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Ed Harris
Known for: ActingEdward 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.
Filmography 93
Westworld
as Man in Black 
Dutton Ranch
as Everett McKinney 
The Truman Show
as Christof 
Enemy at the Gates
as Major König 
A Beautiful Mind
as William Parcher 
Cleaner
as Eddie Lorenzo 
The Dink
as Chuck Boyd 
Man on a Ledge
as David Englander 
How to Make a Killing
as Whitelaw Redfellow 
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Mitch Wilkinson 
Apollo 13
as Gene Kranz 
Run All Night
as Shawn Maguire 
Gravity
as Mission Control (voice) 
Snowpiercer
as Wilford 
Pain & Gain
as Ed DuBois 
The Abyss
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman 
Glengarry Glen Ross
as Dave Moss 
Needful Things
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn 
Absolute Power
as Seth Frank 
The Rock
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC 
Love Lies Bleeding
as Lou Sr. 
mother!
as Man 
Planes: Fire & Rescue
as Blade Ranger (voice) 
Gone Baby Gone
as Remy Bressant 
The Hours
as Richard Brown 
Geostorm
as Leonard Dekkom 
A History of Violence
as Carl Fogarty 
The Firm
as Wayne Tarrance 
In Dubious Battle
as Joy 
The Way Back
as Mr. Smith 
The Lost Daughter
as Lyle 
Radio
as Coach Jones 
The Right Stuff
as John Glenn 
Empire Falls
as Miles Roby 
Downtown Owl
as Horace Jones 
Eye for an Eye
as Mack McCann 
State of Grace
as Frankie 
Stepmom
as Luke Harrison 
The Human Stain
as Lester Farley 
The Last Full Measure
as Ray Mott 
Appaloosa
as Virgil Cole 
Frontera
as Roy 
Riff Raff
as Vince 
Rules Don't Apply
as Mr. Bransford 
Creepshow
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day") 
Resistance
as George S. Patton 
Jacknife
as David 'High School' Flannigan 
Milk Money
as Dad 
Nixon
as E. Howard Hunt 
Virginia
as Sheriff Dick Tipton 
Borderline
as Hotchkiss 
Places in the Heart
as Wayne Lomax 
My Dead Friend Zoe
as Dale 
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
China Moon
as Kyle Bodine 
The Adderall Diaries
as Neil Elliott 
Just Cause
as Blair Sullivan 
Under Fire
as Oates 
Waking the Dead
as Jerry Charmichael 
That's What I Am
as Mr. Simon 
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
as Narrator 
Buffalo Soldiers
as Colonel Berman 
The Face of Love
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young 
Sweetwater
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson 
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
as Narrator 
Winter Passing
as Don Holden 
Swing Shift
as Jack Walsh 
Copying Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven 
Kodachrome
as Benjamin Ryder 
Pollock
as Jackson Pollock 
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice) 
Cymbeline
as Cymbeline 
The Third Miracle
as Frank Shore 
Sweet Dreams
as Charlie Dick 
Game Change
as John McCain 
Knightriders
as Billy 
Code Name: Emerald
as Gus Lang 
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Jim Lassiter 
Once Fallen
as Liam 
Masked and Anonymous
as Oscar Vogel 
A Crooked Somebody
as Sam Vaughn 
Phantom
as Demi 
Walker
as William Walker 
Salvation Boulevard
as Dr. Paul Blaylock 
Paris Trout
as Harry Seagraves 
Two Tickets to Paradise
as Melville 
Just a Dream
as Henry Sturbuck (voice) 
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
as Narrator 
Get Away If You Can
as Alan 
A Flash of Green
as Jimmy Wing 
Alamo Bay
as Shang 
Buried Child
as Dodge