Acting · Englewood, New Jersey, USA · Born November 28, 1950
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.
MovieThe Dink
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as Chuck Boyd
TVDutton Ranch
2026
as Everett McKinney
MovieHow to Make a Killing
2026
as Whitelaw Redfellow
Off the Horse
2025
as Bob
MovieLong Day's Journey into Night
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as James Tyrone
MovieRiff Raff
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as Vince
MovieConcrete
2024
as Boris
TVWyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieMy Dead Friend Zoe
2024
as Dale
MovieLove Lies Bleeding
2024
as Lou Sr.
MovieWestermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023
as H.C. Westermann
MovieDowntown Owl
2023
as Horace Jones
MovieGet Away If You Can
2022
as Alan
MovieTop Gun: Maverick
2022
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
MovieThe Lost Daughter
2021
as Lyle
TVImpractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020
as Himself
MovieResistance
2020
as George S. Patton
MovieThe Last Full Measure
2020
as Ray Mott
TVThe Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
2019
as Narrator
MovieA Crooked Somebody
2018
as Sam Vaughn
MovieGeostorm
2017
as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
Moviemother!
2017
as Man
MovieKodachrome
2017
as Benjamin Ryder
MovieBuried Child
2016
as Dodge
MovieRules Don't Apply
2016
as Mr. Bransford
MovieIn Dubious Battle
2016
as Joy
TVWestworld
2016
as Man in Black
MovieThe Adderall Diaries
2016
as Neil Elliott
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015
as Narrator
MovieRun All Night
2015
as Shawn Maguire
MovieCymbeline
2014
as Cymbeline
MovieFrontera
2014
as Roy
MoviePlanes: Fire & Rescue
2014
as Blade Ranger (voice)
MovieThe Face of Love
2013
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
MovieSweetwater
2013
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
MovieGravity
2013
as Mission Control (voice)
MovieSnowpiercer
2013
as Wilford
MoviePain & Gain
2013
as Ed DuBois
MoviePhantom
2013
as Demi
MovieGame Change
2012
as John McCain
MovieMan on a Ledge
2012
as David Englander
TVRising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
2011
as Narrator
MovieSalvation Boulevard
2011
as Dr. Paul Blaylock
MovieThat's What I Am
2011
as Mr. Simon
MovieThe Way Back
2010
as Mr. Smith
MovieOnce Fallen
2010
as Liam
MovieVirginia
2010
as Sheriff Dick Tipton
MovieAppaloosa
2008
as Virgil Cole
MovieTouching Home
2008
as Charlie Winston
MovieDispatches from Nicaragua
2008
as Himself
MovieNational Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
as Mitch Wilkinson
MovieJust Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007
as Self
MovieGone Baby Gone
2007
as Remy Bressant
MovieCleaner
2007
as Eddie Lorenzo
MovieAmerica's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007
as Self - Narrator
TVAmerica's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)
MovieCopying Beethoven
2006
as Ludwig van Beethoven
MovieThe Armenian Genocide
2006
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
MovieTwo Tickets to Paradise
2006
as Melville
MovieThe Oklahoma Heisman
2006
as Narrator
MovieWinter Passing
2006
as Don Holden
MovieBudd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
as Narrator (voice)
MovieA History of Violence
2005
as Carl Fogarty
MovieHow's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
as Self
TVEmpire Falls
2005
as Miles Roby
MovieUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
MovieThe Human Stain
2003
as Lester Farley
MovieRadio
2003
as Coach Jones
MovieVolcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003
as Narrator
MovieMasked and Anonymous
2003
as Oscar Vogel
MovieRealizing The Right Stuff
2003
as Self
MovieThe Hours
2002
as Richard Brown
MovieBuffalo Soldiers
2002
as Colonel Berman
MovieJust a Dream
2002
as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
MovieA Beautiful Mind
2001
as William Parcher
MovieThe Prime Gig
2001
as Kelly Grant
MovieEnemy at the Gates
2001
as Major König
MoviePollock
2000
as Jackson Pollock
MovieWaking the Dead
2000
as Jerry Charmichael
MovieThe Third Miracle
1999
as Frank Shore
TVThe Early Show
1999
as Self
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
1999
as Himself
MovieStepmom
1998
as Luke Harrison
MovieJunket Whore
1998
as Self
MovieIntimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
as Self
MovieTru-Talk
1998
as Christof
MovieThe Truman Show
1998
as Christof
TVThe View
1997
as Self
MovieBig Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self
MovieAbsolute Power
1997
as Seth Frank
MovieThe Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
TVThe Daily Show
1996
as Self
MovieLost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
as Self
MovieThe Rock
1996
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
MovieRiders of the Purple Sage
1996
as Jim Lassiter
MovieEye for an Eye
1996
as Mack McCann
MovieNixon
1995
as E. Howard Hunt
MovieApollo 13
1995
as Gene Kranz
MovieJust Cause
1995
as Blair Sullivan
TVBaseball
1994
as Various (voice)
MovieMilk Money
1994
as Tom Wheeler
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
TVThe Stand
1994
as General Starkey (uncredited)
MovieChina Moon
1994
as Kyle Bodine
TVFrasier
1993
as Rob (voice)
MovieUnder Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993
as Self
MovieNeedful Things
1993
as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
MovieThe Firm
1993
as Wayne Tarrance
MovieRunning Mates
1992
as Hugh Hathaway
MovieGlengarry Glen Ross
1992
as Dave Moss
TVThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
MovieParis Trout
1991
as Harry Seagraves
MovieState of Grace
1990
as Frankie
MovieJacknife
1989
as David 'High School' Flannigan
MovieThe Abyss
1989
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
MovieTo Kill a Priest
1988
as Stefan
MovieWalker
1987
as William Walker
MovieThe Last Innocent Man
1987
as Harry Nash
MovieSweet Dreams
1985
as Charlie Dick
MovieCode Name: Emerald
1985
as Gus Lang
MovieAlamo Bay
1985
as Shang
MovieA Flash of Green
1984
as Jimmy Wing
MoviePlaces in the Heart
1984
as Wayne Lomax
MovieSwing Shift
1984
as Jack Walsh
MovieUnder Fire
1983
as Oates
MovieThe Right Stuff
1983
as John Glenn
TVReading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieCreepshow
1982
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
TVCassie & Co.
1982
as Agent Taylor
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as Jimmy Wing
Dream on!
1981
MovieKnightriders
1981
as Billy
MovieBorderline
1980
as Hotchkiss
MovieThe Aliens Are Coming
1980
as Chuck Polcheck
TVParis
1979
TVHart to Hart
1979
TVThe Seekers
1979
as Lt. William Clark
TVDavid Cassidy: Man Under Cover
1978
as Ben
MovieComa
1978
as Pathology Resident
TVLou Grant
1977
TVCHiPs
1977
as Lonny
MovieThe Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
as Russ
TVGibbsville
1976
as Steve
TVDelvecchio
1976
as Davey Bresnihan
TVThe Rockford Files
1974
as Rudy Kempner
TVGreat Performances
1971
as Self
TVTony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
School for the Blind
War on Wolves
as Narrator
