Ed Harris is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. His performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000) and The Hours (2002) earned him critical acclaim in addition to Academy Award nominations. Harris has appeared in several leading and supporting roles, such as in The Right Stuff (1983), Sweet Dreams (1985),The Abyss (1989), State of Grace (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), A History of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), and Mother! (2017). In addition to directing Pollock, Harris also directed the western 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 of which 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.
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Gibbsville | Steve | 1 episode | ||
| 1977 | Delvecchio | Davey Bresnihan | |||
| The Amazing Howard Hughes | Russ | Television film | |||
| 1978 | The Rockford Files | Rudy Kempner | 1 episode | ||
| Ben | |||||
| 1979 | The Seekers | Lt. William Clark | Television film | ||
| Barnaby Jones | Glenn Morgan | 1 episode | |||
| 1979–1981 | Lou Grant | Warren | 3 episodes | ||
| 1980 | Paris | John Dantley | 1 episode | ||
| The Aliens Are Coming | Chuck Polcheck | Television film | |||
| 1981 | CHiPs | Lonny | 1 episode | ||
| Hart to Hart | Arnold Harmon | ||||
| 1984 | A Flash of Green | Jimmy Wing | Television film aired as an episode of American Playhouse | ||
| 1987 | The Last Innocent Man | Harry Nash | Television film | ||
| 1992 | Running Mates | Hugh Hathaway | |||
| 1994 | The Stand | General William Starkey | Miniseries, 1 episode | ||
| 1995 | Frasier | Guest Caller Rob | Voice role, 1 episode | ||
| 1996 | Riders of the Purple Sage | Jim Lassiter | Television film; also executive producer | ||
| 2005 | Empire Falls | Miles Roby | Miniseries, 2 episodes | ||
| 2006 | The Armenian Genocide | Leslie Davis | Documentary | ||
| 2012 | Game Change | John McCain | Television film | ||
| 2016–2022 | Westworld | William / The Man in Black | Main role, 28 episodes | ||
| 2020 | Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party | Himself | 1 episode | ||
| Neal Saroyan | Post-production | [25] |
| Year | Title | Role | Theater | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Chance Wayne | Gene Darnyasky Theater | ||
| 1983 | Fool for Love | Eddie | Magic Theatre, Douglas Fairbanks Theater | ||
| 1986 | Precious Sons | Fred | Longacre Theatre | ||
| 1994 | Simpatico | Lyle Carter | The Public Theater | ||
| 1996 | Taking Sides | Major Steve Arnold | Brooks Atkinson Theatre | ||
| 2003 | Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted | Dalton Trumbo | Westside Theatre | ||
| 2006 | Wrecks | Edward Carr | The Public Theater | ||
| 2013 | The Jacksonian | Bill Perch | Theatre Row | ||
| 2016–17 | Buried Child | Dodge | The New Group, Off-Broadway, Trafalgar Studios, West End | ||
| 2018 | Good for Otto | The New Group | |||
| 2019–20 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Atticus Finch | Shubert Theatre | [26] |
| Year | Title | Voice Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Jason Hudson | [27] | |
| 2014 | Planes: Fire & Rescue: The Video Game | Blade Ranger | |