
Ed Harris
Biography
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. 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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Known For
Acting History
2026
How to Make a Killing as Whitelaw Redfellow
2025Riff Raff as Vince
2025Long Day's Journey into Night as James Tyrone
2024Concrete as Boris
2024Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War as Self - Narrator (voice)
2024My Dead Friend Zoe as Dale
2024Love Lies Bleeding as Lou Sr.
2023Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea as H.C. Westermann
2023Downtown Owl as Horace Jones
2022Get Away If You Can as Alan
2022Top Gun: Maverick as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
2021The Lost Daughter as Lyle
2020Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party as Himself
2020Resistance as George S. Patton
2020The Last Full Measure as Ray Mott
2019The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power as Narrator
2018A Crooked Somebody as Sam Vaughn
2017Geostorm as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
2017mother! as Man
2017Kodachrome as Benjamin Ryder
2016Buried Child as Dodge
2016Rules Don't Apply as Mr. Bransford
2016In Dubious Battle as Joy
2016Westworld as Man in Black
2016The Adderall Diaries as Neil Elliott
2015Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story as Narrator
2015Run All Night as Shawn Maguire
2014Cymbeline as Cymbeline
2014Frontera as Roy
2014Planes: Fire & Rescue as Blade Ranger (voice)
2014Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space as Narrator (voice)
2013The Face of Love as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
2013Sweetwater as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
2013Gravity as Mission Control (voice)
2013Snowpiercer as Wilford
2013Pain & Gain as Ed DuBois
2013Phantom as Demi
2012Game Change as John McCain
2012Man on a Ledge as David Englander
2011Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero as Narrator
2011Salvation Boulevard as Dr. Paul Blaylock
2011That's What I Am as Mr. Simon
2010The Way Back as Mr. Smith
2010Once Fallen as Liam
2010Virginia as Sheriff Dick Tipton
2008Appaloosa as Virgil Cole
2008Touching Home as Charlie Winston
2008Dispatches from Nicaragua as Himself
2007National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Mitch Wilkinson
2007Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' as Self
2007Gone Baby Gone as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
2007Cleaner as Eddie Lorenzo
2007America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins as Self - Narrator
2006America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
2006Copying Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven
2006The Armenian Genocide as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
2006The Oklahoma Heisman as narrator
2006Winter Passing as Don Holden
2006Two Tickets to Paradise as Melville
2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Narrator (voice)
2005A History of Violence as Carl Fogarty
2005How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show' as Self
2005Empire Falls as Miles Roby
2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2003The Human Stain as Lester Farley
2003Radio as Coach Jones
2003Volcanoes of the Deep Sea as Narrator
2003Masked and Anonymous as Oscar Vogel
2002The Hours as Richard Brown
2002Buffalo Soldiers as Colonel Berman
2002Just a Dream as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
2001A Beautiful Mind as William Parcher
2001The Prime Gig as Kelly Grant
2001Enemy at the Gates as Major König
2000Pollock as Jackson Pollock
2000Waking the Dead as Jerry Charmichael
1999The Third Miracle as Frank Shore
1999The Early Show as Self
1999Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island as Himself
1998Stepmom as Luke Harrison
1998Junket Whore as Self
1998Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self
1998The Truman Show as Christof
1998The Truman Show: Tru-Talk as Christof
1997The View as Self
1997Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
1997Absolute Power as Seth Frank
1996The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 as Self
1996The Rock as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
1996Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Lassiter
1996Eye for an Eye as Mack McCann
1995Nixon as E. Howard Hunt
1995Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
1995Just Cause as Blair Sullivan
1994Baseball as Various (voice)
1994Baseball as (voice)
1994Milk Money as Tom Wheeler
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994The Stand as General Starkey (uncredited)
1994China Moon as Kyle Bodine
1993Frasier as Rob (voice)
1993Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' as Self
1993Needful Things as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
1993The Firm as Wayne Tarrance
1992Running Mates as Hugh Hathaway
1992Glengarry Glen Ross as Dave Moss
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1991Paris Trout as Harry Seagraves
1990State of Grace as Frankie
1989Jacknife as David 'High School' Flannigan
1989The Abyss as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
1988To Kill a Priest as Stefan
1987Walker as William Walker
1987The Last Innocent Man as Harry Nash
1985Sweet Dreams as Charlie Dick
1985Code Name: Emerald as Gus Lang
1985Alamo Bay as Shang
1984A Flash of Green as Jimmy Wing
1984Places in the Heart as Wayne Lomax
1984Swing Shift as Jack Walsh
1983Under Fire as Oates
1983The Right Stuff as John Glenn
1983Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982Creepshow as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
1982Cassie & Co.
1981Dream on!
1981Knightriders as Billy
1980Borderline as Hotchkiss
1980The Aliens Are Coming as Chuck Polcheck
1979The Seekers as Lt. William Clark
1979Paris
1979Hart to Hart
1978David Cassidy: Man Under Cover as Ben
1978Coma as Pathology Resident
1977Lou Grant
1977Lou Grant as Warren
1977CHiPs as Lonny
1977The Amazing Howard Hughes as Russ
1976Gibbsville as Steve
1976Delvecchio as Davey Bresnihan
1974The Rockford Files as Rudy Kempner
1971Great Performances as Self
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1953The Oscars as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
—School for the Blind
—The Dutton Ranch as Everett McKinney
—The Dink









