Ed Harris
Acting • Born 1950-11-28
Biography
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. 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.
Filmography
151 credits
A History of Violence
Movie • 2005
Carl Fogarty
Absolute Power
Movie • 1997
Seth Frank
Enemy at the Gates
Movie • 2001
Major König
A Beautiful Mind
Movie • 2001
William Parcher
Apollo 13
Movie • 1995
Gene Kranz
The Hours
Movie • 2002
Richard Brown
Copying Beethoven
Movie • 2006
Ludwig van Beethoven
State of Grace
Movie • 1990
Frankie
Needful Things
Movie • 1993
Sheriff Alan Pangborn
The Abyss
Movie • 1989
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
The Human Stain
Movie • 2003
Lester Farley
Gone Baby Gone
Movie • 2007
Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
Nixon
Movie • 1995
E. Howard Hunt
Knightriders
Movie • 1981
Billy
Long Day's Journey into Night
Movie • 2025
James Tyrone
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Movie • 2007
Mitch Wilkinson
Masked and Anonymous
Movie • 2003
Oscar Vogel
Borderline
Movie • 1980
Hotchkiss
Milk Money
Movie • 1994
Tom Wheeler
Stepmom
Movie • 1998
Luke Harrison
Just Cause
Movie • 1995
Blair Sullivan
China Moon
Movie • 1994
Kyle Bodine
Buffalo Soldiers
Movie • 2002
Colonel Berman
Glengarry Glen Ross
Movie • 1992
Dave Moss
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Movie • 1977
Russ
The Right Stuff
Movie • 1983
John Glenn
The Rock
Movie • 1996
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Cleaner
Movie • 2007
Eddie Lorenzo
Appaloosa
Movie • 2008
Virgil Cole
Under Fire
Movie • 1983
Oates
Pollock
Movie • 2000
Jackson Pollock
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
Movie • 2003
Narrator
Places in the Heart
Movie • 1984
Wayne Lomax
Walker
Movie • 1987
William Walker
Radio
Movie • 2003
Coach Jones
Winter Passing
Movie • 2006
Don Holden
Sweet Dreams
Movie • 1985
Charlie Dick
The Third Miracle
Movie • 1999
Frank Shore
The Truman Show
Movie • 1998
Christof
The Firm
Movie • 1993
Wayne Tarrance
Waking the Dead
Movie • 2000
Jerry Charmichael
The Prime Gig
Movie • 2001
Kelly Grant
Once Fallen
Movie • 2010
Liam
Creepshow
Movie • 1982
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Coma
Movie • 1978
Pathology Resident
Jacknife
Movie • 1989
David 'High School' Flannigan
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Movie • 1998
Self
To Kill a Priest
Movie • 1988
Stefan
Eye for an Eye
Movie • 1996
Mack McCann
Swing Shift
Movie • 1984
Jack Walsh
The Way Back
Movie • 2010
Mr. Smith
Gravity
Movie • 2013
Mission Control (voice)
Man on a Ledge
Movie • 2012
David Englander
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Movie • 1997
Self
My Dead Friend Zoe
Movie • 2024
Dale
Salvation Boulevard
Movie • 2011
Dr. Paul Blaylock
Touching Home
Movie • 2008
Charlie Winston
Paris Trout
Movie • 1991
Harry Seagraves
Game Change
Movie • 2012
John McCain
Code Name: Emerald
Movie • 1985
Gus Lang
That's What I Am
Movie • 2011
Mr. Simon
Running Mates
Movie • 1992
Hugh Hathaway
A Flash of Green
Movie • 1984
Jimmy Wing
Virginia
Movie • 2010
Sheriff Dick Tipton
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
Movie • 1996
Self
Phantom
Movie • 2013
Demi
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
Downtown Owl
Movie • 2023
Horace Jones
Pain & Gain
Movie • 2013
Ed DuBois
Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie • 1996
Jim Lassiter
Sweetwater
Movie • 2013
Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
The Aliens Are Coming
Movie • 1980
Chuck Polcheck
Alamo Bay
Movie • 1985
Shang
The Face of Love
Movie • 2013
Garret Mathis / Tom Young
School for the Blind
Movie
Cymbeline
Movie • 2014
Cymbeline
Run All Night
Movie • 2015
Shawn Maguire
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
Movie • 2023
H.C. Westermann
Dream on!
Movie • 1981
Snowpiercer
Movie • 2013
Wilford
Love Lies Bleeding
Movie • 2024
Lou Sr.
Frontera
Movie • 2014
Roy
Get Away If You Can
Movie • 2022
Alan
Riff Raff
Movie • 2025
Vince
The Last Innocent Man
Movie • 1987
Harry Nash
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
Movie • 1999
Himself
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Movie • 2014
Blade Ranger (voice)
The Adderall Diaries
Movie • 2016
Neil Elliott
Geostorm
Movie • 2017
U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
In Dubious Battle
Movie • 2016
Joy
Two Tickets to Paradise
Movie • 2006
Melville
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
Movie • 2007
Self
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Movie • 1998
Christof
How to Make a Killing
Movie • 2026
Whitelaw Redfellow
Concrete
Movie • 2024
Boris
Rules Don't Apply
Movie • 2016
Mr. Bransford
mother!
Movie • 2017
Man
Junket Whore
Movie • 1998
Self
Kodachrome
Movie • 2017
Benjamin Ryder
A Crooked Somebody
Movie • 2018
Sam Vaughn
The Armenian Genocide
Movie • 2006
U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
The Last Full Measure
Movie • 2020
Ray Mott
Resistance
Movie • 2020
George S. Patton
Buried Child
Movie • 2016
Dodge
Dispatches from Nicaragua
Movie • 2008
Himself
Top Gun: Maverick
Movie • 2022
Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie • 2004
Other Voices (voice)
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
Movie • 1993
Self
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Movie • 1996
Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
Just a Dream
Movie • 2002
Henry Sturbuck (voice)
The Lost Daughter
Movie • 2021
Lyle
The Dink
Movie • 2026
Chuck Boyd
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
Movie • 2007
Self - Narrator
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
Movie • 2005
Self
The Oklahoma Heisman
Movie • 2006
Narrator
Realizing The Right Stuff
Movie • 2003
Self
The Tiger
Movie
Vanity Fair Journalist
Lou Grant
TV • 1977
CHiPs
TV • 1977
Lonny
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Frasier
TV • 1993
Rob (voice)
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Empire Falls
TV • 2005
Miles Roby
Paris
TV • 1979
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Westworld
TV • 2016
Man in Black
Delvecchio
TV • 1976
Davey Bresnihan
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
TV • 2006
Narrator (voice)
Reading Rainbow
TV • 1983
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Rudy Kempner
Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
TV • 2011
Narrator
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
TV • 1978
Ben
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
TV • 2019
Narrator
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
TV • 2024
Self - Narrator (voice)
Gibbsville
TV • 1976
Steve
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
TV • 2020
Himself
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
The Stand
TV • 1994
General Starkey (uncredited)
Lou Grant
TV • 1977
Warren
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
The Dutton Ranch
TV • 2026
Everett McKinney
The Seekers
TV • 1979
Lt. William Clark
Cassie & Co.
TV • 1982
Agent Taylor
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest