Ed Harris
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.
149 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 149
Dutton Ranch
2026
The Daily Show
1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Westworld
2016
Frasier
1993
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
Great Performances
1971
The Rockford Files
1974
Top Gun: Maverick
2022
Tony Awards
1956
Hart to Hart
1979
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
CHiPs
1977
Lou Grant
1977
The Truman Show
1998
The Oscars
1953
How to Make a Killing
2026
A History of Violence
2005
Reading Rainbow
1983
Snowpiercer
2013
Enemy at the Gates
2001
The Stand
1994
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
Baseball
1994
A Beautiful Mind
2001
The Rock
1996
Gravity
2013
Geostorm
2017
Apollo 13
1995
The Abyss
1989
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
Cleaner
2007
Love Lies Bleeding
2024
mother!
2017
Paris
1979
The Firm
1993
Run All Night
2015
The Way Back
2010
Gone Baby Gone
2007
Delvecchio
1976
Cassie & Co.
1982
Pain & Gain
2013
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014
Radio
2003
Stepmom
1998
Empire Falls
2005
Absolute Power
1997
Man on a Ledge
2012
Milk Money
1994
Gibbsville
1976
Places in the Heart
1984
The Right Stuff
1983
The Hours
2002
Creepshow
1982
Eye for an Eye
1996
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
The Early Show
1999
Nixon
1995
Just Cause
1995
The Last Full Measure
2020
Appaloosa
2008
Coma
1978
Under Fire
1983
The Lost Daughter
2021
Needful Things
1993
Resistance
2020
In Dubious Battle
2016
State of Grace
1990
The Human Stain
2003
Frontera
2014
Waking the Dead
2000
Rules Don't Apply
2016
China Moon
1994
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
2019
Buffalo Soldiers
2002
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
2024
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
Pollock
2000
Phantom
2013
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Seekers
1979
Masked and Anonymous
2003
Sweetwater
2013
Riff Raff
2025
Kodachrome
2017
Cymbeline
2014
Walker
1987
The Adderall Diaries
2016
Copying Beethoven
2006
Borderline
1980
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
2011
Jacknife
1989
Game Change
2012
That's What I Am
2011
Two Tickets to Paradise
2006
Once Fallen
2010
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
Junket Whore
1998
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
Virginia
2010
Swing Shift
1984
The Prime Gig
2001
Salvation Boulevard
2011
Knightriders
1981
The Face of Love
2013
Sweet Dreams
1985
The Dink
2026
Paris Trout
1991
Code Name: Emerald
1985
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
Downtown Owl
2023
To Kill a Priest
1988
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003
Winter Passing
2006
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
1978
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
The Armenian Genocide
2006
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993
A Crooked Somebody
2018
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007
The Third Miracle
1999
The Aliens Are Coming
1980
Alamo Bay
1985
Buried Child
2016
Running Mates
1992
The Last Innocent Man
1987
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998
A Flash of Green
1984
Just a Dream
2002
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
Get Away If You Can
2022
Concrete
2024
Touching Home
2008
Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
School for the Blind
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Dream on!
1981
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
Realizing The Right Stuff
2003
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007
The Oklahoma Heisman
2006
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
1999
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023