boyz'' (2003), '' Twisted'' (2004), '' Assault on Precinct 13'' (2005). He was cast in the first four films of director Ben Affleck: ''Gone Baby Gone'' (2007), '' The Town'' (2010), '' Argo'' (2012), and '' Live by Night'' (2016). He was also cast in director Michael Bay's film '' Transformers: Age of Extinction'' in 2014.

Television

On television, he had a recurring role as a doctor on ''NYPD Blue'' and was one of the stars of the CBS police drama '' Brooklyn South''. Moreover, he is well known for playing the semi-regular character Silas Adams on the HBO series '' Deadwood''. Welliver played Maxwell Burke in two episodes of '' Star Trek: Voyager'', “Equinox, Part 1” and “Equinox, Part 2”. He played "The Representative" in two episodes of ''Prison Break'', portrayed Kyle Hollis (a.k.a. Reverend Orson Parker) in the NBC series ''Life'', and appeared in the season five finale of '' Lost'' as the "Man in Black", which he continued to portray during the sixth and final season. In 1999 he appeared in an episode of '' Touched by an Angel'' titled "The Occupant", where he played a man who was "occupied" by a demon. In 2002 he played Tom Landricks, a rapist, on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.

He was introduced into FX's '' Sons of Anarchy'' midway through season two, in which he portrays Irish gun kingpin Jimmy O'Phelan. In 2009, he started playing the role of Prosecutor Glenn Childs, a rival of Chris Noth's character, in the CBS series '' The Good Wife''. He joined the cast of the apocalyptic drama '' The Last Ship'' in a recurring role for its first two seasons, as Thorwald, a local warlord fighting underground in a dying world infected by a global pandemic.

He plays the title role in the TV series ''Bosch'' from Amazon Studios. The series is based on the novels centered on the character of the same name by Michael Connelly. The first season of the series was released on Amazon Prime Video on February 13, 2015. The series was renewed for a seventh and final season on February 13, 2020. The Bosch series was followed by a May 2022 spin-off entitled '' Bosch: Legacy'' in which Bosch has left the LAPD and has become a private detective and his daughter, Madeline (played by Madison Lintz), is a rookie police officer, still set in Los Angeles.

Outside of acting, Welliver appeared in the eighteenth season of '' Hell's Kitchen'' when he attended the fifth dinner service as one of the red team's diners.

He had a cameo appearance as an Imperial captain in the Disney+ series '' The Mandalorian''.

Audiobooks

He has narrated several audiobooks, including Robert B. Parker's series of American western novels, ''Appaloosa'', ''Brimstone'', ''Blue-Eyed Devil'' and ''Ironhorse''. He has also narrated several of the Michael Connelly ''Bosch'' series of crime fiction novels, including ''The Crossing'', ''The Burning Room'' and ''The Wrong Side of Goodbye''.

Painting

Welliver is the son of artist Neil Welliver and is an established painter himself. He is represented in New York by the Georges Bergès Gallery,

Personal life

He has been married five times (with four ending in divorce and one ending due to death of his spouse). He has three children.

He revealed in several interviews the link between his own experience of loss and his interpretation of Harry Bosch.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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Living people
1961 births
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Tisch School of the Arts alumni