Ed Harris
- Acting
- November 28, 1950 · Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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). 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
Filmography
- Long Day's Journey into Night · James Tyrone
- The Dink · Chuck Boyd
- Dutton Ranch · Everett McKinney
- How to Make a Killing · Whitelaw Redfellow
- Off the Horse · Bob
- Riff Raff · Vince
- Concrete · Boris
- Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War · Self
- My Dead Friend Zoe · Dale
- Love Lies Bleeding · Lou Sr.
- Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea · H.C. Westermann
- Downtown Owl · Horace Jones
- Get Away If You Can · Alan
- Top Gun: Maverick · Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
- The Lost Daughter · Lyle
- Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party · Self
- Resistance · George S. Patton
- The Last Full Measure · Ray Mott
- The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power · Narrator, Executive producer
- A Crooked Somebody · Sam Vaughn
- Geostorm · Leonard Dekkom
- mother! · Man
- Kodachrome · Benjamin Ryder
- Buried Child · Dodge
- Rules Don't Apply · Mr. Bransford
- In Dubious Battle · Joy
- Westworld · Man in Black
- The Adderall Diaries · Neil Elliott
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story · Narrator
- Run All Night · Shawn Maguire
- Cymbeline · Cymbeline
- Frontera · Roy
- Planes: Fire & Rescue · Blade Ranger (Voice)
- The Face of Love · Garret Mathis / Tom Young
- Sweetwater · Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
- Gravity · Mission Control (Voice)
- Snowpiercer · Wilford
- Pain & Gain · Ed DuBois
- Phantom · Demi
- Game Change · John McCain
- Man on a Ledge · David Englander
- Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero · Narrator
- Salvation Boulevard · Dr. Paul Blaylock
- That's What I Am · Mr. Simon
- The Way Back · Mr. Smith
- Once Fallen · Liam
- Virginia · Sheriff Dick Tipton
- Appaloosa · Virgil Cole, Director
- Touching Home · Charlie Winston
- Dispatches from Nicaragua · Self
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets · Mitch Wilkinson
- Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' · Self
- Gone Baby Gone · Remy Bressant
- Cleaner · Eddie Lorenzo
- America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins · Self
- America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions · Narrator (Voice)
- Copying Beethoven · Ludwig van Beethoven
- The Armenian Genocide · U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (Voice)
- Two Tickets to Paradise · Melville
- The Oklahoma Heisman · Narrator
- Winter Passing · Don Holden
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That · Narrator (Voice)
- A History of Violence · Carl Fogarty
- How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show' · Self
- Empire Falls · Miles Roby
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson · Other Voices (Voice)
- The Human Stain · Lester Farley
- Radio · Coach Jones
- Volcanoes of the Deep Sea · Narrator
- Masked and Anonymous · Oscar Vogel
- Realizing The Right Stuff · Self
- The Hours · Richard Brown
- Buffalo Soldiers · Colonel Berman
- Just a Dream · Henry Sturbuck (Voice)
- A Beautiful Mind · William Parcher
- The Prime Gig · Kelly Grant
- Enemy at the Gates · Major König
- Pollock · Jackson Pollock, Producer
- Waking the Dead · Jerry Charmichael