Ed Harris

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ed Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Carl Fogarty

A History of Violence

Seth Frank

Absolute Power

Major König

Enemy at the Gates

William Parcher

A Beautiful Mind

Gene Kranz

Apollo 13

Richard Brown

The Hours

Ludwig van Beethoven

Copying Beethoven

Frankie

State of Grace

Sheriff Alan Pangborn

Needful Things

Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

The Abyss

Lester Farley

The Human Stain

Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant

Gone Baby Gone

E. Howard Hunt

Nixon

Billy

Knightriders

James Tyrone

Long Day's Journey into Night

Mitch Wilkinson

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Oscar Vogel

Masked and Anonymous

Hotchkiss

Borderline

Tom Wheeler

Milk Money

Luke Harrison

Stepmom

Blair Sullivan

Just Cause

Kyle Bodine

China Moon

Colonel Berman

Buffalo Soldiers

Dave Moss

Glengarry Glen Ross

Russ

The Amazing Howard Hughes

John Glenn

The Right Stuff

Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

The Rock

Eddie Lorenzo

Cleaner

Virgil Cole

Appaloosa

Oates

Under Fire

Jackson Pollock

Pollock

Narrator

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea

Wayne Lomax

Places in the Heart

William Walker

Walker

Coach Jones

Radio

Don Holden

Winter Passing

Charlie Dick

Sweet Dreams

Frank Shore

The Third Miracle

Christof

The Truman Show

Wayne Tarrance

The Firm

Jerry Charmichael

Waking the Dead

Kelly Grant

The Prime Gig

Liam

Once Fallen

Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")

Creepshow

Pathology Resident

Coma

David 'High School' Flannigan

Jacknife

Self

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

Stefan

To Kill a Priest

Mack McCann

Eye for an Eye

Jack Walsh

Swing Shift

Mr. Smith

The Way Back

Mission Control (voice)

Gravity

David Englander

Man on a Ledge

Self

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Dale

My Dead Friend Zoe

Dr. Paul Blaylock

Salvation Boulevard

Charlie Winston

Touching Home

Harry Seagraves

Paris Trout

John McCain

Game Change

Gus Lang

Code Name: Emerald

Mr. Simon

That's What I Am

Hugh Hathaway

Running Mates

Jimmy Wing

A Flash of Green

Sheriff Dick Tipton

Virginia

Self

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13

Demi

Phantom

Narrator (voice)

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Horace Jones

Downtown Owl

Ed DuBois

Pain & Gain

Jim Lassiter

Riders of the Purple Sage

Sheriff Cornelius Jackson

Sweetwater

Chuck Polcheck

The Aliens Are Coming

Shang

Alamo Bay

Garret Mathis / Tom Young

The Face of Love

School for the Blind

Cymbeline

Cymbeline

Shawn Maguire

Run All Night

H.C. Westermann

Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea

Dream on!

Wilford

설국열차

Lou Sr.

Love Lies Bleeding

Roy

Frontera

Alan

Get Away If You Can

Vince

Riff Raff

Harry Nash

The Last Innocent Man

Himself

Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island

Blade Ranger (voice)

Planes: Fire & Rescue

Neil Elliott

The Adderall Diaries

U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

Geostorm

Narrator (voice)

Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space

Joy

In Dubious Battle

Melville

Two Tickets to Paradise

Narrator

Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story

Self

Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'

Lt. William Clark

The Seekers

Christof

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk

Whitelaw Redfellow

How to Make a Killing

Boris

Concrete

Mr. Bransford

Rules Don't Apply

Man

mother!

Self

Junket Whore

Benjamin Ryder

Kodachrome

Sam Vaughn

A Crooked Somebody

U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)

The Armenian Genocide

Ray Mott

The Last Full Measure

George S. Patton

Resistance

Dodge

Buried Child

Himself

Dispatches from Nicaragua

Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

Top Gun: Maverick

Other Voices (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Self

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'

Sam Peckinpah (Voice)

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

Henry Sturbuck (voice)

Just a Dream

Lyle

The Lost Daughter

The Dink

Self - Narrator

America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins

Self

How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'

narrator

The Oklahoma Heisman

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

118

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-11-28

Place of Birth

Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As

艾德·哈里斯