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