Ed Harris
Acting
Born: November 28, 1950 (age 75) · Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
The Truman Show
1998
Gravity
2013
Top Gun: Maverick
2022
A Beautiful Mind
2001
Snowpiercer
2013
mother!
2017
Westworld
2016
Apollo 13
1995
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
The Rock
1996
Geostorm
2017
Pain & Gain
2013
Photos (8)
Movies (103)
Top Gun: Maverick
Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
The Truman Show
Christof
How to Make a Killing
Whitelaw Redfellow
The Firm
Wayne Tarrance
The Rock
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
A Beautiful Mind
William Parcher
Snowpiercer
Wilford
Radio
Coach Jones
Enemy at the Gates
Major König
Geostorm
U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
Gravity
Mission Control (voice)
Apollo 13
Gene Kranz
The Abyss
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
The Dink
Chuck Boyd
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Mitch Wilkinson
Run All Night
Shawn Maguire
A History of Violence
Carl Fogarty
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Blade Ranger (voice)
Pain & Gain
Ed DuBois
Love Lies Bleeding
Lou Sr.
Gone Baby Gone
Remy Bressant
mother!
Man
Cleaner
Eddie Lorenzo
The Way Back
Mr. Smith
Man on a Ledge
David Englander
Absolute Power
Seth Frank
Stepmom
Luke Harrison
Glengarry Glen Ross
Dave Moss
Creepshow
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Riff Raff
Vince
Resistance
George S. Patton
The Right Stuff
John Glenn
Needful Things
Sheriff Alan Pangborn
The Hours
Richard Brown
State of Grace
Frankie
Appaloosa
Virgil Cole
Places in the Heart
Wayne Lomax
Coma
Pathology Resident
The Lost Daughter
Lyle
The Last Full Measure
Ray Mott
Frontera
Roy
The Human Stain
Lester Farley
Eye for an Eye
Mack McCann
Nixon
E. Howard Hunt
Downtown Owl
Horace Jones
China Moon
Kyle Bodine
Milk Money
Dad
Just Cause
Blair Sullivan
In Dubious Battle
Joy
Rules Don't Apply
Mr. Bransford
Borderline
Hotchkiss
Phantom
Demi
Buffalo Soldiers
Colonel Berman
Under Fire
Oates
Walker
William Walker
My Dead Friend Zoe
Dale
Game Change
John McCain
Sweetwater
Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
The Adderall Diaries
Neil Elliott
A Crooked Somebody
Sam Vaughn
Copying Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jacknife
David 'High School' Flannigan
Knightriders
Billy
The Third Miracle
Frank Shore
Cymbeline
Cymbeline
Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Waking the Dead
Jerry Charmichael
Swing Shift
Jack Walsh
Winter Passing
Don Holden
The Face of Love
Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Kodachrome
Benjamin Ryder
Sweet Dreams
Charlie Dick
Riders of the Purple Sage
Jim Lassiter
Masked and Anonymous
Oscar Vogel
That's What I Am
Mr. Simon
Salvation Boulevard
Dr. Paul Blaylock
Once Fallen
Liam
Paris Trout
Harry Seagraves
Virginia
Sheriff Dick Tipton
The Prime Gig
Kelly Grant
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Russ
Code Name: Emerald
Gus Lang
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Christof
To Kill a Priest
Stefan
Two Tickets to Paradise
Melville
Alamo Bay
Shang
Concrete
Boris
Touching Home
Charlie Winston
The Last Innocent Man
Harry Nash
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
The Aliens Are Coming
Chuck Polcheck
The Armenian Genocide
U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
Just a Dream
Henry Sturbuck (voice)
Long Day's Journey into Night
James Tyrone
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Narrator (voice)
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
Narrator
Running Mates
Hugh Hathaway
Buried Child
Dodge
Get Away If You Can
Alan
A Flash of Green
Jimmy Wing
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
H.C. Westermann
The Oklahoma Heisman
Narrator
TV Shows (23)
Frasier
Rob (voice) · 1 eps
Westworld
Man in Black · 36 eps
Dutton Ranch
Everett McKinney · 9 eps
American Playhouse
Jimmy Wing · 1 eps
Hart to Hart
1 eps
The Rockford Files
Rudy Kempner · 1 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 eps
Lou Grant
2 eps
Lou Grant
Warren · 1 eps
The Stand
General Starkey (uncredited) · 1 eps
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Narrator (voice) · 8 eps
CHiPs
Lonny · 1 eps
Baseball
Various (voice)
Baseball
(voice) · 1 eps
Delvecchio
Davey Bresnihan · 1 eps
Empire Falls
Miles Roby · 2 eps
Cassie & Co.
Agent Taylor · 1 eps
Paris
1 eps
The Seekers
Lt. William Clark · 2 eps
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Narrator · 6 eps
Gibbsville
Steve · 1 eps
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
Narrator · 6 eps
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
Ben · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (22)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Daily Show
Self · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 4 eps
The View
Self · 2 eps
Great Performances
Self · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 5 eps
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
The Early Show
Self · 1 eps
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
Himself · 1 eps
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Junket Whore
Self
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Realizing The Right Stuff
Self
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
Self
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
Self
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
Self
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Self
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
Self - Narrator
Dispatches from Nicaragua
Himself
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
Self