
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 …
movieThe Dink
2026 · Chuck Boyd
tvDutton Ranch
2026 · Everett McKinney
movieHow to Make a Killing
2026 · Whitelaw Redfellow
Off the Horse
2025 · Bob
movieLong Day's Journey into Night
2025 · James Tyrone
movieRiff Raff
2025 · Vince
movieConcrete
2024 · Boris
tvWyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
2024 · Self - Narrator (voice)
movieMy Dead Friend Zoe
2024 · Dale
movieLove Lies Bleeding
2024 · Lou Sr.
movieWestermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023 · H.C. Westermann
movieDowntown Owl
2023 · Horace Jones
movieGet Away If You Can
2022 · Alan
movieTop Gun: Maverick
2022 · Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
movieThe Lost Daughter
2021 · Lyle
tvImpractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020 · Himself
movieResistance
2020 · George S. Patton
movieThe Last Full Measure
2020 · Ray Mott
tvThe Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
2019 · Narrator, Executive Producer
movieA Crooked Somebody
2018 · Sam Vaughn
movieGeostorm
2017 · U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
moviemother!
2017 · Man
movieKodachrome
2017 · Benjamin Ryder
movieBuried Child
2016 · Dodge
movieRules Don't Apply
2016 · Mr. Bransford
movieIn Dubious Battle
2016 · Joy
tvWestworld
2016 · Man in Black
movieThe Adderall Diaries
2016 · Neil Elliott
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015 · Narrator
movieRun All Night
2015 · Shawn Maguire
movieCymbeline
2014 · Cymbeline
movieFrontera
2014 · Roy
moviePlanes: Fire & Rescue
2014 · Blade Ranger (voice)
movieThe Face of Love
2013 · Garret Mathis / Tom Young
movieSweetwater
2013 · Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
movieGravity
2013 · Mission Control (voice)
movieSnowpiercer
2013 · Wilford
moviePain & Gain
2013 · Ed DuBois
moviePhantom
2013 · Demi
movieGame Change
2012 · John McCain
movieMan on a Ledge
2012 · David Englander
tvRising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
2011 · Narrator
movieSalvation Boulevard
2011 · Dr. Paul Blaylock
movieThat's What I Am
2011 · Mr. Simon
movieThe Way Back
2010 · Mr. Smith
movieOnce Fallen
2010 · Liam
movieVirginia
2010 · Sheriff Dick Tipton
movieAppaloosa
2008 · Virgil Cole, Director, Screenplay, Producer
movieTouching Home
2008 · Charlie Winston
movieDispatches from Nicaragua
2008 · Himself
movieNational Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 · Mitch Wilkinson
movieJust Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007 · Self
movieGone Baby Gone
2007 · Remy Bressant
movieCleaner
2007 · Eddie Lorenzo
movieAmerica's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007 · Self - Narrator
tvAmerica's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006 · Narrator (voice)
movieCopying Beethoven
2006 · Ludwig van Beethoven
movieThe Armenian Genocide
2006 · U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
movieTwo Tickets to Paradise
2006 · Melville
movieThe Oklahoma Heisman
2006 · Narrator
movieWinter Passing
2006 · Don Holden
movieBudd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005 · Narrator (voice)
movieA History of Violence
2005 · Carl Fogarty
movieHow's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005 · Self
tvEmpire Falls
2005 · Miles Roby
movieUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Other Voices (voice)
movieThe Human Stain
2003 · Lester Farley
movieRadio
2003 · Coach Jones
movieVolcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003 · Narrator
movieMasked and Anonymous
2003 · Oscar Vogel
movieRealizing The Right Stuff
2003 · Self
movieThe Hours
2002 · Richard Brown
movieBuffalo Soldiers
2002 · Colonel Berman
movieJust a Dream
2002 · Henry Sturbuck (voice)
movieA Beautiful Mind
2001 · William Parcher
movieThe Prime Gig
2001 · Kelly Grant
movieEnemy at the Gates
2001 · Major König
moviePollock
2000 · Jackson Pollock, Director, Producer
movieWaking the Dead
2000 · Jerry Charmichael
movieThe Third Miracle
1999 · Frank Shore
tvThe Early Show
1999 · Self
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
1999 · Himself
movieStepmom
1998 · Luke Harrison
movieJunket Whore
1998 · Self
movieIntimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998 · Self
movieTru-Talk
1998 · Christof
movieThe Truman Show
1998 · Christof
tvThe View
1997 · Self
movieBig Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997 · Self
movieAbsolute Power
1997 · Seth Frank
movieThe Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996 · Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
tvThe Daily Show
1996 · Self
movieLost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996 · Self
movieThe Rock
1996 · Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
movieRiders of the Purple Sage
1996 · Jim Lassiter, Executive Producer
movieEye for an Eye
1996 · Mack McCann
movieNixon
1995 · E. Howard Hunt
movieApollo 13
1995 · Gene Kranz
movieJust Cause
1995 · Blair Sullivan
tvBaseball
1994 · Various (voice)
movieMilk Money
1994 · Tom Wheeler
tvInside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
tvThe Stand
1994 · General Starkey (uncredited)
movieChina Moon
1994 · Kyle Bodine
tvFrasier
1993 · Rob (voice)
movieUnder Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993 · Self
movieNeedful Things
1993 · Sheriff Alan Pangborn
movieThe Firm
1993 · Wayne Tarrance
movieRunning Mates
1992 · Hugh Hathaway
movieGlengarry Glen Ross
1992 · Dave Moss
tvThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
movieParis Trout
1991 · Harry Seagraves
movieState of Grace
1990 · Frankie
movieJacknife
1989 · David 'High School' Flannigan
movieThe Abyss
1989 · Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
movieTo Kill a Priest
1988 · Stefan
movieWalker
1987 · William Walker
movieThe Last Innocent Man
1987 · Harry Nash
movieSweet Dreams
1985 · Charlie Dick
movieCode Name: Emerald
1985 · Gus Lang
movieAlamo Bay
1985 · Shang
movieA Flash of Green
1984 · Jimmy Wing
moviePlaces in the Heart
1984 · Wayne Lomax
movieSwing Shift
1984 · Jack Walsh
movieUnder Fire
1983 · Oates
movieThe Right Stuff
1983 · John Glenn
tvReading Rainbow
1983 · Self - Narrator (voice)
movieCreepshow
1982 · Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
tvCassie & Co.
1982 · Agent Taylor
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982 · Jimmy Wing
Dream on!
1981
movieKnightriders
1981 · Billy
movieBorderline
1980 · Hotchkiss
movieThe Aliens Are Coming
1980 · Chuck Polcheck
tvParis
1979
tvHart to Hart
1979
tvThe Seekers
1979 · Lt. William Clark
tvDavid Cassidy: Man Under Cover
1978 · Ben
movieComa
1978 · Pathology Resident
tvLou Grant
1977 · , Warren
tvCHiPs
1977 · Lonny
movieThe Amazing Howard Hughes
1977 · Russ
tvGibbsville
1976 · Steve
tvDelvecchio
1976 · Davey Bresnihan
tvThe Rockford Files
1974 · Rudy Kempner
tvGreat Performances
1971 · Self
tvTony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee
tvThe Oscars
1953 · Self
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee
School for the Blind
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War on Wolves
— · Narrator
The Ploughmen
— · Screenplay, Director, Producer