An actor acted in this 1985 play. It is by an American playwright who died in June 2005. The actor portrayed Russell Taylor in The Closer.
Fences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson. 
August Wilson (April 27, 1945  October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, "The Pittsburgh Cycle", for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. 
 He went on to act in the Broadway production of Lloyd Richard's "Fences", Hal Scott's "A Raisin in the Sun" and Donald McKayle's "The Last Minstrel Show". 
Assistant Chief Russell Taylor was a fictional character featured in TNT's "The Closer", portrayed by Robert Gossett. 
