Ed Harris
Born: 1950-11-28 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Known For: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ed Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2026
- How to Make a Killing as Whitelaw Redfellow
2025
- Riff Raff as Vince
- Long Day's Journey into Night as James Tyrone
2024
- Love Lies Bleeding as Lou Sr.
- My Dead Friend Zoe as Dale
- Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Concrete as Boris
2023
- Downtown Owl as Horace Jones
- Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea as H.C. Westermann
2022
- Top Gun: Maverick as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
- Get Away If You Can as Alan
2021
- The Lost Daughter as Lyle
2020
- Resistance as George S. Patton
- The Last Full Measure as Ray Mott
- Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party as Himself
2019
- The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power as Narrator
2018
- A Crooked Somebody as Sam Vaughn
2017
- Kodachrome as Benjamin Ryder
- Geostorm as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
- mother! as Man
2016
- Westworld as Man in Black
- Buried Child as Dodge
- Rules Don't Apply as Mr. Bransford
- The Adderall Diaries as Neil Elliott
- In Dubious Battle as Joy
2015
- Run All Night as Shawn Maguire
- Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story as Narrator
2014
- Frontera as Roy
- Cymbeline as Cymbeline
- Planes: Fire & Rescue as Blade Ranger (voice)
- Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space as Narrator (voice)
2013
- Snowpiercer as Wilford
- Phantom as Demi
- Pain & Gain as Ed DuBois
- Gravity as Mission Control (voice)
- Sweetwater as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
- The Face of Love as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
2012
- Game Change as John McCain
- Man on a Ledge as David Englander
2011
- That's What I Am as Mr. Simon
- Salvation Boulevard as Dr. Paul Blaylock
- Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero as Narrator
2010
- Virginia as Sheriff Dick Tipton
- Once Fallen as Liam
- The Way Back as Mr. Smith
2008
- Touching Home as Charlie Winston
- Appaloosa as Virgil Cole
- Dispatches from Nicaragua as Himself
2007
- Cleaner as Eddie Lorenzo
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Mitch Wilkinson
- Gone Baby Gone as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
- Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' as Self
- America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins as Self - Narrator
2006
- Winter Passing as Don Holden
- America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
- Two Tickets to Paradise as Melville
- The Armenian Genocide as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
- Copying Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven
- The Oklahoma Heisman as narrator
2005
- A History of Violence as Carl Fogarty
- How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show' as Self
- Empire Falls as Miles Roby
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Narrator (voice)
2004
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2003
- Radio as Coach Jones
- The Human Stain as Lester Farley
- Masked and Anonymous as Oscar Vogel
- Volcanoes of the Deep Sea as Narrator
2002
- Buffalo Soldiers as Colonel Berman
- The Hours as Richard Brown
- Just a Dream as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
2001
- A Beautiful Mind as William Parcher
- Enemy at the Gates as Major König
- The Prime Gig as Kelly Grant
2000
- Waking the Dead as Jerry Charmichael
- Pollock as Jackson Pollock
1999
- The Third Miracle as Frank Shore
- Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island as Himself
- The Early Show as Self
1998
- The Truman Show as Christof
- Stepmom as Luke Harrison
- The Truman Show: Tru-Talk as Christof
- Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self
- Junket Whore as Self
1997
- The View as Self
- Absolute Power as Seth Frank
- Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- The Rock as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
- Eye for an Eye as Mack McCann
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Lassiter
- The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
- Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 as Self
1995
- Nixon as E. Howard Hunt
- Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
- Just Cause as Blair Sullivan
1994
- Milk Money as Tom Wheeler
- The Stand as General Starkey (uncredited)
- China Moon as Kyle Bodine
- Baseball as Various (voice)
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Frasier as Rob (voice)
- The Firm as Wayne Tarrance
- Needful Things as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
- Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' as Self
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Glengarry Glen Ross as Dave Moss
- Running Mates as Hugh Hathaway
1991
- Paris Trout as Harry Seagraves
1990
- State of Grace as Frankie
1988
- To Kill a Priest as Stefan
1987
- Walker as William Walker
- The Last Innocent Man as Harry Nash
1985
- Alamo Bay as Shang
- Sweet Dreams as Charlie Dick
- Code Name: Emerald as Gus Lang
1984
- Swing Shift as Jack Walsh
- Places in the Heart as Wayne Lomax
- A Flash of Green as Jimmy Wing
1983
- Under Fire as Oates
- Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Right Stuff as John Glenn
1982
- Creepshow as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
- Cassie & Co.
1981
- Knightriders as Billy
- Dream on!
1980
- Borderline as Hotchkiss
- The Aliens Are Coming as Chuck Polcheck
1979
- Hart to Hart
- The Seekers as Lt. William Clark
- Paris
1978
- Coma as Pathology Resident
- David Cassidy: Man Under Cover as Ben
1977
- Lou Grant
- CHiPs as Lonny
- The Amazing Howard Hughes as Russ
1976
- Delvecchio as Davey Bresnihan
- Gibbsville as Steve
1974
- The Rockford Files as Rudy Kempner
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee