Titus Welliver

Titus B. Welliver[1] (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.

Titus Welliver
Welliver in February 2015
Born	Titus B. Welliver (1962-03-12) March 12, 1962 New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Occupation	Actor
Spouse(s)	Heather Wielandt (m. 19??; div. 1989) Dani Sexton ​ ( m. 1992; div. 1996) Joanna Heimbold ​ ( m. 1998; div. 2004) Elizabeth W. Alexander ​ ( m. 2005; died 2012) Jose Stemkens ​ ( m. 2014; separated  2019)
Children	3
Relatives	Neil Welliver (father)

Early life

Welliver was born in New Haven, Connecticut. 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. Welliver's mother, Norma Cripps, was a fashion illustrator.[1][2] He studied drama at New York University in the early 1980s, before his film and television career began to take off.[3]

Welliver's life has been marked by loss: his older brother, Silas, died of muscular dystrophy, a younger sister died as an infant, his stepmother died of an infection six months later,[4] and his younger brother, Eli, was killed in Thailand.[5] His fourth wife, film producer Elizabeth W. Alexander, died of breast cancer in 2012.

Career

Film

Welliver 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 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 "Man in Black", which he continued to portray during the sixth and final season. In 1999 he appeared in an episode titled The Occupant, Touched by an angel, where he played a man who was "occupied" by a demon.

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.

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.[6]

Audiobooks

Welliver is also the narrator of 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'.

Advertisements

• Comcast Business Class
• Ambassador for Gentleman Jack's "What is the order?" campaign[7]

Personal life

Welliver has been married five times.[3] His marriages to Heather Wielandt, Hollywood talent agent Dani Sexton, and actress Joanna Heimbold ended in divorce. He was widowed when his fourth wife, film producer Elizabeth W. Alexander, died of breast cancer in 2012. He has a daughter with Alexander, and two sons with Heimbold.[8][9] He married Jose Stemkens, a Dutch fashion consultant and former model, in 2014.[10][11] Welliver filed for divorce from Stemkens in May 2019.[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Production	Role	Notes
1990	Navy SEALs	Redneck in Bar
	The Lost Capone	Ralph Capone
1991	The Doors	Macing Cop
	Mobsters	Al Capone
1992	An American Story	Jack Austin
1994	Tick, Tick, Tick		Short
	Zero Tolerance	Ray Manta
	Blind Justice	Sumner
1995	Born to Be Wild	Sergeant Markle
1996	Mulholland Falls	Kenny Kamins
1997	The Clearing		Short
	Rough Riders	B.F. Goodrich
	The Big Fall	Moe
2000	Cement	Moe
	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
	The Human Contract	Mr. Praylis
2009	Other People's Parties	Pat 'The Patriot' Prescott
	Handsome Harry	Gebhardt
2010	Mafia II	Civilians	Video game voice role
	The Town	Dino Ciampa
2012	Man on a Ledge	Dante Marcus
	Item 47	Agent Felix Blake	Short Marvel Comics film, precursor to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series.
	Argo	Jon Bates
	Promised Land	Rob
2013	Red 2	Senior Director of Military Intelligence	Uncredited[13]
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	James Savoy
	Poker Night	Maxwell
2016	Live by Night	Tim Hickey
2018	Escape Plan 2: Hades	Gregor Faust
2019	An Affair to Die For	Russell
	Shaft	Special Agent Vietti

