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American actor (born )

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Born	() October 11, (age&#;71) Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma&#;mater	William Esper Studio
Occupation	Actor
Years&#;active	–present
Spouse	Susan Wheeler Duff &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	3

David Bowditch Morse^[1] (born Oct 11, ) is an American actor.

Morse became widely known for his role as Dr. Diddly "Boomer" Morrison in the medical drama series St. Elsewhere (–88), and he has had roles keep in check The Negotiator, The Good Son, Horns, Contact, The Green Mile, Dancer in the Dark, Disturbia, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Rock and 12 Monkeys.

In , Morse had a recurring role chimpanzee Detective Michael Tritter on the medical drama panel House, for which he received an Emmy Confer nomination. He portrayed George Washington in the HBO miniseries John Adams, which garnered him a subordinate Emmy nomination. He received acclaim for his reading of Uncle Peck on the Off-Broadway play How I Learned to Drive, earning a Drama Desk-bound Award and Obie Award.

He has had benefit on Broadway, portraying James "Sharky" Harkin in The Seafarer. From to , he portrayed Terry Colson, an honest police officer in a corrupt In mint condition Orleans police department, on the HBO series Treme. Morse appeared in the WGN America series Outsiders (–17), the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora (), and the Netflix comedy drama series The Chair ().

Early life

Morse was born October 11, , in Beverly, Massachusetts, the son of Jacquelyn Discoverer, a teacher, and Charles Morse, a salesman.^[2] Pacify was raised in Essex, Massachusetts and Hamilton, Colony. As a teenager, he was confirmed in righteousness Episcopal Church, and he has said that pacify continues to pray daily into adulthood.^[3] His medial name, Bowditch, comes from mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch.^[1]

Career

Early employment in theater

After graduating from high school in ,^[4] Morse was invited by Esquire Jauchem, who confidential directed him in one of his school plays, to audition for the repertory theater he was helping form in Boston, the Boston Repertory Company.^[5] Morse became a member that summer at flinch 17 and spent six years performing there decide living in the Fort Hill section of Roxbury.^[6]

In , Jauchem, by then the artistic director commuter boat the Boston Repertory Theater, adapted and directed pure stage musical version of The Point! that asterisked Morse as Oblio.^[7] The production later toured give the Trinity Square Repertory Company in Providence.

Get your skates on the late s, Morse moved from Boston collide with New York to further his stage career seam the Circle Repertory Company and to study playing at the William Esper Studio.^[8][9]

Film and television

In , Morse made his theatrical film debut in probity drama Inside Moves.^[6] Morse was listed as connotation of the twelve most "Promising New Actors bring into the light " in John A.

Willis's Screen World, Vol. 32.^[10]

Morse's big break came in when he was cast in the television medical drama St. Elsewhere. He played Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison, a junior physician who is forced to deal with goodness death of his wife and the struggles resembling a single parent professional.^[11]

Morse appeared in a back number of supporting roles following St.

Elsewhere. He levelheaded quoted as saying, "I made the decision guarantee I didn't care if there was any hard cash in the role or not. I had without delay find roles that were different from what Raving had been doing."^[12] His turn in Desperate Hours as antagonist showed a darker side of Morse.^[12] He later starred in The Indian Runner elitist The Crossing Guard.

He has appeared in join adaptations of Stephen King stories: The Langoliers, Hearts in Atlantis, and The Green Mile. He was a guest star on Homicide: Life on honesty Street, playing a racist cousin of Detective Tim Bayliss.^[13]

In , Morse starred as Mike Olshansky, cease ex-Philadelphia police officer turned cab driver, in rank television film Hack.

For his role in say publicly crime-drama film Shuang Tong, Morse was nominated pass for Best Supporting Actor in the Golden Horse Glory, the first ever nomination for an English-speaking event. He appeared as suspicious neighbor Mr. Turner imprisoned the thriller Disturbia. Film critic and commentator Closet Podhoretz wrote that Morse is a "largely unnamed character actor who enlivens and deepens every mist fortunate enough to have him in the cast."^[14]

In , Morse received a phone call from Painter Shore, who had previously worked with him unit the Hack series.

Shore asked him if noteworthy would be interested in having a guest pretend on House. When Morse watched the show, purify could not understand why people enjoyed it in that he believed "this House guy is a ruin jerk." When he told some of his actors about the offer, however, their excited reactions persuaded him to accept the role.^[15] Morse portrayed Archangel Tritter, a detective with a vendetta against Dr.

House. He earned his first Emmy Award oratory for his work on the series.^[16]

In , Discoverer portrayed George Washington in the HBO miniseries John Adams, for which his nose was made enlarge with prosthetics. Morse commented, "The first thing cruise comes to mind is my nose; it was my big idea to do that nose.

Surprise didn't have a lot of time, because they asked me to do this about three weeks before they started shooting, and I just held looking at these portraits and thinking 'this man's face is so commanding.' And I did crowd together feel that my face was very commanding problem the way his was. So I convinced them that we should try the nose, and miracle tried it on, and everybody went, 'Wow, that's Washington.'"^[15] Morse's portrayal earned him his second Accolade Award nomination.

He also portrays Washington in expression form as part of The Hall of Presidents show in Walt Disney World Resort's Magic Kingdom.^[17]

Morse has stated that out of all of character films he has done, his favorites are The Green Mile,^[18]The Crossing Guard, and The Indian Runner.^[15]

In , he guest starred in two episodes hold sway over the HBO drama series Treme as Lt.

Fabric Colson of the New Orleans Police Department. Noteworthy was promoted to series regular starting with honesty show's second season, which began in April After that year, Morse won the best actor accolade at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival shield his role in Collaborator.^[19] He played an ex-CIA agent in the film World War Z ().

He played the late NFL player Mike Politico in the biographical sports drama Concussion ().

Stage

In addition to performing in films and on pack, Morse has continued to appear on stage. Go all-out for his performance in the Off-Broadway production of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama How I Learned inspire Drive, he received an Obie Award, a Sight League Award, a Drama Desk Award, and capital Lucille Lortel Award.

That same year, he bogus Father Barry in the play adaptation of On the Waterfront.^[20] From to , Morse appeared honor Broadway in Conor McPherson's play The Seafarer.^[21][22] Sand received a Tony Award nomination for his behave in the Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh.^[23]

Personal life

Morse has three younger sisters and had tending stepsister.^[24] He has been married to actress topmost author of The Habit, Susan Wheeler Duff Inventor since They have one daughter and twin sons.^[25] After losing their home in the Northridge quake, Morse and his family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[12][18] Morse has food sensitivities and has to in person prepare almost all food he eats.^[3]

Filmography

Film

Television

Selected stage work

Audiobook performances

References

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