Ed Harris is an American stage, film and television actor, writer, producer and director, best known for playing supporting characters in feature films such as "Apollo 13", "A Beautiful Mind", and "The Truman Show", as well as many recurring and starring roles in television shows, among them the portrayal of The Man in Black in HBO's "Westworld". He holds a BFA in Drama from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA.
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
National Board of Review Awards
Best Supporting Actor
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Known For
Top Gun: Maverick
(2022)
Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
Gravity
(2013)
Mission Control (voice)
Creepshow
(1982)
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
The Rock
(1996)
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
The Abyss
(1989)
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
A Beautiful Mind
(2001)
William Parcher
Geostorm
(2017)
U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
Love Lies Bleeding
(2024)
Lou Sr.
The Truman Show
(1998)
Christof
Run All Night
(2015)
Shawn Maguire
Snowpiercer
(2013)
Minister Wilford
Pain & Gain
(2013)
Ed DuBois
Enemy at the Gates
(2001)
Major König
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
(2007)
Mitch Wilkinson
Apollo 13
(1995)
Gene Kranz
mother!
(2017)
Man
Full Filmography
Acting
The Amazing Howard Hughes
(1977)
Russ
Coma
(1978)
Pathology Resident
The Seekers
(1979)
Lt. William Clark
Borderline
(1980)
Hotchkiss
The Aliens Are Coming
(1980)
Chuck Polcheck
Knightriders
(1981)
Billy
Dream on!
(1981)
Creepshow
(1982)
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Under Fire
(1983)
Oates
The Right Stuff
(1983)
John Glenn
Places in the Heart
(1984)
Wayne Lomax
Swing Shift
(1984)
Jack Walsh
A Flash of Green
(1984)
Jimmy Wing
Sweet Dreams
(1985)
Charlie Dick
Code Name: Emerald
(1985)
Gus Lang
Alamo Bay
(1985)
Shang
Walker
(1987)
William Walker
The Last Innocent Man
(1987)
Harry Nash
To Kill a Priest
(1988)
Stefan
Jacknife
(1989)
David 'High School' Flannigan
The Abyss
(1989)
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
State of Grace
(1990)
Frankie
Paris Trout
(1991)
Harry Seagraves
Glengarry Glen Ross
(1992)
Dave Moss
Running Mates
(1992)
Hugh Hathaway
Needful Things
(1993)
Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn
The Firm
(1993)
Wayne Tarrance
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
(1993)
Self
Milk Money
(1994)
Tom Wheeler
China Moon
(1994)
Kyle Bodine
Apollo 13
(1995)
Gene Kranz
Nixon
(1995)
E. Howard Hunt
Just Cause
(1995)
Blair Sullivan
The Rock
(1996)
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
(1996)
Himself
Riders of the Purple Sage
(1996)
Jim Lassiter
Eye for an Eye
(1996)
Mack McCann
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
(1996)
Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
Absolute Power
(1997)
Seth Frank
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
(1997)
Self
Stepmom
(1998)
Luke Harrison
The Truman Show
(1998)
Christof
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
(1998)
Self
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
(1998)
Christof
The Third Miracle
(1999)
Frank Shore
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
(1999)
Himself
Pollock
(2000)
Jackson Pollock
Waking the Dead
(2000)
Jerry Charmichael
A Beautiful Mind
(2001)
William Parcher
Enemy at the Gates
(2001)
Major König
The Prime Gig
(2001)
Kelly Grant
The Hours
(2002)
Richard Brown
Buffalo Soldiers
(2002)
Colonel Berman
Just a Dream
(2002)
Henry Sturbuck (voice)
The Human Stain
(2003)
Lester Farley
Masked and Anonymous
(2003)
Oscar Vogel
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
(2003)
Narrator
Radio
(2003)
Coach Jones
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
(2004)
Other Voices (voice)
A History of Violence
(2005)
Carl Fogarty
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
(2005)
Narrator (voice)
Copying Beethoven
(2006)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Winter Passing
(2006)
Don Holden
Two Tickets to Paradise
(2006)
Melville
The Armenian Genocide
(2006)
U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
(2007)
Mitch Wilkinson
Cleaner
(2007)
Eddie Lorenzo
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
(2007)
Himself
Gone Baby Gone
(2007)
Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
Appaloosa
(2008)
Virgil Cole
Touching Home
(2008)
Charlie Winston
Dispatches from Nicaragua
(2008)
Himself
Once Fallen
(2010)
Liam
The Way Back
(2010)
Mr. Smith
Virginia
(2010)
Sheriff Dick Tipton
Salvation Boulevard
(2011)
Dr. Paul Blaylock
That's What I Am
(2011)
Mr. Simon
Man on a Ledge
(2012)
David Englander
Game Change
(2012)
John McCain
Gravity
(2013)
Mission Control (voice)
Phantom
(2013)
Demi
Pain & Gain
(2013)
Ed DuBois
Sweetwater
(2013)
Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
The Face of Love
(2013)
Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Snowpiercer
(2013)
Minister Wilford
Frontera
(2014)
Roy
Planes: Fire & Rescue
(2014)
Blade Ranger (voice)
Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space
(2014)
Narrator (voice)
Cymbeline
(2014)
Cymbeline
Run All Night
(2015)
Shawn Maguire
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
(2015)
Narrator
In Dubious Battle
(2016)
Joy
The Adderall Diaries
(2016)
Neil Elliott
Rules Don't Apply
(2016)
Mr. Bransford
Buried Child
(2016)
Dodge
Geostorm
(2017)
U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
mother!
(2017)
Man
Kodachrome
(2017)
Benjamin Ryder
A Crooked Somebody
(2018)
Sam Vaughn
The Last Full Measure
(2020)
Ray Mott
Resistance
(2020)
George S. Patton
The Lost Daughter
(2021)
Lyle
Top Gun: Maverick
(2022)
Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
Get Away If You Can
(2022)
Alan
Downtown Owl
(2023)
Horace Jones
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
(2023)
H.C. Westermann
Planes: Back to School
(2024)
Blade Range
Love Lies Bleeding
(2024)
Lou Sr.
My Dead Friend Zoe
(2024)
Dale
Production
Riders of the Purple Sage
(1996)
Executive Producer
Pollock
(2000)
Producer
Appaloosa
(2008)
Producer
Directing
Writing