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