Titus B. Welliver (born March 12, 1962)BOOK, Chase’s Calendar of Events 2024: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months, Bernan Press, 2023, 9781636714080, 172, 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

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.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/arts/design/neil-welliver-75-painter-of-largescale-landscapes-is-dead.html, The New York Times, April 8, 2005, Neil Welliver, 75, Painter of Large-Scale Landscapes, Is Dead, Ken, Johnson,www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/arts/design/neil-welliver-75-painter-of-largescale-landscapes-is-dead.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20150529174706www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/arts/design/neil-welliver-75-painter-of-largescale-landscapes-is-dead.html,">web.archive.org/web/20150529174706www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/arts/design/neil-welliver-75-painter-of-largescale-landscapes-is-dead.html, May 29, 2015, He studied drama at New York University in the early 1980s before his film and television career began.NEWS, Grove, Lloyd, Titus Welliver’s Trek to Stardom,www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/13/titus-welliver-s-trek-to-stardom.html, April 22, 2017, The Daily Beast, February 13, 2015, He befriended Adam Sandler in a comedy writing class while attending New York University.WEB, Titus Welliver and Adam Sandler Weren’t Allowed to Sit Next to Each Other at NYU,www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3UDBXmVkAE, en, YouTube, {{dead YouTube link|date=July 2023}}

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. 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.PRESS RELEASE,www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150213005310/en/Amazon’s-Original-Hour-Long-Drama-Series-Bosch-Exclusively, Amazon, BusinessWire, Amazon’s Original Hour Long Drama Series Bosch, The series was renewed for a seventh and final season on February 13, 2020.WEB, “Bosch” Picked Up for Its 7th and Final Season on Prime Video,www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/02/13/bosch-picked-up-for-its-7th-and-final-season-on-prime-video-731415/20200213amazon01/, The Futon Critic, 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#:~:text=Madison Lintz (born May 11,spin-off Bosch%3A Legacy.|Madison Lintz)) is a rookie police officer, still set in Los Angeles.He had a cameo appearance as an Imperial captain in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian.WEB, The Mandalorian: Titus Welliver Cameo Reminds Us of Lost’s Man in Black,www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-wars-the-mandalorian-titus-welliver-bosch-lost/, Den of Geek, November 14, 2020,

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.

Personal life

He has been married five times (4 ending in divorce and 1 ended due to death of spouse). He has three children. He is currently engaged to Samantha Edge.WEB, ‘Bosch’ Star Titus Welliver Buys Off the Grid Estate in Topanga,www.yahoo.com/news/bosch-star-titus-welliver-buys-010251762.html, Yahoo News, Nov 16, 2021, WEB, May 3, 2022, Three Tragedies Didn’t Keep ‘Bosch’ Star Titus Welliver From the Stage,www.wsj.com/articles/three-tragedies-didnt-keep-bosch-star-titus-welliver-from-the-stage-11651591788, WSJ, limited,archive.today/20220503182249/https://www.wsj.com/articles/three-tragedies-didnt-keep-bosch-star-titus-welliver-from-the-stage-11651591788, 2022-05-03, my fiancÃ©, Samantha Edge, and I divide our time between our homes in Topanga, Calif., and our Connecticut farmhouse., He revealed in several interviews the link between his own experience of loss and his interpretation of Harry Bosch. NEWS, Powell, Candace, August 4, 2021, ‘Bosch’ Star Titus Welliver Once Shared the Devastating Reason He Connects With His ‘Deeply Haunted’ Character,www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/bosch-titus-welliver-devastating-reason-connects-deeply-haunted-character.html/,