Ed Harris

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-11-28 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Ed Harris

Biography

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...

Acting

2005

A History of Violence

as Carl Fogarty

1997

Absolute Power

as Seth Frank

2001

Enemy at the Gates

as Major König

2001

A Beautiful Mind

as William Parcher

1995

Apollo 13

as Gene Kranz

2002

The Hours

as Richard Brown

2006

Copying Beethoven

as Ludwig van Beethoven

1990

State of Grace

as Frankie

1993

Needful Things

as Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn

1989

The Abyss

as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

2003

The Human Stain

as Lester Farley

2007

Gone Baby Gone

as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant

1995

Nixon

as E. Howard Hunt

1981

Knightriders

as Billy

2003

Masked and Anonymous

as Oscar Vogel

1980

Borderline

as Hotchkiss

1994

Milk Money

as Tom Wheeler

1998

Stepmom

as Luke Harrison

1994

China Moon

as Kyle Bodine

1995

Just Cause

as Blair Sullivan

1992

2002

Buffalo Soldiers

as Colonel Berman

1983

The Right Stuff

as John Glenn

1996

The Rock

as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

2007

Cleaner

as Eddie Lorenzo

2008

Appaloosa

as Virgil Cole

1983

Under Fire

as Oates

2000

Pollock

as Jackson Pollock

1984

Places in the Heart

as Wayne Lomax

1987

Walker

as William Walker

2003

Radio

as Coach Jones

2006

Winter Passing

as Don Holden

1985

Sweet Dreams

as Charlie Dick

1999

The Third Miracle

as Frank Shore

1998

The Truman Show

as Christof

1993

The Firm

as Wayne Tarrance

2000

Waking the Dead

as Jerry Charmichael

2001

The Prime Gig

as Kelly Grant

2010

1982

Creepshow

as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")

1978

Coma

as Pathology Resident

1989

Jacknife

as David 'High School' Flannigan

1988

1996

Eye for an Eye

as Mack McCann

1984

Swing Shift

as Jack Walsh

2010

The Way Back

as Mr. Smith

2013

Gravity

as Mission Control (voice)

2012

Man on a Ledge

as David Englander

2011

Salvation Boulevard

as Dr. Paul Blaylock

2008

Touching Home

as Charlie Winston

1991

Paris Trout

as Harry Seagraves

2012

Game Change

as John McCain

1985

2011

That's What I Am

as Mr. Simon

1992

Running Mates

as Hugh Hathaway

1984

A Flash of Green

as Jimmy Wing

2010

Virginia

as Sheriff Dick Tipton

2013

Phantom

as Demi

2005

2023

Downtown Owl

as Horace Jones

2013

Pain & Gain

as Ed DuBois

1996

2013

Sweetwater

as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson

1980

The Aliens Are Coming

as Chuck Polcheck

1985

Alamo Bay

as Shang

2013

The Face of Love

as Garret Mathis / Tom Young

2014

Cymbeline

as Cymbeline

2015

Run All Night

as Shawn Maguire

2013

Snowpiercer

as Wilford

2024

2014

Frontera

as Roy

2025

Riff Raff

as Vince

1987

2014

Planes: Fire & Rescue

as Blade Ranger (voice)

2016

The Adderall Diaries

as Neil Elliott

2017

Geostorm

as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

1979

The Seekers

as Lt. William Clark

2024

Concrete

as Boris

2016

Rules Don't Apply

as Mr. Bransford

2017

mother!

as Man

1998

2017

Kodachrome

as Benjamin Ryder

2018

A Crooked Somebody

as Sam Vaughn

2006

The Armenian Genocide

as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)

2020

2020

Resistance

as George S. Patton

2016

Buried Child

as Dodge

2022

Top Gun: Maverick

as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

1996

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)

2002

Just a Dream

as Henry Sturbuck (voice)

Production

2000

Pollock

as Director

2000

Pollock

as Producer

2008

Appaloosa

as Director

2008

Appaloosa

as Screenplay

2008

Appaloosa

as Producer

1996

Riders of the Purple Sage

as Executive Producer

-

The Ploughmen

as Screenplay

-

The Ploughmen

as Director

-

The Ploughmen

as Producer

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