Portrait of Ed Harris

Ed Harris

Acting

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ed Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: November 28, 1950

Place of Birth: Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Filmography

2026
How to Make a Killing

as Whitelaw Redfellow

2025
Riff Raff

as Vince

2024
Concrete

as Boris

2024
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2024
2023
Downtown Owl

as Horace Jones

2022
Top Gun: Maverick

as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

2020
Resistance

as George S. Patton

2020
2018
A Crooked Somebody

as Sam Vaughn

2017
Geostorm

as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

2017
mother!

as Man

2017
Kodachrome

as Benjamin Ryder

2016
Buried Child

as Dodge

2016
Rules Don't Apply

as Mr. Bransford

2016
Westworld

as Man in Black

2016
The Adderall Diaries

as Neil Elliott

2015
Run All Night

as Shawn Maguire

2014
Cymbeline

as Cymbeline

2014
Frontera

as Roy

2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue

as Blade Ranger (voice)

2013
The Face of Love

as Garret Mathis / Tom Young

2013
Sweetwater

as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson

2013
Gravity

as Mission Control (voice)

2013
Snowpiercer

as Wilford

2013
Pain & Gain

as Ed DuBois

2013
Phantom

as Demi

2012
Game Change

as John McCain

2012
Man on a Ledge

as David Englander

2011
Salvation Boulevard

as Dr. Paul Blaylock

2011
That's What I Am

as Mr. Simon

2010
The Way Back

as Mr. Smith

2010
2010
Virginia

as Sheriff Dick Tipton

2008
Appaloosa

as Virgil Cole

2008
Touching Home

as Charlie Winston

2007
Gone Baby Gone

as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant

2007
Cleaner

as Eddie Lorenzo

2006
Copying Beethoven

as Ludwig van Beethoven

2006
The Armenian Genocide

as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)

2006
2006
Winter Passing

as Don Holden

2005
2005
A History of Violence

as Carl Fogarty

2005
Empire Falls

as Miles Roby

2003
The Human Stain

as Lester Farley

2003
Radio

as Coach Jones

2003
Masked and Anonymous

as Oscar Vogel

2002
The Hours

as Richard Brown

2002
Buffalo Soldiers

as Colonel Berman

2002
Just a Dream

as Henry Sturbuck (voice)

2001
A Beautiful Mind

as William Parcher

2001
The Prime Gig

as Kelly Grant

2001
Enemy at the Gates

as Major König

2000
Pollock

as Jackson Pollock

2000
Waking the Dead

as Jerry Charmichael

1999
The Third Miracle

as Frank Shore

1999
1998
Stepmom

as Luke Harrison

1998
1998
The Truman Show

as Christof

1997
The View

as Self

1997
Absolute Power

as Seth Frank

1996
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)

1996
1996
The Rock

as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

1996
1996
Eye for an Eye

as Mack McCann

1995
Nixon

as E. Howard Hunt

1995
Apollo 13

as Gene Kranz

1995
Just Cause

as Blair Sullivan

1994
Baseball

as Various (voice)

1994
Baseball

as (voice)

1994
Milk Money

as Tom Wheeler

1994
The Stand

as General Starkey (uncredited)

1994
China Moon

as Kyle Bodine

1993
Frasier

as Rob (voice)

1993
Needful Things

as Sheriff Alan Pangborn

1993
The Firm

as Wayne Tarrance

1992
Running Mates

as Hugh Hathaway

1992
1991
Paris Trout

as Harry Seagraves

1990
State of Grace

as Frankie

1989
Jacknife

as David 'High School' Flannigan

1989
The Abyss

as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

1988
1987
Walker

as William Walker

1987
1985
Sweet Dreams

as Charlie Dick

1985
1985
Alamo Bay

as Shang

1984
A Flash of Green

as Jimmy Wing

1984
Places in the Heart

as Wayne Lomax

1984
Swing Shift

as Jack Walsh

1983
Under Fire

as Oates

1983
The Right Stuff

as John Glenn

1983
Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1982
Creepshow

as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")

1981
Knightriders

as Billy

1980
Borderline

as Hotchkiss

1980
The Aliens Are Coming

as Chuck Polcheck

1979
The Seekers

as Lt. William Clark

1979
1978
Coma

as Pathology Resident

1977
Lou Grant

as Warren

1977
CHiPs

as Lonny

1976
Gibbsville

as Steve

1976
Delvecchio

as Davey Bresnihan

1974
The Rockford Files

as Rudy Kempner

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee