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