Television

Year	Production	Role	Notes
1990	Matlock	Johnny Bauer	Episode: "The Narc"
1992	L.A. Law	William Boyd	Episode: "Steal It Again, Sam"
	Beverly Hills, 90210	Doug	Episode: "Cardio-Funk"
	The Commish	Michael Harris	Episode: "Video Vigilante"
1993	Tales from the Crypt	Salucci	Episode: "Forever Ambergris"
1994	The X-Files	Doug Spinney	Episode: "Darkness Falls"
	One Woman's Courage		Television movie
1995	New York Undercover	Frankie	Episode: "Innocent Bystanders"
1995–1998	NYPD Blue	Dr. Mondzac	Recurring role; 8 episodes
1996	Kindred: The Embraced	Cameron	Episode: "Cabin in the Woods"
	High Incident	Sgt. Crispo	2 episodes
	Murder One	Larry White	3 episodes
1997	Nash Bridges	Richard Drake	Episode: "The Web"
	Spy Game	Sebastian Dane	Episode: "Necessity Is the Mother of Infection"
	The Practice	Gordon	Episode: "Hide and Seek"
1997–1998	Brooklyn South	Officer Jake Lowery	Main role; 22 episodes
1998	The Day Lincoln Was Shot	Lewis Thornton Powell	Television movie
1999	Total Recall 2070	Henry Sumers	Episode: "Personal Effects"
	Star Trek: Voyager	Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Burke	2 episodes
	Touched by an Angel	Gregory/Lonnie	Episode: "The Occupant"
	Mind Prey	John Mail	Television movie
2000	Falcone	Santino 'Sonny' Napoli	Episode: "Windows"
2001	Big Apple	FBI Special Agent Jimmy Flynn	8 episodes
	Blonde	The Baseball Player	Television miniseries
	UC: Undercover	Rick Jansen	Episode: "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"
2001–2002	That's Life	Dr. Eric Hackett	Recurring role; 17 episodes
2002	Third Watch	Cameron	Episode: "Ladies' Day"
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Tom Landricks	Episode: "Resilience"
2003	The Twilight Zone	Dylan	Episode: "The Monsters Are on Maple Street"
	Hack	Zachary	2 episodes
2004–2006	Deadwood	Silas Adams	26 episodes
2006	Law & Order	Bill Whitney	Episode: "Profiteer"
2007	Numb3rs	Agent Graves	Episode: "Finders Keepers"
	Kidnapped	Senator Bill Ross	2 episodes
	Jericho	Colonel Robert Hoffman	Episode: "Why We Fight"
	NCIS	Navy Captain Roger Walsh	Episode: "Leap of Faith"
	Shark	Dexter Modene/Javier	Episode: "In Absentia"
2007–2008	Life	Kyle Hollis	2 episodes
2008	Prison Break	Scott (The Representative)	2 episodes
2009	Monk	Daniel Reese	Episode: "Mr. Monk's Other Brother"
	Raising the Bar	Nate Chrisman	Episode: "No Child's Left Behind"
	Kings	Bartender	Episode: "Chapter One"
	Supernatural	Roger/War	Episode: "Good God, Y'All"
2009–2010	Lost	Man in Black	3 episodes
2010	The Closer	Gregory Drisken	Episode: "Help Wanted"
2009–2010	Sons of Anarchy	Jimmy O'Phelan	13 episodes
2010	True Blue	John Leeson	Television movie
	Lost: The Final Journey	Himself/Narrator	Television documentary
2011	Law & Order: LA	Attorney Kennedy	Episode: "Angel's Knoll"
2011, 2015	Suits	Dominic Barone	3 episodes
2009–2011	The Good Wife	Glenn Childs	Recurring role; 16 episodes
2011–2012	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mark Gabriel/Matt Gabriel	3 episodes
2011	Awakening	The Hunter	Television movie
	Good Morning, Killer	Mike Donato	Television movie
2012	Grimm	Farley Kolt	Episode: "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau"
	Touch	Randall Meade	3 episodes
	Powers	Triphammer	Television movie
	Midnight Sun	Bennett Maxwell	Television movie
2013	White Collar	Senator Terence Pratt	2 episodes
2013–2016	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Agent Felix Blake	3 episodes
2014	The Mentalist	Michael Ridley	3 episodes
2014–2015	The Last Ship	Thorwald	4 episodes
2015–present	Bosch	Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch	Lead role; 60 episodes
2018	Chicago P.D.	Ronald Booth	Episode: "Ghosts"
	Hell's Kitchen	Himself	Guest diner Episode: "Hot Potato"
2019	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Attorney Rob Miller	3 episodes

References

1. Johnson, Ken (April 8, 2005). "Neil Welliver, 75, Painter of Large-Scale Landscapes, Is Dead". New York Times.
2. "Titus Welliver Biography (1961-)". FilmReference.com.
3. Grove, Lloyd (February 13, 2015). "Titus Welliver's Trek to Stardom". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
4. Schudel, Matt. "Neil Welliver, 75, Dies". Washington Post. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
5. Lee, Luaine (February 11, 2015). "Traces of tragedy remain for actor Titus Welliver". The Blade. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
6. "Amazon's Original Hour Long Drama Series Bosch". BusinessWire.
7. "Gentleman Jack". JackDaniels.com. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
8. "Titus Welliver on 'Promised Land,' fracking, his late wife". Entertainment Weekly. January 8, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
9. "Profile". People. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
10. Webber, Stephanie (April 15, 2014). "Good Wife's Titus Welliver Ties the Knot!". Us Weekly. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
11. Webber, Stephanie (April 15, 2014). "Titus Welliver Marries Jose Stemkens". People Magazine. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
12. "'Bosch' Star Titus Welliver Files to End His Marriage". The Blast. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
13. Mitchell, Jim (April 27, 2016). "Bosch's Titus Welliver has been in literally everything". Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved August 15, 2019.

External links

• Titus Welliver on IMDb
• "80 minute interview". Kevin Pollak's Chat Show. Archived from the original on 2010-06-30.