
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), The Abyss (1989), State of Grace (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Needful Things (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), The Truman Show (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), 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 also 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 earning 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.
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2025 The Ploughmen Director, Screenplay, Producer
2025 The Dink
2025 School for the Blind
2025 Long Day's Journey into Night as James Tyrone
2025 Riff Raff as Vince
2024 Concrete as Boris
2024 My Dead Friend Zoe as Dale
2024 Love Lies Bleeding as Lou Sr.
2023 Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea as H.C. Westermann
2023 Downtown Owl as Horace Jones
2022 Get Away If You Can as Alan
2022 Top Gun: Maverick as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
2021 The Lost Daughter as Lyle
2020 Resistance as George S. Patton
2020 The Last Full Measure as Ray Mott
2018 A Crooked Somebody as Sam Vaughn
2017 Geostorm as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
2017 mother! as Man
2017 Kodachrome as Benjamin Ryder
2016 Buried Child as Dodge
2016 Rules Don't Apply as Mr. Bransford
2016 In Dubious Battle as Joy
2016 Westworld as Man in Black
2016 The Adderall Diaries as Neil Elliott
2015 Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story as Narrator
2015 Run All Night as Shawn Maguire
2014 Cymbeline as Cymbeline
2014 Frontera as Roy
2014 Planes: Fire & Rescue as Blade Ranger (voice)
2014 Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space as Narrator (voice)
2013 The Face of Love as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
2013 Sweetwater as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
2013 Gravity as Mission Control (voice)
2013 Snowpiercer as Wilford
2013 Pain & Gain as Ed DuBois
2013 Phantom as Demi
2012 Game Change as John McCain
2012 Man on a Ledge as David Englander
2011 Salvation Boulevard as Dr. Paul Blaylock
2011 That's What I Am as Mr. Simon
2010 The Way Back as Mr. Smith
2010 Once Fallen as Liam
2010 Virginia as Sheriff Dick Tipton
2008 Appaloosa as Virgil Cole Director, Screenplay, Producer
2008 Touching Home as Charlie Winston
2008 Dispatches from Nicaragua as Himself
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Mitch Wilkinson
2007 Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' as Self
2007 Gone Baby Gone as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
2007 Cleaner as Eddie Lorenzo
2007 America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins as Self - Narrator
2006 Copying Beethoven as Ludwig van Beethoven
2006 The Armenian Genocide as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
2006 Winter Passing as Don Holden
2006 Two Tickets to Paradise as Melville
2005 Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Narrator (voice)
2005 A History of Violence as Carl Fogarty
2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2003 The Human Stain as Lester Farley
2003 Radio as Coach Jones
2003 Volcanoes of the Deep Sea as Narrator
2003 Masked and Anonymous as Oscar Vogel
2002 The Hours as Richard Brown
2002 Buffalo Soldiers as Colonel Berman
2002 Just a Dream as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
2001 A Beautiful Mind as William Parcher
2001 The Prime Gig as Kelly Grant
2001 Enemy at the Gates as Major König
2000 Pollock as Jackson Pollock Director, Producer
2000 Waking the Dead as Jerry Charmichael
1999 The Third Miracle as Frank Shore
1999 Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island as Himself
1998 Stepmom as Luke Harrison
1998 Junket Whore as Self
1998 Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self
1998 The Truman Show as Christof
1998 The Truman Show: Tru-Talk as Christof
1997 Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western as Self
1997 Absolute Power as Seth Frank
1996 The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
1996 Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 as Self
1996 The Rock as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
1996 Riders of the Purple Sage as Jim Lassiter Executive Producer
1996 Eye for an Eye as Mack McCann
1995 Nixon as E. Howard Hunt
1995 Apollo 13 as Gene Kranz
1995 Just Cause as Blair Sullivan
1994 Milk Money as Tom Wheeler
1994 China Moon as Kyle Bodine
1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' as Self
1993 Needful Things as Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn
1993 The Firm as Wayne Tarrance
1992 Running Mates as Hugh Hathaway
1992 Glengarry Glen Ross as Dave Moss
1991 Paris Trout as Harry Seagraves
1990 State of Grace as Frankie
1989 Jacknife as David 'High School' Flannigan
1989 The Abyss as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
1988 To Kill a Priest as Stefan
1987 Walker as William Walker
1987 The Last Innocent Man as Harry Nash
1985 Sweet Dreams as Charlie Dick
1985 Code Name: Emerald as Gus Lang
1985 Alamo Bay as Shang
1984 A Flash of Green as Jimmy Wing
1984 Places in the Heart as Wayne Lomax
1984 Swing Shift as Jack Walsh
1983 Under Fire as Oates
1983 The Right Stuff as John Glenn
1982 Creepshow as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
1981 Dream on!
1981 Knightriders as Billy
1980 Borderline as Hotchkiss
1980 The Aliens Are Coming as Chuck Polcheck
1979 The Seekers as Lt. William Clark
1978 Coma as Pathology Resident
1977 The Amazing Howard Hughes as Russ
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6.56 Mystery 9
6.55 Western 6
6.50 Family 2
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6.45 Drama 66
6.38 Crime 17
6.34 Science Fiction 6
6.33 Comedy 19
6.31 Documentary 12
6.30 Romance 16
6.27 Thriller 24
6.19 Animation 1
5.72 Music 2
5.68 TV Movie 8