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

Dutton Ranch

Westworld

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Daily Show

Frasier

The View

Golden Globe Awards

Tony Awards

All Movies (119)

• The Dink2026 · as Chuck Boyd
• How to Make a Killing2026 · as Whitelaw Redfellow
• Off the Horse2025 · as Bob
• Long Day's Journey into Night2025 · as James Tyrone
• Riff Raff2025 · as Vince
• Concrete2024 · as Boris
• My Dead Friend Zoe2024 · as Dale
• Love Lies Bleeding2024 · as Lou Sr.
• Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea2023 · as H.C. Westermann
• Downtown Owl2023 · as Horace Jones
• Get Away If You Can2022 · as Alan
• Top Gun: Maverick2022 · as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
• The Lost Daughter2021 · as Lyle
• Resistance2020 · as George S. Patton
• The Last Full Measure2020 · as Ray Mott
• A Crooked Somebody2018 · as Sam Vaughn
• Geostorm2017 · as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
• mother!2017 · as Man
• Kodachrome2017 · as Benjamin Ryder
• Buried Child2016 · as Dodge
• Rules Don't Apply2016 · as Mr. Bransford
• In Dubious Battle2016 · as Joy
• The Adderall Diaries2016 · as Neil Elliott
• Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story2015 · as Narrator
• Run All Night2015 · as Shawn Maguire
• Cymbeline2014 · as Cymbeline
• Frontera2014 · as Roy
• Planes: Fire & Rescue2014 · as Blade Ranger (voice)
• The Face of Love2013 · as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
• Sweetwater2013 · as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
• Gravity2013 · as Mission Control (voice)
• Snowpiercer2013 · as Wilford
• Pain & Gain2013 · as Ed DuBois
• Phantom2013 · as Demi
• Game Change2012 · as John McCain
• Man on a Ledge2012 · as David Englander
• Salvation Boulevard2011 · as Dr. Paul Blaylock
• That's What I Am2011 · as Mr. Simon
• The Way Back2010 · as Mr. Smith
• Once Fallen2010 · as Liam
• Virginia2010 · as Sheriff Dick Tipton
• Appaloosa2008 · as Virgil Cole
• Touching Home2008 · as Charlie Winston
• Dispatches from Nicaragua2008 · as Himself
• National Treasure: Book of Secrets2007 · as Mitch Wilkinson
• Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'2007 · as Self
• Gone Baby Gone2007 · as Remy Bressant
• Cleaner2007 · as Eddie Lorenzo
• America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins2007 · as Self - Narrator
• Copying Beethoven2006 · as Ludwig van Beethoven
• The Armenian Genocide2006 · as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
• Two Tickets to Paradise2006 · as Melville
• The Oklahoma Heisman2006 · as Narrator
• Winter Passing2006 · as Don Holden
• Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That2005 · as Narrator (voice)
• A History of Violence2005 · as Carl Fogarty
• How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'2005 · as Self
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson2004 · as Other Voices (voice)
• The Human Stain2003 · as Lester Farley
• Radio2003 · as Coach Jones
• Volcanoes of the Deep Sea2003 · as Narrator
• Masked and Anonymous2003 · as Oscar Vogel
• Realizing The Right Stuff2003 · as Self
• The Hours2002 · as Richard Brown
• Buffalo Soldiers2002 · as Colonel Berman
• Just a Dream2002 · as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
• A Beautiful Mind2001 · as William Parcher
• The Prime Gig2001 · as Kelly Grant
• Enemy at the Gates2001 · as Major König
• Pollock2000 · as Jackson Pollock
• Waking the Dead2000 · as Jerry Charmichael
• The Third Miracle1999 · as Frank Shore
• Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island1999 · as Himself
• Stepmom1998 · as Luke Harrison
• Junket Whore1998 · as Self
• Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery1998 · as Self
• Tru-Talk1998 · as Christof
• The Truman Show1998 · as Christof
• Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western1997 · as Self
• Absolute Power1997 · as Seth Frank
• The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage1996 · as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
• Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 131996 · as Self
• The Rock1996 · as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
• Riders of the Purple Sage1996 · as Jim Lassiter
• Eye for an Eye1996 · as Mack McCann
• Nixon1995 · as E. Howard Hunt
• Apollo 131995 · as Gene Kranz
• Just Cause1995 · as Blair Sullivan
• Milk Money1994 · as Tom Wheeler
• China Moon1994 · as Kyle Bodine
• Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'1993 · as Self
• Needful Things1993 · as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
• The Firm1993 · as Wayne Tarrance
• Running Mates1992 · as Hugh Hathaway
• Glengarry Glen Ross1992 · as Dave Moss
• Paris Trout1991 · as Harry Seagraves
• State of Grace1990 · as Frankie
• Jacknife1989 · as David 'High School' Flannigan
• The Abyss1989 · as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
• To Kill a Priest1988 · as Stefan
• Walker1987 · as William Walker
• The Last Innocent Man1987 · as Harry Nash
• Sweet Dreams1985 · as Charlie Dick
• Code Name: Emerald1985 · as Gus Lang
• Alamo Bay1985 · as Shang
• A Flash of Green1984 · as Jimmy Wing
• Places in the Heart1984 · as Wayne Lomax
• Swing Shift1984 · as Jack Walsh
• Under Fire1983 · as Oates
• The Right Stuff1983 · as John Glenn
• Creepshow1982 · as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
• Dream on!1981
• Knightriders1981 · as Billy
• Borderline1980 · as Hotchkiss
• The Aliens Are Coming1980 · as Chuck Polcheck
• Coma1978 · as Pathology Resident
• The Amazing Howard Hughes1977 · as Russ
• School for the Blind—
• War on Wolves— · as Narrator

All TV Shows (34)

• Dutton Ranch2026 · as Everett McKinney
• Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War2024 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party2020 · as Himself
• The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power2019 · as Narrator
• Westworld2016 · as Man in Black
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero2011 · as Narrator
• America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions2006 · as Narrator (voice)
• Empire Falls2005 · as Miles Roby
• The Early Show1999 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• Baseball1994 · as Various (voice)
• Baseball1994 · as (voice)
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• The Stand1994 · as General Starkey (uncredited)
• Frasier1993 · as Rob (voice)
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992
• Reading Rainbow1983 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Cassie & Co.1982 · as Agent Taylor
• Paris1979
• Hart to Hart1979
• The Seekers1979 · as Lt. William Clark
• David Cassidy: Man Under Cover1978 · as Ben
• Lou Grant1977
• Lou Grant1977 · as Warren
• CHiPs1977 · as Lonny
• Gibbsville1976 · as Steve
• Delvecchio1976 · as Davey Bresnihan
• The Rockford Files1974 · as Rudy Kempner
• Great Performances1971 · as Self
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee