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Known credits:
135
Birthday:
1950-11-28
Place of birth:
Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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Ed Harris

Overview

Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. 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), The Abyss (1989), State of Grace (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Needful Things (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), The Truman Show (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), 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 also 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 earning 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.

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Known for

Acting
2025 My Dead Friend Zoe Actor Dale N/A
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2024 Concrete Actor Boris N/A
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2024 Riff Raff Actor Vince N/A
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2024 Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War Actor Self - Narrator (voice) 70
Good
2024 Love Lies Bleeding Actor Lou Sr. 62
Fair
2023 Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea Actor H.C. Westermann N/A
N/A
2023 Downtown Owl Actor Horace Jones 58
Average
2022 Get Away If You Can Actor Alan 58
Average
2022 Top Gun: Maverick Actor Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain 80
Very good
2021 The Lost Daughter Actor Lyle 62
Fair
2020 Resistance Actor George S. Patton 63
Fair
2020 The Last Full Measure Actor Ray Mott 65
Fair
2019 The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power Actor Narrator 69
Fair
2018 A Crooked Somebody Actor Sam Vaughn 59
Average
2017 Geostorm Actor U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom 60
Fair
2017 mother! Actor Man 69
Fair
2017 Kodachrome Actor Benjamin Ryder 63
Fair
2016 Buried Child Actor Dodge N/A
N/A
2016 Rules Don't Apply Actor Mr. Bransford 58
Average
2016 In Dubious Battle Actor Joy 58
Average
2016 Westworld Actor Man in Black 79
Good
2016 The Adderall Diaries Actor Neil Elliott 57
Average
2015 Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story Actor Narrator N/A
N/A
2015 Run All Night Actor Shawn Maguire 63
Fair
2014 Cymbeline Actor Cymbeline 55
Average
2014 Frontera Actor Roy 60
Fair
2014 Planes: Fire & Rescue Actor Blade Ranger (voice) 60
Fair
2014 Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space Actor Narrator (voice) 59
Average
2013 The Face of Love Actor Garret Mathis / Tom Young 59
Average
2013 Sweetwater Actor Sheriff Cornelius Jackson 59
Average
2013 Gravity Actor Mission Control (voice) 71
Good
2013 Snowpiercer Actor Minister Wilford 68
Fair
2013 Pain & Gain Actor Ed DuBois 62
Fair
2013 Phantom Actor Demi 58
Average
2012 Game Change Actor John McCain 62
Fair
2012 Man on a Ledge Actor David Englander 63
Fair
2011 Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero Actor Narrator 69
Fair
2011 Salvation Boulevard Actor Dr. Paul Blaylock 58
Average
2011 That's What I Am Actor Mr. Simon 61
Fair
2010 The Way Back Actor Mr. Smith 67
Fair
2010 Once Fallen Actor Liam 58
Average
2010 Virginia Actor Sheriff Dick Tipton 58
Average
2008 Appaloosa Actor Virgil Cole 63
Fair
2008 Touching Home Actor Charlie Winston 59
Average
2008 Dispatches from Nicaragua Actor Himself 59
Average
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets Actor Mitch Wilkinson 63
Fair
2007 Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' Actor Himself 59
Average
2007 Gone Baby Gone Actor Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant 71
Good
2007 Cleaner Actor Eddie Lorenzo 60
Fair
2007 America’s Game: 1973 Dolphins | Super Bowl VIII Actor Self - Narrator N/A
N/A
2006 Copying Beethoven Actor Ludwig van Beethoven 60
Fair
2006 The Armenian Genocide Actor U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice) 59
Average
2006 Winter Passing Actor Don Holden 59
Average
2006 Two Tickets to Paradise Actor Melville 58
Average
2005 Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That Actor Narrator (voice) 59
Average
2005 A History of Violence Actor Carl Fogarty 70
Good
2005 Empire Falls Actor Miles Roby 67
Fair
