Cast & creator
Ed Harris
Best known for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, The View
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.
Also known as: Edward Allen Harris
130
film credits
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television credits
156
1944–2026 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (166)
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The View
Self
1997
Frasier
Rob (voice)
1993
Westworld
Man in Black
2016
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Great Performances
Self
1971
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
American Playhouse
Jimmy Wing
1982
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
The Rockford Files
Rudy Kempner
1974
Dutton Ranch
Everett McKinney
2026
Hart to Hart
1979
Top Gun: Maverick
Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
2022
Lou Grant
1977Lou Grant
Warren
1977
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
The Oscars
Self
1953
The Truman Show
Christof
1998
How to Make a Killing
Whitelaw Redfellow
2026
A Beautiful Mind
William Parcher
2001
CHiPs
Lonny
1977
Snowpiercer
Wilford
2013
Gravity
Mission Control (voice)
2013
Love Lies Bleeding
Lou Sr.
2024
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Narrator (voice)
2006
The Stand
General Starkey (uncredited)
1994
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Mitch Wilkinson
2007
Enemy at the Gates
Major König
2001
The Abyss
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
1989
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Blade Ranger (voice)
2014
The Rock
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
1996
Run All Night
Shawn Maguire
2015
The Dink
Chuck Boyd
2026
Man on a Ledge
David Englander
2012
Baseball
Various (voice)
1994Baseball
(voice)
1994
The Early Show
Self
1999
Apollo 13
Gene Kranz
1995
Gone Baby Gone
Remy Bressant
2007
The Firm
Wayne Tarrance
1993
Geostorm
Leonard Dekkom
2017
Pain & Gain
Ed DuBois
2013
The Way Back
Mr. Smith
2010
Cassie & Co.
Agent Taylor
1982
Absolute Power
Seth Frank
1997
The Lost Daughter
Lyle
2021
A History of Violence
Carl Fogarty
2005
Radio
Coach Jones
2003
Delvecchio
Davey Bresnihan
1976
mother!
Man
2017
In Dubious Battle
Joy
2016
Eye for an Eye
Mack McCann
1996
Cleaner
Eddie Lorenzo
2007
Stepmom
Luke Harrison
1998
Empire Falls
Miles Roby
2005
Downtown Owl
Horace Jones
2023
State of Grace
Frankie
1990
The Right Stuff
John Glenn
1983
Resistance
George S. Patton
2020
The Human Stain
Lester Farley
2003
Glengarry Glen Ross
Dave Moss
1992
The Last Full Measure
Ray Mott
2020
The Hours
Richard Brown
2002
Paris
1979
Needful Things
Sheriff Alan Pangborn
1993
Just Cause
Blair Sullivan
1995
Riff Raff
Vince
2025
Rules Don't Apply
Mr. Bransford
2016
Creepshow
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
1982
Places in the Heart
Wayne Lomax
1984
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
Himself
2020
Frontera
Roy
2014
Gibbsville
Steve
1976
Milk Money
Dad
1994
The Seekers
Lt. William Clark
1979
Nixon
E. Howard Hunt
1995
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
My Dead Friend Zoe
Dale
2024
China Moon
Kyle Bodine
1994
Under Fire
Oates
1983
Appaloosa
Virgil Cole
2008Appaloosa
Director
2008Appaloosa
Screenplay
2008Appaloosa
Producer
2008
Jacknife
David 'High School' Flannigan
1989
The Adderall Diaries
Neil Elliott
2016
Buffalo Soldiers
Colonel Berman
2002
Coma
Pathology Resident
1978
Cymbeline
Cymbeline
2014
The Face of Love
Garret Mathis / Tom Young
2013
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
Narrator
2019The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
Executive Producer
2019
Borderline
Hotchkiss
1980
Sweetwater
Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
2013
That's What I Am
Mr. Simon
2011
The Third Miracle
Frank Shore
1999
Kodachrome
Benjamin Ryder
2017
Knightriders
Billy
1981
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Narrator
2011
Game Change
John McCain
2012
Junket Whore
Self
1998
Copying Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
2006
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
Ben
1978
Waking the Dead
Jerry Charmichael
2000
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
To Kill a Priest
Stefan
1988
Walker
William Walker
1987
Riders of the Purple Sage
Jim Lassiter
1996Riders of the Purple Sage
Executive Producer
1996
Phantom
Demi
2013
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Russ
1977
Winter Passing
Don Holden
2006
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Self
1998
Masked and Anonymous
Oscar Vogel
2003
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
2004
Two Tickets to Paradise
Melville
2006
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Christof
1998
A Crooked Somebody
Sam Vaughn
2018
Code Name: Emerald
Gus Lang
1985
Long Day's Journey into Night
James Tyrone
2026
Salvation Boulevard
Dr. Paul Blaylock
2011
Once Fallen
Liam
2010
The Aliens Are Coming
Chuck Polcheck
1980
Pollock
Jackson Pollock
2000Pollock
Director
2000Pollock
Producer
2000
Virginia
Sheriff Dick Tipton
2010
Swing Shift
Jack Walsh
1984
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
Self
1996
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
Self
1993
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
1996
Sweet Dreams
Charlie Dick
1985
The Prime Gig
Kelly Grant
2001The Ploughmen
John Gload
The Ploughmen
Screenplay
The Ploughmen
Director
The Ploughmen
Producer
The Last Innocent Man
Harry Nash
1987
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Narrator (voice)
2005Ashley Wright
Judge Allen
Get Away If You Can
Alan
2022
Alamo Bay
Shang
1985
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
Self
2005
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
1997
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
Narrator
2003
The Armenian Genocide
U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
2006
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
Self
2007
Realizing The Right Stuff
Self
2003
Just a Dream
Henry Sturbuck (voice)
2002
A Flash of Green
Jimmy Wing
1984
Paris Trout
Harry Seagraves
1991
Running Mates
Hugh Hathaway
1992School for the Blind
Buried Child
Dodge
2016
Concrete
Boris
2024
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
H.C. Westermann
2023
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
Self - Narrator
2007
Touching Home
Charlie Winston
2008Dream on!
1981Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
Himself
1999
Dispatches from Nicaragua
Himself
2008Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
Narrator
2015War on Wolves
Narrator
Off the Horse
Bob
2025
The Oklahoma Heisman
Narrator
2006