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Ed Harris
Ed Harris’s screen credits include Christof in The Truman Show, William Parcher in A Beautiful Mind, and Major König in Enemy at the Gates.
Born November 28, 1950 Englewood, New Jersey, USA8 movies on MoviHero
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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. …
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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.
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- 2026Long Day's Journey into Night1h 49m · DramaJames Tyrone
- 2026The Dink1h 43m · ComedyChuck Boyd
- 2013Gravity1h 31m · Drama · Science FictionMission Control (voice)
- 2002The Hours1h 54m · DramaRichard Brown
- 2001A Beautiful Mind2h 15m · Drama · RomanceWilliam Parcher
- 2001Enemy at the Gates2h 11m · History · WarMajor König
- 1998The Truman Show1h 43m · Comedy · DramaChristof
- 1989The Abyss2h 20m · Adventure · Science FictionVirgil 'Bud' Brigman
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- 2026How to Make a KillingWhitelaw Redfellow
- 2025Off the HorseBob
- 2025Riff RaffVince
- 2024ConcreteBoris
- 2024My Dead Friend ZoeDale
- 2024Love Lies BleedingLou Sr.
- 2023Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an IdeaH.C. Westermann
- 2023Downtown OwlHorace Jones
- 2022Get Away If You CanAlan
- 2022Top Gun: MaverickRadm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
- 2021The Lost DaughterLyle
- 2020ResistanceGeorge S. Patton
- 2020The Last Full MeasureRay Mott
- 2018A Crooked SomebodySam Vaughn
- 2017GeostormLeonard Dekkom
- 2017mother!Man
- 2017KodachromeBenjamin Ryder
- 2016Buried ChildDodge
- 2016Rules Don't ApplyMr. Bransford
- 2016In Dubious BattleJoy
- 2016The Adderall DiariesNeil Elliott
- 2015Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper StoryNarrator
- 2015Run All NightShawn Maguire
- 2014CymbelineCymbeline
- 2014FronteraRoy
- 2014Planes: Fire & RescueBlade Ranger (voice)
- 2013The Face of LoveGarret Mathis / Tom Young
- 2013SweetwaterSheriff Cornelius Jackson
- 2013SnowpiercerWilford
- 2013Pain & GainEd DuBois
- 2013PhantomDemi
- 2012Game ChangeJohn McCain
- 2012Man on a LedgeDavid Englander
- 2011Salvation BoulevardDr. Paul Blaylock
- 2011That's What I AmMr. Simon
- 2010The Way BackMr. Smith
- 2010Once FallenLiam
- 2010VirginiaSheriff Dick Tipton
- 2008AppaloosaDirector · Writer · Producer · Virgil Cole
- 2008Touching HomeCharlie Winston
- 2008Dispatches from NicaraguaHimself
- 2007National Treasure: Book of SecretsMitch Wilkinson
- 2007Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'Self
- 2007Gone Baby GoneRemy Bressant
- 2007CleanerEddie Lorenzo
- 2007America's Game: 1973 Miami DolphinsSelf - Narrator
- 2006Copying BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven
- 2006The Armenian GenocideU.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
- 2006Two Tickets to ParadiseMelville
- 2006The Oklahoma HeismanNarrator
- 2006Winter PassingDon Holden
- 2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do ThatNarrator (voice)
- 2005A History of ViolenceCarl Fogarty
- 2005How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'Self
- 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonOther Voices (voice)
- 2003The Human StainLester Farley
- 2003RadioCoach Jones
- 2003Volcanoes of the Deep SeaNarrator
- 2003Masked and AnonymousOscar Vogel
- 2003Realizing The Right StuffSelf
- 2002Buffalo SoldiersColonel Berman
- 2002Just a DreamHenry Sturbuck (voice)
- 2001The Prime GigKelly Grant
- 2000PollockDirector · Producer · Jackson Pollock
- 2000Waking the DeadJerry Charmichael
- 1999The Third MiracleFrank Shore
- 1999Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long IslandHimself
- 1998StepmomLuke Harrison
- 1998Junket WhoreSelf
- 1998Intimate Portrait: Sean ConnerySelf
- 1998The Truman Show: Tru-TalkChristof
- 1997Big Guns Talk: The Story of the WesternSelf
- 1997Absolute PowerSeth Frank
- 1996The Wild Bunch: An Album in MontageSam Peckinpah (Voice)
- 1996Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13Self
- 1996The RockBrigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
- 1996Riders of the Purple SageProducer · Jim Lassiter
- 1996Eye for an EyeMack McCann
- 1995NixonE. Howard Hunt
- 1995Apollo 13Gene Kranz
- 1995Just CauseBlair Sullivan
- 1994Milk MoneyDad
- 1994China MoonKyle Bodine
- 1993Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'Self
- 1993Needful ThingsSheriff Alan Pangborn
- 1993The FirmWayne Tarrance
- 1992Running MatesHugh Hathaway
- 1992Glengarry Glen RossDave Moss
- 1991Paris TroutHarry Seagraves
- 1990State of GraceFrankie
- 1989JacknifeDavid 'High School' Flannigan
- 1988To Kill a PriestStefan
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Long Day's Journey into Night
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