Sons of Anarchy

Television series
German title	Sons of Anarchy
Original title	Sons of Anarchy
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2008-2014
length	45 to 85 minutes
Episodes	92 in 7 seasons ( list )
genre	drama
Theme music	This Life - Curtis Stigers & The Forest Rangers
idea	Kurt Sutter
production	Kurt Sutter , John Linson, Art Linson , James D. Parriott
music	Bob Thiele Jr.
First broadcast	September 3, 2008 (USA) on FX Network
German-language first broadcast	November 6, 2012 on Kabel Eins
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Sons of Anarchy is an American drama series by Kurt Sutter about the fictional motorcycle club Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original (often abbreviated as SAMCRO in the series or further corrupted to Sam Crow ). The plot of the series is loosely based on Shakespeare's drama Hamlet .

action

The basic plot constellation of Sons of Anarchy is inspired by Hamlet, a drama by William Shakespeare - more precisely: the conflict between the throne holder and heir to the throne discussed there. The action takes place in Charming, a fictional small town near Oakland in Northern California . The main protagonist of the series is Jackson "Jax" Teller, at the beginning still the vice-president of the motorcycle club (MC), who begins to question the methods and perspectives of the club and its president Clay Morrow, who is also Jax's stepfather. To camouflage its extensive criminal activities and as a base of operations, the motorcycle club in Charming runs a reputable auto repair shop for cars and motorcycles. Here the club also maintains its clubhouse with an attached conference room for official meetings and votes. The club's regular sources of income include escort services for truck transports and protection rackets. In addition, the club is active in the illegal arms trade in the entire region. a. delivered by the Real Irish Republican Army . The ATF , the federal agency responsible for combating the illegal arms trade, is therefore investigating the club. In addition to the conflicts between the individual people, the theme of war among rival gangs is a key aspect that determines the plot of the series. The main characters in Sons of Anarchy are on the one hand Clay Morrow and his wife Gemma, who as a woman cannot be a club member, but within the group takes on something like the role of a matriarch acting in the background. On the other side are Jax Teller and his girlfriend, the hospital doctor Tara Knowles. Around these are grouped other people who are responsible for the plot - in particular the remaining core members of the club and their friends.

The series has an above-average complex structure, also in terms of the number of supporting roles relevant to the action. Dramaturgy and presentation are determined by the change between hard action and soap- like elements. Mood-deepening snapshots accompanied by music, which are usually located at the end of an episode, deepen the emotional impact and clarify important stations in the course of the action. The comparatively realistic depiction of the biker milieu - including the differentiation between different local groups, offshoots and so on - was achieved by series author Kurt Sutter, among other things, through research discussions with real Hells Angels and by integrating individual members into the series production. For example, former and still active members of the Hells Angels played supporting roles - Angels co-founder Sonny Barger that of Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz (a member who is in jail, who is something of a "gray eminence" of the group), David Labrava that of "Happy" (an ex-member of the Nomads Chapter who switched to the Redwood Original Chapter ) and Rusty Coones those of Quinn (President of the Nomads Chapter).

season 1

The first season of the series introduces some of the series-bearing lines of conflict: the hostility with the Mayans, a rival Latino biker gang, the arms trade carried out with the help of the Real IRA in the surrounding area and on the US west coast as well as the investigations of nationally operating federal authorities, which already appear in the first episodes. In contrast to these - mostly portrayed as corrupt and / or career obsessed - federal officials, the local authorities are more or less between the fronts. Above all, these are Deputy Chief David Hale ( Taylor Sheridan ) and Chief Wayne Unser, who has cancer and is about to retire . In particular, Unser shows a strong sense of loyalty to the group and acts almost like an associated family member in the further course of the series. The first episodes focus on private events. Jax separates from the mother of his premature son, the drug addict Wendy Teller ( Drea de Matteo ), and turns more and more to the doctor Tara, his old childhood sweetheart. The love between Jax and Tara is not only threatened by Jax's wife, Wendy, and Clay's wife, Gemma, who Tara would like to keep away from Jax; In addition, there is a stalker in the form of an ATF agent who followed Tara to Charming and chases her there.

The complications in the arms business, with which the group mainly finances itself, lead to the next step in escalation: the takeover of a befriended MC in Nevada , a courtesy murder for the Irish arms business partner and a RICO investigation on suspicion of a criminal organization. These investigations are led by the ATF agent June Stahl ( Ally Walker ), who is not very selective in her choice of agents , and who sets off an intrigue against the group. As a result of the release of the arrested club member Opie, which she staged as a cooperation, there is a contract killing within the group. Accidentally hits Opie's wife. An important background figure that determines the further course of the plot is “Big” Otto Delaney, played by series author Kurt Sutter. Imprisoned in prison and developing more and more into a tragic figure, he behaves loyally to the group and, depending on the situation, participates in granting protection and carrying out violent acts.

season 2

The second season of the series focuses on the intensification of the conflict between Jax and Clay. The escalating power struggle between the two is increasingly affecting the fabric of the motorcycle club. The so-called League of American Nationalists appears as a new opponent - a neo-Nazi party that cooperates with a local gang of white racists and the Aryan Brotherhood . Starting with thought-provoking images, the first episode raises the question of the direction in which the individual characters will develop. The conflict with the league soon escalates. Part of the group has to go to jail for a failed reprisal. Gemma is lured into a trap and raped by League members. Since the rape is a warning to Clay, the Sons president, she keeps it a secret from her husband and Jax. Because the Real IRA is also doing arms deals with the league and the ATF is still involved in the case, the group gets more and more into a vortex of intrigue, undercover actions, blackmail and no longer overlooked deals. The inner balance of the group is superficially restored through a series of debates and confessions. To prevent her son from switching over to the (non-localized) Nomads Chapter, Gemma tells Clay and Jax about the gang rape. Clay, in turn, admits to having initiated the contract killing of Opie's wife (who was actually Opie's) based on false information. In addition to postponing the internal disputes, the information means that Jax remains with the Redwood Original Chapter. With Opie and his father Piney, Clay now has two declared enemies within the club. A retaliatory action by the Sons ends in disaster: ATF agent Stahl frames Gemma for the murder of the son of the IRA arms seller Cameron, which she herself committed. Cameron kidnaps Jax's son Abel as a "compensation" and flees with him to Northern Ireland . Weston, the league man for the rough (played by the hardcore punk musician Henry Rollins ), also dies in the wake of the rampant violence.

season 3

With the help of a series of calm opening sequences that emphasize the mood, the third season raises the question of the direction in which the individual characters will develop. Gemma has gone into hiding on the basis of the arrest warrant that Agent Stahl has obtained against her, but soon turns herself in. With the support of Tara, however, she escapes from police custody shortly after her arrest to take part in the search for Abel in Northern Ireland. Season three subplot features the kidnapping of Tara by the leader of a minor gang affiliated with the Mayans. The focus of the season is the trip of part of the group to Belfast . Arms dealer Cameron has become more and more sidelined within the Real IRA and has since been executed. A showdown is coming soon in Northern Ireland. Not only different members of the Real IRA are involved - above all the unscrupulous acting Jimmy O'Phelan ( Titus Welliver ), who also destroyed the family of the Scottish Sons member Chibs. The Belfast Charter of the Sons of Anarchy also proves to be an opponent. In the end, the group manages to free Abel and finally get rid of both O'Phelan and the ATF agent Stahl. However, the Northern Ireland trip has another unpleasant consequence. Gemma not only learns that her late ex-husband John had a second family in Northern Ireland. John's second wife Maureen also slips Jax letters from which it emerges that Clay and Gemma were more involved in John Teller's death than they admit.

Season 4

The series' fourth season begins with the group's release 14 months later. The main line of conflict is the increasing tensions within the group. The new characters are the calm and deliberate prosecutor Lincoln Potter (played by Ray McKinnon ), the new Deputy Chief Eli Roosevelt ( Rockmond Dunbar ) and the Mexican arms dealer Romero "Romeo" Parada ( Danny Trejo ). At the beginning, Clay and Jax agree on a truce. Synopsis: Jax supports Clay on the condition that he enables him to leave the group. The criminal storyline is becoming more and more of a gang game with several participants: local offshoots of the Russian mafia , the Real IRA, the Galindo cartel of "Romeo" Parada, the rival syndicate Lobo Sonora cartel and the desolate chapter of the Sons of Anarchy in the neighboring state of Arizona . However, when the federal police made decisive access, it turned out that one of the cartels was operated directly by the US secret service CIA . The internal conflict within the group comes to a head - partly because of the information contained in Maureen's letters. Clay murders a group member so that his involvement in the death of John Teller is not publicized. At the end of the season there is not only a personal but also an investigative shambles: Prosecutor Potter has not achieved his goal of arresting the Charming Chapter of the Sons of Anarchy.

