1950-11-28 Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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.
 |
How to Make a Killing | Whitelaw Redfellow | 2026-02-16 |
 |
The Dink | Chuck Boyd | 2026-07-23 |
 |
Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone | 2025-02-27 |
 |
Riff Raff | Vince | 2025-02-27 |
 |
My Dead Friend Zoe | Dale | 2024-03-09 |
 |
Concrete | Boris | 2024-09-12 |
 |
Love Lies Bleeding | Lou Sr. | 2024-03-07 |
 |
Downtown Owl | Horace Jones | 2023-06-08 |
 |
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea | H.C. Westermann | 2023-09-15 |
 |
Get Away If You Can | Alan | 2022-08-19 |
 |
Top Gun: Maverick | Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain | 2022-05-21 |
 |
The Lost Daughter | Lyle | 2021-12-15 |
 |
The Last Full Measure | Ray Mott | 2020-01-23 |
 |
Resistance | George S. Patton | 2020-03-27 |
 |
A Crooked Somebody | Sam Vaughn | 2018-10-05 |
 |
Geostorm | U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom | 2017-10-12 |
 |
Kodachrome | Benjamin Ryder | 2017-09-08 |
 |
mother! | Man | 2017-09-13 |
 |
The Adderall Diaries | Neil Elliott | 2016-04-15 |
 |
Buried Child | Dodge | 2016-11-28 |
 |
In Dubious Battle | Joy | 2016-10-08 |
 |
Rules Don't Apply | Mr. Bransford | 2016-11-23 |
 |
Run All Night | Shawn Maguire | 2015-03-11 |
 |
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story | Narrator | 2015-05-25 |
 |
Frontera | Roy | 2014-07-31 |
 |
Cymbeline | Cymbeline | 2014-09-03 |
 |
Planes: Fire & Rescue | Blade Ranger (voice) | 2014-07-17 |
 |
Pain & Gain | Ed DuBois | 2013-04-18 |
 |
Phantom | Demi | 2013-01-03 |
 |
Sweetwater | Sheriff Cornelius Jackson | 2013-10-09 |
 |
Gravity | Mission Control (voice) | 2013-10-03 |
 |
The Face of Love | Garret Mathis / Tom Young | 2013-10-25 |
 |
설국열차 | Wilford | 2013-08-01 |
 |
Man on a Ledge | David Englander | 2012-01-13 |
 |
Game Change | John McCain | 2012-02-28 |
 |
Salvation Boulevard | Dr. Paul Blaylock | 2011-07-15 |
 |
That's What I Am | Mr. Simon | 2011-04-29 |
 |
Virginia | Sheriff Dick Tipton | 2010-05-18 |
 |
Once Fallen | Liam | 2010-11-02 |
 |
The Way Back | Mr. Smith | 2010-11-22 |
 |
Touching Home | Charlie Winston | 2008-04-29 |
 |
Appaloosa | Virgil Cole | 2008-09-19 |
 |
Dispatches from Nicaragua | Himself | 2008-02-19 |
 |
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' | Self | 2007-10-22 |
 |
Gone Baby Gone | Remy Bressant | 2007-09-18 |
 |
National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Mitch Wilkinson | 2007-12-19 |
 |
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins | Self - Narrator | 2007-03-01 |
 |
Cleaner | Eddie Lorenzo | 2007-09-11 |
 |
The Armenian Genocide | U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice) | 2006-04-17 |
 |
Two Tickets to Paradise | Melville | 2006-04-06 |
 |
Winter Passing | Don Holden | 2006-02-07 |
 |
The Oklahoma Heisman | Narrator | 2006-03-20 |
 |
Copying Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven | 2006-09-10 |
 |
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show' | Self | 2005-08-19 |
 |
A History of Violence | Carl Fogarty | 2005-09-23 |
 |
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That | Narrator (voice) | 2005-12-21 |
