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Traces of tragedy remain for actor Titus WelliverFeb 2, 2015Luaine Lee, Tribune News ServiceBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Actor Titus Welliver learned early on that you can't trust Fate. It was a sound lesson for somebody who decided to be an actor after he forsook painting.The son of famous landscape artist Neil Welliver, Titus began studying with his dad when he was 12. He continued later at art school. "I became very disillusioned after a year of art school and my father saidto me, 'If it's not what you love and want to do then don't do it.' He said, 'You've always loved the theater andacting why don't you consider that?'"So I did. I kind of packed up my stuff in an Army duffle bag, my dad bought me a bus ticket back to New York, and it has been many years – it was not romantic and was hard work -- but it sustained me and fulfilled me."It sustained him in shows like"Lost," "Sons of Anarchy," "The GoodWife," "Transformers: Age of Extinction." And while he insists he's not a Method actor, his life armed him for any emotional artillery he needed for the demanding roles.When he was little, his baby sister died. "Seven months later my stepmother, who I loved dearly, and my younger brother, Eli, was killed in Thailand at the age of 21, and my older brother, Silas, died from a form of muscular dystrophy. He diedat 45. When one sustains that kind of loss I think it's very difficult to trust happiness," he says in a meeting room of a hotel here."So I think in many ways it formed not always the best parts of myself. .. I lost my wife a couple years ago who was the mother of my daughter,and I was married before and we had our two sons together," says Welliver. (His wife, movie producer Elizabeth Alexander, died of cancer in 2012.)"To regain a sense of footing and trust and have your spouse die is devastating to say the least. That being said, the births of my three children are the most magical and beautiful moments of my life."His daughter is 8, his two sons, 12 and 15. "I'm blessed to have such wonderful children and they made me very, very proud and I, in some way, define my success in life by my children," he says."Because I look at them, I've had a tough go of it, but they are a source of light and love that is immeasurable."Welliver has happily remarried, but the traces of tragedy remain. And they have probably informed his latest role as the tough but tarnishedHarry Bosch in Amazon's "Bosch," which begins streaming Feb. 13. Bosch is a Bogartian Los Angeles homicide detective, driven by his principles against his better judgment.