Ed Harris

ActorProducerDirectorWriter Nov 28 (age 75) Englewood, New Jersey, USA 1953–2026 (73 year career)

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Biography

Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. 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), St…

Known For

Film

The Truman Show

Christof

Film

Top Gun: Maverick

Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

Film

A Beautiful Mind

William Parcher

Film

Westworld

Man in Black

Film

Gravity

Mission Control (voice)

Film

Apollo 13

Gene Kranz

Film

Snowpiercer

Wilford

Film

mother!

Man

Filmography

Acting (155)

Movies (121)

How to Make a Killing

2026

as Whitelaw Redfellow

7.1

The Dink

2026 Upcoming

as Chuck Boyd

Jul 23

Long Day's Journey into Night

as James Tyrone

Riff Raff

as Vince

The Tiger

as Vanity Fair journalist

Love Lies Bleeding

as Lou Sr.

My Dead Friend Zoe

as Dale

Concrete

as Boris

Downtown Owl

2023

as Horace Jones

5.5

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

2023

as H.C. Westermann

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

Get Away If You Can

as Alan

The Lost Daughter

as Lyle

The Last Full Measure

as Ray Mott

Resistance

as George S. Patton

A Crooked Somebody

as Sam Vaughn

Geostorm

as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

mother!

as Man

Kodachrome

as Benjamin Ryder

Rules Don't Apply

as Mr. Bransford

In Dubious Battle

as Joy

The Adderall Diaries

as Neil Elliott

Buried Child

as Dodge

Run All Night

2015

as Shawn Maguire

6.4

Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story

2015

as Narrator

Frontera

2014

as Roy

6.5

Planes: Fire & Rescue

2014

as Blade Ranger (voice)

Cymbeline

as Cymbeline

Gravity

as Mission Control (voice)

Snowpiercer

as Wilford

Pain & Gain

as Ed DuBois

Sweetwater

as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson

Phantom

as Demi

The Face of Love

as Garret Mathis / Tom Young

Man on a Ledge

as David Englander

Game Change

as John McCain

That's What I Am

as Mr. Simon

Salvation Boulevard

as Dr. Paul Blaylock

The Way Back

as Mr. Smith

Virginia

as Sheriff Dick Tipton

5.2

Once Fallen

2010

as Liam

5.2

Dispatches from Nicaragua

as Himself

Appaloosa

as Virgil Cole

Touching Home

as Charlie Winston

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

as Mitch Wilkinson

Cleaner

as Eddie Lorenzo

Gone Baby Gone

as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant

7.3

Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'

2007

as Self

6.2

America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins

2007

as Self - Narrator

Winter Passing

2006

as Don Holden

6.0

Copying Beethoven

2006

as Ludwig van Beethoven

6.4

Two Tickets to Paradise

2006

as Melville

5.1

The Armenian Genocide

2006

as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)

6.2

The Oklahoma Heisman

2006

as narrator

A History of Violence

2005

as Carl Fogarty

7.2

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

2005

as Self

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

2005

as Narrator (voice)

6.7

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004

as Other Voices (voice)

Radio

as Coach Jones

The Human Stain

as Lester Farley

Masked and Anonymous

as Oscar Vogel

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea

2003

as Narrator

5.8

Realizing The Right Stuff

2003

as Self

Buffalo Soldiers

as Colonel Berman

The Hours

as Richard Brown

Just a Dream

as Henry Sturbuck (voice)

A Beautiful Mind

as William Parcher

Enemy at the Gates

as Major König

The Prime Gig

as Kelly Grant

Waking the Dead

as Jerry Charmichael

Pollock

as Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island

as Himself

The Third Miracle

as Frank Shore

The Truman Show

as Christof

Stepmom

as Luke Harrison

Junket Whore

as Self

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

1998

as Self

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk

as Christof

Absolute Power

as Seth Frank

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

1997

as Self

5.0

The Rock

1996

as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

7.1

Eye for an Eye

1996

as Mack McCann

6.2

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

1996

as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)

7.0

Riders of the Purple Sage

1996

as Jim Lassiter

5.8

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13

as Self

Apollo 13

as Gene Kranz

Nixon

as E. Howard Hunt

Just Cause

as Blair Sullivan

Milk Money

as Tom Wheeler

China Moon

as Kyle Bodine

The Firm

as Wayne Tarrance

Needful Things

as Sheriff Alan Pangborn

6.2

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'

as Self

Running Mates

as Hugh Hathaway

Glengarry Glen Ross

as Dave Moss

Paris Trout

as Harry Seagraves

State of Grace

as Frankie

The Abyss

as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

7.3

Jacknife

1989

as David 'High School' Flannigan

To Kill a Priest

as Stefan

Walker

as William Walker

The Last Innocent Man

as Harry Nash

Alamo Bay

as Shang

Sweet Dreams

as Charlie Dick

Code Name: Emerald

as Gus Lang

Places in the Heart

as Wayne Lomax

Swing Shift

as Jack Walsh

A Flash of Green

as Jimmy Wing

The Right Stuff

as John Glenn

Under Fire

as Oates

Creepshow

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

Knightriders

as Billy

Dream on!

Borderline

as Hotchkiss

The Aliens Are Coming

1980

as Chuck Polcheck

3.6

The Seekers

1979

as Lt. William Clark

Coma

1978

as Pathology Resident

6.8

The Amazing Howard Hughes

1977

as Russ

6.0

School for the Blind

THE TIGER

The Tiger

as Vanity Fair Journalist

Television (34)

Dutton Ranch

2026 Upcoming

as Everett McKinney

May 15

Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War

2024

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.1

Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party

2020

as Himself

7.5

The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power

as Narrator

Westworld

as Man in Black

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self - Guest

6.1

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero

2011

as Narrator

8.0

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

as Narrator (voice)

Empire Falls

as Miles Roby

The Early Show

as Self

The View

as Self

The Daily Show

as Self

The Stand

as General Starkey

The Stand

as General Starkey (uncredited)

6.8

Baseball

1994

as (voice)

7.4

Inside the Actors Studio

as Self

Frasier

as Rob (voice)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992

5.4

Reading Rainbow

1983

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Cassie & Co.

Hart to Hart

Paris

The Seekers

as Lt. William Clark

David Cassidy: Man Under Cover

as Ben

Lou Grant

as Warren

CHiPs

as Lonny

Delvecchio

as Davey Bresnihan

Gibbsville

1976

as Steve

The Rockford Files

as Rudy Kempner

Great Performances

as Self

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

The Oscars

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (10)

Movies (9)

Appaloosa

Director

Appaloosa

Producer

Appaloosa

Screenplay

Pollock

Director

Pollock

Producer

Riders of the Purple Sage

1996

Executive Producer

5.8

The Ploughmen

Director

The Ploughmen

Producer

The Ploughmen

Screenplay

Television (1)

The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power

2019

Executive Producer

6.7