
Ed Harris
Known for Acting · 150 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 Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee

The Rockford Files
1974
as Rudy Kempner

Hart to Hart
1979

Lou Grant
1977
as Warren

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)

CHiPs
1977
as Lonny

The Stand
1994
as General Starkey (uncredited)

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)

Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)

Paris
1979

Cassie & Co.
1982
as Agent Taylor

Delvecchio
1976
as Davey Bresnihan

The Early Show
1999
as Self

Gibbsville
1976
as Steve

Empire Falls
2005
as Miles Roby

Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020
as Himself

The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
2019
as Narrator

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
2011
as Narrator

The Seekers
1979
as Lt. William Clark

David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
1978
as Ben
Movies (118)

Top Gun: Maverick
2022
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

The Truman Show
1998
as Christof

How to Make a Killing
2026
as Whitelaw Redfellow

Snowpiercer
2013
as Wilford

Gravity
2013
as Mission Control (voice)

Geostorm
2017
as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

A Beautiful Mind
2001
as William Parcher

Apollo 13
1995
as Gene Kranz

Enemy at the Gates
2001
as Major König

The Rock
1996
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

A History of Violence
2005
as Carl Fogarty

The Abyss
1989
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

mother!
2017
as Man

Cleaner
2007
as Eddie Lorenzo

National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
as Mitch Wilkinson

Pain & Gain
2013
as Ed DuBois

The Firm
1993
as Wayne Tarrance

Run All Night
2015
as Shawn Maguire

Love Lies Bleeding
2024
as Lou Sr.

Absolute Power
1997
as Seth Frank

Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014
as Blade Ranger (voice)

Radio
2003
as Coach Jones

The Way Back
2010
as Mr. Smith

The Hours
2002
as Richard Brown

Gone Baby Gone
2007
as Remy Bressant

Stepmom
1998
as Luke Harrison

Milk Money
1994
as Tom Wheeler

Nixon
1995
as E. Howard Hunt

Creepshow
1982
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")

The Right Stuff
1983
as John Glenn

Appaloosa
2008
as Virgil Cole

Man on a Ledge
2012
as David Englander

State of Grace
1990
as Frankie

Eye for an Eye
1996
as Mack McCann

Needful Things
1993
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn

The Lost Daughter
2021
as Lyle

In Dubious Battle
2016
as Joy

Frontera
2014
as Roy

Places in the Heart
1984
as Wayne Lomax

Resistance
2020
as George S. Patton

Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
as Dave Moss

Kodachrome
2017
as Benjamin Ryder

Coma
1978
as Pathology Resident

Just Cause
1995
as Blair Sullivan

Salvation Boulevard
2011
as Dr. Paul Blaylock

The Last Full Measure
2020
as Ray Mott

Downtown Owl
2023
as Horace Jones

Riff Raff
2025
as Vince

Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Mr. Bransford

Knightriders
1981
as Billy

China Moon
1994
as Kyle Bodine

Paris Trout
1991
as Harry Seagraves

Copying Beethoven
2006
as Ludwig van Beethoven

Phantom
2013
as Demi

Sweetwater
2013
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson

Winter Passing
2006
as Don Holden

Jacknife
1989
as David 'High School' Flannigan

Game Change
2012
as John McCain

The Human Stain
2003
as Lester Farley

Buffalo Soldiers
2002
as Colonel Berman

Pollock
2000
as Jackson Pollock

Walker
1987
as William Walker

Cymbeline
2014
as Cymbeline

Borderline
1980
as Hotchkiss

That's What I Am
2011
as Mr. Simon

The Adderall Diaries
2016
as Neil Elliott

Under Fire
1983
as Oates

My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
as Dale

Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Oscar Vogel

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)

Swing Shift
1984
as Jack Walsh

The Third Miracle
1999
as Frank Shore

Virginia
2010
as Sheriff Dick Tipton

Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
as Jim Lassiter

The Face of Love
2013
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Dream on!
1981

Sweet Dreams
1985
as Charlie Dick

Once Fallen
2010
as Liam

The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
as Russ

The Dink
2026
as Chuck Boyd

Touching Home
2008
as Charlie Winston

Waking the Dead
2000
as Jerry Charmichael

To Kill a Priest
1988
as Stefan

Code Name: Emerald
1985
as Gus Lang

Junket Whore
1998
as Self

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998
as Christof

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self

The Prime Gig
2001
as Kelly Grant

Running Mates
1992
as Hugh Hathaway

The Armenian Genocide
2006
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)

The Last Innocent Man
1987
as Harry Nash

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
as Self

Just a Dream
2002
as Henry Sturbuck (voice)

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993
as Self

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003
as Narrator

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
as Self

Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
as James Tyrone

The Aliens Are Coming
1980
as Chuck Polcheck

Alamo Bay
1985
as Shang

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)

Two Tickets to Paradise
2006
as Melville

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
as Narrator (voice)

A Crooked Somebody
2018
as Sam Vaughn

Buried Child
2016
as Dodge

Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007
as Self

Concrete
2024
as Boris

A Flash of Green
1984
as Jimmy Wing

Get Away If You Can
2022
as Alan
School for the Blind

Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008
as Himself

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

The Oklahoma Heisman
2006
as Narrator
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015
as Narrator

Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023
as H.C. Westermann

America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007
as Self - Narrator
War on Wolves
as Narrator
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 150 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Ed Harris has appeared in 118 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
- How to Make a Killing (2026) — as Whitelaw Redfellow
- Snowpiercer (2013) — as Wilford
- Gravity (2013) — as Mission Control (voice)
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