Season 5

With Damon Pope ( Harold Perrineau ), a previously unknown type of gangster appears in the fifth season . Pope is the chief godfather of criminal organizations among blacks in the greater Oakland area. The fifth season is also out of the ordinary when it comes to the drastic depiction of acts of violence. Pope, a smart white-collar gangster, is not portrayed as a purely Machiavellian- oriented figure - although he proceeds carefully . The conflict between him and the Sons of Anarchy results rather from a chain of tragic circumstances: the accidental killing of his daughter by Tig, a member of the Sons. Gemma has since separated from Clay and started a relationship with the escort service operator Nero ( Jimmy Smits ). Jax kicked Clay out as president of the chapter. Since he is now in the picture about his role in the death of his father John, he has only one goal: revenge. The group's situation is made more complicated by “Big” Otto Delaney, who testified to the federal authorities. Tara, who is still not fully operational due to her hand injury, starts a job as a volunteer doctor in prison and thus gets in touch with Otto. After she can convincingly convey to Otto that the Sons are not responsible for the murder of Luann, Otto, who is three-quarters blind and only waiting for his execution, kills a nurse with a crucifix that Tara smuggled into prison for him. This invalidates his statement in the Rico trial. To demonstrate the irreversibility of his decision, he bites off his tongue during an interrogation. The focus of the fifth season is the question of whether Damon Pope can finally destroy Jax and the Charming chapter of the SoA. After he has killed Tig's daughter and arranged a murder of another member of the group in prison, it comes - after a phase of apparent cooperation between the Sons and Popes Syndicate - a showdown between him and Jax. The season leaves behind even more destroyed, disaffected characters than the fourth. Jax tears up the papers Tara used to clarify the future of her boys just in case, and Bobby resigns as Vice President. In the end, the external circumstances seem cleared up, but the arrest of Jax's wife Tara for an accessory to the murder at the end of the last episode raises further complications.

Season 6

Tara is released on bail after a few days. At the same time and at first seemingly unrelated, an eleven-year-old boy goes on a rampage at his school with a machine gun sold by the Sons, kills three classmates and is then himself shot by a security guard. Lee Toric, former US Marshal and brother of the nurse who was killed by Otto Delaney, tries to find a way to get into the Sons. He kills more accidentally than intended - he shoots her in reflex - one of Nero Padilla's escort ladies and tries to blame him for the murder. He also lets fellow prisoners rape Otto every day in his cell and brings the half-dead-looking man in front of him, threatening him with the same thing from now on if he doesn't cooperate. Clay is protected in prison by August Marks, Pope's former partner, and can therefore slip a knife to Otto unnoticed, with which Otto kills Toric but is shot himself in the process. At the same time, the Sons try to hide the origin of the gun from the rampage, and Jax orders Juice to kill the child's mother. The child's stepfather, who is also Nero Padilla's cousin, was shot by Nero while trying to escape. At the same time, the Sons try to get out of the arms trade with the Irish, but they do not agree to this and as a warning they kill member Phil and Prospect V-Lin and mutilate their corpses. When Jax got in touch with the IRA himself, he unconsciously made a mistake because he wanted to mediate the racist white Irishman with the black business partner August Marks. When Chibs finds out, he warns Jax that the IRA will never accept it. They promise Jax to report in the early evening and ask for the presence of all voting members. It is only by chance that Jax realizes that the Irish have managed to get a bomb in a beer barrel into the clubhouse and can barely save those present - the clubhouse is destroyed. At the same time, Tara, along with Wendy Teller, her lawyer Ally Lowen and Margaret from the hospital administration, arranges a situation that appears to have lost her unborn child through Gemma's fault. Tara hopes to break Jax and Gemma's influence on the children and take the children out of Charming and away from the family. However, Jax can find out the truth through Lowen. Tara is then watched by the club and Gemma gives him the choice of either leaving Charming soon or dying. Jax and the club free Clay during a prisoner transport, where Bobby is seriously injured. At the agreed meeting point, Gaalan, his companion and Clay are executed by the club. Juice collapses from an overdose of painkillers in Nero's brothel and explains to Nero in a drunken stupor that she killed the boy's mother, who Nero actually wanted to keep alive and take away. Tara can save Bobby, but takes the removed bullet as evidence and flees. Jax and the club find her and take her home, where Jax takes the blame for a school killing spree or admits he delivered the gun if prosecutors refrain from prosecuting Tara for aiding and abetting murder. When Tara is back in Jax's house, she meets Gemma, who, ignorant of the new situation and drunk, loses control and kills Tara in an extremely brutal way. Jax finds her corpse and that of Eli Roosevelt, whom the Juice, who was also added in the meantime, had shot, and then collapses completely. In the last scene you can see how the Mayans and Henry Lin, old enemies of the Sons, consult with a doubting Nero and his gang, the "Byz-Lats", who is seriously disappointed by Jax.

Season 7

Juice helps Gemma disappear from the scene and clear the evidence, but then goes into hiding herself. As the Sons' decision to hand over the arms trade with the IRA to August Marks changes the power structure in Stockton in favor of the black gangs, SAMCRO draws the resentment of the Mayans, Byz Lats and Lin Triads. Jax therefore assumes that one of these gangs is responsible for the murder of his wife. Gemma takes the opportunity to accuse one of Henry Lin's henchmen as Tara's murderer, who is then tortured and murdered by Jax. The club then begins to increasingly harm the Chinese. After the Sons with the help of the Nevada Chapter blow up a drug store of the Lin Triads in the desert and steal their weapons and drugs, Jax kills two of his civilian henchmen to divert suspicion from the club. However, without knowing that one of them was the son of his foster uncle Jury (Michael Shamus Wiles), the President of the Nevada Chapter. He recognizes one of the weapons left behind at the scene of the crime, since he used it himself in the attack on the triads, and seeks revenge.

An attempt to sell the drugs stolen from the Chinese to the Aryan Brotherhood, led by Ron Tully ( Marilyn Manson ), tragically fails when two police officers who followed the Sons to the drug deal without their knowledge, were shot down from an ambush by AB supporters become. The Lin Triads, now informed of Jax's betrayal, plunder the Sons' arsenal on the same day before wreaking havoc in Nero's brothel that kills 16 uninvolved people. With the help of Nero and Barosky, the Sons manage to lure the Chinese into an ambush, but Jax cannot complete his plan of revenge before the police arrive and arrest Lin. Juice, meanwhile, realizes that his knowledge is a risk to Gemma and she plans to get him out of the way. He then asks the Mayans for help in escaping, but is handed over to SAMCRO by Alvarez. To restore his credibility, Jax demands of him to face the police and kill Lin in prison, which he succeeds.

The search for the leak that SAMCRO's weapons cache betrayed to the triads leads the club on the trail of the jury. Although the latter protests that he has not passed on any information to Lin despite his anger, Jax shoots him out of anger in front of his vice president. As it turns out later, it was not the jury but Barosky who was the traitor. The Nevada Chapter then initiates an internal club investigation against Jax Teller because of the apparently baseless murder.

Since August Marks does not tolerate the Sons' hasty revenge campaign against Lin and threatens Jax, he and Alvarez decide to get Marks out of the way and hand over the arms trade with the IRA to the Mayans, which could also restore the gang's power structure. To this end, Jax secretly tries to get the One-Niners, who were previously allied with Marks, to his side. After an attempt at extortion, August sees through Jax's intentions, has Bobby kidnapped by his people and brutally tortured. He offers Bobby's release, provided that SAMCRO hands over all leverage against him. Although Jax apparently complies with this request, Bobby is shot dead by Marks when he is handed over. Using falsified evidence, the Sons manage to accuse August of murdering a pastor, which leads to his imprisonment. The One-Niners ambush Marks' mercenaries and the club can avenge Bobby's murder.

After Jax's little son Abel overhears the increasingly guilty Gemma confessing to Tara’s murder in self-talk and tells his father about it, Jax doubts the guilt of the Chinese and investigates the night of the murder. From Juice he learns the truth about Tara's death. Gemma is warned by Juice and is able to escape from Charming in time. Ours follows her to arrest her and thus protect her from her son's revenge, but gets caught between the lines. When he refuses to leave, he is shot by Jax while trying to defend Gemma. Gemma herself is not spared either: Jax kills her in the garden of her parents' house to avenge Tara's death and the consequences of her lie. Meanwhile, the Sons have hired the Aryan Brotherhood to take care of Juice's murder. He surrenders voluntarily and is stabbed by Ron Tully in the prison dining room.

