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Ed Harris

Ed Harris

Acting1950Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Biography

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), 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.

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Acting History

2026
How to Make a Killing
as Whitelaw Redfellow
2025
Riff Raff
as Vince
2023
Downtown Owl
as Horace Jones
2022
Top Gun: Maverick
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
2020
Resistance
as George S. Patton
2018
A Crooked Somebody
as Sam Vaughn
2017
mother!
as Man
Geostorm
as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
Kodachrome
as Benjamin Ryder
2016
Rules Don't Apply
as Mr. Bransford
The Adderall Diaries
as Neil Elliott
Westworld
TVas Man in Black36 eps
2015
Run All Night
as Shawn Maguire
2014
Cymbeline
as Cymbeline
Frontera
as Roy
Planes: Fire & Rescue
as Blade Ranger (voice)
2013
Gravity
as Mission Control (voice)
Snowpiercer
as Wilford
The Face of Love
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Phantom
as Demi
Pain & Gain
as Ed DuBois
Sweetwater
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
2012
Man on a Ledge
as David Englander
Game Change
as John McCain
2011
Salvation Boulevard
as Dr. Paul Blaylock
That's What I Am
as Mr. Simon
2010
The Way Back
as Mr. Smith
Virginia
as Sheriff Dick Tipton
2008
Touching Home
as Charlie Winston
Appaloosa
as Virgil Cole
Appaloosa
Director
Appaloosa
Screenplay
Appaloosa
Producer
2007
Cleaner
as Eddie Lorenzo
Gone Baby Gone
as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
TVas Narrator (voice)8 eps
2006
Copying Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
The Armenian Genocide
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
Winter Passing
as Don Holden
2003
The Human Stain
as Lester Farley
Radio
as Coach Jones
2002
Buffalo Soldiers
as Colonel Berman
The Hours
as Richard Brown
Reading Rainbow
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)1 eps
2001
The Prime Gig
as Kelly Grant
A Beautiful Mind
as William Parcher
Enemy at the Gates
as Major König
2000
Waking the Dead
as Jerry Charmichael
Pollock
as Jackson Pollock
Pollock
Producer
Pollock
Director
1998
Stepmom
as Luke Harrison
The Truman Show
as Christof
Great Performances
TVas Self1 eps
1997
Absolute Power
as Seth Frank
The View
TVas Self
1996
The Rock
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Eye for an Eye
as Mack McCann
Golden Globe Awards
TVas Self - Nominee4 eps
The Oscars
TVas Self4 eps
1995
Just Cause
as Blair Sullivan
Apollo 13
as Gene Kranz
Nixon
as E. Howard Hunt
Frasier
TVas Rob (voice)1 eps
1994
China Moon
as Kyle Bodine
Milk Money
as Tom Wheeler
The Stand
TVas General Starkey (uncredited)1 eps
Baseball
TVas (voice)1 eps
1993
The Firm
as Wayne Tarrance
Needful Things
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
1991
Paris Trout
as Harry Seagraves
1990
State of Grace
as Frankie
1989
The Abyss
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Jacknife
as David 'High School' Flannigan
1988
1987
Walker
as William Walker
1985
Sweet Dreams
as Charlie Dick
1984
A Flash of Green
as Jimmy Wing
Places in the Heart
as Wayne Lomax
Swing Shift
as Jack Walsh
1983
Under Fire
as Oates
The Right Stuff
as John Glenn
1982
Creepshow
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Cassie & Co.
TVas Agent Taylor
1981
Knightriders
as Billy
CHiPs
TVas Lonny1 eps
1980
Borderline
as Hotchkiss
1979
The Seekers
as Lt. William Clark
Lou Grant
TVas Warren1 eps
1978
Coma
as Pathology Resident
The Rockford Files
TVas Rudy Kempner1 eps
1977
Delvecchio
TVas Davey Bresnihan1 eps

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/28/1950(75 years old)
Place of Birth
Englewood, New Jersey, USA