Ed Harris
Known for Acting · 149 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 (32)
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Dutton Ranch
2026
as Everett McKinney
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Frasier
1993
as Rob (voice)
Westworld
2016
as Man in Black
The View
1997
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Great Performances
1971
as Self
The Rockford Files
1974
as Rudy Kempner
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Hart to Hart
1979
Lou Grant
1977
as Warren
The Oscars
1953
as Self
CHiPs
1977
as Lonny
Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Stand
1994
as General Starkey (uncredited)
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)
Delvecchio
1976
as Davey Bresnihan
Paris
1979
Cassie & Co.
1982
as Agent Taylor
The Early Show
1999
as Self
Empire Falls
2005
as Miles Roby
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020
as Himself
Gibbsville
1976
as Steve
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
2019
as Narrator
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
The Seekers
1979
as Lt. William Clark
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
2011
as Narrator
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
1978
as Ben
Movies (117)
Top Gun: Maverick
2022
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
The Truman Show
1998
as Christof
A History of Violence
2005
as Carl Fogarty
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
Enemy at the Gates
2001
as Major König
Geostorm
2017
as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
Gravity
2013
as Mission Control (voice)
The Abyss
1989
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Snowpiercer
2013
as Wilford
Apollo 13
1995
as Gene Kranz
Cleaner
2007
as Eddie Lorenzo
mother!
2017
as Man
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
as Mitch Wilkinson
The Firm
1993
as Wayne Tarrance
Love Lies Bleeding
2024
as Lou Sr.
The Way Back
2010
as Mr. Smith
Pain & Gain
2013
as Ed DuBois
Gone Baby Gone
2007
as Remy Bressant
Run All Night
2015
as Shawn Maguire
Stepmom
1998
as Luke Harrison
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014
as Blade Ranger (voice)
Absolute Power
1997
as Seth Frank
The Hours
2002
as Richard Brown
Radio
2003
as Coach Jones
Eye for an Eye
1996
as Mack McCann
The Lost Daughter
2021
as Lyle
Milk Money
1994
as Tom Wheeler
The Right Stuff
1983
as John Glenn
Man on a Ledge
2012
as David Englander
Places in the Heart
1984
as Wayne Lomax
Coma
1978
as Pathology Resident
Creepshow
1982
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Appaloosa
2008
as Virgil Cole
Just Cause
1995
as Blair Sullivan
Nixon
1995
as E. Howard Hunt
State of Grace
1990
as Frankie
The Last Full Measure
2020
as Ray Mott
Needful Things
1993
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
In Dubious Battle
2016
as Joy
The Human Stain
2003
as Lester Farley
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
as Dave Moss
Frontera
2014
as Roy
China Moon
1994
as Kyle Bodine
Buffalo Soldiers
2002
as Colonel Berman
Salvation Boulevard
2011
as Dr. Paul Blaylock
Sweetwater
2013
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Mr. Bransford
Riff Raff
2025
as Vince
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
Cymbeline
2014
as Cymbeline
Downtown Owl
2023
as Horace Jones
The Adderall Diaries
2016
as Neil Elliott
Kodachrome
2017
as Benjamin Ryder
Under Fire
1983
as Oates
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
as Dale
Resistance
2020
as George S. Patton
Knightriders
1981
as Billy
Waking the Dead
2000
as Jerry Charmichael
Jacknife
1989
as David 'High School' Flannigan
Copying Beethoven
2006
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Oscar Vogel
Pollock
2000
as Jackson Pollock
Phantom
2013
as Demi
The Dink
2026
as Chuck Boyd
Borderline
1980
as Hotchkiss
The Face of Love
2013
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Game Change
2012
as John McCain
Paris Trout
1991
as Harry Seagraves
Once Fallen
2010
as Liam
Swing Shift
1984
as Jack Walsh
Walker
1987
as William Walker
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
as Jim Lassiter
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
as Self
Code Name: Emerald
1985
as Gus Lang
Winter Passing
2006
as Don Holden
That's What I Am
2011
as Mr. Simon
Virginia
2010
as Sheriff Dick Tipton
The Third Miracle
1999
as Frank Shore
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
as Self
Junket Whore
1998
as Self
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
as Russ
The Prime Gig
2001
as Kelly Grant
Sweet Dreams
1985
as Charlie Dick
Two Tickets to Paradise
2006
as Melville
Running Mates
1992
as Hugh Hathaway
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998
as Christof
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003
as Narrator
The Aliens Are Coming
1980
as Chuck Polcheck
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Stefan
The Armenian Genocide
2006
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993
as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Alamo Bay
1985
as Shang
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
as James Tyrone
A Crooked Somebody
2018
as Sam Vaughn
The Last Innocent Man
1987
as Harry Nash
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007
as Self
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
Just a Dream
2002
as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
Touching Home
2008
as Charlie Winston
Dream on!
1981
A Flash of Green
1984
as Jimmy Wing
Get Away If You Can
2022
as Alan
Concrete
2024
as Boris
Buried Child
2016
as Dodge
Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008
as Himself
School for the Blind
Realizing The Right Stuff
2003
as Self
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
as Self
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
1999
as Himself
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007
as Self - Narrator
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015
as Narrator
The Oklahoma Heisman
2006
as Narrator
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023
as H.C. Westermann
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 149 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Ed Harris has appeared in 117 films and 32 TV shows.
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Most Popular Ed Harris Movies
- Top Gun: Maverick (2022) — as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
- The Truman Show (1998) — as Christof
- A History of Violence (2005) — as Carl Fogarty
- How to Make a Killing (2026) — as Whitelaw Redfellow
- The Rock (1996) — as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
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