The tribunal of the SoA presidents convened by the Nevada Chapter finds the confessed Jax guilty of murdering the jury and imposes a “Mayhem” vote as punishment: At his own request, the other SAMCRO members decide with a heavy heart to remove Jax expel and execute the club. On his last day, Jax settles his outstanding affairs by killing August Marks, who has been released on bail, and the traitor Barosky, arranging the arms trade between Connor, who has since reneged from the Real IRA, and the Mayans, and thus finally freeing SAMCRO from the arms business it had been his father's wish. He clarifies the truth about Tara's death to District Attorney Patterson, gives her a lead that leads her to the bodies of Gemma and Unser, and promises that the violence in Stockton and Charming will end at the end of the day. After he named Chibs the new president and said goodbye to his club, Jax - pursued by the police - deliberately crashes into an oncoming truck with his father's motorcycle and dies. He is sacrificing himself to give his club under Chibs' leadership and with the former Grim Bastards President TO Cross ( Michael Beach ) as the first black SoA member a new beginning without illegal activities and his sons a non-violent life far away from the biker milieu to enable.

characters

Jackson "Jax" Teller ( Charlie Hunnam )

Jax Teller is the son of Gemma and John Teller, who died in 1993. He is first Vice President ("VP") and becomes President of the Sons of Anarchy at the end of Season 4. His mother Gemma married after the death of Jax's father Clay Morrow, the president of the club, with whom Jax has been in conflict since the birth of his sons Abel and Thomas because he rejects Clay's criminal and sometimes unscrupulous working methods. Jax was originally married to Wendy Case, but separated from her before the beginning of the series action due to her drug problems and divorced her during the course of the first season, their son Abel appears in the first episode of the first season as a result of Wendy's substance abuse Premature birth to the world. In the course of the series he begins a relationship with his ex-girlfriend Tara, whom he eventually marries and with whom he has his second son Thomas.

In the first few seasons, Jax often reads a manifesto from his biological father, John Teller, in which he describes SAMCRO's slide into organized crime and the reasons for it. In the beginning he therefore often tries to open up legal branches of business for the club and initially rejects brutal violence; However, when his son is kidnapped and after he takes over the post of President of SAMCRO, Jax becomes more and more unscrupulous and increasingly approaches Clay's behavior, although he detests it now. Over time, therefore, there is a power struggle between Jax and Clay, for which both recruit different club members for themselves, both voluntarily and through blackmail. Jax ultimately emerges victorious from this argument and initially dismisses Clay, later locks him out of the club and finally attaches him to the murder of Damon Pope. He only spares Clay's life as long as the club needs him to negotiate with the IRA, and ends up killing him right after his release from prison. In the end, Jax even surpasses Clay in terms of brutality and ruthlessness, although he despised him for that very reason.

This is particularly evident at the beginning of season 7, when he loses all footing after the murder of his wife Tara. In contrast to his considered and tactical approach in the previous seasons, he now tends to hasty and unusually brutal acts of revenge, in which he also accepts the death of bystanders as collateral damage. On his vengeance campaign, Jax does not even shy away from killing longtime friends and confidants like Jury or Wayne Unser if they get in his way. He reaches the peak of cold blood with the murder of his own mother Gemma. In the last episode he finally manages to settle all outstanding bills and free SAMCRO from the arms business, which was originally the wish of his biological father, John Teller. At the end of the series, Jax commits suicide by crashing into a truck with his father's machine - like this one, but on purpose. By sacrificing himself, he enables the club to have a fresh start without criminal activities and a life far from violence for his sons.

Clarence "Clay" Morrow ( Ron Perlman )

Clay is the former president of the California Charter (local chapter) of the Sons of Anarchy. He married Gemma Teller Morrow after the death of her husband John Teller and became Jax's stepfather. Clay is quite ready to use violence to achieve his goal, but he also has a good-natured side, which shows in the fact that he gives it to people who ask him for help and also tries to keep drugs and prostitution away from Charming . Morrow has severe arthritis in his hands, which is why he has to be treated with cortisone over and over again . When he beats up Gemma, she breaks up with him, and when Opie finds out that Clay shot Piney, he shoots him. Jax drops him off as president at the hospital. Even though his health and reputation are badly damaged, Clay is far from giving up. Clay suspects that there is more to the representatives of the Gallindo cartel and secretly tries to take them against Jax, but does not succeed. At the end of Season 5, he is arrested for the murder of Damon Pope, which he did not commit. In the sixth season, the IRA organized his liberation, but he was immediately executed by Jax Teller in the presence of his club. In the end, only Wayne Unser appears at his burial in a prison cemetery.

Gemma Teller Morrow ( Katey Sagal )

Gemma is the mother of Jax and the wife of Clay. She holds the club and its members together and does not stop at anything to achieve her goals. She is always informed about what is going on within the club and tries to keep Jax out of trouble. She takes care of the official bookkeeping of the workshop. When she has an accident under the influence of drugs, in which Abel is slightly injured, Jax blackmails her to spy on Clay and ultimately to make a false testimony against him in order to gain access to the children again. She breaks up with Clay and begins a relationship with Nero Padilla. Based on false information, she kills her daughter-in-law Tara in a rage at the end of the 6th season, with whom she had a very changeable relationship. Although she regrets what she did, she cannot confess it to Jax. For this reason, she accuses a man from Henry Lin's crew of having murdered Tara and thus starts the Sons' vengeance campaign against the Triads. After Jax learns the truth about Tara's death, Gemma escapes Charming. Jax tracks her down a little later and shoots her in the garden of her parents' house.

Dr. Tara Knowles ( Maggie Siff )

Tara is Jax's ex-boyfriend and works at Charming's St. Thomas Hospital, and later in the first season she and Jax get back together. A few years ago she had moved from Charming to Chicago to leave the place and the conditions behind her. There she had a relationship with an ATF agent who abused and persecuted her after the breakup. As a result, she returned to Charming after her father, who was still living there, passed away and she inherited his house. Over the course of the series, Tara and Jax get married and have a son named after Jax's late brother Thomas. In addition, she often helps injured club members and develops a skeptical, but much tougher lifestyle. At the end of the 5th season she is arrested for aiding and abetting murder because she brought Otto the murderous tool to prison. In the season 6 finale, Tara is killed by Gemma.

Robert "Bobby" Munson ( Mark Boone Junior )

Bobby is initially responsible for the Sons' finances as Secretary. Bobby is of Jewish descent and earns his living, among other things, by appearing as an Elvis double, which is why he got his nickname. His father was an accountant, and he obviously has relevant knowledge himself. At the end of season 4, he is arrested for murder, but the CIA gets him back from prison and records the crime as a suicide, although Bobby himself notes that it is a bit unrealistic for someone to "get into their own trunk and shot himself there ten times ”. Bobby has been the club's vice president since the beginning of Season 5 and, besides Jax, the only one who knows the truth about the cartel that is connected to the CIA. But when Jax and Chibs kill the cousin of the President of the Grim Bastards , a brother club of the Sons, against his advice - in retaliation for Opie - (and thus throw away 20 years of collaboration), Bobby threatens to give up his post, which he does after Clay's arrest . At the beginning of Season 6, he leaves Charming to recruit new members for the Redwood Originals from other charters, and returns with three new members shortly after the clubhouse is blown up. In season 7, he is kidnapped and tortured by August Marks' henchmen, losing his right eye and several fingers. During the planned exchange, he is shot by Marks.

Filip "Chibs" Telford ( Tommy Flanagan )

Chibs got its nickname from the scars that adorn its face (chib = Scottish for "knife"). In contrast to the other members, who are all of American origin, he is Scottish, but grew up in Ireland and was a member of an IRA splinter group there. He was a medic in the military and is therefore responsible for the care of the wounded within the club. His archenemy is Jimmy O'Phelan, an IRA leader who once not only stole his wife and daughter from him, but is also responsible for the characteristic scars on Chibs' face, the so-called Glasgow smile . At the end of the third season, he can take revenge and kill Jimmy. Chibs is next to Opie Jax's closest confidante and is therefore elected Sergeant-at-Arms in the fourth season and finally VP (VP = Vice-President) after Bobby's departure. He often criticizes Jax's decisions, but he always supports them and is loyal. In season 7, he has a brief affair with Althea Jarry, Charming's new police chief. In the last episode, he is named President of the Redwood Charter after Jax has to resign from the jury for the murder. However, Jax saves Chibs the difficult task of executing his longtime friend through his suicide.

