
Ed Harris
Known for Acting · 152 credits
- Born
- 1950-11-28 (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).
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
TV Shows (33)

Westworld
2016
as Man in Black

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest

The Daily Show
1996
as Self

Dutton Ranch
2026
as Everett McKinney

The View
1997
as Self

Frasier
1993
as Rob (voice)

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee

Great Performances
1971
as Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

American Playhouse
1982
as Jimmy Wing

The Rockford Files
1974
as Rudy Kempner

Lou Grant
1977
as Warren

Hart to Hart
1979

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Stand
1994
as General Starkey (uncredited)

CHiPs
1977
as Lonny

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)

The Early Show
1999
as Self

Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)

Empire Falls
2005
as Miles Roby

Delvecchio
1976
as Davey Bresnihan

Cassie & Co.
1982
as Agent Taylor

Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020
as Himself

Gibbsville
1976
as Steve

The Seekers
1979
as Lt. William Clark

Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Paris
1979

David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
1978
as Ben

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
2011
as Narrator

The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
2019
as Narrator
Movies (119)

How to Make a Killing
2026
as Whitelaw Redfellow

Top Gun: Maverick
2022
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

The Truman Show
1998
as Christof

Snowpiercer
2013
as Wilford

Geostorm
2017
as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

A Beautiful Mind
2001
as William Parcher

Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014
as Blade Ranger (voice)

Pain & Gain
2013
as Ed DuBois

The Rock
1996
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

Gravity
2013
as Mission Control (voice)

mother!
2017
as Man

Run All Night
2015
as Shawn Maguire

National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
as Mitch Wilkinson

Apollo 13
1995
as Gene Kranz

Enemy at the Gates
2001
as Major König

The Abyss
1989
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

A History of Violence
2005
as Carl Fogarty

The Dink
2026
as Chuck Boyd

Man on a Ledge
2012
as David Englander

Frontera
2014
as Roy

Gone Baby Gone
2007
as Remy Bressant

The Last Full Measure
2020
as Ray Mott

Love Lies Bleeding
2024
as Lou Sr.

The Lost Daughter
2021
as Lyle

Places in the Heart
1984
as Wayne Lomax

Cleaner
2007
as Eddie Lorenzo

The Way Back
2010
as Mr. Smith

Absolute Power
1997
as Seth Frank

The Hours
2002
as Richard Brown

Junket Whore
1998
as Self

Radio
2003
as Coach Jones

Stepmom
1998
as Luke Harrison

The Firm
1993
as Wayne Tarrance

Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Mr. Bransford

Appaloosa
2008
as Virgil Cole

A Crooked Somebody
2018
as Sam Vaughn

The Right Stuff
1983
as John Glenn

Sweetwater
2013
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson

Game Change
2012
as John McCain

Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
as Dave Moss

Needful Things
1993
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn

Creepshow
1982
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")

The Adderall Diaries
2016
as Neil Elliott

Riff Raff
2025
as Vince

Under Fire
1983
as Oates

Resistance
2020
as George S. Patton

Walker
1987
as William Walker

Just a Dream
2002
as Henry Sturbuck (voice)

My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
as Dale

Phantom
2013
as Demi

In Dubious Battle
2016
as Joy

That's What I Am
2011
as Mr. Simon

State of Grace
1990
as Frankie

Borderline
1980
as Hotchkiss

Kodachrome
2017
as Benjamin Ryder

Eye for an Eye
1996
as Mack McCann

The Human Stain
2003
as Lester Farley

Cymbeline
2014
as Cymbeline

Tru-Talk
1998
as Christof

Milk Money
1994
as Tom Wheeler

Nixon
1995
as E. Howard Hunt

China Moon
1994
as Kyle Bodine

Jacknife
1989
as David 'High School' Flannigan

The Last Innocent Man
1987
as Harry Nash

Salvation Boulevard
2011
as Dr. Paul Blaylock

Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
as Jim Lassiter

The Face of Love
2013
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young

Virginia
2010
as Sheriff Dick Tipton

The Armenian Genocide
2006
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)

Buffalo Soldiers
2002
as Colonel Berman

Code Name: Emerald
1985
as Gus Lang

Coma
1978
as Pathology Resident

Just Cause
1995
as Blair Sullivan

Winter Passing
2006
as Don Holden

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)

Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Oscar Vogel

Copying Beethoven
2006
as Ludwig van Beethoven

Knightriders
1981
as Billy

A Flash of Green
1984
as Jimmy Wing

Downtown Owl
2023
as Horace Jones

Pollock
2000
as Jackson Pollock

The Third Miracle
1999
as Frank Shore

Waking the Dead
2000
as Jerry Charmichael

Running Mates
1992
as Hugh Hathaway

The Aliens Are Coming
1980
as Chuck Polcheck

The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
as Russ

Swing Shift
1984
as Jack Walsh

Get Away If You Can
2022
as Alan

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003
as Narrator

To Kill a Priest
1988
as Stefan

Once Fallen
2010
as Liam

The Prime Gig
2001
as Kelly Grant

Concrete
2024
as Boris

Sweet Dreams
1985
as Charlie Dick

Alamo Bay
1985
as Shang

Realizing The Right Stuff
2003
as Self

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993
as Self

Paris Trout
1991
as Harry Seagraves

Touching Home
2008
as Charlie Winston
School for the Blind

Two Tickets to Paradise
2006
as Melville

Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007
as Self

Buried Child
2016
as Dodge

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
as Self

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
as Self

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)

Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008
as Himself
Off the Horse
2025
as Bob
War on Wolves
as Narrator

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
as Narrator (voice)

The Oklahoma Heisman
2006
as Narrator

Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
as James Tyrone

America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007
as Self - Narrator

How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
as Self

Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023
as H.C. Westermann
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
1999
as Himself
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015
as Narrator
Dream on!
1981
About Ed Harris
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… With 152 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Ed Harris has appeared in 119 films and 33 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ed Harris Movies
- How to Make a Killing (2026) — as Whitelaw Redfellow
- Top Gun: Maverick (2022) — as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
- The Truman Show (1998) — as Christof
- Snowpiercer (2013) — as Wilford
- Geostorm (2017) — as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
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