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