Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 11, 1953
Place of Birth
Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
Credits
106 titles
David Morse
Biography
David Bowditch Morse (born October 11, 1953) is an American actor. Morse became widely known for his role as Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–88). Some other notable roles are in The Negotiator, The Good Son, Horns, Contact, The Green Mile, Dancer in the Dark, Disturbia, The Hurt Locker, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Rock and 12 Monkeys. In 2006, he had a recurring role as Detective Michael Tritter on the medical drama House for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. He portrayed George Washington in the 2008 HBO Miniseries John Adams, which garnered him a second Emmy nomination. He has received acclaim for his portrayal of Uncle Peck on the Off-Broadway play How I Learned to Drive for which he earned a Drama Desk and Obie Award. He also had success on Broadway, portraying James "Sharky" Harkin in The Seafarer. From 2010 to 2013, he portrayed Terry Colson, an honest police officer in a corrupt New Orleans police department, on the HBO series Treme. Morse appeared in the WGN America series Outsiders (2016–17), the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018), the Netflix comedy drama series The Chair (2021), and the Apple TV mystery series The Last Thing He Told Me (2023-2026). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Filmography
Mayday
Harold Kelly
The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Looking Through Water
Leo
We Were Liars
Harris Sinclair
Broken Land
Carson Tidwell
Cabrini
Archbishop Corrigan
The Last Thing He Told Me
Nicholas Bell
The Timekeepers of Eternity
Captain Brian Enlge (archive footage)
The Chair
Paul Larson
The Virtuoso
The Deputy
Barbecue
James T
The Good Lord Bird
Dutch Henry Sherman
The Morning Show
Mr. Jackson
Trouble
Gerry
Escape at Dannemora
Gene Palmer
The Deuce
Matthew Rouse
Flowing Water
Narrator (voice)
Outsiders
Big Foster
Concussion
Mike Webster
Blindspot
Hank Crawford
The Boy
John
Walking the Mile
Self
Yellow
Psychologist
Winter in the Blood
Airplane Man
McCanick
Eugene 'Mack' McCanick
True Detective
Eliot Bezzerides
Horns
Dale Williams
World War Z
Ex-CIA Agent
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
James Green, Sr.
The Pond
Adam 11
Collaborator
Gus
Drive Angry
Webster
Shanghai
Richard Astor
Mint Julep
Karl
Treme
Mother and Child
Tom
The Hurt Locker
Colonel Reed
Passengers
Arkin
Hounddog
Daddy
John Adams
George Washington
Disturbia
Robert Turner
Nearing Grace
Shep Nearing
16 Blocks
Frank Nugent
Made in Hollywood
Self
Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
Palmer
Down in the Valley
Wade Sommers
Medium
Douglas Lydecker
House
Michael Tritter
The Tony Danza Show
Self
Double Vision
Kevin Richter