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. Welliver played Maxwell Burke in two episodes of
Star Trek: Voyager, “Equinox, Part 1” and “Equinox, Part 2”. 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. The series was renewed for a seventh and final season on 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), is a rookie police officer, still set in Los Angeles. Outside of acting, Welliver appeared in the
eighteenth season of ''
Hell's Kitchen'' when he attended the fifth dinner service as one of the red team's diners. He had a cameo appearance as an Imperial captain in the
Disney+ series
The Mandalorian.
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, Two Kinds of Truth and
The Wrong Side of Goodbye. ==Painting==