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
Gravity
(2013)
Mission Control (voice)
Creepshow
(1982)
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
The Abyss
(1989)
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Love Lies Bleeding
(2024)
Lou Sr.
Geostorm
(2017)
U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
The Rock
(1996)
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Top Gun: Maverick
(2022)
Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
Downtown Owl
(2023)
Horace Jones
The Firm
(1993)
Wayne Tarrance
A Beautiful Mind
(2001)
William Parcher
The Truman Show
(1998)
Christof
Pain & Gain
(2013)
Ed DuBois
mother!
(2017)
Man
Man on a Ledge
(2012)
David Englander
Gone Baby Gone
(2007)
Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
Snowpiercer
(2013)
Minister Wilford
Full Filmography
Acting
The Amazing Howard Hughes
(1977)
Russ
Coma
(1978)
Pathology Resident
The Seekers
(1979)
Lt. William Clark
The Aliens Are Coming
(1980)
Chuck Polcheck
Borderline
(1980)
Hotchkiss
Knightriders
(1981)
Billy
Dream on!
(1981)
Creepshow
(1982)
Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Under Fire
(1983)
Oates
The Right Stuff
(1983)
John Glenn
Swing Shift
(1984)
Jack Walsh
Places in the Heart
(1984)
Wayne Lomax
A Flash of Green
(1984)
Jimmy Wing
Code Name: Emerald
(1985)
Gus Lang
Sweet Dreams
(1985)
Charlie Dick
Alamo Bay
(1985)
Shang
The Last Innocent Man
(1987)
Harry Nash
Walker
(1987)
William Walker
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
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
(1993)
Self
Needful Things
(1993)
Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn
The Firm
(1993)
Wayne Tarrance
China Moon
(1994)
Kyle Bodine
Milk Money
(1994)
Tom Wheeler
Just Cause
(1995)
Blair Sullivan
Nixon
(1995)
E. Howard Hunt
Apollo 13
(1995)
Gene Kranz
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
(1996)
Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
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 Rock
(1996)
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Absolute Power
(1997)
Seth Frank
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
(1997)
Self
The Truman Show
(1998)
Christof
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
(1998)
Self
Stepmom
(1998)
Luke Harrison
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
(1998)
Christof
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
(1999)
Himself
The Third Miracle
(1999)
Frank Shore
Waking the Dead
(2000)
Jerry Charmichael
Pollock
(2000)
Jackson Pollock
The Prime Gig
(2001)
Kelly Grant
Enemy at the Gates
(2001)
Major König
A Beautiful Mind
(2001)
William Parcher
Just a Dream
(2002)
Henry Sturbuck (voice)
Buffalo Soldiers
(2002)
Colonel Berman
The Hours
(2002)
Richard Brown
Radio
(2003)
Coach Jones
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
(2003)
Narrator
The Human Stain
(2003)
Lester Farley
Masked and Anonymous
(2003)
Oscar Vogel
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)
Winter Passing
(2006)
Don Holden
Copying Beethoven
(2006)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Two Tickets to Paradise
(2006)
Melville
The Armenian Genocide
(2006)
U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
Gone Baby Gone
(2007)
Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
(2007)
Himself
Cleaner
(2007)
Eddie Lorenzo
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
(2007)
Mitch Wilkinson
Touching Home
(2008)
Charlie Winston
Dispatches from Nicaragua
(2008)
Himself
Appaloosa
(2008)
Virgil Cole
Virginia
(2010)
Sheriff Dick Tipton
The Way Back
(2010)
Mr. Smith
Once Fallen
(2010)
Liam
That's What I Am
(2011)
Mr. Simon
Salvation Boulevard
(2011)
Dr. Paul Blaylock
Man on a Ledge
(2012)
David Englander
Game Change
(2012)
John McCain
The Face of Love
(2013)
Garret Mathis / Tom Young
Snowpiercer
(2013)
Minister Wilford
Sweetwater
(2013)
Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
Pain & Gain
(2013)
Ed DuBois
Phantom
(2013)
Demi
Gravity
(2013)
Mission Control (voice)
Frontera
(2014)
Roy
Cymbeline
(2014)
Cymbeline
Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space
(2014)
Narrator (voice)
Planes: Fire & Rescue
(2014)
Blade Ranger (voice)
Run All Night
(2015)
Shawn Maguire
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
(2015)
Narrator
In Dubious Battle
(2016)
Joy
Buried Child
(2016)
Dodge
Rules Don't Apply
(2016)
Mr. Bransford
The Adderall Diaries
(2016)
Neil Elliott
mother!
(2017)
Man
Geostorm
(2017)
U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
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
Love Lies Bleeding
(2024)
Lou Sr.
My Dead Friend Zoe
(2024)
Dale
Planes: Back to School
(2024)
Blade Range
Concrete
(2024)
Boris
Production
Riders of the Purple Sage
(1996)
Executive Producer
Pollock
(2000)
Producer
Appaloosa
(2008)
Producer
Directing
Writing