 |
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
 |
Realizing The Right Stuff | Self | 2003-06-10 |
 |
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea | Narrator | 2003-09-14 |
 |
Radio | Coach Jones | 2003-10-24 |
 |
The Human Stain | Lester Farley | 2003-10-29 |
 |
Masked and Anonymous | Oscar Vogel | 2003-07-25 |
 |
Just a Dream | Henry Sturbuck (voice) | 2002-03-16 |
 |
The Hours | Richard Brown | 2002-12-27 |
 |
Buffalo Soldiers | Colonel Berman | 2002-10-31 |
 |
The Prime Gig | Kelly Grant | 2001-04-24 |
 |
A Beautiful Mind | William Parcher | 2001-12-14 |
 |
Enemy at the Gates | Major König | 2001-02-28 |
 |
Pollock | Jackson Pollock | 2000-09-06 |
 |
Waking the Dead | Jerry Charmichael | 2000-03-24 |
 |
The Third Miracle | Frank Shore | 1999-11-18 |
|
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island | Himself | 1999-01-01 |
 |
Stepmom | Luke Harrison | 1998-12-25 |
 |
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery | Self | 1998-10-02 |
 |
The Truman Show | Christof | 1998-06-04 |
 |
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk | Christof | 1998-06-20 |
 |
Junket Whore | Self | 1998-10-12 |
 |
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self | 1997-07-27 |
 |
Absolute Power | Seth Frank | 1997-02-14 |
 |
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage | Sam Peckinpah (Voice) | 1996-11-01 |
 |
The Rock | Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC | 1996-06-07 |
 |
Eye for an Eye | Mack McCann | 1996-01-12 |
 |
Riders of the Purple Sage | Jim Lassiter | 1996-01-21 |
 |
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 | Self | 1996-07-16 |
 |
Apollo 13 | Gene Kranz | 1995-06-30 |
 |
Nixon | E. Howard Hunt | 1995-12-22 |
 |
Just Cause | Blair Sullivan | 1995-02-17 |
 |
Milk Money | Tom Wheeler | 1994-08-31 |
 |
China Moon | Kyle Bodine | 1994-03-04 |
 |
Needful Things | Sheriff Alan Pangborn | 1993-08-27 |
 |
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' | Self | 1993-09-01 |
 |
The Firm | Wayne Tarrance | 1993-06-30 |
 |
Glengarry Glen Ross | Dave Moss | 1992-09-10 |
 |
Running Mates | Hugh Hathaway | 1992-10-04 |
 |
Paris Trout | Harry Seagraves | 1991-04-21 |
 |
State of Grace | Frankie | 1990-09-14 |
 |
Jacknife | David 'High School' Flannigan | 1989-10-05 |
 |
The Abyss | Virgil 'Bud' Brigman | 1989-08-09 |
 |
To Kill a Priest | Stefan | 1988-09-07 |
 |
Walker | William Walker | 1987-12-04 |
 |
The Last Innocent Man | Harry Nash | 1987-04-19 |
 |
Code Name: Emerald | Gus Lang | 1985-09-07 |
 |
Sweet Dreams | Charlie Dick | 1985-10-02 |
 |
Alamo Bay | Shang | 1985-04-03 |
 |
Swing Shift | Jack Walsh | 1984-04-13 |
 |
Places in the Heart | Wayne Lomax | 1984-09-11 |
 |
A Flash of Green | Jimmy Wing | 1984-10-05 |
 |
Under Fire | Oates | 1983-10-21 |
 |
The Right Stuff | John Glenn | 1983-10-20 |
 |
Creepshow | Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day") | 1982-11-10 |
|
Dream on! | 1981-10-01 | |
 |
Knightriders | Billy | 1981-04-10 |
 |
The Aliens Are Coming | Chuck Polcheck | 1980-03-02 |
 |
Borderline | Hotchkiss | 1980-12-19 |
 |
Coma | Pathology Resident | 1978-01-06 |
 |
The Amazing Howard Hughes | Russ | 1977-04-13 |
|
School for the Blind |
