Name
Ed Harris
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1950-11-28 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
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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- 2005 A History of Violence as Carl Fogarty
- 1997 Absolute Power as Seth Frank
- 2001 Enemy at the Gates as Major König
- 2001 A Beautiful Mind as William Parcher
- 1995 Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
- 2002 The Hours as Richard Brown
- 2006 Copying Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1990 State of Grace as Frankie
- 1993 Needful Things as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
- 1989 The Abyss as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
- 2003 The Human Stain as Lester Farley
- 2007 Gone Baby Gone as Remy Bressant
- 1995 Nixon as E. Howard Hunt
- 1981 Knightriders as Billy
- 2025 Long Day's Journey into Night as James Tyrone
- 2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Mitch Wilkinson
- 2003 Masked and Anonymous as Oscar Vogel
- 1980 Borderline as Hotchkiss
- 1994 Milk Money as Dad
- 1998 Stepmom as Luke Harrison
- 1995 Just Cause as Blair Sullivan
- 1994 China Moon as Kyle Bodine
- 1992 Glengarry Glen Ross as Dave Moss
- 2002 Buffalo Soldiers as Colonel Berman
- 1977 The Amazing Howard Hughes as Russ
- 1983 The Right Stuff as John Glenn
- 1996 The Rock as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
- 2008 Appaloosa as Virgil Cole
- 2007 Cleaner as Eddie Lorenzo
- 1983 Under Fire as Oates
- 2000 Pollock as Jackson Pollock
- 2003 Volcanoes of the Deep Sea as Narrator
- 1984 Places in the Heart as Wayne Lomax
- 1987 Walker as William Walker
- 2003 Radio as Coach Jones
- 2006 Winter Passing as Don Holden
- 1985 Sweet Dreams as Charlie Dick
- 1999 The Third Miracle as Frank Shore
- 1998 The Truman Show as Christof
- 1993 The Firm as Wayne Tarrance
- 2000 Waking the Dead as Jerry Charmichael
- 2001 The Prime Gig as Kelly Grant
- 2010 Once Fallen as Liam
- 1982 Creepshow as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
- 1978 Coma as Pathology Resident
- 1989 Jacknife as David 'High School' Flannigan
- 1998 Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self
- 1988 To Kill a Priest as Stefan
- 1996 Eye for an Eye as Mack McCann
- 1984 Swing Shift as Jack Walsh
- 2010 The Way Back as Mr. Smith
- 2013 Gravity as Mission Control (voice)
- 2012 Man on a Ledge as David Englander
- 1997 Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
- 2024 My Dead Friend Zoe as Dale
- 2011 Salvation Boulevard as Dr. Paul Blaylock
- 2008 Touching Home as Charlie Winston
- 1991 Paris Trout as Harry Seagraves
- 2012 Game Change as John McCain
- 1985 Code Name: Emerald as Gus Lang
- 2011 That's What I Am as Mr. Simon
- 1992 Running Mates as Hugh Hathaway
- 1984 A Flash of Green as Jimmy Wing
- 2010 Virginia as Sheriff Dick Tipton
- 1996 Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 as Self
- 2013 Phantom as Demi
- 2005 Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 Downtown Owl as Horace Jones
- 2013 Pain & Gain as Ed DuBois
- 1996 Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Lassiter
- 2013 Sweetwater as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
- 1980 The Aliens Are Coming as Chuck Polcheck
- 1985 Alamo Bay as Shang
- 2013 The Face of Love as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
- Soon School for the Blind
- 2014 Cymbeline as Cymbeline
- 2015 Run All Night as Shawn Maguire
- 2023 Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea as H.C. Westermann
- 1981 Dream on!
- 2013 Snowpiercer as Wilford
- 2024 Love Lies Bleeding as Lou Sr.
- 2014 Frontera as Roy
- 2022 Get Away If You Can as Alan
- 2025 Riff Raff as Vince
- 1987 The Last Innocent Man as Harry Nash
- 1999 Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island as Himself
- 2014 Planes: Fire & Rescue as Blade Ranger (voice)
- 2016 The Adderall Diaries as Neil Elliott
- 2017 Geostorm as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
- 2016 In Dubious Battle as Joy
- 2006 Two Tickets to Paradise as Melville
- 2015 Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story as Narrator
- 2007 Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' as Self
- 1998 The Truman Show: Tru-Talk as Christof
- 2026 How to Make a Killing as Whitelaw Redfellow
- 2024 Concrete as Boris
- 2016 Rules Don't Apply as Mr. Bransford
- 2017 mother! as Man
- 1998 Junket Whore as Self
- 2017 Kodachrome as Benjamin Ryder
- 2018 A Crooked Somebody as Sam Vaughn
- 2006 The Armenian Genocide as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
- 2020 The Last Full Measure as Ray Mott
- 2020 Resistance as George S. Patton
- 2016 Buried Child as Dodge
- 2008 Dispatches from Nicaragua as Himself
- 2022 Top Gun: Maverick as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
- 2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' as Self
- 1996 The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
- 2002 Just a Dream as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
- 2021 The Lost Daughter as Lyle
- 2026 The Dink as Chuck Boyd
- 2007 America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins as Self - Narrator
- 2005 How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show' as Self
- 2006 The Oklahoma Heisman as Narrator
- 2003 Realizing The Right Stuff as Self
- Soon War on Wolves as Narrator
- 2025 Off the Horse as Bob
- Soon Ashley Wright as Judge Allen
- Soon The Ploughmen as John Gload
- 1977 Lou Grant ( 2 episodes )
- 1977 CHiPs ( 1 episode ) as Lonny
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 The View ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1999 The Early Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode )
- 1993 Frasier ( 1 episode ) as Rob (voice)
- 1979 Hart to Hart ( 1 episode )
- 2005 Empire Falls ( 2 episodes ) as Miles Roby
- 1979 Paris ( 1 episode )
- 1953 The Oscars ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 2016 Westworld ( 36 episodes ) as Man in Black
- 1976 Delvecchio ( 1 episode ) as Davey Bresnihan
- 2006 America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions ( 8 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
- 1983 Reading Rainbow ( 1 episode ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1974 The Rockford Files ( 1 episode ) as Rudy Kempner
- 1994 Baseball ( 0 episode ) as Various (voice)
- 2011 Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero ( 6 episodes ) as Narrator
- 1978 David Cassidy: Man Under Cover ( 1 episode ) as Ben
- 2019 The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power ( 6 episodes ) as Narrator
- 2024 Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War ( 6 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1976 Gibbsville ( 1 episode ) as Steve
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2020 Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party ( 1 episode ) as Himself
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Nominee
- 1994 The Stand ( 1 episode ) as General Starkey (uncredited)
- 1977 Lou Grant ( 1 episode ) as Warren
- 1994 Baseball ( 1 episode ) as (voice)
- 2026 Dutton Ranch ( 9 episodes ) as Everett McKinney
- 1979 The Seekers ( 2 episodes ) as Lt. William Clark
- 1982 Cassie & Co. ( 1 episode ) as Agent Taylor
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Jimmy Wing
