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Ed Harris

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), 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ed Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026
How to Make a Killing

as Whitelaw Redfellow

Movie
2024
Love Lies Bleeding

as Lou Sr.

Movie
2022
Top Gun: Maverick

as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

Movie
2020
The Last Full Measure

as Ray Mott

Movie
2017
Geostorm

as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

Movie
2013
Gravity

as Mission Control (voice)

Movie
2013
Snowpiercer

as Wilford

Movie
2007
National Treasure: Book of Secrets

as Mitch Wilkinson

Movie
2007
Gone Baby Gone

as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant

Movie
2005
A History of Violence

as Carl Fogarty

Movie
2003
Radio

as Coach Jones

Movie
2002
The Hours

as Richard Brown

Movie
2001
A Beautiful Mind

as William Parcher

Movie
2001
Enemy at the Gates

as Major König

Movie
1998
The Truman Show

as Christof

Movie
1996
The Rock

as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

Movie
1996
Eye for an Eye

as Mack McCann

Movie
1995
Apollo 13

as Gene Kranz

Movie
1989
The Abyss

as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

Movie
1983
Under Fire

as Oates

Movie
2016
Westworld

as Man in Black

TV Show