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