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.

Filmography

• Dutton Ranch — Everett McKinney
• 2026How to Make a Killing — Whitelaw Redfellow
• 2026Long Day's Journey into Night — James Tyrone
• 2026The Dink — Chuck Boyd
• 2025Off the Horse — Bob
• 2025Riff Raff — Vince
• 2024Concrete — Boris
• 2024Love Lies Bleeding — Lou Sr.
• 2024My Dead Friend Zoe — Dale
• 2023Downtown Owl — Horace Jones
• 2023Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea — H.C. Westermann
• 2022Get Away If You Can — Alan
• 2022Top Gun: Maverick — Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
• 2021The Lost Daughter — Lyle
• 2020Resistance — George S. Patton
• 2020The Last Full Measure — Ray Mott
• The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power — Narrator, Executive Producer
• 2018A Crooked Somebody — Sam Vaughn
• 2017Geostorm — Leonard Dekkom
• 2017Kodachrome — Benjamin Ryder
• 2017mother! — Man
• 2016Buried Child — Dodge
• 2016In Dubious Battle — Joy
• 2016Rules Don't Apply — Mr. Bransford
• 2016The Adderall Diaries — Neil Elliott
• Westworld — Man in Black
• 2015Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story — Narrator
• 2015Run All Night — Shawn Maguire
• 2014Cymbeline — Cymbeline
• 2014Frontera — Roy
• 2014Planes: Fire & Rescue — Blade Ranger (voice)
• 2013Gravity — Mission Control (voice)
• 2013Pain & Gain — Ed DuBois
• 2013Phantom — Demi
• 2013Snowpiercer — Wilford
• 2013Sweetwater — Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
• 2013The Face of Love — Garret Mathis / Tom Young
• 2012Game Change — John McCain
• 2012Man on a Ledge — David Englander
• Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero — Narrator
• 2011Salvation Boulevard — Dr. Paul Blaylock
• 2011That's What I Am — Mr. Simon
• 2010Once Fallen — Liam
• 2010The Way Back — Mr. Smith
• 2010Virginia — Sheriff Dick Tipton
• 2008Appaloosa — Virgil Cole, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2008Touching Home — Charlie Winston
• 2007Cleaner — Eddie Lorenzo
• 2007Gone Baby Gone — Remy Bressant
• 2007National Treasure: Book of Secrets — Mitch Wilkinson
• America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Copying Beethoven — Ludwig van Beethoven
• 2006The Armenian Genocide — U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
• 2006The Oklahoma Heisman — Narrator
• 2006Two Tickets to Paradise — Melville
• 2006Winter Passing — Don Holden
• 2005A History of Violence — Carl Fogarty
• 2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That — Narrator (voice)
• Empire Falls — Miles Roby
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• 2003Masked and Anonymous — Oscar Vogel
• 2003Radio — Coach Jones
• 2003The Human Stain — Lester Farley
• 2003Volcanoes of the Deep Sea — Narrator
• 2002Buffalo Soldiers — Colonel Berman
• 2002Just a Dream — Henry Sturbuck (voice)
• 2002The Hours — Richard Brown
• 2001A Beautiful Mind — William Parcher
• 2001Enemy at the Gates — Major König
• 2001The Prime Gig — Kelly Grant
• 2000Pollock — Jackson Pollock, Producer, Director
• 2000Waking the Dead — Jerry Charmichael
• 1999The Third Miracle — Frank Shore
• 1998Stepmom — Luke Harrison
• 1998The Truman Show — Christof
• 1998The Truman Show: Tru-Talk — Christof
• 1997Absolute Power — Seth Frank
• 1996Eye for an Eye — Mack McCann
• 1996Riders of the Purple Sage — Jim Lassiter, Executive Producer
• 1996The Rock — Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
• 1996The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage — Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
• 1995Apollo 13 — Gene Kranz
• 1995Just Cause — Blair Sullivan
• 1995Nixon — E. Howard Hunt
• Baseball — Various (voice)
• 1994China Moon — Kyle Bodine
• 1994Milk Money — Dad
• The Stand — General Starkey (uncredited)
• Frasier — Rob (voice)
• 1993Needful Things — Sheriff Alan Pangborn
• 1993The Firm — Wayne Tarrance
• 1992Glengarry Glen Ross — Dave Moss
• 1992Running Mates — Hugh Hathaway
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1991Paris Trout — Harry Seagraves
• 1990State of Grace — Frankie
• 1989Jacknife — David 'High School' Flannigan
• 1989The Abyss — Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
• 1988To Kill a Priest — Stefan
• 1987The Last Innocent Man — Harry Nash
• 1987Walker — William Walker
• 1985Alamo Bay — Shang
• 1985Code Name: Emerald — Gus Lang
• 1985Sweet Dreams — Charlie Dick
• 1984A Flash of Green — Jimmy Wing
• 1984Places in the Heart — Wayne Lomax
• 1984Swing Shift — Jack Walsh
• 1983The Right Stuff — John Glenn
• 1983Under Fire — Oates
• American Playhouse — Jimmy Wing
• Cassie & Co. — Agent Taylor
• 1982Creepshow — Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
• 1981Dream on!
• 1981Knightriders — Billy
• 1980Borderline — Hotchkiss
• 1980The Aliens Are Coming — Chuck Polcheck
• Hart to Hart
• Paris
• The Seekers — Lt. William Clark
• 1978Coma — Pathology Resident
• David Cassidy: Man Under Cover — Ben
• CHiPs — Lonny
• Lou Grant — Warren
• 1977The Amazing Howard Hughes — Russ
• Delvecchio — Davey Bresnihan
• Gibbsville — Steve
• The Rockford Files — Rudy Kempner
• Ashley Wright — Judge Allen
• School for the Blind
• The Ploughmen — John Gload, Director, Producer, Screenplay
• War on Wolves — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (23)

• Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party — Himself
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2008Dispatches from Nicaragua — Himself
• 2007America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins — Self - Narrator
• 2007Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow' — Self
• 2005How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show' — Self
• 2003Realizing The Right Stuff — Self
• 1999Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island — Himself
• The Early Show — Self
• 1998Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery — Self
• 1998Junket Whore — Self
• 1997Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western — Self
• The View — Self
• 1996Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1993Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' — Self
• Reading Rainbow — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Great Performances — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee