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