Cast
Ed Harris
Acting
Cast
Ed Harris
Known for
Acting
Born
1950-11-28
From
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.
Top Gun: Maverick
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
The Truman Show
as Christof
How to Make a Killing
as Whitelaw Redfellow
Snowpiercer
as Wilford
Gravity
as Mission Control (voice)
Geostorm
as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
A Beautiful Mind
as William Parcher
Apollo 13
as Gene Kranz
Enemy at the Gates
as Major König
The Rock
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
A History of Violence
as Carl Fogarty
The Abyss
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
mother!
as Man
Cleaner
as Eddie Lorenzo
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Mitch Wilkinson
Pain & Gain
as Ed DuBois
The Firm
as Wayne Tarrance
Run All Night
as Shawn Maguire
Love Lies Bleeding
as Lou Sr.
Absolute Power
as Seth Frank
Planes: Fire & Rescue
as Blade Ranger (voice)
Radio
as Coach Jones
The Way Back
as Mr. Smith
The Hours
as Richard Brown
Gone Baby Gone
as Remy Bressant
Stepmom
as Luke Harrison
Milk Money
as Tom Wheeler
Nixon
as E. Howard Hunt
Creepshow
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
The Right Stuff
as John Glenn
Appaloosa
as Virgil Cole
Man on a Ledge
as David Englander
State of Grace
as Frankie
Eye for an Eye
as Mack McCann
Needful Things
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
The Lost Daughter
as Lyle
In Dubious Battle
as Joy
Frontera
as Roy
Places in the Heart
as Wayne Lomax
Resistance
as George S. Patton
Glengarry Glen Ross
as Dave Moss
Kodachrome
as Benjamin Ryder
Coma
as Pathology Resident
Just Cause
as Blair Sullivan
Salvation Boulevard
as Dr. Paul Blaylock
The Last Full Measure
as Ray Mott
Downtown Owl
as Horace Jones
Riff Raff
as Vince
Rules Don't Apply
as Mr. Bransford
Knightriders
as Billy
China Moon
as Kyle Bodine
Paris Trout
as Harry Seagraves
Copying Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Phantom
as Demi
Sweetwater
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
Winter Passing
as Don Holden
Jacknife
as David 'High School' Flannigan
Game Change
as John McCain
The Human Stain
as Lester Farley
Buffalo Soldiers
as Colonel Berman
Pollock
as Jackson Pollock
Walker
as William Walker
Cymbeline
as Cymbeline
Borderline
as Hotchkiss
That's What I Am
as Mr. Simon
The Adderall Diaries
as Neil Elliott
Under Fire
as Oates
My Dead Friend Zoe
as Dale
Masked and Anonymous
as Oscar Vogel
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
Swing Shift
as Jack Walsh
The Third Miracle
as Frank Shore
Virginia
as Sheriff Dick Tipton
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jim Lassiter
The Face of Love
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Dream on!
Sweet Dreams
as Charlie Dick
Once Fallen
as Liam
The Amazing Howard Hughes
as Russ
The Dink
as Chuck Boyd
Touching Home
as Charlie Winston
Waking the Dead
as Jerry Charmichael
To Kill a Priest
as Stefan
Code Name: Emerald
as Gus Lang
Junket Whore
as Self
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Christof
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as Self
The Prime Gig
as Kelly Grant
Running Mates
as Hugh Hathaway
The Armenian Genocide
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
The Last Innocent Man
as Harry Nash
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
as Self
Just a Dream
as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
as Self
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
as Narrator
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
as Self
Long Day's Journey into Night
as James Tyrone
The Aliens Are Coming
as Chuck Polcheck
Alamo Bay
as Shang
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
Two Tickets to Paradise
as Melville
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Narrator (voice)
A Crooked Somebody
as Sam Vaughn
Buried Child
as Dodge
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
as Self
Concrete
as Boris
A Flash of Green
as Jimmy Wing
Get Away If You Can
as Alan
School for the Blind
Dispatches from Nicaragua
as Himself
Realizing The Right Stuff
as Self
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
as Self
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
as Himself
The Oklahoma Heisman
as Narrator
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
as Narrator
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
as H.C. Westermann
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
as Self - Narrator
War on Wolves
as Narrator