David Morse

Born October 11, 1953, Morse broke through on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere from 1982 to 1988, then moved into film with a string of roles in The Rock, 12 Monkeys, Contact, and The Green Mile. In 2006 he played the relentless Detective Tritter on House, earning an Emmy nomination, then another for portraying George Washington in the 2008 HBO miniseries John Adams. Off-Broadway he won a Drama Desk and Obie for How I Learned to Drive, and on Broadway he starred in The Seafarer. From 2010 to 2013 he anchored HBO's Treme as Terry Colson, an honest cop in a rotten department, then cycled through Outsiders, Escape at Dannemora, The Chair, and The Last Thing He Told Me. Four decades in, he remains the actor directors call when they need gravity without grandstanding.