1. Kurt Sutter worked as a writer, director, and executive producer on The Shield, and appeared on the show as hitman Margos Dezerian.
34 Facts About Kurt Sutter
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Kurt Sutter spent time with members of an outlaw motorcycle club in Northern California as research for Sons of Anarchy.
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Kurt Sutter's father worked at the General Motors plant in Linden, New Jersey, and his mother was a secretary for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.
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Kurt Sutter grew up in the township of Clark, New Jersey and graduated from Roselle Catholic High School in 1982.
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Kurt Sutter was hired as a staff writer for the first season of FX crime drama The Shield in 2002.
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Kurt Sutter made his television acting debut with the episode "Blowback", in which he appeared as Armenian mob hitman Margos Dezerian.
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Kurt Sutter co-wrote the episodes "Dragonchasers" and "Two Days of Blood" with fellow staff writer Scott Rosenbaum, and was promoted to story editor for the second season in 2003.
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Kurt Sutter wrote the episodes "Scar Tissue" and "Dead Soldiers" and in 2004, joined the production team in the junior role of co-producer for the third season.
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Kurt Sutter reprised his role as Dezerian in the season's final episodes "All In" and "On Tilt".
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Kurt Sutter was promoted to supervising producer for the fourth season in 2005.
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Kurt Sutter wrote the episode "Grave" solo, co-wrote the story for the episode "Judas Priest" with Eglee and co-wrote the teleplay with Rosenbaum.
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Kurt Sutter co-wrote the story for the season finale "Ain't That a Shame" with Ryan; Ryan co-wrote the teleplay for the episode with co-executive producer Glen Mazzara.
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Kurt Sutter became a co-executive producer for the fifth season in 2006.
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Kurt Sutter became an executive producer for the sixth season in 2007, directed a promotional mini-episode for the sixth season entitled "Wins and Losses," and wrote the sixth-season premiere "On the Jones".
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Kurt Sutter co-wrote the episode "Exiled" with Rosenbaum, now an executive producer.
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Kurt Sutter returned as an executive producer and writer for the seventh and final season in 2008.
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Kurt Sutter wrote the premiere "Coefficient of Drag" and co-wrote the episode "Parricide" with Gary Lennon.
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Also in 2008, Kurt Sutter created and executive produced a new series for FX entitled Sons of Anarchy.
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Kurt Sutter would go on to write 61 of the show's 92 episodes.
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Kurt Sutter appears in the show as incarcerated club member Otto Delaney, and he cast his wife Katey Sagal in the starring role as the club's matriarch Gemma Teller Morrow.
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Kurt Sutter remained showrunner and executive producer for the series' second season in 2009.
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Kurt Sutter returned as showrunner and executive producer for the third season in 2010.
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Kurt Sutter co-wrote the episode "Widening Gyre" with co-producer Regina Corrado and the episode "Lochan Mor" with Erickson and Liz Sagal.
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Kurt Sutter wrote the story for the episode "Turas"; the teleplay was co-written by Collins and Dahl.
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Kurt Sutter co-wrote the episode "Firinne" with Vaunn Wilmott and the episode "Bainne" with Corrado and Erickson.
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Kurt Sutter reprised the role of Otto in the season finale, titled "NS", which he directed and co-wrote with Erickson.
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Kurt Sutter would go on to produce seven seasons of Sons.
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In 2014, it was announced Kurt Sutter had begun developing The Bastard Executioner, a new series for FX, The series was ordered to pilot on December 12,2014.
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In October 2019, Kurt Sutter was fired from FX after multiple complaints were lodged against him about his "abrasive" and "unprofessional" behavior.
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Kurt Sutter appeared in the 2021 science fiction film Chaos Walking, his first feature film acting role.
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Kurt Sutter worked on a comic book called Sisters of Sorrow; the book was launched at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con.
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Kurt Sutter has stated he's had multiple influences in his writing style, including William Shakespeare, specifically his play Hamlet.
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Kurt Sutter based the characters of Sons of Anarchy on Hamlet.
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Kurt Sutter married actress Katey Sagal in a private ceremony on October 2,2004, at their home in Los Feliz, California.