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