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Ed Harris

Acting 75 years old Englewood, New Jersey, USA ★ 5.0
Born: November 28, 1950

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), 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.

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Known For

Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain 2022
How to Make a Killing
How to Make a Killing Whitelaw Redfellow 2026
Rules Don't Apply
Rules Don't Apply Mr. Bransford 2016
The Truman Show
The Truman Show Christof 1998
Gravity
Gravity Mission Control (voice) 2013

Jimmy's Seen (5)

Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer Wilford 2013
Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross Dave Moss 1992
Love Lies Bleeding
Love Lies Bleeding Lou Sr. 2024
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain 2022
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain 2022

Filmography

Acting Credits (150)

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

Directing Credits (3)

Writing Credits (2)

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