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Welliver in February 2015
Born	Titus B. Welliver (1962-03-12) March 12, 1962 (age 63) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1990–present
Children	3
Relatives	Neil Welliver (father) Norma Cripps (mother)

Titus B. Welliver, born on March 12, 1962, is an American actor. He is famous for playing several memorable characters on TV. These include the Man in Black in Lost, Silas Adams in Deadwood, and Jimmy O'Phelan in Sons of Anarchy. He is also well-known for his main role as Harry Bosch in the TV series Bosch and Bosch: Legacy. Welliver has also worked with director Ben Affleck in films like Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Argo (2012).

Early Life and Education

Titus Welliver was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on March 12, 1962. He grew up in Philadelphia and New York City. His family was full of artists and writers. His father, Neil Welliver, was a famous landscape painter. He taught art at Yale University and was a dean at the University of Pennsylvania. Titus's mother, Norma Cripps, was a fashion illustrator.

In 1980, Titus moved to New York to study acting. He attended New York University in the early 1980s. He also took classes at HB Acting Studios in New York. To support himself while studying, he worked different jobs, including as a bartender and a construction worker.

Acting Career

Titus Welliver has had a long career in both movies and television.

Movie Roles

Welliver has appeared in many films. Some of his early movies include The Doors (1991) and Mobsters (1991). He also acted in Mulholland Falls (1996) and Assault on Precinct 13 (2005).

He worked with director Ben Affleck on four movies. These were Gone Baby Gone (2007), The Town (2010), Argo (2012), and Live by Night (2016). In 2014, he was also in director Michael Bay's film Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Television Roles

On television, Titus Welliver has played many different characters. He had a repeating role as a doctor on NYPD Blue. He was also a main actor in the police drama Brooklyn South. He is well known for playing Silas Adams on the HBO series Deadwood.

Welliver appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager as Maxwell Burke. He was also in Prison Break and Life. He played the "Man in Black" in the fifth and sixth seasons of Lost. In 1999, he was in an episode of Touched by an Angel. He also played a character named Tom Landricks on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2002.

He joined the show Sons of Anarchy in its second season. There, he played Jimmy O'Phelan, an Irish gun dealer. From 2009, he played Prosecutor Glenn Childs in the CBS series The Good Wife. He also had a repeating role in the drama The Last Ship for its first two seasons. He played Thorwald, a leader fighting in a world affected by a global sickness.

His most famous TV role is playing the main character, Detective Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch, in the TV series Bosch. This show is based on crime novels by Michael Connelly. The first season of Bosch came out on Amazon Prime Video in February 2015. The series finished with its seventh season in 2021. A new show called Bosch: Legacy started in May 2022. In this spin-off, Harry Bosch is a private detective. His daughter, Madeline (played by Madison Lintz), is a new police officer in Los Angeles.

Outside of acting, Welliver appeared on the show Hell's Kitchen in 2018. He was a guest diner for one of the dinner services. He also had a small role as an Imperial captain in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian.

Audiobooks and Other Work

Titus Welliver has narrated several audiobooks. He read Robert B. Parker's western novels, including Appaloosa and Brimstone. He has also narrated some of the Michael Connelly Bosch crime novels, such as The Crossing and The Burning Room.

Painting and Personal Life

Titus Welliver is also a talented painter, just like his father, Neil Welliver. His artwork is shown at the Georges Bergès Gallery in New York.

Welliver has three children. He has spoken in interviews about how his own experiences with loss have helped him understand his character, Harry Bosch.

Filmography

Movies

Television

See also

In Spanish: Titus Welliver para niños