Titus Welliver Biography

Titus B. Welliver (born March 12, 1961) is an American actor and painter. He is best known for his portrayals of the Man in Black on Lost and the title role in the television series Bosch from Amazon Studios.

Early life

Welliver was born in New Haven, Connecticut , the son of Norma Cripps, a fashion illustrator, and Neil Welliver, a landscape painter. He studied drama at New York University in the early 1980s, before his film and television career began to take off.

Career

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Film

Welliver has worked on several film projects, including The Doors (1991), Mobsters (1991), in which he played Al Capone, Mulholland Falls (1996), Rough Riders (1997), Once in the Life (2000), Biker Boyz (2003), Twisted (2004), Assault on Precinct 13 (2005). He has been cast in all four of director Ben Affleck's films to date; 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, Welliver is well known for playing the semi-regular character Silas Adams on the HBO series Deadwood. Welliver 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 "The Man in Black" which character he continued to portray during the sixth and final season.

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 recently joined the cast of the apocalyptic drama The Last Ship, as Thorwald, a local warlord fighting underground in a dying world infected by a global pandemic.

Welliver 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.

Personal life

Welliver has been married 3 times.

Filmography

Film

Year	Production	Role	Notes
1990	Navy SEALs	Redneck in Bar
1990	The Lost Capone	Ralph Capone
1991	The Doors	Macing Cop
1991	Mobsters	Al Capone
1992	An American Story	Jack Austin
1994	Tick, Tick, Tick		Short
1994	Zero Tolerance	Ray Manta
1994	Blind Justice	Sumner
1995	Born to Be Wild	Sergeant Markle
1996	Mulholland Falls	Kenny Kamins
1997	The Clearing		Short
1997	Rough Riders	B.F. Goodrich
1997	Air Force One
1997	The Big Fall	Moe	Short
2000	Cement	Moe
2000	Once in the Life	Torch
2003	Biker Boyz	Max
2004	Twisted	Dale Becker
2005	Assault on Precinct 13	Milos
2007	Gone Baby Gone	Lionel McCready
2008	The Narrows	Tony
2008	The Human Contract	Mr. Praylis
2009	Other People's Parties	Pat 'The Patriot' Prescott
2009	Handsome Harry	Gebhardt
2010	Mafia II	Civilians	Video game voice role
2010	The Town	Dino Ciampa
2012	Man on a Ledge	Dante Marcus
2012	Item 47	Agent Felix Blake	Short Marvel Comics film, precursor to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series.
2012	Argo	Jon Bates
2012	Promised Land	Rob
2013	RED 2	Senior Director of Military Intelligence	Uncredited
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	James Savoy
2014	Poker Night	Maxwell
2016	Live by Night	Tim Hickey	Post-production

Television

Year	Production	Role	Notes
1990	Matlock	Johnny Bauer	1 episode
1992	L.A. Law	William Boyd	1 episode
1992	Beverly Hills, 90210	Doug	1 episode
1992	The Commish	Michael Harris	1 episode
1993	Tales from the Crypt	Salucci	1 episode
1994	The X-Files	Doug Spinney	Episode: "Darkness Falls"
1994	One Woman's Courage		Television movie
1995	New York Undercover	Frankie	1 episode
1995-98	NYPD Blue	Dr. Mondzac	Recurring role; 8 episodes
1996	Kindred: The Embraced	Cameron	1 episode
1996	High Incident	Sgt. Crispo	2 episodes
1996	Murder One	Larry White	3 episodes
1997	Nash Bridges	Richard Drake	1 episode
1997	Spy Game	Sebastian Dane	1 episode
1997	The Practice	Gordon	1 episode
1997-98	Brooklyn South	Officer Jake Lowery	Main role; 22 episodes
1998	The Day Lincoln Was Shot	Lewis Thornton Powell	Television movie
1999	Total Recall: The Series	Henry Sumers	1 episode
1999	Star Trek: Voyager	Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Burke	2 episodes
1999	Touched by an Angel	Gregory/Lonnie	1 episode
1999	Mind Prey	John Mail	Television movie
2000	Falcone	Santino 'Sonny' Napoli	1 episode
2001	Big Apple	FBI Special Agent Jimmy Flynn	8 episodes
2001	Blonde	The Baseball Player	Television miniseries
2001	'	Rick Jansen	1 episode
2001-02	That's Life	Dr. Eric Hackett	Recurring role; 17 episodes
2002	Third Watch	Cameron	1 episode
2002	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Tom Landricks	1 episode
2003	The Twilight Zone	Dylan	1 episode
2003	Hack	Zachary	2 episodes
2004-06	Deadwood	Silas Adams	27 episodes (one credit only)
2006	Law & Order	Bill Whitney	1 episode
2007	Numb3rs	Agent Graves	1 episode
2007	Kidnapped	Senator Bill Ross	2 episodes
2007	Jericho	Colonel Robert Hoffman	1 episode
2007	NCIS	Navy Captain Roger Walsh	1 episode
2007	Shark	Dexter Modene/Javier	1 episode
2007-08	Life	Kyle Hollis	2 episodes
2008	Prison Break	Scott (The Representative)	2 episodes
2009	Monk	Daniel Reese	1 episode
2009	Raising the Bar	Nate Chrisman	1 episode
2009	Kings	Bartender	1 episode
2009	Supernatural	Roger/War	1 episode
2009-10	Lost	Man in Black / Smoke Monster	3 episodes
2010	The Closer	Gregory Drisken	1 episode
2009-10	Sons of Anarchy	Jimmy O'Phelan	13 episodes
2010	True Blue	John Leeson	Television movie
2010	Lost: The Final Journey	Himself/Narrator	Television documentary
2011	Law & Order: LA	Attorney Kennedy	1 episode
2011, 2015	Suits	Dominic Barone	3 episodes
2009-11	The Good Wife	Glenn Childs	Recurring role; 16 episodes
2011-12	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mark Gabriel/Matt Gabriel	3 episodes
2011	The Awakening	The Hunter	Television movie
2011	Good Morning, Killer	Mike Donato	Television movie
2012	Grimm	Farley Kolt	1 episode
2012	Touch	Randall Meade	3 episodes
2012	Powers	Triphammer	Television movie
2012	Midnight Sun	Bennett Maxwell	Television movie
2013	White Collar	Senator Terence Pratt	2 episodes
2013-16	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Agent Felix Blake	3 episodes
2014	The Mentalist	Michael Ridley	3 episodes
2014-15	The Last Ship	Thorwald	4 episodes
2015-present	Bosch	Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch	Lead role; 20 episodes