Ed Harris
Acting
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.
TV Shows(32)
Dutton Ranch
Everett McKinney
2026
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
Himself
2020
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
Narrator
2019
Westworld
Man in Black
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Narrator
2011
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Narrator (voice)
2006
Empire Falls
Miles Roby
2005
The Early Show
Self
1999
The View
Self
1997
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Baseball
Various (voice)
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
The Stand
General Starkey (uncredited)
1994
Frasier
Rob (voice)
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
Cassie & Co.
Agent Taylor
1982
Paris
1979
Hart to Hart
1979
The Seekers
Lt. William Clark
1979
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
Ben
1978
Lou Grant
1977
CHiPs
Lonny
1977
Gibbsville
Steve
1976
Delvecchio
Davey Bresnihan
1976
The Rockford Files
Rudy Kempner
1974
Great Performances
Self
1971
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
The Oscars
Self
1953
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Movies(117)
The Dink
Chuck Boyd
2026
How to Make a Killing
Whitelaw Redfellow
2026
Long Day's Journey into Night
James Tyrone
2025
Riff Raff
Vince
2025
Concrete
Boris
2024
My Dead Friend Zoe
Dale
2024
Love Lies Bleeding
Lou Sr.
2024
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
H.C. Westermann
2023
Downtown Owl
Horace Jones
2023
Get Away If You Can
Alan
2022
Top Gun: Maverick
Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
2022
The Lost Daughter
Lyle
2021
Resistance
George S. Patton
2020
The Last Full Measure
Ray Mott
2020
A Crooked Somebody
Sam Vaughn
2018
Geostorm
U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
2017
mother!
Man
2017
Kodachrome
Benjamin Ryder
2017
Buried Child
Dodge
2016
Rules Don't Apply
Mr. Bransford
2016
In Dubious Battle
Joy
2016
The Adderall Diaries
Neil Elliott
2016
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
Narrator
2015
Run All Night
Shawn Maguire
2015
Cymbeline
Cymbeline
2014
Frontera
Roy
2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Blade Ranger (voice)
2014
The Face of Love
Garret Mathis / Tom Young
2013
Sweetwater
Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
2013
Gravity
Mission Control (voice)
2013
Snowpiercer
Wilford
2013
Pain & Gain
Ed DuBois
2013
Phantom
Demi
2013
Game Change
John McCain
2012
Man on a Ledge
David Englander
2012
Salvation Boulevard
Dr. Paul Blaylock
2011
That's What I Am
Mr. Simon
2011
The Way Back
Mr. Smith
2010
Once Fallen
Liam
2010
Virginia
Sheriff Dick Tipton
2010
Appaloosa
Virgil Cole
2008
Touching Home
Charlie Winston
2008
Dispatches from Nicaragua
Himself
2008
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Mitch Wilkinson
2007
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
Self
2007
Gone Baby Gone
Remy Bressant
2007
Cleaner
Eddie Lorenzo
2007
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
Self - Narrator
2007
Copying Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
2006
The Armenian Genocide
U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
2006
Two Tickets to Paradise
Melville
2006
The Oklahoma Heisman
Narrator
2006
Winter Passing
Don Holden
2006
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Narrator (voice)
2005
A History of Violence
Carl Fogarty
2005
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
Self
2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
2004
The Human Stain
Lester Farley
2003
Radio
Coach Jones
2003
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
Narrator
2003
Masked and Anonymous
Oscar Vogel
2003
Realizing The Right Stuff
Self
2003
The Hours
Richard Brown
2002
Buffalo Soldiers
Colonel Berman
2002
Just a Dream
Henry Sturbuck (voice)
2002
A Beautiful Mind
William Parcher
2001
The Prime Gig
Kelly Grant
2001
Enemy at the Gates
Major König
2001
Pollock
Jackson Pollock
2000
Waking the Dead
Jerry Charmichael
2000
The Third Miracle
Frank Shore
1999
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
Himself
1999
Stepmom
Luke Harrison
1998
Junket Whore
Self
1998
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Self
1998
The Truman Show
Christof
1998
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Christof
1998
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
1997
Absolute Power
Seth Frank
1997
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
1996
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
Self
1996
The Rock
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
1996
Riders of the Purple Sage
Jim Lassiter
1996
Eye for an Eye
Mack McCann
1996
Nixon
E. Howard Hunt
1995
Apollo 13
Gene Kranz
1995
Just Cause
Blair Sullivan
1995
Milk Money
Tom Wheeler
1994
China Moon
Kyle Bodine
1994
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
Self
1993
Needful Things
Sheriff Alan Pangborn
1993
The Firm
Wayne Tarrance
1993
Running Mates
Hugh Hathaway
1992
Glengarry Glen Ross
Dave Moss
1992
Paris Trout
Harry Seagraves
1991
State of Grace
Frankie
1990
Jacknife
David 'High School' Flannigan
1989
The Abyss
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
1989
To Kill a Priest
Stefan
1988
Walker
William Walker
1987
The Last Innocent Man
Harry Nash
1987
Sweet Dreams
Charlie Dick
1985
Code Name: Emerald
Gus Lang
1985
Alamo Bay
Shang
1985
A Flash of Green
Jimmy Wing
1984
Places in the Heart
Wayne Lomax
1984
Swing Shift
Jack Walsh
1984
Under Fire
Oates
1983
The Right Stuff
John Glenn
1983
Creepshow
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
1982
Dream on!
1981
Knightriders
Billy
1981
Borderline
Hotchkiss
1980
The Aliens Are Coming
Chuck Polcheck
1980
Coma
Pathology Resident
1978
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Russ
1977
School for the Blind