Alexander "Tig" Trager ( Kim Coates )

Tig is the MC's sergeant-at-arms and arguably the most impulsive member of the California charter. He is extremely loyal to the club and can be seen as Clay's right-hand man. Often he has to be slowed down by Clay, so that his brutality does not arouse the ATF's interest. Tig is also known to have some quirky sexual preferences. In the first season he is tasked by Clay with the murder of Opie's, but instead accidentally kills his wife, Donna, who for once drives Opie's car. As a result, he is plagued by deep feelings of guilt and finally confesses to Opie his role in Donna's death. After Clay beats up his wife Gemma - a good friend of Tig - he resigns as Sergeant-at-Arms. When Clay is shot shortly afterwards, Tig feels guilty for abandoning his president. To cover for the real shooter - Opie - Clay and Jax claim that the One-Niners were behind the attack, causing Tig to take action against their leader Laroy Wayne on their own. Accidentally, however, he does not kill Laroy, but his girlfriend Veronica - the daughter of the powerful gang boss Damon Pope. The Sons then fall into Pope's sights, which among other things leads to the death of Opie. In addition, Pope Tig's daughter Dawn burns alive in front of his eyes. With Jax's help he can take revenge and kill Pope, but his successor August Marks later demands his extradition, which Jax finally gets involved with with a heavy heart. However, it turns out that August was just trying to test Jackson's loyalty and Tig is pardoned. Towards the end of the series, he begins a relationship with the transsexual prostitute Venus Van Dam ( Walton Goggins ). The development of the character Tig in the series runs in the opposite direction to that of the protagonist Jax Teller: Although Tig, as the most impulsive and brutal member of the club at the beginning, is responsible for a large part of the problems that the Sons are confronted with in the course of the first five seasons In the end, ironically, he is one of the few surviving main characters and finds his happiness, whereas the initially peaceful and deliberate acting Jax becomes increasingly unscrupulous after the murder of his wife Tara and ultimately has to pay with his death for his impulsive acts driven by a thirst for revenge. In the last episode, Tig is appointed by Chibs as the new SAMCRO Vice President.

Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz ( Theo Rossi )

Juice Ortiz is the hacker of the Sons of Anarchy and takes care of the technical matters. Although he seems to have a great deal of technical knowledge, he often seems overwhelmed in other matters. At the beginning of the series, he shows a strong affinity for drugs. The prosecutor Lincoln Potter and Wayne Our successor Roosevelt initially blackmailed him because of his negroid genes (the Sons only accept whites and Latinos) to participate in investigations in order to get a sample of the cocaine that the Sons had dealt with. Club member Eric Miles catches him stealing drugs, whereupon Juice kills Miles and accuses him of being the thief. All of this drives Juice towards suicide, but he is found by Chibs, who tells him that his father's skin color does not play a role for the club, only his own. Nevertheless, the RICO case catches up with him again in season 5. His attempt to regain Jackson's trust, however, fails after he confesses to Nero while on a drug intoxication that Jax had commissioned him with the murder of a witness who was friends with Nero. Shortly before his alleged arrest at the end of Season 6, Jax orders his expulsion from the club and death. Juice helps Gemma to cover up Tara’s murder and even murders Sheriff Roosevelt, who was about to call for reinforcements when he found Tara dead next to Gemma. At the beginning of season 7, Juice goes into hiding with Gemma's help, as SAMCRO is looking for him as a traitor. When he realizes that Gemma is planning to get him out of the way, he asks the Mayans for help in escaping, but is handed over to Jax by Alvarez. He is ready to forgive him if he allows himself to be arrested and kills Henry Lin, whom Jax mistakenly believes to be his wife's murderer, in prison. However, after Juice completes the assignment and Jax confesses the truth about Tara's murder, the Sons order his death. Since Juice can no longer see any meaning in life without the club, he finally surrenders voluntarily and is stabbed by Ron Tully, a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood, in the prison dining room.

Harry "Opie" Winston ( Ryan Hurst )

Opie is a member of the California Charter of the Sons. He was jailed for a long time and has been Jax's best friend since high school . He tries to devote himself more to his family and distances himself from many of the club's activities and businesses in order to be able to be with his family. Towards the end of season 1, his wife is shot by Tig, who was supposed to kill Opie himself because the club believed Opie had betrayed her to the police and the ATF. After Piney's murder, he shoots Clay twice, but can only wound him. After that Opie refuses to sit with Clay at a table, then decides but in the beginning of Season 5, are arrested as Jax, Chibs and Tig because of the thing with Pope's daughter to attack a police officer to come up with his brothers to be arrested (He brought his children to Lyla and gave her a large amount of money to look after them). Pope then ensures with the help of corrupt guards that Opie - despite the protection provided by the cartel / CIA - is slain in episode 3.

Piermont "Piney" Winston ( William Lucking )

Piney is one of the founders of the Sons of Anarchy and father of Opie. He fought in the Vietnam War. His opinion carries great weight within the club. He has many useful contacts for the club from his time in the military. Within the club, he often does not agree with Clay's decisions and is becoming increasingly alienated from them. He only drives the minimum to keep his voice, drinks excessively and has severe lung disease, which is why he has an oxygen supply with him. He spends a lot of time in the club's forest cabin, especially when he disagrees with the rest of the club, he goes there to think and drink. Piney is murdered by Clay at the end of season four when he threatens to tell Jax the truth about his father's death.

Kip "Half Sack" Epps ( Johnny Lewis )

Half Sack is the first prospect for the California charter of the Sons of Anarchy. The other members of the club often give him humiliating or difficult tasks that he must complete in order to earn respect. His nickname comes from the fact that he lost a testicle in the Iraq war . He is considered the best boxer within the club and competes for the club in various fights and brings the bonuses into the club's coffers. He is murdered by an IRA member while attempting to protect Jax's son from kidnapping and is posthumously awarded full membership. Not only the character, but also the actor Johnny Lewis has passed away.

George "Ratboy" Skogstrom ( Niko Nicotera )

Rat has been Prospect with the Sons of Anarchy since Season 4 and becomes a full member during Season 6. Still, he still does mostly simple, less dangerous tasks for the club. With his quick-wittedness and his quick reactions, he often helps the other members out of dangerous situations. In season 7, he begins a relationship with Brooke Putner, the babysitter for Jax's sons.

Happy Lowman ( David Labrava )

Happy is a member of the Tacoma charter at the beginning of the series, but after a while switches to the nomad charter in order to be able to see and care for his sick mother more often. Known for his propensity for violence, he gets a smiley tattoo for every murder he has committed. He officially joins the Redwood Originals in Season 3 and is named the new Sergeant-at-Arms in Season 6. Happy is extremely loyal to the club and its members and is ready to make any sacrifice for his comrades. In the finale, he willingly lets Chibs shoot him in the arm in order to be able to credibly claim to the other charters that Jax escaped his execution by SAMCRO.

Wayne Unser ( Dayton Callie )

Chief Unser is the Sheriff in Charming until the end of Season 3. He has cancer and is about to retire. His biggest concern is to keep crimes like prostitution, drug trafficking and violence out of Charming. For this purpose, he often works with SAMCRO, for which his Deputy Hale in particular repeatedly criticizes him. Due to his illness, he no longer does his job with full attention and is therefore no longer privy to all processes in the area, often to the detriment of SAMCRO. He will retire from season 4, but will continue to support the club and the Teller family. Unser was originally married and, in addition to being police chief, also had a transport company whose trucks are literally constantly being stolen by SAMCRO. In season 5, however, he is becoming increasingly impoverished, and cancer is also coming back. He often smokes marijuana , ostensibly because of his cancer , which he grows himself and which Gemma gives him. Ultimately, he lives with his camper on the grounds of “Teller-Morrow” and has to start chemotherapy again. Gemma takes advantage of his affection - which, as it later turns out, is also romantic in nature - and often lets Wayne do the dirty work for himself and the club, such as cleaning crime scenes. Even after his retirement, Unser likes to investigate crimes on his own, but he never knowingly acts against SAMCRO. In season 7, he supports Charming's new police chief in the investigation into the murders of Tara Knowles and Eli Roosevelt. He feels guilty because he could not keep the promise to protect Tara and to help her and the children escape from Charming, and thus has a personal interest in solving the murders. Jax's increasing unscrupulousness has the consequence that Unser distances himself further and further from the machinations of the club and ultimately refuses to support it. When he learns that Gemma is responsible for Tara's murder, he follows her to her hiding place in order to arrest her and thus protect her from her son's revenge. Ours then gets caught between the fronts and is shot by Jax while trying to defend Gemma.

Neron "Nero" Padilla ( Jimmy Smits )

After separating from Clay, Gemma meets the Spanish pimp Nero in a bar and also meets him. It soon turns out that Nero is not exactly an upright citizen either, runs an exclusive escort service and also heads a street crew (the Byz-Lats = Business Latinos, i.e. Latinos in business) with a lot of clout. When Clay tracks down Gemma there, she hits a new employee in the face, who was taken to a room by Clay - as revenge after Gemma's breakup - and thus ensures a house search and the subsequent termination of the rental agreement. As compensation and to bind Nero closer to the club, Jax offers him to merge the escort service “Diosa Norte” with the remnants of “Caracara” (Luann Delaney's porn production) and to start over in a better place. Although Nero asks not to be drawn into the (criminal) concerns of the club, shortly afterwards one of the members who switched from the Nomads to SAMCRO to SAMCRO in the new business premises is held hostage. Little is known about Nero's past life, it is only mentioned that he, coming from Spain, tracks down his half-sister Carla in Mexico and founded the escort service with her. He spent his thirties in prison and was addicted to opiates . His son is in a home for the disabled and has spina bifida . Carla, however, is mentally unstable and in love with Nero, which is why she ultimately shoots herself in the head in front of Gemma and Nero. When Jax is briefly kidnapped by Romeo and Louis, Nero suspects his crew to be behind it (since witnesses only speak of Mexicans) and reacts excessively emotional and brutal. Nero takes on the role of Clay's fatherly friend, so to speak, of Jax, but reacts to lies from Jax seriously injured and emotionally and in the meantime breaks up with Gemma. His initial affection for Jax turns into fear and distrust, as Nero moves from one problem to the next because of the acquaintance with the Sons. He is more or less good friend with all groups and therefore often serves as a kind of diplomat, especially when his street power is dwindling, which Nero is not at all unwelcome, since he believes that he is keeping his hands clean. Jax calls him his best friend outside the club and gives him the job of looking after his sons when he dies. At the end of the series he leaves Charming and moves with Wendy and the children to his uncle's farm in Norco , where Abel and Thomas are supposed to grow up far away from the violent biker milieu.

