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