Ed 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.
Known For
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Daily Show
1996
The View
1997
Frasier
1993
Westworld
2016
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Great Performances
1971
Golden Globe Awards
1944
American Playhouse
1982
0Tony Awards
1956
The Rockford Files
1974
Dutton Ranch
2026
Filmography
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest · 2015
The Daily Show
as Self · 1996
The View
as Self · 1997
Frasier
as Rob (voice) · 1993
Westworld
as Man in Black · 2016
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
· 1992
Great Performances
as Self · 1971
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1944
American Playhouse
as Jimmy Wing · 1982
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1956
The Rockford Files
as Rudy Kempner · 1974
Dutton Ranch
as Everett McKinney · 2026
Hart to Hart
· 1979
Top Gun: Maverick
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain · 2022
Lou Grant
· 1977
Lou Grant
as Warren · 1977
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1983
The Oscars
as Self · 1953
The Truman Show
as Christof · 1998
How to Make a Killing
as Whitelaw Redfellow · 2026
A Beautiful Mind
as William Parcher · 2001
CHiPs
as Lonny · 1977
Snowpiercer
as Wilford · 2013
Gravity
as Mission Control (voice) · 2013
Love Lies Bleeding
as Lou Sr. · 2024
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
as Narrator (voice) · 2006
The Stand
as General Starkey (uncredited) · 1994
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Mitch Wilkinson · 2007
Enemy at the Gates
as Major König · 2001
The Abyss
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman · 1989
Planes: Fire & Rescue
as Blade Ranger (voice) · 2014
The Rock
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC · 1996
Run All Night
as Shawn Maguire · 2015
The Dink
as Chuck Boyd · 2026
Man on a Ledge
as David Englander · 2012
Baseball
as Various (voice) · 1994
Baseball
as (voice) · 1994
The Early Show
as Self · 1999
Apollo 13
as Gene Kranz · 1995
Gone Baby Gone
as Remy Bressant · 2007
The Firm
as Wayne Tarrance · 1993
Geostorm
as Leonard Dekkom · 2017
Pain & Gain
as Ed DuBois · 2013
The Way Back
as Mr. Smith · 2010
Cassie & Co.
as Agent Taylor · 1982
Absolute Power
as Seth Frank · 1997
The Lost Daughter
as Lyle · 2021
A History of Violence
as Carl Fogarty · 2005
Radio
as Coach Jones · 2003
Delvecchio
as Davey Bresnihan · 1976
mother!
as Man · 2017
In Dubious Battle
as Joy · 2016
Eye for an Eye
as Mack McCann · 1996
Cleaner
as Eddie Lorenzo · 2007
Stepmom
as Luke Harrison · 1998
Empire Falls
as Miles Roby · 2005
Downtown Owl
as Horace Jones · 2023
State of Grace
as Frankie · 1990
The Right Stuff
as John Glenn · 1983
Resistance
as George S. Patton · 2020
The Human Stain
as Lester Farley · 2003
Glengarry Glen Ross
as Dave Moss · 1992
The Last Full Measure
as Ray Mott · 2020
The Hours
as Richard Brown · 2002
Paris
· 1979
Needful Things
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn · 1993
Just Cause
as Blair Sullivan · 1995
Riff Raff
as Vince · 2025
Rules Don't Apply
as Mr. Bransford · 2016
Creepshow
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day") · 1982
Places in the Heart
as Wayne Lomax · 1984
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
as Himself · 2020
Frontera
as Roy · 2014
Gibbsville
as Steve · 1976
Milk Money
as Dad · 1994
The Seekers
as Lt. William Clark · 1979
Nixon
as E. Howard Hunt · 1995
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2024
My Dead Friend Zoe
as Dale · 2024
China Moon
as Kyle Bodine · 1994
Under Fire
as Oates · 1983
Appaloosa
as Virgil Cole · 2008
Jacknife
as David 'High School' Flannigan · 1989
The Adderall Diaries
as Neil Elliott · 2016
Buffalo Soldiers
as Colonel Berman · 2002
Coma
as Pathology Resident · 1978
Cymbeline
as Cymbeline · 2014
The Face of Love
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young · 2013
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
as Narrator · 2019
Borderline
as Hotchkiss · 1980
Sweetwater
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson · 2013
That's What I Am
as Mr. Simon · 2011
The Third Miracle
as Frank Shore · 1999
Kodachrome
as Benjamin Ryder · 2017
Knightriders
as Billy · 1981
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
as Narrator · 2011
Game Change
as John McCain · 2012
Junket Whore
as Self · 1998
Copying Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven · 2006
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
as Ben · 1978
Waking the Dead
as Jerry Charmichael · 2000
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self · 1994
To Kill a Priest
as Stefan · 1988
Walker
as William Walker · 1987
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jim Lassiter · 1996
Phantom
as Demi · 2013
The Amazing Howard Hughes
as Russ · 1977
Winter Passing
as Don Holden · 2006
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
as Self · 1998
Masked and Anonymous
as Oscar Vogel · 2003
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice) · 2004
Two Tickets to Paradise
as Melville · 2006
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Christof · 1998
A Crooked Somebody
as Sam Vaughn · 2018
Code Name: Emerald
as Gus Lang · 1985
Long Day's Journey into Night
as James Tyrone · 2026
Salvation Boulevard
as Dr. Paul Blaylock · 2011
Once Fallen
as Liam · 2010
The Aliens Are Coming
as Chuck Polcheck · 1980
Pollock
as Jackson Pollock · 2000
Virginia
as Sheriff Dick Tipton · 2010
Swing Shift
as Jack Walsh · 1984
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
as Self · 1996
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
as Self · 1993
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
as Sam Peckinpah (Voice) · 1996
Sweet Dreams
as Charlie Dick · 1985
The Prime Gig
as Kelly Grant · 2001
The Ploughmen
as John Gload
The Last Innocent Man
as Harry Nash · 1987
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Narrator (voice) · 2005
Ashley Wright
as Judge Allen
Get Away If You Can
as Alan · 2022
Alamo Bay
as Shang · 1985
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
as Self · 2005
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as Self · 1997
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
as Narrator · 2003
The Armenian Genocide
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice) · 2006
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
as Self · 2007
Realizing The Right Stuff
as Self · 2003
Just a Dream
as Henry Sturbuck (voice) · 2002
A Flash of Green
as Jimmy Wing · 1984
Paris Trout
as Harry Seagraves · 1991
Running Mates
as Hugh Hathaway · 1992
School for the Blind
Buried Child
as Dodge · 2016
Concrete
as Boris · 2024
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
as H.C. Westermann · 2023
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
as Self - Narrator · 2007
Touching Home
as Charlie Winston · 2008
Dream on!
· 1981
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
as Himself · 1999
Dispatches from Nicaragua
as Himself · 2008
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
as Narrator · 2015
War on Wolves
as Narrator
Off the Horse
as Bob · 2025
The Oklahoma Heisman
as Narrator · 2006