Ed Harris

73 · Born: Nov 28, 1950

Personal Details

Born Nov 28, 1950 Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Parents

Margaret Harris
Bob L. Harris

Relatives

Robert Harris (Sibling)
Spencer Harris (Sibling)

Biography

Ed Harris is an American stage, film and television actor, writer, producer and director, best known for playing supporting characters in feature films such as "Apollo 13", "A Beautiful Mind", and "The Truman Show", as well as many recurring and starring roles in television shows, among them the portrayal of The Man in Black in HBO's "Westworld". He holds a BFA in Drama from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA.

Career

acting

2024

Love Lies Bleeding

Love Lies Bleeding as Lou Sr.

My Dead Friend Zoe

My Dead Friend Zoe as Dale

2023

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

Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea as H.C. Westermann

2022

Get Away If You Can

Get Away If You Can as Alan

Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

2021

The Lost Daughter

The Lost Daughter as Lyle

2020

The Last Full Measure

The Last Full Measure as Ray Mott

Resistance as George S. Patton

2019

The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power

The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power as Narrator

2018

A Crooked Somebody

A Crooked Somebody as Sam Vaughn

2017

Mother! as Man

Kodachrome as Benjamin Ryder

Geostorm as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

2016

The Adderall Diaries

The Adderall Diaries as Neil Elliott

In Dubious Battle

In Dubious Battle as Joy

Rules Don't Apply

Rules Don't Apply as Mr. Bransford

Buried Child as Dodge

Westworld as Man in Black

2015

Run All Night as Shawn Maguire

2014

Frontera as Roy

Planes: Fire & Rescue

Planes: Fire & Rescue as Blade Ranger (voice)

Cymbeline as Cymbeline

2013

Snowpiercer as Minister Wilford

Sweetwater as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson

Phantom as Demi

Gravity as Mission Control (voice)

Pain & Gain as Ed DuBois

The Face of Love

The Face of Love as Garret Mathis / Tom Young

2012

Game Change as John McCain

Man on a Ledge as David Englander

2011

Salvation Boulevard

Salvation Boulevard as Dr. Paul Blaylock

That's What I Am

That's What I Am as Mr. Simon

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero as Narrator

2010

Virginia as Sheriff Dick Tipton

The Way Back as Mr. Smith

Once Fallen as Liam

2008

Touching Home as Charlie Winston

Appaloosa as Virgil Cole

2007

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Mitch Wilkinson

Cleaner as Eddie Lorenzo

Gone Baby Gone as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant

2006

Winter Passing as Don Holden

Two Tickets to Paradise

Two Tickets to Paradise as Melville

Copying Beethoven

Copying Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven

Armenian Genocide

Armenian Genocide as US Consul Leslie Davis (voice)

2005

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Narrator (voice)

A History of Violence

A History of Violence as Carl Fogarty

Empire Falls as Miles Roby

2004

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)

2003

The Human Stain

The Human Stain as Lester Farley

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea as Narrator

Radio as Coach Jones

2002

Buffalo Soldiers

Buffalo Soldiers as Colonel Berman

Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion as Tibetan Voiceovers

Just a Dream as Henry Sturbuck (voice)

2001

The Prime Gig as Kelly Grant

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind as William Parcher

Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates as Major König

2000

Pollock as Jackson Pollock

Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead as Jerry Charmichael

1999

The Third Miracle

The Third Miracle as Frank Shore

1998

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk as Christof

The Truman Show

The Truman Show as Christof

Stepmom as Luke Harrison

1997

Absolute Power as Seth Frank

1996

Eye for an Eye as Mack McCann

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)

Riders of the Purple Sage

Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Lassiter

The Rock as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

1995

Just Cause as Blair Sullivan

Nixon as E. Howard Hunt

Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz

1994

China Moon as Kyle Bodine

Milk Money as Tom Wheeler

The Stand as General Starkey

Baseball as Various (voice)

1993

Needful Things as Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn

The Firm as Wayne Tarrance

1992

Running Mates as Hugh Hathaway

Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross as Dave Moss

1991

Paris Trout as Harry Seagraves

1990

State of Grace as Frankie

1989

The Abyss as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

Jacknife as David 'High School' Flannigan

1988

To Kill A Priest

To Kill A Priest as Stefan

1987

Walker as William Walker

The Last Innocent Man

The Last Innocent Man as Harry Nash

1985

Alamo Bay as Shang

Code Name: Emerald

Code Name: Emerald as Gus Lang

Sweet Dreams as Charlie Dick

1984

Swing Shift as Jack Walsh

Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart as Wayne Lomax

A Flash of Green

A Flash of Green as Jimmy Wing

1983

Under Fire as Oates

The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff as John Glenn

1982

Creepshow as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")

1981

Knightriders as Billy

CHiPs as Lonny

1980

Borderline as Hotchkiss

The Aliens Are Coming

The Aliens Are Coming as Chuck Polcheck

1978

The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files as Rudy Kempner

appearances

2008

Dispatches from Nicaragua

Dispatches from Nicaragua

2007

Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'

Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'

2005

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

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

1999

1998

Great Performances

Great Performances

1996

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13

1993

Under Pressure: Making 'the Abyss'

Under Pressure: Making 'the Abyss'

directing

2008

Appaloosa as Director, Screenplay

2000

Pollock as Director