Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and director. 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.
117 movies · 33 shows
The Dink
2026·6.3
How to Make a Killing
2026·6.9
Off the Horse
2025·0.0
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025·10.0
Riff Raff
2025·5.8
Concrete
2024·1.0
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024·6.3
Love Lies Bleeding
2024·6.5
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023·0.0
Downtown Owl
2023·5.5
Get Away If You Can
2022·3.3
Top Gun: Maverick
2022·8.2
The Lost Daughter
2021·6.5
Resistance
2020·6.9
The Last Full Measure
2020·7.3
A Crooked Somebody
2018·6.3
Geostorm
2017·6.1
mother!
2017·7.0
Kodachrome
2017·6.8
Buried Child
2016·0.0
Rules Don't Apply
2016·5.8
In Dubious Battle
2016·5.8
The Adderall Diaries
2016·5.3
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015·0.0
Run All Night
2015·6.4
Cymbeline
2014·3.9
Frontera
2014·6.5
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014·6.2
The Face of Love
2013·6.1
Sweetwater
2013·6.1
Gravity
2013·7.2
Snowpiercer
2013·6.9
Pain & Gain
2013·6.3
Phantom
2013·5.9
Game Change
2012·6.9
Man on a Ledge
2012·6.4
Salvation Boulevard
2011·5.3
That's What I Am
2011·6.8
The Way Back
2010·7.0
Once Fallen
2010·5.2
Virginia
2010·5.2
Appaloosa
2008·6.6
Touching Home
2008·6.5
Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008·6.0
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007·6.4
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007·6.2
Gone Baby Gone
2007·7.3
Cleaner
2007·6.1
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007·0.0
Copying Beethoven
2006·6.5
The Armenian Genocide
2006·7.0
Two Tickets to Paradise
2006·5.2
The Oklahoma Heisman
2006·0.0
Winter Passing
2006·6.0
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005·7.0
A History of Violence
2005·7.2
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005·7.0
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004·7.2
The Human Stain
2003·6.0
Radio
2003·7.3
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003·5.9
Masked and Anonymous
2003·5.2
Realizing The Right Stuff
2003·9.0
The Hours
2002·7.3
Buffalo Soldiers
2002·6.3
Just a Dream
2002·5.3
A Beautiful Mind
2001·7.9
The Prime Gig
2001·6.0
Enemy at the Gates
2001·7.4
Pollock
2000·6.7
Waking the Dead
2000·6.1
The Third Miracle
1999·5.9
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
1999·6.8
Stepmom
1998·7.2
Junket Whore
1998·5.0
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998·8.0
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998·6.7
The Truman Show
1998·8.2
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997·7.0
Absolute Power
1997·6.7
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996·7.2
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996·6.2
The Rock
1996·7.2
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996·6.0
Eye for an Eye
1996·6.3
Nixon
1995·6.8
Apollo 13
1995·7.5
Just Cause
1995·6.3
Milk Money
1994·6.5
China Moon
1994·6.1
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993·8.2
Needful Things
1993·6.3
The Firm
1993·6.7
Running Mates
1992·5.8
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992·7.3
Paris Trout
1991·5.5
State of Grace
1990·7.0
Jacknife
1989·6.4
The Abyss
1989·7.4
To Kill a Priest
1988·6.1
Walker
1987·6.4
The Last Innocent Man
1987·5.3
Sweet Dreams
1985·6.4
Code Name: Emerald
1985·6.6
Alamo Bay
1985·6.0
A Flash of Green
1984·5.3
Places in the Heart
1984·7.2
Swing Shift
1984·5.6
Under Fire
1983·6.7
The Right Stuff
1983·7.4
Creepshow
1982·6.9
Dream on!
1981·10.0
Knightriders
1981·6.2
Borderline
1980·6.1
The Aliens Are Coming
1980·4.4
Coma
1978·6.8
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977·6.4