TITUS WELLIVER - Actor
Team Deakins
James Ellis Deakins
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 189 - Titus Welliver - Actor
In this extended episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with actor Titus Welliver (BOSCH, DEADWOOD, THE TOWN). If you listened to our conversations with cinematographer Michael McDonough (Season 2, Episode 159) or cinematographer and director Ernest Dickerson (Season 2, Episode 58), then you know we love BOSCH. We were thrilled to speak to Titus not only about his work on the show but also about his life, the unconventional road he took to becoming an actor, and his perspective on acting as a career. Titus also reflects on working with and learning from the late cinematographer Haskell Wexler, and we discuss the relationship between actors, the camera, and the entire camera department. We later learn how Titus enforced good behaviour on the sets of BOSCH, and he reveals how the writers of the show would deal with anyone not preparing properly. Titus later reveals some of the acting inspirations behind his performance of Harry Bosch, and he recounts an evening spent smoking pot and receiving wisdom from actors James Coburn and Robert Mitchum after moving to Los Angeles.
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Recommended Viewing: BOSCH
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This episode is sponsored by Aputure
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast, |
| 0:07.0 | a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. |
| 0:13.0 | We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes. |
| 0:21.9 | This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm XT-52, the industry's most |
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| 0:58.0 | Today, we're speaking with an actor. |
| 1:04.0 | His credits are many and include Bosch, Abraham's boys, Lost, and Deadwood. |
| 1:07.0 | We're pleased to welcome Titus Welliver. |
| 1:10.0 | Titus, we're really excited to talk to you. |
| 1:10.7 | It's great to see you. It's great to be here. |
| 1:12.2 | Thank you. This is just an, like I said, an enormous privilege and a pleasure for me. |
| 1:17.1 | So thank you for having me. We'd love to start with our question. How did you get to where you |
| 1:22.3 | are today? I know your father, if Wikipedia is right, your father was a painter, and you're a painter, too. |
| 1:32.4 | So how did you take a wrong turn and end up as an actor? |
| 1:37.3 | Well, you know, I did. |
| 1:38.8 | That was originally my trajectory. |
| 1:40.9 | I started formal training with my father at the age of 12, which was interesting to say the least, but I had every intention of becoming a fine artist like my father. My mother was a fashion illustrator, which at that time was still really an art form. And she was sort of in the top of her field, but it was diminished over the |
| 2:04.1 | years with people preferring photography. And so it became somewhat of a lost art. But that being |
| 2:10.4 | said, my mother at one point was living in Boston, and I didn't live there with her, didn't go to |
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