Acting
Ed Harris
EN, KO cinema · 122 credits
Born
28 November 1950 (age 75)
Birthplace
Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Also known as Edward Allen Harris
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
War on Wolves
War on Wolves
as Narrator
Ashley Wright
Ashley Wright
as Judge Allen
The Ploughmen
The Ploughmen
as John Gload, Director, Producer, Screenplay
Long Day's Journey into Night
as James Tyrone
How to Make a Killing
as Whitelaw Redfellow
The Dink
as Chuck Boyd
Riff Raff
as Vince
Love Lies Bleeding
as Lou Sr.
Concrete
as Boris
Downtown Owl
as Horace Jones
Top Gun: Maverick
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
The Last Full Measure
as Ray Mott
Resistance
as George S. Patton
A Crooked Somebody
as Sam Vaughn
Geostorm
as Leonard Dekkom
mother!
as Man
Kodachrome
as Benjamin Ryder
The Adderall Diaries
as Neil Elliott
Rules Don't Apply
as Mr. Bransford
Buried Child
as Dodge
Run All Night
as Shawn Maguire
Cymbeline
as Cymbeline
Frontera
as Roy
Planes: Fire & Rescue
as Blade Ranger (voice)
Gravity
as Mission Control (voice)
Phantom
as Demi
Pain & Gain
as Ed DuBois
Sweetwater
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
The Face of Love
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Snowpiercer
as Wilford
Man on a Ledge
as David Englander
Game Change
as John McCain
Salvation Boulevard
as Dr. Paul Blaylock
That's What I Am
as Mr. Simon
Once Fallen
as Liam
The Way Back
as Mr. Smith
Virginia
as Sheriff Dick Tipton
Appaloosa
as Virgil Cole, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Touching Home
as Charlie Winston
Dispatches from Nicaragua
as Himself
Gone Baby Gone
as Remy Bressant
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Mitch Wilkinson
Cleaner
as Eddie Lorenzo
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
as Self - Narrator
Copying Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Winter Passing
as Don Holden
Two Tickets to Paradise
as Melville
The Armenian Genocide
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
The Oklahoma Heisman
as Narrator
A History of Violence
as Carl Fogarty
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
The Human Stain
as Lester Farley
Masked and Anonymous
as Oscar Vogel
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
as Narrator
Radio
as Coach Jones
The Hours
as Richard Brown
Buffalo Soldiers
as Colonel Berman
Just a Dream
as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
Enemy at the Gates
as Major König
A Beautiful Mind
as William Parcher
The Prime Gig
as Kelly Grant
Pollock
as Jackson Pollock, Producer, Director
Waking the Dead
as Jerry Charmichael
The Third Miracle
as Frank Shore
Stepmom
as Luke Harrison
The Truman Show
as Christof
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Christof
Junket Whore
as Self
Absolute Power
as Seth Frank
The Rock
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Eye for an Eye
as Mack McCann
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jim Lassiter, Executive Producer
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
Apollo 13
as Gene Kranz
Nixon
as E. Howard Hunt
Just Cause
as Blair Sullivan
Milk Money
as Dad
China Moon
as Kyle Bodine
Needful Things
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
The Firm
as Wayne Tarrance
Glengarry Glen Ross
as Dave Moss
Running Mates
as Hugh Hathaway
Paris Trout
as Harry Seagraves
State of Grace
as Frankie
The Abyss
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Jacknife
as David 'High School' Flannigan
To Kill a Priest
as Stefan
Walker
as William Walker
The Last Innocent Man
as Harry Nash
Sweet Dreams
as Charlie Dick
Code Name: Emerald
as Gus Lang
Alamo Bay
as Shang
Places in the Heart
as Wayne Lomax
Swing Shift
as Jack Walsh
A Flash of Green
as Jimmy Wing
The Right Stuff
as John Glenn
Under Fire
as Oates
Creepshow
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Knightriders
as Billy
Borderline
as Hotchkiss
The Aliens Are Coming
as Chuck Polcheck
Coma
as Pathology Resident
