"The Wire’s" Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. Joins "The Walking Dead"
Apr 26, 2013
by Natalie Abrams


Another "Wire" alum is heading to "The Walking Dead".

Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. has joined the cast of the AMC zombie drama for Season 4, TVGuide.com has learned.



Gilliard will play Bob Stookie, a former Army medic who is haunted by his past both prior to the zombie apocalypse and after. The comics version of the character, Bob Stookey, is a much older man, the local town drunk of Woodbury who was also a former Army medic.

The fourth season of "The Walking Dead" will premiere in October.

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"The Walking Dead": Exclusive First Photo of Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as New Character Bob Stookey
by Dalton Ross
July 17, 2013


There will be a fresh new face on "The Walking Dead's" 4th season.

"The Wire's" Lawrence Gilliard Jr. will play Bob Stookey, a character from both The Walking Dead comic book and The Road to Woodbury novel.



The TV version of Stookey is a former Army medic, but unlike the comic version, this Stookey does not hail from Woodbury. Instead, he is found by Daryl Dixon about a week before events pick up in season 4.

“His backstory is not entirely the same as in the comic and the novel,” explains new showrunner Scott M. Gimple. “I think he’s seen things go bad over and over, and winding up in this stable place doesn’t shake him from his experience. He struggles with that.”



“You can see there’s something deeper and darker that’s going on with this character, just from the first episode,” says Gilliard. “We don’t really know what it is. We just know he’s got some issues that he’s dealing with.”

I’d have issues too if I was trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse, but it seems Stookey is indeed “haunted” by his past, according to Gimple.

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