Apple’s Lincoln Assassination Limited Series ‘Manhunt’ Finds Its Dr. Mudd In Matt Walsh
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy nominee and SAG Award winner Matt Walsh has boarded the Apple Original limited series Manhunt about the Lincoln assassination and aftermath.Walsh will play Dr.
Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Mudd did not report Booth to the authorities until days later and later was imprisoned for conspiring with the assassin.2022 Apple TV+ Pilots & Series OrdersManhunt is created by Emmy-nominated writer-producer Monica Beletsky (Fargo, Friday Night Lights), who also is the showrunner and an EP.
The historical-fiction conspiracy thriller is based on the best-selling book by James Swanson. Manhunt features Black historical figures whose lives intertwined with the escape, manhunt and subsequent high-crimes investigation, including Mary Simms (Lovie Simone), a former slave of Mudd’s.
Anthony Boyle plays Booth.Walsh joins recently announced Tobias Menzies who stars as Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s War Secretary and friend, who was driven nearly to madness by the need to catch Booth and to carry out Lincoln’s legacy; the president have laid out his Reconstruction plans, issues which continue to reverberate into the present day.Walsh played the dead-pan White House press staffer in HBO’s multi-Emmy winning series Veep across 65 episodes.
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