Wendy Case ( Drea de Matteo )

Wendy Case is Jax Teller's ex-wife and the biological mother of his son Abel. Due to her drug use during pregnancy, Abel was born 10 weeks early and with a heart defect, which is why Jax and Gemma in particular can no longer respect her. They believe that Wendy's irresponsibility has lost all right to watch Abel grow up. After the first season she disappears from Charming, while Abel is raised by Jax and Tara. In Season 4, Wendy returns after a drug rehab to meet her son. Gemma and Tara initially disagree, but finally agree. She later supports Tara's efforts to divorce Jax and move away with the children from Charming, which is why Jax injects her with drugs, which leads to renewed addiction. After another withdrawal, she returns to support the Teller family after Tara's murder in looking after Abel and Thomas, which means she can finally be close to her son. Abel eventually learns that Wendy is his mother. At the end of the series, she moves to Nero's farm with the children.

Otto "Big Otto" Delaney ( Kurt Sutter )

Otto is a member of SAMCRO but is currently in prison. Before that, he ran a production company for porn films, which was later managed by his wife Luann. The capital of the company, which is sometimes even run by them, also flows in part to the Sons of Anarchy. At the time, Bobby was having an affair with Luann. She is beaten up on behalf of a competing porn company to intimidate her, but this leads to her death. Otto asks the club to avenge Luann. When this doesn't work because the perpetrator is still needed, he revenges Bobby to the ATF. Tara, who volunteers to treat prisoners free of charge and can request Otto to examine him and speak to him, but can persuade him to withdraw the statement. However, Otto brutally kills a nurse, which reveals Tara's connection to the club. When he is about to be interrogated, he bites off his tongue and throws it against the window of the interrogation room. In the fourth episode of the sixth season, Otto kills the torturing ex-Marshal Lee Toric in Stockton prison with the help of Clay and is then shot by the guards.

Chucky Marstein (Michael Ornstein)

Chucky is a former fellow inmate of Big Otto and is supposed to help SAMCRO obtain a large amount of money that he stole from the Lin triad. However, for a fee, SAMCRO delivers it to Henry Lin. Since he suffers from an obsession with masturbation, Lin has him remove all fingers on both hands except the index fingers to prevent him from constantly pleasuring himself. After some time with the Asians, he is brought back to SAMCRO and, at Tig's request, accepted as a kind of girl for everything in the clubhouse. In general, he is privy to many of the club's operations, or little effort is made to hide them from him. Later Chucky gets finger prostheses and is treated with medication (because of his compulsion to masturbate), which makes his role seem a little more serious. Though he is often eager to help, he is rarely allowed to speak, which can be a disadvantage because Chucky is smarter than he looks and proves to be a useful support on several occasions. Most members consider him a cross between a mascot and living inventory. He is extremely caring and regards SAMCRO and the Tellers as his family. This becomes particularly clear when he helps his "best friend" Gemma to escape from Jax.

David Hale ( Taylor Sheridan )

David Hale is the Deputy Chief of the Charming Police Department and thus our deputy for the first two seasons. In contrast to his boss, he adheres strictly to the law and is not corruptible. His declared goal is to hold the Sons of Anarchy accountable for their illegal machinations, which repeatedly leads to tensions between him and Unser, from whose point of view SAMCRO is helping to secure the peace in Charming. However, over time he comes to appreciate working with Jax Teller on several occasions. At the beginning of the 3rd season he is to take over from us. But it doesn't come to that: when he tries to prevent a drive-by attack at Half Sack's funeral ceremony, he is run over by the van hurrying away. His death has the consequence that the mood in the population turns against SAMCRO and the Charming Police Department is taken over a little later by the San Joaquin County Sheriffs under the direction of Eli Roosevelt.

Eli Roosevelt ( Rockmond Dunbar )

The San Joaquin County Sheriff will take over the Police Department from Charming after our retirement. Although at the beginning he tried to gain advantages over the Sons by extortion, in particular after the murder of his wife, he was more cautious and turned out to be a clever, correct policeman, who did not allow himself to be bribed by the Sons, but also no longer actively investigated against them. He is shot dead by Juice at the end of Season 6 to cover up Tara’s murder when he finds the confessed Gemma next to the body.

Althea Jarry ( Annabeth Gish )

Althea Jarry is Roosevelt's successor and Sheriff in Charming in Season 7. Much like ours, whom she often calls in as a consultant, she is willing to work with SAMCRO if this can keep more serious crimes out of Charming. In doing so, she even goes so far that she accepts bribes and begins a relationship with Chibs Telford to gain the club's trust. In the last episode, however, the separation takes place after the prosecutor Patterson advises her to separate professional and private matters more.

June Stahl ( Ally Walker )

June Stahl is an unscrupulous ATF agent and the main antagonist of SAMCRO for the first three seasons. She tries by all means to prove the Sons of Anarchy the arms trade with the Real IRA in order to classify them as a criminal organization and to be able to smash them. Her manipulative methods indirectly result in the death of Opie's wife, Donna. She also tries to accuse Gemma of the murder of IRA member Edmond Hayes, for whose death she is responsible. Jax negotiates a deal with her in which he promises her inside information about the Real IRA in return for Gemma's release. In order to be able to relieve Gemma, Stahl kills her own partner in cold blood and then blames Hayes for the murder. In the season 3 finale, the Sons set a trap for her with our help, and Stahl is shot by Opie in her car. The act is disguised as IRA retaliation.

Marcus Alvarez (Emilio Rivera)

Alvarez is the leader of the Mayans, an MC who is initially extremely hostile to the Sons and whose members are exclusively Latinos. He deals in drugs and would like to get into arms trafficking with SAMCRO, but that requires a peace that is very unstable at first. The character changes from the initial archenemy to a friend and ally of the protagonists. In order to consolidate the peace with SAMCRO, he even sacrifices his own son, who is stabbed to death in the presence of Alvarez by Happy after a failed attack on the Sons. In the course of time, the former enmity creates a close bond between the two clubs, which henceforth work together in many areas, and a lasting peace and friendship between Jax and Alvarez.

Damon Pope ( Harold Perrineau, Jr. )

Pope is one of the most powerful gangsters in California and rules Oakland. Small and thin, very neat and stylish; always in a tailor-made suit, he appears in the mask of the honest but successful businessman. He's the head behind the street crews like the Niners, with whom the Sons always have trouble. However, he only appears when Tig kills Pope's daughter Veronica instead of him in an attack on the leader of the Niners. From then on he lets his people proceed with the utmost brutality and, without hesitation, also kills two of his people, just to show that life and death are in his hands. In order to get revenge on Tig, he has his daughter showered with gasoline in a storage cellar that is open from above, in Tig's presence, and sets her on fire himself. He also requires the Sons to be involved in a business and serious personal sacrifices that Jax is forced to make, for example the life of Opie Winston, who sacrifices himself voluntarily. Pope always speaks softly, expresses himself carefully and does not show any emotions except for an occasional smile. At the end of season 5, he is shot by Tig with Clay's gun.

August Marks ( Billy Brown )

August Marks is Damon Pope's right-hand man. After the death of his mentor, he takes over the business of Pope's Industries and also negotiates with the Sons of Anarchy. Similar to Pope, he appears as a serious, intelligent businessman and has political influence and considerable financial resources. He sees it as his job to avenge the murders of Pope and his daughter. After Jax accuses Clay of being Pope's murderer, Marks has him protected in Stockton Prison so that he can later kill him himself. As a vote of confidence, he also demands that Jax hand over Tig, the murderer of Pope's daughter Veronica, to him. In the course of the 6th season he finally pardoned Tig in exchange for arms deals with the Real IRA and becomes a business partner of the Sons. In season 7, this alliance breaks when Jax begins a campaign of revenge against the Lin Triads against Marks' will. In order to escape August's control, the Sons decide to get him and his crew out of the way. However, Marks sees through the betrayal and has Bobby kidnapped and mutilated by his people. Although Jax complies with his demands, Marks shoots Bobby during the planned exchange to make an example. Nevertheless, the Sons manage to accuse Marks of murder, which leads to his arrest. When he is released on bail, Jax shoots him right outside the courthouse.

