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