Ed Harris
110 movies · 20 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 28, 1950 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Englewood, New Jersey, USA
- Also known as
- Edward Allen Harris
Biography
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).
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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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Known for
Ed Harris: movies and TV shows
Acting (130)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming War on Wolves
as Narrator
- Upcoming Ashley Wright
as Judge Allen
- Upcoming The Ploughmen
as John Gload
- 2026 Long Day's Journey into Night
as James Tyrone
- 2026 The Dink
as Chuck Boyd
- 2026
- 2026 How to Make a Killing
as Whitelaw Redfellow
- 2025 Off the Horse
as Bob
- 2025 Riff Raff
as Vince
- 2024 Concrete
as Boris
- 2024 My Dead Friend Zoe
as Dale
- 2024 Love Lies Bleeding
as Lou Sr.
- 2023 Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
as H.C. Westermann
- 2023 Downtown Owl
as Horace Jones
- 2022 Get Away If You Can
as Alan
- 2022 Top Gun: Maverick
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
- 2021 The Lost Daughter
as Lyle
- 2020 Resistance
as George S. Patton
- 2020 The Last Full Measure
as Ray Mott
- 2019
- 2018 A Crooked Somebody
as Sam Vaughn
- 2017 Geostorm
as 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 In Dubious Battle
as Joy
- 2016
- 2016 The Adderall Diaries
as Neil Elliott
- 2015 Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
as Narrator
- 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
- 2011 Salvation Boulevard
as Dr. Paul Blaylock
- 2011 That's What I Am
as Mr. Simon
- 2010 The Way Back
as Mr. Smith
- 2010 Once Fallen
as Liam
- 2010 Virginia
as Sheriff Dick Tipton
- 2008 Appaloosa
as Virgil Cole
- 2008 Touching Home
as Charlie Winston
- 2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Mitch Wilkinson
- 2007 Gone Baby Gone
as Remy Bressant
- 2007 Cleaner
as Eddie Lorenzo
- 2006
- 2006 Copying Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
- 2006 The Armenian Genocide
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
- 2006 Two Tickets to Paradise
as Melville
- 2006 The Oklahoma Heisman
as Narrator
- 2006 Winter Passing
as Don Holden
- 2005 Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 A History of Violence
as Carl Fogarty
- 2005
- 2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
- 2003 The Human Stain
as Lester Farley
- 2003 Radio
as Coach Jones
- 2003 Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
as Narrator
- 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
- 1998 Stepmom
as Luke Harrison
- 1998 The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Christof
- 1998 The Truman Show
as Christof
- 1997 Absolute Power
as Seth Frank
- 1996 The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
- 1996 The Rock
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
- 1996 Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jim Lassiter
- 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
- 1994 Milk Money
as Dad
- 1994
- 1994 China Moon
as Kyle Bodine
- 1993
- 1993 Needful Things
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
- 1993 The Firm
as Wayne Tarrance
- 1992 Running Mates
as Hugh Hathaway
- 1992 Glengarry Glen Ross
as Dave Moss
- 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 To Kill a Priest
as Stefan
- 1987 Walker
as William Walker
- 1987 The Last Innocent Man
as Harry Nash
- 1985 Sweet Dreams
as Charlie Dick
- 1985 Code Name: Emerald
as Gus Lang
- 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
- 1982 Creepshow
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981
- 1981 Knightriders
as Billy
- 1980 Borderline
as Hotchkiss
- 1980 The Aliens Are Coming
as Chuck Polcheck
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978
- 1978 Coma
as Pathology Resident
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977 The Amazing Howard Hughes
as Russ
- 1976
- 1976
- 1974
Behind the camera (5)
- Upcoming The Ploughmen
Screenplay, Director, Producer
- 2019
- 2008 Appaloosa
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2000 Pollock
Director, Producer
- 1996 Riders of the Purple Sage
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (24)
- 2024 Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
6 episodes
- 2020 Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
1 episode
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007
- 2005
- 2003
- 1999 The Early Show
1 episode
- 1999
- 1998
- 1998
- 1997 The View
2 episodes
- 1997
- 1996 The Daily Show
1 episode
- 1996
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 episode
- 1983 Reading Rainbow
1 episode
- 1971 Great Performances
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
5 episodes
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
4 episodes