Romeo Parada ( Danny Trejo ) and Luis Torres ( Benito Martinez )

Two alleged lieutenants of a cartel, both of whom are well-trained, extremely dangerous ex-military. At the beginning of their appearance they claim to work exclusively for the Gallindo cartel, but are in fact CIA agents and thus also prevent the ATF and FBI from arresting the Sons under RICO law, even if they give some people their identity to do so must disclose. Still, they're not good guys , they'll kill anyone who gets in the way of their goals without hesitation. Her relationship with the Sons is changeable, as both Jax and Bobby and, later, Clay are aware of their membership in the CIA.

Galen O'Shay ( Timothy V. Murphy )

Galen (Irish Galaan) is a representative of the IRA who, together with his partner Connor Malone, is responsible for arms sales in Northern California. Galen is not a friend of the Sons, which is evident on several occasions when he B. destroyed the motorcycles of the Sons present during a weapon test and later kills two members of the club when Jax explains to him that he has to keep his hands off the club. He severed the hands of his victims (a macabre play on the word "hands off!") And flees to Northern Ireland. When the sons are able to arrest Connor, they still believe in a peaceful solution and let him live, but arrest him. Nevertheless, shortly afterwards the kings of the IRA try to wipe out the club with a bomb, but this can be prevented by an observation by Jax: he finds a ballpoint pen with the Irish shamrock in the clubhouse, which the supplier of the bomb had forgotten. At the end of the 6th season, Galen is killed with a shot in the head by Jax, the crime is blamed on the also dead Clay Morrow. Connor takes his place.

Henry Lin ( Kenneth Choi )

Henry Lin is the leader of a Chinese triad who first appeared when Otto asked the Sons to protect his former accountant Chuck Marstein. Since Chucky has stolen from Lin, he demands his extradition and finally does business with SAMCRO. Until season 6, the relationship between the Sons and the Triads is largely peaceful. But when Jax wants to hand over the arms trade with the IRA to August Marks, whose expansion plans endanger the arms business of the Lin Triads, the alliance falls apart. After Lin's uncle Bohai gives the Sons an ultimatum and takes Happy hostage, he and his people are killed by the Sons and the One-Niners, allied with Marks, causing Henry to form an alliance with the Mayans and the Byz-Lats. Gemma takes advantage of this early in Season 7 to identify one of Lin's men as Tara's murderer. Believing that Henry ordered his wife's murder, Jax lets the Sons repeatedly attack the Triads, including stealing their weapons and drugs. Informed by Barosky about the Sons 'campaign of revenge, Henry retrieves the stolen weapons from the Sons' warehouse, whereby the club member West is killed. In order to harm Jax, he also orders the massacre in Nero's brothel "Diosa", which kills 17 uninvolved people. This causes Barosky to switch sides again and lure Lin and his men into an ambush on behalf of the Sons by his corrupt cops. Jax then surprisingly confronts him with the murder of Tara and a duel ensues. Before Jax can take revenge, the proper police arrive and arrest Lin and most of his henchmen. Jax then assigns Juice to get himself arrested and to murder Lin in prison. With the help of the Aryan Brotherhood, Juice succeeds in interrogating Henry in a basement room, which reveals Barosky's role as an informant. Although he knows that the Triads were not responsible for Tara's murder, Juice Lin is stabbed to death following the interrogation. At the end of the 7th season, the still free members of the Lin triads of SAMCRO and the Niners are eliminated, with which the organization in Stockton finally loses its influence.

Charles "Charlie" Barosky ( Peter Weller )

Barosky is an opaque ex-cop from Stockton who was fired for corruption and now lives off covering other gangs' business and dealing in information. He runs a bakery to cover himself up. He has a kind of gang himself, consisting of corrupt lower-ranking police officers whom he tied to himself with blackmail and bribery. He is careful to keep violence out of his area or, if this is not possible, to keep it secret. He and Jax form a kind of partnership of convenience to help each other, but we have little trust in one another. At the end of season 7, it turns out that Barosky betrayed the Sons' arsenal for payment to the Lin Triads, which resulted in the death of a club member, the Diosa massacre and, indirectly, the murder of the falsely suspected Nevada charter president Jury White has the consequence. Since it is not clear to him that the Sons have been informed of his betrayal, he returns to his shop after a short absence, where he is shot by Jax Teller in front of witnesses.

Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz ( Sonny Barger )

Lenny "The Pimp" is the liaison man at Stockton Prison for the Sons Of Anarchy and a founding member ("First 9") of the Sons. He gives important information and leads negotiations in prison for SAMCRO.

The Wahewas

The Wahewas are an Indian tribe whose reservation is right on the city limits of Charming. At first they were only mentioned, but when Opie and Half Sack come across large quantities of self-made ammunition in the car when they are brought back after an unpaid car repair, the Sons do business with them. Since the ammunition is of high quality and cannot be traced back to a well-known manufacturer, it is very popular with customers. Opie and Lyla's wedding also takes place on the reservation, as Charming's police are not allowed to enter it. On this occasion, the Sons turn off the California section of the Russian mafia. When the Russians attacked the reserve, one of them is said to be eaten alive by ants, according to the Wahewas. The Wahewas are a tribe devised for the series, but on some occasions it is said to be an Apache .

The Homeless ( Olivia Burnette )

A homeless, confused-looking woman in her mid-thirties who appears every season. She pushes a shopping cart in front of her, which mostly contains groceries, dolls and stuffed animals. She has nothing to do with the Sons directly, but lives in their environment. It is noticeable that whenever she appears, an important character in the series dies shortly afterwards. Possibly it stands for death in the symbolism of the series, a temporal connection between its appearance and death among the Sons cannot be dismissed out of hand. In the last episode she says to Jax, when asked who she is, only that it was time, and disappears.

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was for a synchronous book under the dialogue director of Martin Kessler by the synchronous company Arena synchronous GmbH in Berlin . Martin Keßler himself also appears during the synchronization, as the voice of the character Happy .

Role name	Actress	image	Main role	Supporting role	Voice actor
Jackson "Jax" plate	Charlie Hunnam		1.01-7.13		Björn Schalla
Gemma Teller Morrow	Katey Sagal		1.01-7.12	7.13	Traudel Haas
Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson	Mark Boone Jr.		1.01-7.09		Jörg Hengstler
Alexander "Tig" Trager	Kim Coates		1.01-7.13		Torsten Michaelis
Filip "Chibs" Telford	Tommy Flanagan		1.01-7.13		Wolfgang Wagner
Kip "Half Sack" Epps	Johnny Lewis		1.01-2.13		Leonhard Mahlich
Dr. Tara Knowles	Maggie Siff		1.01-6.13		Bianca Krahl
Clarence "Clay" Morrow	Ron Perlman		1.01-6.11		Tilo Schmitz
Harry "Opie" Winston	Ryan Hurst		2.01-5.03	1.01-1.13, 5.04	Tobias Kluckert
Piermont "Piney" Winston	William Lucking		2.01-4.08	1.01-1.13, 4.09, 4.11	Jürgen Kluckert
Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz	Theo Rossi		2.01-7.12	1.01-1.13	Marcel Collé
Chief Wayne Unser	Dayton Callie		3.01-7.12	1.02-2.13, 7.13	Uli Krohm
Neron "Nero" Padilla	Jimmy Smits		6.01-7.13	5.01-5.13	Matthias Klie
Wendy Case	Drea de Matteo		7.01-7.13	1.01-1.13, 4.11-6.13	Kerstin Draeger
Happy lowman	David Labrava		7.01-7.13	1.01-6.13	Martin Keßler
George "Ratboy" Skogstrom	Niko Nicotera		7.01-7.13	4.01-6.13	Bastian Sierich
Marcus Alvarez	Emilio Rivera			1.01-7.13	Abelardo Decamilli
Ernest Darby	Mitch Pileggi			1.01-6.04	Erich Rauker
Laroy Wayne	Tory Kittles			1.01-4.13	Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Deputy Chief David Hale	Taylor Sheridan			1.01-3.01	Oliver Siebeck
Luann Delaney	Dendrie Taylor			1.01-2.08	Denise Gorzelanny
Donna Winston	Sprague Grayden			1.01–1.12	Julia Kaufmann
Elliott Oswald	Patrick St. Esprit			1.03-6.09	Frank Röth
Agent Joshua Kohn	Jay Karnes			1.03-1.09	Oliver Field
Chuck 'Chucky' Marstein	Michael Ornstein			1.05-7.13	Stefan Gossler
Henry Lin	Kenneth Choi			1.05-7.11	Sebastian Schulz
Otto "Big" Delaney	Kurt Sutter			1.05-6.04	Robert Missler
Agent June Stahl	Ally Walker			1.06-3.13	Bettina White
Cameron Hayes	Jamie McShane			1.08-3.03	Viktor Neumann
Homeless woman	Olivia Burnette			1.12-7.13
Jacob Hale, Jr.	Jeff Kober			2.01-6.07
Ethan Zobelle	Adam Arkin			2.01-2.13	Martin Umbach
AJ Weston	Henry Rollins			2.01-2.13	Michael Lott
Lyla Winston	Winter Ave Zoli			2.02-7.13	Anita Hopt
Ima Tite	Kristen Renton			2.02-6.01
Margaret Murphy	McNally Sagal			2.04-6.10	Silvia Missbach
James 'Jimmy' O'Phelan	Titus Welliver			2.10-3.13	Oliver Stritzel
Herman Kozik	Kenny Johnson			2.12-4.11	Markus Pfeiffer
Maureen Ashby	Paula Malcomson			3.01-3.11	Irina von Bentheim
Taddarius Orwell 'TO' Cross	Michael Beach			3.02-7.13
Hector Salazar	Jose Pablo Cantillo			3.02-3.12	Nico Mamone
Father Kellan Ashby	James Cosmo			3.02-3.11	Wolfgang Condrus
Ally Lowen	Robin refuses			3.03-6.09	Victoria Storm
Trinity Ashby	Zoe Boyle			3.03-3.11	Anne Helm
Philip 'Filthy Phil' Russell	Chris Reed			3.04-6.04	Tino Kießling
Deputy Sheriff Cane	LaMonica Garrett			4.01-7.04
Lieutenant Eli Roosevelt	Rockmond Dunbar			4.01-6.13
Lincoln 'Linc' Potter	Ray McKinnon			4.01-4.14
Romero 'Romeo' Parada	Danny Trejo			4.02-5.12	Thomas Wolff
Luis Torres	Benito Martinez			4.02-5.12	Leon Boden
Tyler Yost	Mo McRae			5.01-7.13
August Marks	Billy Brown			5.01-7.13	Sascha Rotermund
Damon Pope	Harold Perrineau			5.01-5.13	Axel Malzacher
Venus Van Dam	Walton Goggins			5.05-7.13
Rane Quinn	Rusty Coones			5.09-7.13
Lee Toric	Donal Logue			5.11–6.04	Michael Iwannek
Charles 'Charlie' Barosky	Peter Weller			6.01-7.13	Ekkehardt Belle
Colette Jane	Kim Dickens			6.01–7.05
Tyne Patterson	CCH pounder			6.02-7.13
Brooke Putner	Hayley McFarland			6.09–7.12
Lieutenant Althea Jarry	Annabeth Gish			7.02-7.13

