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