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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 28, 1950
Place of Birth:
Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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Ed Harris
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), The Abyss (1989), State of Grace (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Needful Things (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), The Truman Show (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), 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 also 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 earning 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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone |
| 2025 | Riff Raff | Vince |
| 2024 | My Dead Friend Zoe | Dale |
| 2024 | Love Lies Bleeding | Lou Sr. |
| 2024 | Concrete | Boris |
| 2023 | Downtown Owl | Horace Jones |
| 2023 | Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea | H.C. Westermann |
| 2022 | Get Away If You Can | Alan |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain |
| 2021 | The Lost Daughter | Lyle |
| 2020 | The Last Full Measure | Ray Mott |
| 2020 | Resistance | George S. Patton |
| 2018 | A Crooked Somebody | Sam Vaughn |
| 2017 | Geostorm | U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom |
| 2017 | mother! | Man |
| 2017 | Kodachrome | Benjamin Ryder |
| 2016 | The Adderall Diaries | Neil Elliott |
| 2016 | In Dubious Battle | Joy |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply | Mr. Bransford |
| 2016 | Buried Child | Dodge |
| 2015 | Run All Night | Shawn Maguire |
| 2015 | Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story | Narrator |
| 2014 | Cymbeline | Cymbeline |
| 2014 | Frontera | Roy |
| 2014 | Planes: Fire & Rescue | Blade Ranger (voice) |
| 2014 | Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Gravity | Mission Control (voice) |
| 2013 | Phantom | Demi |
| 2013 | Pain & Gain | Ed DuBois |
| 2013 | Sweetwater | Sheriff Cornelius Jackson |
| 2013 | The Face of Love | Garret Mathis / Tom Young |
| 2013 | Snowpiercer | Wilford |
| 2012 | Man on a Ledge | David Englander |
| 2012 | Game Change | John McCain |
| 2011 | Salvation Boulevard | Dr. Paul Blaylock |
| 2011 | That's What I Am | Mr. Simon |
| 2010 | Once Fallen | Liam |
| 2010 | The Way Back | Mr. Smith |
| 2010 | Virginia | Sheriff Dick Tipton |
| 2008 | Appaloosa | Virgil Cole |
| 2008 | Touching Home | Charlie Winston |
| 2008 | Dispatches from Nicaragua | Himself |
| 2007 | Gone Baby Gone | Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant |
| 2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Mitch Wilkinson |
| 2007 | Cleaner | Eddie Lorenzo |
| 2007 | Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' | Self |
| 2007 | America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins | Self - Narrator |
| 2006 | Copying Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| 2006 | Winter Passing | Don Holden |
| 2006 | Two Tickets to Paradise | Melville |
| 2006 | The Armenian Genocide | U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice) |
| 2005 | A History of Violence | Carl Fogarty |
| 2005 | Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) |
| 2003 | The Human Stain | Lester Farley |
| 2003 | Masked and Anonymous | Oscar Vogel |
| 2003 | Volcanoes of the Deep Sea | Narrator |
| 2003 | Radio | Coach Jones |
| 2002 | The Hours | Richard Brown |
| 2002 | Buffalo Soldiers | Colonel Berman |
| 2002 | Just a Dream | Henry Sturbuck (voice) |
| 2001 | Enemy at the Gates | Major König |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | William Parcher |
| 2001 | The Prime Gig | Kelly Grant |
| 2000 | Pollock | Jackson Pollock |
| 2000 | Waking the Dead | Jerry Charmichael |
| 1999 | The Third Miracle | Frank Shore |
| 1999 | Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island | Himself |
| 1998 | Stepmom | Luke Harrison |
| 1998 | The Truman Show | Christof |
| 1998 | Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery | Self |
| 1998 | The Truman Show: Tru-Talk | Christof |
| 1998 | Junket Whore | Self |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | Seth Frank |
| 1997 | Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self |
| 1996 | The Rock | Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC |
| 1996 | Eye for an Eye | Mack McCann |
| 1996 | Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 | Self |
| 1996 | Riders of the Purple Sage | Jim Lassiter |
| 1996 | The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage | Sam Peckinpah (Voice) |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 | Gene Kranz |
| 1995 | Nixon | E. Howard Hunt |
| 1995 | Just Cause | Blair Sullivan |
| 1994 | Milk Money | Tom Wheeler |
| 1994 | China Moon | Kyle Bodine |
| 1993 | Needful Things | Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn |
| 1993 | The Firm | Wayne Tarrance |
| 1993 | Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' | Self |
| 1992 | Glengarry Glen Ross | Dave Moss |
| 1992 | Running Mates | Hugh Hathaway |
| 1991 | Paris Trout | Harry Seagraves |
| 1990 | State of Grace | Frankie |
| 1989 | The Abyss | Virgil 'Bud' Brigman |
| 1989 | Jacknife | David 'High School' Flannigan |
| 1988 | To Kill a Priest | Stefan |
| 1987 | Walker | William Walker |
| 1987 | The Last Innocent Man | Harry Nash |
| 1985 | Sweet Dreams | Charlie Dick |
| 1985 | Code Name: Emerald | Gus Lang |
| 1985 | Alamo Bay | Shang |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Wayne Lomax |
| 1984 | Swing Shift | Jack Walsh |
| 1984 | A Flash of Green | Jimmy Wing |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff | John Glenn |
| 1983 | Under Fire | Oates |
| 1982 | Creepshow | Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day") |
| 1981 | Knightriders | Billy |
| 1981 | Dream on! | |
| 1980 | Borderline | Hotchkiss |
| 1980 | The Aliens Are Coming | Chuck Polcheck |
| 1979 | The Seekers | Lt. William Clark |
| 1978 | Coma | Pathology Resident |
| 1977 | The Amazing Howard Hughes | Russ |
| School for the Blind | ||
| Huntington | ||
| The Dink |