Titus Welliver
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Biography
Titus Welliver was an American actor who appeared in dozens of films and TV shows over the course of his 25-plus year acting career, most notably as the star of the Amazon Studios cop drama "Bosch" (Amazon Studios, 2014- ). Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in New York and Philadelphia, Welliver was fortunate enough to have had a creative upbringing. His father was a famous landscape artist, while his mother worked as a fashion illustrator, so the Welliver house was always filled with poets, artists and various other creative types when Titus was growing up. Although Welliver initially intended on following in his father's footsteps by becoming a landscape artist, by his late teens he began focusing on a career in acting instead. With that in mind, Welliver packed his bags and moved to New York City. He enrolled in classes at New York's famed HB Acting Studio, and also studied at New York University. After years of honing his craft with non-paid work, Welliver nabbed his first paid acting role with a small part in the Charlie Sheen action drama "Navy Seals" (1990). The following year he landed a small role in Oliver Stone's "The Doors" (1991), and continued nabbing film and TV roles throughout the remainder of the decade. Welliver's first big break came in 1997 when he joined the cast of Steven Bochco's short lived cop drama "Brooklyn South" (CBS, 1997-98). The series last for one season, but it wouldn't be the last time Welliver played a cop on TV. Over the next several years Welliver played law enforcement agents on a variety of TV dramas, including "NYPD Blue" (ABC, 1993-2005), "Big Apple" (CBS, 2001) and "Numbers" (CBS, 2005-2010). Then in 2004 Welliver was cast on the HBO period drama "Deadwood" (HBO, 2004-06). He played Silas Adams on the series, which lasted three seasons. Working on "Deadwood" also gave Welliver the opportunity to once again work with the legendary TV writer David Milch (the two had previously worked together on "NYPD Blue"). After "Deadwood" ended its run, Welliver continued working steadily in films and on TV throughout the 2000s and 2010s. In 2014 he returned to familiar territory when he was cast as the LAPD police officer Harry Bosch on the Amazon Studios series "Bosch," which entered its third season in 2017. The previous year, Welliver had the opportunity to work with director Ben Affleck for a fourth time when he was cast in the Prohibition Era crime drama "Live By Night." Up until that point, Welliver had previously appeared in Affleck's "Gone Baby Gone" (2007), "The Town" (2010), and "Argo" (2012).
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1990
Made first appearance in a mainstream feature, played bit role of a redneck in a bar in "Navy SEALs"
1990
Made TV debut as Ralph Capone in the TNT movie "The Lost Capone"
1991
Landed first major screen role as Al Capone in "Mobsters"
1992
Guest starred on "L.A. Law" (NBC), first time working for Steven Bochco
1995
Co-starred with Laurence Fishburne and Heavy D in the off-Broadway play "Riff Raff," written by Fishburne
1995
Played a recurring role on "NYPD Blue"
1996
Had recurring role as a police sergeant on the ABC drama "High Incident"
1997
Played recurring role on the Bochco-produced legal drama "Murder One" (ABC)
1997
Portrayed B. F. Goodrich in the TNT movie "Rough Riders"
1997
Made TV series debut as regular as Officer Jake Lowery in Bochco's "Brooklyn South" (CBS)
1998
Had featured role as Lewis Paine, the man who attempted to murder the U.S. Secretary of State in 1865, in the TNT movie "The Day Lincoln Was Shot"
2000
Co-starred as a mobster in the CBS drama "Falcone"
2000
Reprised his stage role opposite Laurence Fishburne in "Once in the Life," Fishburne's film adaptation of his play "Riff Raff"
2001
Landed regular role on the CBS police drama "Big Apple"
2001
Joined the cast of the CBS series "That's Life"
2004
Had a recurring role as debt collector Silas Adams in the HBO drama "Deadwood"; became a series regular in the second season
2007
Appeared in the drama "Gone Baby Gone," written and directed by Ben Affleck
2009
Played the mysterious Man in Black on ABC's "Lost"
2009
Landed a featured role on CBS' "The Good Wife"
2010
Cast in the ensemble crime drama "The Town"; second film with writer and director Affleck
2012
Acted in the crime thriller "Man on a Ledge" opposite Sam Worthington
2012
Featured in "Promised Land," directed by Gus van Sant; film co-written by Damon and John Krasinski
2012
Cast in political thriller "Argo," directed by Ben Affleck
2013
Played Felix Blake on "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
2014
Appeared in Michael Bay's "Transformers: Age of Extinction"
2014
Played a recurring character on "The Last Ship"
2014
Appeared in the horror film "Poker Night"
2014
Nabbed the lead role in the detective series "Bosch"
2017
Appeared in his fourth film with director Ben Affleck, the crime drama "Live by Night"
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