Ed Harris
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 28, 1950 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Englewood, New Jersey, USA
- Credits
- 154
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.
Known for
Filmography
Long Day's Journey into Night
2026Movie
James Tyrone
The Dink
2026Movie
Chuck Boyd
Dutton Ranch
2026TV
Everett McKinney
How to Make a Killing
2026Movie
Whitelaw Redfellow
Off the Horse
2025Movie
Bob
Riff Raff
2025Movie
Vince
Concrete
2024Movie
Boris
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
2024TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024Movie
Dale
Love Lies Bleeding
2024Movie
Lou Sr.
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023Movie
H.C. Westermann
Downtown Owl
2023Movie
Horace Jones
Get Away If You Can
2022Movie
Alan
Top Gun: Maverick
2022Movie
Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
The Lost Daughter
2021Movie
Lyle
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020TV
Himself
Resistance
2020Movie
George S. Patton
The Last Full Measure
2020Movie
Ray Mott
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
2019TV
Narrator
A Crooked Somebody
2018Movie
Sam Vaughn
Geostorm
2017Movie
Leonard Dekkom
mother!
2017Movie
Man
Kodachrome
2017Movie
Benjamin Ryder
Buried Child
2016Movie
Dodge
Rules Don't Apply
2016Movie
Mr. Bransford
In Dubious Battle
2016Movie
Joy
Westworld
2016TV
Man in Black
The Adderall Diaries
2016Movie
Neil Elliott
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015Movie
Narrator
Run All Night
2015Movie
Shawn Maguire
Cymbeline
2014Movie
Cymbeline
Frontera
2014Movie
Roy
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014Movie
Blade Ranger (voice)
The Face of Love
2013Movie
Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Sweetwater
2013Movie
Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
Gravity
2013Movie
Mission Control (voice)
Snowpiercer
2013Movie
Wilford
Pain & Gain
2013Movie
Ed DuBois
Phantom
2013Movie
Demi
Game Change
2012Movie
John McCain
Man on a Ledge
2012Movie
David Englander
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
2011TV
Narrator
Salvation Boulevard
2011Movie
Dr. Paul Blaylock
That's What I Am
2011Movie
Mr. Simon
The Way Back
2010Movie
Mr. Smith
Once Fallen
2010Movie
Liam
Virginia
2010Movie
Sheriff Dick Tipton
Appaloosa
2008Movie
Virgil Cole
Touching Home
2008Movie
Charlie Winston
Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008Movie
Himself
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007Movie
Mitch Wilkinson
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007Movie
Self
Gone Baby Gone
2007Movie
Remy Bressant
Cleaner
2007Movie
Eddie Lorenzo
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007Movie
Self - Narrator
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006TV
Narrator (voice)
Copying Beethoven
2006Movie
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Armenian Genocide
2006Movie
U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
Two Tickets to Paradise
2006Movie
Melville
The Oklahoma Heisman
2006Movie
Narrator
Winter Passing
2006Movie
Don Holden
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005Movie
Narrator (voice)
A History of Violence
2005Movie
Carl Fogarty
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005Movie
Self
Empire Falls
2005TV
Miles Roby
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004Movie
Other Voices (voice)
The Human Stain
2003Movie
Lester Farley
Radio
2003Movie
Coach Jones
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003Movie
Narrator
Masked and Anonymous
2003Movie
Oscar Vogel
Realizing The Right Stuff
2003Movie
Self
The Hours
2002Movie
Richard Brown
Buffalo Soldiers
2002Movie
Colonel Berman
Just a Dream
2002Movie
Henry Sturbuck (voice)
A Beautiful Mind
2001Movie
William Parcher
The Prime Gig
2001Movie
Kelly Grant
Enemy at the Gates
2001Movie
Major König
Pollock
2000Movie
Jackson Pollock
Waking the Dead
2000Movie
Jerry Charmichael
The Third Miracle
1999Movie
Frank Shore
The Early Show
1999TV
Self
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
1999Movie
Himself
Stepmom
1998Movie
Luke Harrison
Junket Whore
1998Movie
Self
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998Movie
Self
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998Movie
Christof
The Truman Show
1998Movie
Christof
The View
1997TV
Self
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997Movie
Self
Absolute Power
1997Movie
Seth Frank
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996Movie
Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996Movie
Self
The Rock
1996Movie
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996Movie
Jim Lassiter
Eye for an Eye
1996Movie
Mack McCann
Nixon
1995Movie
E. Howard Hunt
Apollo 13
1995Movie
Gene Kranz
Just Cause
1995Movie
Blair Sullivan
Baseball
1994TV
Various (voice), (voice)
Milk Money
1994Movie
Dad
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
The Stand
1994TV
General Starkey (uncredited)
China Moon
1994Movie
Kyle Bodine
Frasier
1993TV
Rob (voice)
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993Movie
Self
Needful Things
1993Movie
Sheriff Alan Pangborn
The Firm
1993Movie
Wayne Tarrance
Running Mates
1992Movie
Hugh Hathaway
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992Movie
Dave Moss
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992TV
Paris Trout
1991Movie
Harry Seagraves
State of Grace
1990Movie
Frankie
Jacknife
1989Movie
David 'High School' Flannigan
The Abyss
1989Movie
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
To Kill a Priest
1988Movie
Stefan
Walker
1987Movie
William Walker
The Last Innocent Man
1987Movie
Harry Nash
Sweet Dreams
1985Movie
Charlie Dick
Code Name: Emerald
1985Movie
Gus Lang
Alamo Bay
1985Movie
Shang
A Flash of Green
1984Movie
Jimmy Wing
Places in the Heart
1984Movie
Wayne Lomax
Swing Shift
1984Movie
Jack Walsh
Under Fire
1983Movie
Oates
The Right Stuff
1983Movie
John Glenn
Reading Rainbow
1983TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Creepshow
1982Movie
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Cassie & Co.
1982TV
Agent Taylor
American Playhouse
1982TV
Jimmy Wing
Dream on!
1981Movie
Knightriders
1981Movie
Billy
Borderline
1980Movie
Hotchkiss
The Aliens Are Coming
1980Movie
Chuck Polcheck
Paris
1979TV
Hart to Hart
1979TV
The Seekers
1979TV
Lt. William Clark
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
1978TV
Ben
Coma
1978Movie
Pathology Resident
Lou Grant
1977TV
Warren
CHiPs
1977TV
Lonny
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977Movie
Russ
Gibbsville
1976TV
Steve
Delvecchio
1976TV
Davey Bresnihan
The Rockford Files
1974TV
Rudy Kempner
Great Performances
1971TV
Self
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Nominee
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee
Ashley Wright
Movie
Judge Allen
School for the Blind
Movie
The Ploughmen
Movie
John Gload
War on Wolves
Movie
Narrator