Ed Harris
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 28, 1950 (age 75)
- Birthplace
- Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and director. His performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000), and The Hours (2002) earned him critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations. Harris has appeared in numerous leading and supporting roles, including in Creepshow (1982), The Right Stuff (1983), Under Fire (1983), Places in the Heart (1984), The Abyss (1989), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Radio (2003), A History of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), Mother! (2017), The Lost Daughter (2021), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). In addition to directing Pollock, Harris directed the Western film Appaloosa (2008). In television, Harris is notable for his roles as Miles Roby in the miniseries Empire Falls (2005) and as United States Senator John McCain in the television movie Game Change (2012); the latter earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He starred as the Man in Black in the HBO science fiction-Western series Westworld (2016–2022), for which he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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Filmography
School for the Blind
Movie
War on Wolves
Movie · as Narrator
Ashley Wright
Movie · as Judge Allen
The Ploughmen
Movie · as John Gload
Long Day's Journey into Night
Movie · as James Tyrone
How to Make a Killing
Movie · as Whitelaw Redfellow
The Dink
Movie · as Chuck Boyd
Dutton Ranch
TV · as Everett McKinney · 9 eps
Riff Raff
Movie · as Vince
Off the Horse
Movie · as Bob
My Dead Friend Zoe
Movie · as Dale
Love Lies Bleeding
Movie · as Lou Sr.
Concrete
Movie · as Boris
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Downtown Owl
Movie · as Horace Jones
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
Movie · as H.C. Westermann
Get Away If You Can
Movie · as Alan
Top Gun: Maverick
Movie · as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
The Lost Daughter
Movie · as Lyle
The Last Full Measure
Movie · as Ray Mott
Resistance
Movie · as George S. Patton
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
TV · as Himself · 1 ep
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
TV · as Narrator · 6 eps
A Crooked Somebody
Movie · as Sam Vaughn
Geostorm
Movie · as Leonard Dekkom
mother!
Movie · as Man
Kodachrome
Movie · as Benjamin Ryder
The Adderall Diaries
Movie · as Neil Elliott
In Dubious Battle
Movie · as Joy
Rules Don't Apply
Movie · as Mr. Bransford
Buried Child
Movie · as Dodge
Westworld
TV · as Man in Black · 36 eps
Run All Night
Movie · as Shawn Maguire
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
Movie · as Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Cymbeline
Movie · as Cymbeline
Frontera
Movie · as Roy
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Movie · as Blade Ranger (voice)
Gravity
Movie · as Mission Control (voice)
Phantom
Movie · as Demi
Pain & Gain
Movie · as Ed DuBois
Sweetwater
Movie · as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
The Face of Love
Movie · as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Snowpiercer
Movie · as Wilford
Man on a Ledge
Movie · as David Englander
Game Change
Movie · as John McCain
Salvation Boulevard
Movie · as Dr. Paul Blaylock
That's What I Am
Movie · as Mr. Simon
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
TV · as Narrator · 6 eps
Once Fallen
Movie · as Liam
The Way Back
Movie · as Mr. Smith
Virginia
Movie · as Sheriff Dick Tipton
Appaloosa
Movie · as Virgil Cole
Touching Home
Movie · as Charlie Winston
Dispatches from Nicaragua
Movie · as Himself
Gone Baby Gone
Movie · as Remy Bressant
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Movie · as Mitch Wilkinson
Cleaner
Movie · as Eddie Lorenzo
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
Movie · as Self
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Copying Beethoven
Movie · as Ludwig van Beethoven
Winter Passing
Movie · as Don Holden
Two Tickets to Paradise
Movie · as Melville
The Armenian Genocide
Movie · as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
The Oklahoma Heisman
Movie · as Narrator
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 8 eps
A History of Violence
Movie · as Carl Fogarty
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
Movie · as Self
Empire Falls
TV · as Miles Roby · 2 eps
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie · as Other Voices (voice)
The Human Stain
Movie · as Lester Farley
Masked and Anonymous
Movie · as Oscar Vogel
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
Movie · as Narrator
Radio
Movie · as Coach Jones
Realizing The Right Stuff
Movie · as Self
The Hours
Movie · as Richard Brown
Buffalo Soldiers
Movie · as Colonel Berman
Just a Dream
Movie · as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
Enemy at the Gates
Movie · as Major König
A Beautiful Mind
Movie · as William Parcher
The Prime Gig
Movie · as Kelly Grant
Pollock
Movie · as Jackson Pollock
Waking the Dead
Movie · as Jerry Charmichael
The Third Miracle
Movie · as Frank Shore
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
Movie · as Himself
The Early Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Stepmom
Movie · as Luke Harrison
The Truman Show
Movie · as Christof
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Movie · as Self
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Movie · as Christof
Junket Whore
Movie · as Self
Absolute Power
Movie · as Seth Frank
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Movie · as Self
The View
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Rock
Movie · as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Eye for an Eye
Movie · as Mack McCann
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
Movie · as Self
Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie · as Jim Lassiter
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Movie · as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Apollo 13
Movie · as Gene Kranz
Nixon
Movie · as E. Howard Hunt
Just Cause
Movie · as Blair Sullivan
Milk Money
Movie · as Dad
China Moon
Movie · as Kyle Bodine
Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Baseball
TV · as Various (voice)
The Stand
TV · as General Starkey (uncredited) · 1 ep
Needful Things
Movie · as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
The Firm
Movie · as Wayne Tarrance
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
Movie · as Self
Frasier
TV · as Rob (voice) · 1 ep
Glengarry Glen Ross
Movie · as Dave Moss
Running Mates
Movie · as Hugh Hathaway
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 1 ep
Paris Trout
Movie · as Harry Seagraves
State of Grace
Movie · as Frankie
The Abyss
Movie · as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Jacknife
Movie · as David 'High School' Flannigan
To Kill a Priest
Movie · as Stefan
Walker
Movie · as William Walker
The Last Innocent Man
Movie · as Harry Nash
Sweet Dreams
Movie · as Charlie Dick
Code Name: Emerald
Movie · as Gus Lang
Alamo Bay
Movie · as Shang
Places in the Heart
Movie · as Wayne Lomax
Swing Shift
Movie · as Jack Walsh
A Flash of Green
Movie · as Jimmy Wing
The Right Stuff
Movie · as John Glenn
Under Fire
Movie · as Oates
Reading Rainbow
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
Creepshow
Movie · as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Cassie & Co.
TV · as Agent Taylor · 1 ep
American Playhouse
TV · as Jimmy Wing · 1 ep
Knightriders
Movie · as Billy
Dream on!
Movie
Borderline
Movie · as Hotchkiss
The Aliens Are Coming
Movie · as Chuck Polcheck
Hart to Hart
TV · 1 ep
Paris
TV · 1 ep
The Seekers
TV · as Lt. William Clark · 2 eps
Coma
Movie · as Pathology Resident
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
TV · as Ben · 1 ep
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Movie · as Russ
Lou Grant
TV · as Warren · 2 eps
CHiPs
TV · as Lonny · 1 ep
Delvecchio
TV · as Davey Bresnihan · 1 ep
Gibbsville
TV · as Steve · 1 ep
The Rockford Files
TV · as Rudy Kempner · 1 ep
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 4 eps