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Ed Harris
Actor, Producer, Director, WriterBorn November 28, 1950 (74 years)
Edward Allen Harris 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.
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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| 2025 | Long Day's Journey Into Night · as James Tyrone |
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| 2024 | Riff Raff · as Vince |
| 2024 | My Dead Friend Zoe · as Dale |
| 2024 | Love Lies Bleeding · as Lou Sr. |
| 2023 | Downtown Owl · as Horace Jones |
| 2022 | Bonnie · as Frankie |
| 2022 | Get Away If You Can · as Alan |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick · as Radm. Chester 'hammer' Cain |
| 2021 | The Lost Daughter · as Lyle |
| 2020 | Stephen King: A Necessary Evil · as Alan Pangborn |
| 2020 | Resistance · as George S. Patton |
| 2019 | The Last Full Measure · as Ray Mott |
| 2019 | The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2017 | A Crooked Somebody · as Sam Vaughn |
| 2017 | Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond · as Christof |
| 2017 | Geostorm · as U.s. Secretary Of State Leonard Dekkom |
| 2017 | Mother! · as Man |
| 2017 | Kodachrome · as Benjamin Ryder |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply · as Mr. Bransford |
| 2016 | In Dubious Battle · as Joy |
| 2016 | Westworld (TV Series) · as Man In Black |
| 2016 | Buried Child · as Dodge |
| 2015 | Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story · as Narrator |
| 2015 | The Adderall Diaries · as Neil Elliott |
| 2015 | Run All Night · as Shawn Maguire |
| 2014 | Cymbeline · as Cymbeline |
| 2014 | Frontera · as Roy |
| 2014 | Planes: Fire & Rescue · as Blade Ranger (voice) |
| 2013 | Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | The Face of Love · as Garret Mathis / Tom Young |
| 2013 | Sweetwater · as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson |
| 2013 | Gravity · as Mission Control (voice) |
| 2013 | Snowpiercer · as Wilford |
| 2013 | Pain & Gain · as Ed Dubois |
| 2013 | Phantom · as Demi |
| 2012 | Game Change · as John Mccain |
| 2012 | Man on a Ledge · as David Englander |
| 2011 | Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2011 | Salvation Boulevard · as Dr. Paul Blaylock |
| 2011 | That's What I Am · as Mr. Simon |
| 2010 | The Way Back · as Mr. Smith |
| 2010 | Once Fallen · as Liam |
| 2010 | Virginia · as Sheriff Dick Tipton |
| 2009 | Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story · as Narrator |
| 2008 | Premio Donostia a Meryl Streep · as Richard Brown |
| 2008 | Appaloosa · as Virgil Cole |
| 2008 | Touching Home · as Charlie Winston |
| 2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets · as Mitch Wilkinson |
| 2007 | Gone Baby Gone · as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant |
| 2007 | Cleaner · as Eddie Lorenzo |
| 2006 | America's Game (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Copying Beethoven · as Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| 2006 | Armenian Genocide · as U.s. Consul Leslie Davis (voice) |
| 2006 | Two Tickets to Paradise · as Melville |
| 2005 | Winter Passing · as Don Holden |
| 2005 | Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Budd Boetticher: An American Original · as Narrator |
| 2005 | A History of Violence · as Carl Fogarty |
| 2005 | Empire Falls (TV Series) · as Miles Roby |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson · as Other Voices (voice) |
| 2003 | The Human Stain · as Lester Farley |
| 2003 | Radio · as Coach Jones |
| 2003 | Volcanoes of the Deep Sea · as Narrator |
| 2003 | Masked and Anonymous · as Oscar Vogel |
| 2002 | The Hours · as Richard Brown |
| 2002 | Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion · as Tibetan Voiceovers |
| 2002 | Just a Dream · as Henry Sturbuck (voice) |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind · as William Parcher |
| 2001 | Buffalo Soldiers · as Colonel Berman |
| 2001 | Enemy at the Gates · as Major König |
| 2000 | Pollock · as Jackson Pollock |
| 2000 | Waking the Dead · as Jerry Charmichael |
| 2000 | The Prime Gig · as Kelly Grant |
| 1999 | The Third Miracle · as Frank Shore |
| 1998 | Stepmom · as Luke Harrison |
| 1998 | The Truman Show · as Christof |
| 1998 | The Truman Show: Tru-Talk · as Christof |
| 1997 | Absolute Power · as Seth Frank |
| 1996 | The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage · as Sam Peckinpah (voice) |
| 1996 | The Rock · as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, Usmc |
| 1996 | Riders of the Purple Sage · as Jim Lassiter |
| 1996 | Eye for an Eye · as Mack Mccann |
| 1995 | Nixon · as E. Howard Hunt |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 · as Gene Kranz |
| 1995 | Just Cause · as Blair Sullivan |
| 1994 | Baseball (TV Series) · as (voice) |
| 1994 | Milk Money · as Tom Wheeler |
| 1994 | The Stand (TV Series) · as General Starkey (uncredited) |
| 1994 | China Moon · as Kyle Bodine |
| 1993 | Frasier (TV Series) · as Rob (voice) |
| 1993 | Needful Things · as Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn |
| 1993 | The Firm · as Wayne Tarrance |
| 1992 | Running Mates · as Hugh Hathaway |
| 1992 | Glengarry Glen Ross · as Dave Moss |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) |
| 1991 | Paris Trout · as Harry Seagraves |
| 1990 | State of Grace · as Frankie |
| 1989 | The Abyss · as Virgil 'bud' Brigman |
| 1989 | Field of Dreams · as The Voice |
| 1989 | |
| 1988 | To Kill A Priest · as Stefan |
| 1987 | Walker · as William Walker |
| 1987 | The Last Innocent Man · as Harry Nash |
| 1986 | Scream Greats, Volume I: Tom Savini · as Billy |
| 1985 | Sweet Dreams · as Charlie Dick |
| 1985 | Code Name: Emerald · as Gus Lang |
| 1985 | Alamo Bay · as Shang |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart · as Wayne Lomax |
| 1984 | A Flash of Green · as Jimmy Wing |
| 1984 | Swing Shift · as Jack Walsh |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff · as John Glenn |
| 1983 | Under Fire · as Oates |
| 1982 | Creepshow · as Hank Blaine (segment "father's Day") |
| 1982 | Cassie & Co. (TV Series) |
| 1981 | |
| 1981 | Knightriders · as Billy |
| 1980 | Borderline · as Hotchkiss |
| 1980 | The Aliens Are Coming · as Chuck Polcheck |
| 1979 | Paris (TV Series) |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart (TV Series) |
| 1979 | The Seekers (TV Series) · as Lt. Wm Clark |
| 1978 | David Cassidy: Man Undercover (TV Series) · as Ben |
| 1978 | Coma · as Pathology Resident |
| 1977 | Lou Grant (TV Series) · as Warren |
| 1977 | CHiPs (TV Series) · as Lonny |
| 1977 | The Amazing Howard Hughes · as Russ |
| 1976 | Gibbsville (TV Series) · as Steve |
| 1976 | Delvecchio (TV Series) · as Davey Bresnihan |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files (TV Series) · as Rudy Kempner |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Glenn Morgan |