Arliss Howard

Arliss Howard

Appearances

Season(s)

6, 7

First seen

"Who Are You, Really?"

Last seen

"May Be the Last Time"

Appeared in

8 episodes (see below)

Mentioned in

Biographical Information

Date of birth

October 18, 1954 (1954-10-18)

Date of death

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Place of birth

Independence, Missouri, USA

Place of death

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Role

Truman Burrell

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External Links

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Arliss Howard, born Leslie Richard Howard on October 18, 1954 in Independence, Missouri, is an American actor who plays the role of former Governor of Louisiana Truman Burrell on the HBO original series True Blood. Making his debut on the episode "Who Are You, Really?", at the beginning of the the series' sixth season, Arliss plays the role of the owner of a vampire concentration camp. Playing a recurring role through the same season, Arliss meets an untimely demise in the Season 6 episode "In the Evening". He is seen once more, in a flashback on the episode "May Be the Last Time", in the series' seventh, and final, season.

Biography

Arliss Howard is an American actor, writer and film director. He was born in Independence, Missouri. He graduated from Truman High School and Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri.

Howard is married to actress Debra Winger. He has two sons, one from a previous marriage and one with Winger (Babe Howard, born 1997). Howard and Winger have appeared together in several productions at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Howard established his career with stand-out roles in Full Metal Jacket and Ruby. In Till Death Us Do Part (1992), Howard portrayed author and attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who led the prosecution in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. In 1997, he co-starred in Jurassic Park's sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, as Hammond's conniving nephew Peter Ludlow, a greedy and manipulative businessman.

He has had a recurring role in the CBS weekly drama series Medium and has directed several episodes. Howard has extensive stage credits, including a role in the 2009 revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone on Broadway. He also starred in and directed the films Big Bad Love and Dawn Anna, both co-written with James Howard, his brother. His wife, Debra Winger, stars in both films. In 2010 he played Kale Ingram, a benignly duplicitous supervisor at an American intelligence agency in the cerebral TV series Rubicon, which was canceled by AMC after 13 episodes. Howard appeared in the 2011 feature Moneyball.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	AfterMASH (TV)	Danny Madden	Pilot episode
1983	The Day After	Tom Cooper	TV movie
1987	Hands of a Stranger	Felix Lyttle	TV movie
1987	Full Metal Jacket	Pvt Cowboy
1988	Tequila Sunrise	Gregg Lindroff
1988	Plain Clothes	Nick Dunbar	Lead role
1989	I Know My First Name Is Steven (TV)	Kenneth Parnell
1990	Men Don't Leave	Charles Simon
1990	Somebody has to Shoot the Picture	Raymond Eames	TV movie
1992	Till Death Us Do Part	Vincent Bugliosi	TV movie
1992	CrissCross	Joe
1992	Ruby	Maxwell
1992	Those Secrets	Simon	TV movie
1993	Wilder Napalm	Wilder Foudroyant
1993	The Sandlot	Grown-up Scotty	Uncredited
1994	Natural Born Killers	Owen Traft, Mickey & Mallory's Guardian Angel/The Demon	Uncredited
1995	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Virgil
1995	The Infiltrator	Eaton	TV movie
1995	"Wet"	Bruce Lomann	Short film
1996	Johns	John Cardoza
1996	The Man Who Captured Eichmann	Peter Malkin	TV movie
1996	Beyond the Call	Keith O'Brien	TV movie
1996	Tales of Erotica	Bruce Lomann	Re-release of "Wet" as a segment
1997	Amistad	John C. Calhoun
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Peter Ludlow
1997	Old Man	J.J. Taylor	TV movie
1998	The Lesser Evil	Ivan Williams
1999	A Map of the World	Paul Reverdy
1999	You Know My Name	Wiley	TV movie
2001	Big Bad Love	Barlow	also director and writer
2001	The Song of the Lark	Dr. Howard Archie	TV movie
2003	Word of Honor	J.D. Runnells	TV movie
2004	Dandelion	Luke Mullich
2004	Birth	Bob
2005	Dawn Anna		TV movie; Director
2005-2007	Medium	Captain Kenneth Push
2006	Weapons	Mikey's Uncle
2007	Awake	Dr. Jonathan Neyer
2009	The Time Traveler's Wife	Richard DeTamble
2010	Rubicon	Kale Ingram	TV series
2011	Moneyball	John Henry

Appearances

Season six appearances
"Who Are You, Really?"	"The Sun"	"You're No Good"	"At Last"
"F**k the Pain Away"	"Don't You Feel Me"	"In the Evening"	"Dead Meat"
"Life Matters"	"Radioactive"