2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Actor Other Voices (voice) 59
Average
2003 The Human Stain Actor Lester Farley 59
Average
2003 Radio Actor Coach Jones 66
Fair
2003 Volcanoes of the Deep Sea Actor Narrator 59
Average
2003 Masked and Anonymous Actor Oscar Vogel 58
Average
2002 The Hours Actor Richard Brown 69
Fair
2002 Buffalo Soldiers Actor Colonel Berman 60
Fair
2002 Just a Dream Actor Henry Sturbuck (voice) 58
Average
2001 A Beautiful Mind Actor William Parcher 77
Good
2001 The Prime Gig Actor Kelly Grant 59
Average
2001 Enemy at the Gates Actor Major König 72
Good
2000 Pollock Actor Jackson Pollock 62
Fair
2000 Waking the Dead Actor Jerry Charmichael 59
Average
1999 The Third Miracle Actor Frank Shore 58
Average
1999 Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island Actor Himself 59
Average
1998 Stepmom Actor Luke Harrison 68
Fair
1998 Junket Whore Actor Self N/A
N/A
1998 Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery Actor Self N/A
N/A
1998 The Truman Show Actor Christof 80
Very good
1998 The Truman Show: Tru-Talk Actor Christof 59
Average
1997 Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western Actor Self N/A
N/A
1997 Absolute Power Actor Seth Frank 63
Fair
1996 The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage Actor Sam Peckinpah (Voice) 59
Average
1996 Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 Actor Self 59
Average
1996 The Rock Actor Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC 69
Fair
1996 Needful Things Actor Sherrif Alan J. Pangborn 70
Good
1996 Riders of the Purple Sage Actor Jim Lassiter 59
Average
1996 Eye for an Eye Actor Mack McCann 59
Average
1995 Nixon Actor E. Howard Hunt 63
Fair
1995 Apollo 13 Actor Gene Kranz 73
Good
1995 Just Cause Actor Blair Sullivan 60
Fair
1994 Baseball Actor Various (voice) 70
Good
1994 Milk Money Actor Tom Wheeler 60
Fair
1994 The Stand Actor General Starkey 68
Fair
1994 China Moon Actor Kyle Bodine 59
Average
1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' Actor Self 59
Average
1993 Needful Things Actor Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn 60
Fair
1993 The Firm Actor Wayne Tarrance 65
Fair
1992 Running Mates Actor Hugh Hathaway 58
Average
1992 Glengarry Glen Ross Actor Dave Moss 69
Fair
1991 Paris Trout Actor Harry Seagraves 58
Average
1990 State of Grace Actor Frankie 62
Fair
1989 Jacknife Actor David 'High School' Flannigan 59
Average
1989 The Abyss Actor Virgil 'Bud' Brigman 70
Good
1988 To Kill a Priest Actor Stefan 59
Average
1987 Walker Actor William Walker 59
Average
1987 The Last Innocent Man Actor Harry Nash 58
Average
1985 Sweet Dreams Actor Charlie Dick 59
Average
1985 Code Name: Emerald Actor Gus Lang 59
Average
1985 Alamo Bay Actor Shang 59
Average
1984 A Flash of Green Actor Jimmy Wing 58
Average
1984 Places in the Heart Actor Wayne Lomax 62
Fair
1984 Swing Shift Actor Jack Walsh 58
Average
1983 Under Fire Actor Oates 60
Fair
1983 The Right Stuff Actor John Glenn 68
Fair
1982 Creepshow Actor Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day") 65
Fair
1981 Dream on! Actor N/A
N/A
1981 Knightriders Actor Billy 59
Average
1980 Borderline Actor Hotchkiss 59
Average
1980 The Aliens Are Coming Actor Chuck Polcheck 58
Average
1979 The Seekers Actor Lt. William Clark N/A
N/A
1978 David Cassidy: Man Under Cover Actor Ben 69
Fair
1978 Coma Actor Pathology Resident 62
Fair
1977 The Amazing Howard Hughes Actor Russ 59
Average
Long Day's Journey Into Night Actor James Tyrone N/A
N/A
School for the Blind Actor N/A
N/A
The Dink Actor N/A
N/A
Huntington Actor N/A
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Directing
2008 Appaloosa Directing Director 63
Fair
2000 Pollock Directing Director 62
Fair
The Ploughmen Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2008 Appaloosa Writing Screenplay 63
Fair
The Ploughmen Writing Screenplay N/A
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Production
2019 The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power Production Executive Producer 69
Fair
2008 Appaloosa Production Producer 63
Fair
2000 Pollock Production Producer 62
Fair
1996 Riders of the Purple Sage Production Executive Producer 59
Average
The Ploughmen Production Producer N/A
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