Charisma

→ Main article : Sons of Anarchy / Episode list

United States

In the US, the first season aired between September 3 and November 26, 2008 on the cable channel FX Network . The second season aired from September 8th to December 1st, 2009. The third season was broadcast between September 7, 2010 and November 30, 2010. The fourth season aired between September 6 and December 6, 2011. On September 11, 2012, the fifth season began broadcasting, which ended on December 4, 2012. The following sixth season premiered on September 10, 2013 and ran until December 10, 2013.

With the seventh season, which premiered on September 9, 2014, the series ended.

Germany

ProSiebenSat.1 Media has secured the rights to the series for Germany . From January 19, 2012, the series was shown in advance on the video platform MyVideo , which also belongs to the ProSiebenSat.1 Group. There, the episodes of the first season were viewed by over a million viewers within almost two weeks. The television broadcast should then take place on ProSieben from July 2012 , but this was rejected again. The first season was broadcast from November 6 to December 18, 2012, the second season from March 19 to April 30, 2013 on Kabel Eins. The broadcast of the third season began on April 30 and ended on June 11, 2013 on Kabel eins. After that, the series changed channels and continued from April 23 to August 28, 2014 on ProSieben Maxx with the fourth season. The fifth season was broadcast from September 12 to October 4, 2014 on ProSieben Maxx. The sixth season was broadcast from February 13 to May 1, 2015 on ProSieben Maxx. The final seventh season aired from December 23 to 26, 2015.

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Albums

Songs of Anarchy: Music from Sons of Anarchy Seasons 1-4   US 130 December 24, 2011 (2 weeks) Sons of Anarchy: Songs of Anarchy: Vol. 3   US 185 12/21/2013 (1 week) Sons of Anarchy: Songs of Anarchy: Vol. 4   US 35 03/14/2015 (1 week)

Singles

Come Join the Murder (with the Forest Rangers )   US 93 12/14/2014 (1 week)

The soundtrack for the series was created largely with the participation of Los Angeles- based studio rock band The Forest Rangers. Some vocals took the singer and saxophonist Curtis Stigers - including the title song of the series, the Hard Rock - Blue piece This Life. Other titles (such as the Billie Holiday hit Strange Fruit ) sang Katey Sagal, who played Gemma in the series. The song repertoire consists largely of new recordings of well-known rock and pop numbers from the 1960s and early 1970s - including Dusty Springfield ( Son of a Preacher Man ), the Rolling Stones ( Gimme Shelter ), Bob Dylan ( Girl from the North Country and The Times They Are a-Changin ' - the latter in a Spanish-language version), Leonard Cohen (Bird on a Wire) and Creedence Clearwater Revival ( Travelin Band ). In addition, the song ( House of the rising Sun ) by The Animals was rewritten for an episode in the 4th season of the Sons of Anarchy.

The indie rock singer Alison Mosshart , the Canadian metal band Anvil and the Texas hard rock group Lions also contributed to the soundtrack . Pieces by Metallica , the Boston folk punk band Dropkick Murphys and the singer-songwriter Audra Mae ( Forever Young ) were also used. The series theme song This Life was a 2009 Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Theme Song. In addition to the standard version, Stigers and the Forest Rangers played a Celtic version. Within the series, this was used in the second half of season 3 - the episodes that take place in the Northern Irish capital, Belfast, as well as in the northern Irish hinterland. The soundtrack CD contains pieces from seasons 1 to 4. In addition, several EPs were released, some of which contain additional material.

review

Media coverage

Both in the USA itself and internationally, the series received mostly good, sometimes even exuberant reviews. Two things in particular were highlighted as plus points: the realism of the series, which takes up the current economic and social situation in the USA, and the Hamlet constellation in the series plot. Numerous reviewers rated Katey Sagal's role as gang matriarch Gemma Teller Morrow as impressive and well-played. Reviewers regularly pointed to other sophisticated, realistic thriller series that Sons of Anarchy was tied for. David Hinckley, critic of the New York daily Daily News , compared the series with the mafia series The Sopranos and rated it as a well-crafted hardboiled story. SFGate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle , also pointed out personal connection lines to other high-quality entertainment series on current US television. The reviewer was referring in particular to the police series The Shield , on which Sons of Anarchy writer Kurt Sutter had also worked.

From the actors of the series, especially Katey Sagal received outstanding reviews. The Berliner tageszeitung wrote: “And now Sagal is playing the anarcho-biker Gemma - one of the strongest characters currently on television. Gemma is a badass character, a really tough guy. A woman in her fifties who still doesn't look ridiculous in her tight biker outfits. She is the puller behind the dubious business of the Sons Of Anarchy, and not just because she is the president's wife. She achieves her goals, if necessary with a gun in hand. ”Numerous reviews considered the recourse to William Shakespeare's material - especially the two tragedies Hamlet and Macbeth - remarkable . Tagesspiegel author Andreas Kötter emphasized in his rating of the series, above all, the successful bridge between classic drama, the great American development novel and current series such as Boardwalk Empire and The Wire . Kötter concluded his review by stating that US television is currently telling the best stories.

In the success of the series, Die Zeit saw a trend towards topics from the white trash : “The series fits into today's America of recession and disillusion,you will look in vain for heroes here. The hard core of the 'Sons' is a pretty dreary club of old men. The Vietnam veteran Piney Winston has an oxygentubein his nose, the obese Robert Munson earns extraincomeas an Elvis imitator, the rest of the troupe consists of relatively underexposed figures from the white trash milieu. The newcomers, prospects , are humiliated until they have made the leap to membership and can step down themselves. Women appear in the club only as waitresses who are always at the will of the motorcycle boys. ”The Süddeutsche Zeitung also identified the obvious ugly sides of the protagonists as the reason for the success of the series. Unlike in other, comparable series, no attempt is made to justify illegal activities. Given that, the secret of the series is that it makes viewers like the protagonists a little despite their actions.

One of the few newspapers with a rather critical stance on the series was the weekly Jungle World . In her weekly column “jungle”, she presented the ongoing media interest in the outlaw motorcycle gangs as typical media hype and, after a short text on the series content, drew the succinct conclusion: “If you are still looking for ideals, it is really difficult.” Industry servicequotemeter.de rated the series as unsuitable for gentler minds, due to its brutality as rather a deterrent for female viewers and ultimately as incompatible with mass tastes. Summary of the industry service: "Even if the stories are finally unusual, the characters are deep and believable [...], 'Sons of Anarchy' misses the masses' taste. But if you don't shy away from this topic, like blunt storytelling and also like it when long-haired guys with butts in their mouths drive around on their Harleys (without helmets, of course), the US series is perfect correct."

