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 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.

Filmography

2026

Dutton Ranch as Everett McKinney
How to Make a Killing as Whitelaw Redfellow
The Dink as Chuck Boyd

2022

Top Gun: Maverick as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
Get Away If You Can as Alan

2021

The Lost Daughter as Lyle

2020

The Last Full Measure as Ray Mott
Resistance as George S. Patton
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party as Himself

2019

The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power as Narrator

2018

A Crooked Somebody as Sam Vaughn

2017

Geostorm as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
mother! as Man
Kodachrome as Benjamin Ryder

2016

Westworld as Man in Black
In Dubious Battle as Joy
The Adderall Diaries as Neil Elliott
Rules Don't Apply as Mr. Bransford
Buried Child as Dodge

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
Run All Night as Shawn Maguire
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story as Narrator

2014

Planes: Fire & Rescue as Blade Ranger (voice)
Frontera as Roy
Cymbeline as Cymbeline

2013

Gravity as Mission Control (voice)
Snowpiercer as Wilford
Pain & Gain as Ed DuBois
Sweetwater as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
Phantom as Demi
The Face of Love as Garret Mathis / Tom Young

2012

Man on a Ledge as David Englander
Game Change as John McCain

2011

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero as Narrator
That's What I Am as Mr. Simon
Salvation Boulevard as Dr. Paul Blaylock

2010

The Way Back as Mr. Smith
Once Fallen as Liam
Virginia as Sheriff Dick Tipton

2008

Appaloosa as Virgil Cole
Touching Home as Charlie Winston
Dispatches from Nicaragua as Himself

2007

National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Mitch Wilkinson
Gone Baby Gone as Remy Bressant
Cleaner as Eddie Lorenzo
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' as Self
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins as Self - Narrator

2006

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
Copying Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven
The Armenian Genocide as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
Winter Passing as Don Holden
Two Tickets to Paradise as Melville
The Oklahoma Heisman as Narrator

2005

A History of Violence as Carl Fogarty
Empire Falls as Miles Roby
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Narrator (voice)
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show' as Self

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
Realizing The Right Stuff as Self

2002

The Hours as Richard Brown
Buffalo Soldiers as Colonel Berman
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

Pollock as Jackson Pollock
Waking the Dead as Jerry Charmichael

1999

The Early Show as Self
The Third Miracle as Frank Shore
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island as Himself

1998

The Truman Show as Christof
Stepmom as Luke Harrison
Junket Whore as Self
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk as Christof

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
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 as Self
Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Lassiter
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)

1995

Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
Just Cause as Blair Sullivan
Nixon as E. Howard Hunt

1994

The Stand as General Starkey (uncredited)
Baseball as Various (voice)
Milk Money as Tom Wheeler
China Moon as Kyle Bodine
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

1991

Paris Trout as Harry Seagraves

1990

State of Grace as Frankie

1989

The Abyss as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Jacknife as David 'High School' Flannigan

1988

To Kill a Priest as Stefan

1987

Walker as William Walker
The Last Innocent Man as Harry Nash

1985

Sweet Dreams as Charlie Dick
Code Name: Emerald as Gus Lang
Alamo Bay as Shang

1984

Places in the Heart as Wayne Lomax
Swing Shift as Jack Walsh
A Flash of Green as Jimmy Wing

1983

Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Right Stuff as John Glenn
Under Fire as Oates

1982

Cassie & Co. as Agent Taylor
Creepshow as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")

1981

Knightriders as Billy
Dream on!

1980

Borderline as Hotchkiss
The Aliens Are Coming as Chuck Polcheck

1979

Hart to Hart
Paris
The Seekers as Lt. William Clark

1978

Coma as Pathology Resident
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover as Ben

1977

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