The Bikers News as a scene magazine of the German rockers (slogan: Checkpoint rocker) comes after reports about the TV series again and again in the criticism of its readers who consider themselves true bikers and the actors only performer of the MC scene. Nevertheless, the magazine takes up the topic again and again. Probably out of joke, but also to appease the scene, the magazine introduced the label “Sons Of Arthrose”, which contains merchandising for the US series that can easily be mistaken for the look. If motorcycle clubs were to use motifs that were similar to each other (and thus confusable) when choosing their colors (back patch), there would be an “emotional need for discussion” - just like in the US series SoA.

Awards

Katey Sagal was nominated for the Satellite Award and Television Critics Association Award in 2010 for her portrayal of Gemma and won a Golden Globe in 2011 .

Trivia

• A total of eight actors appear in recurring supporting roles, who also embodied main characters in the series The Shield, also produced by Kurt Sutter : In addition to Jay Karnes as ATF agent Joshua Kohn (Taras Stalker), Kenny Johnson as SAMCRO member Herman Kozik, David Rees Snell as FBI agent Grad Nicholas, Benito Martinez as a cartel member or undercover CIA investigator Luis Torres, Walton Goggins as Venus Van Dam and CCH Pounder as prosecutor Tyne Patterson are in season 3, episode 5 David Marciano as Chicken Man and in the last two episodes also saw Michael Chiklis as trucker Milo. Chiklis played the antihero Vic Mackey, a corrupt and violent police officer in "The Shield" .
• Sonny Barger (Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz), David Labrava (Happy Lowman) and Chuck Zito (Frankie Diamonds) are connected to the original Hells Angels MC. Barger is a prominent and influential member of the Hells Angels and founder of the Oakland Charter, Labrava is an active member of the motorcycle club and Zito is a former member of the club.
• The former Hells Angels member Chuck Zito sued the producing broadcaster FX for damages in 2010 because - according to the allegation - it illegally appropriated parts of a series concept it had developed.
• In the second season, Steve "Lips" Kudlow of the Canadian metal band Anvil has a guest appearance.
• Henry Rollins , former singer of the US punk band Black Flag , plays AJ Weston, he is one of two main opponents in the second season and a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood.
• The boss of Tara Knowles, Margaret Murphy, who can be seen from the second season, is played by McNally Sagal . She is the sister-in-law of Katey Sagal , who plays Gemma.
• In the third and seventh seasons, old star Hal Holbrook has a guest role as Gemma's father Nate.
• Stephen King appears in episode 3 of the third season as a freelance "cleaner" named Bachman to make a corpse disappear in Nate's house. King has published several novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
• In season 4, David Hasselhoff can be seen in a small role. "The Hoff" plays Dondo, an ex-porn star and producer of adult films. He was friends with Luann Delaney and helps the Sons find their killer Georgie Caruso ( Tom Arnold ).
• In the fifth season the singer and actress Ashley Tisdale has a guest appearance as Emma Jean, an escort girl from Nero Padilla.
• The producer Kurt Sutter played the imprisoned Otto "Big" Delaney in the series until the fourth episode of the sixth season.
• RoboCop Peter Weller plays a corrupt ex-cop from season six.
• In the sixth and seventh seasons, Robert Patrick appears as President of the San Bernardino Chapter in one episode each .
• Marilyn Manson plays a recurring guest role as the local leader of the Aryan Brotherhood for the seventh and final season .
• In season 1, episode 4 (41:46), "Nurse Lori Nelson" is called out over the loudspeakers in the hospital. This is a reference to the Scrubs series , which is called out in almost every episode there.

DVD publications

United States

• Season 1 was released on August 18, 2009
• Season 2 was released on August 31, 2010
• Season 3 was released on August 30, 2011
• Season 4 was released on August 28, 2012
• Season 5 was released on August 27, 2013
• Season 6 was released on August 26, 2014
• Season 7 was released on February 24, 2015

Great Britain

• Season 1 was released on February 22, 2010
• Season 2 was released on August 16, 2010
• Season 3 was released on October 10, 2011
• Season 4 was released on October 8, 2012
• Season 5 was released on September 30, 2013
• Season 6 was released on September 1, 2014
• Season 7 was released on March 2, 2015

Germany

• Season 1 was released on March 22, 2013
• Season 2 was released on July 26, 2013
• Season 3 was released on December 6, 2013
• Season 4 was released on September 19, 2014
• Season 5 was released on February 26, 2015
• Season 6 was released on July 23, 2015
• Season 7 was released on April 7, 2016

Soundtracks

• 2009: Sons of Anarchy: North Country ( iTunes - EP )
• 2009: Sons of Anarchy: Shelter (iTunes EP)
• 2010: Sons of Anarchy: The King Is Gone (iTunes EP)
• 2011: Songs of Anarchy: Music from Sons of Anarchy Seasons 1–4 ( Columbia Records )
• 2012: Sons of Anarchy: Songs of Anarchy Vol. II (Columbia Records)
• 2013: Songs of Anarchy Vol. 3 (Columbia Records)

Web links

Commons : Sons of Anarchy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sons of Anarchy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official FX Network website
• Episode guide for the series at Serienfans.TV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sons of Anarchy. Biker drama with bonds from Shakespeare , serienjunkies.de, accessed June 10, 2013
2. ↑ Sons of Anarchy , episode guide at fernsehserien.de, accessed on June 10, 2013
3. ↑ TV series "Sons of Anarchy": Rockerärsche auf Globalgrundeis , de: bug, June 14, 2011
4. ↑ ^{a b} Sons of Anarchy . German dubbing files . Retrieved October 19, 2011.
5. ↑ Bill Gorman: FX Premiere Dates: 'Sons Of Anarchy' Returns Sept. 7, 'It's Always Sunny' Sept. 16 . TV By the Numbers. July 15, 2010. Retrieved September 17, 2010.
6. ↑ Sons of Anarchy at fernsehserien.de . Retrieved November 27, 2012.
7. ↑ Nellie Andreeva: 'Sons Of Anarchy' Season 6 Premiere Set For September 10 . In: Serienjunkies.de . July 24, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
8. ↑ Amanda Kondolojy: FX Announces 7th and Final Season of 'Sons of Anarchy' to premiere September 9th . In: TVbytheNumbers.com . July 17, 2014. Archived from the original on July 20, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 18, 2014. 
9. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Sons of Anarchy: US series comes to Germany . Serienjunkies.de . October 18, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
10. ^ Jan Schlueter: "Sons of Anarchy" is a hit on the Internet . Oddsmeter.de . January 31, 2012. Accessed January 31, 2012.
11. ^ Fabian Riedner: ProSiebenSat.1: "Sons of Anarchy" first online . Oddsmeter.de . November 17, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
12. ↑ Manuel Weis: kabel eins shows “Sons of Anarchy” . In : quotemeter.de . September 27, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
13. ↑ Sons Of Anarchy: Season 3 from April 30th at Kabel Eins on kabeleins.de from April 3, 2013, accessed on April 3, 2013
14. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Sons of Anarchy: 4th season in April at ProSieben Maxx . In: Serienjunkies.de . March 12, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
15. ^ Sons of Anarchy: Program change at ProSieben Maxx . In: Serienjunkies.de . Retrieved August 26, 2014.
16. ↑ ProSieben MAXX on Twitter. In: Twitter. Retrieved November 11, 2015 . 
17. ↑ Billboard 200 (current US album charts)
18. ↑ White Buffalo in the US charts
19. ↑ About The Band , The Forest Rangers website, accessed June 10, 2013
20. ^ "Sons of Anarchy" fueled by road rage , David Hinckley, Daily News, September 2, 2008
21. ^ "Sons of Anarchy": overdue biker series on FX , SFGate, September 3, 2008
22. ^ Familienbande , Jens Mayer, the daily newspaper, March 19, 2013
23. ↑ Drama: Hamlet is now wearing a cowl , Andreas Kötter, Der Tagesspiegel, November 6, 2012
24. ^ Series "Sons of Anarchy": Hamlet on the Harley , Carolin Ströbele, Zeit Online, November 6, 201
25. ↑ When Hamlet becomes a rocker , Michael Moorstedt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 6, 2012
26. ^ " Jungle ": Always these rockers , Jungle World, July 19, 2012
27. ↑ The Critics: Sons of Anarchy . Odds meter, November 5, 2012.
28. ↑ Sons to touch from: Bikers News from March 22, 2013 (accessed on November 19, 2016)
29. ↑ Sons of Arthrose from: Bikers News from June 18, 2014 (accessed November 19, 2016)
30. ↑ Sons of Anarchy: Ex-Hells-Angel sued FX , serienjunkies.de, June 16, 2010