Acting
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.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV
The Daily Show
1996 · TV
Dutton Ranch
2026 · TV
The Dink
2026 · Movie
Frasier
1993 · TV
The View
1997 · TV
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · TV
Westworld
2016 · TV
Great Performances
1971 · TV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · TV
Tony Awards
1956 · TV
Top Gun: Maverick
2022 · Movie
The Rockford Files
1974 · TV
American Playhouse
1982 · TV
Lou Grant
1977 · TV
Hart to Hart
1979 · TV
Baseball
1994 · TV
The Truman Show
1998 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · TV
How to Make a Killing
2026 · Movie
Cassie & Co.
1982 · TV
Reading Rainbow
1983 · TV
Apollo 13
1995 · Movie
The Rock
1996 · Movie
A Beautiful Mind
2001 · Movie
Gravity
2013 · Movie
The Stand
1994 · TV
CHiPs
1977 · TV
Snowpiercer
2013 · Movie
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006 · TV
Enemy at the Gates
2001 · Movie
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020 · TV
The Abyss
1989 · Movie
Geostorm
2017 · Movie
mother!
2017 · Movie
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 · Movie
Cleaner
2007 · Movie
The Firm
1993 · Movie
The Human Stain
2003 · Movie
The Early Show
1999 · TV
Love Lies Bleeding
2024 · Movie
Run All Night
2015 · Movie
A History of Violence
2005 · Movie
Pain & Gain
2013 · Movie
Gone Baby Gone
2007 · Movie
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014 · Movie
Places in the Heart
1984 · Movie
Radio
2003 · Movie
Empire Falls
2005 · TV
Stepmom
1998 · Movie
The Hours
2002 · Movie
Man on a Ledge
2012 · Movie
Absolute Power
1997 · Movie
The Right Stuff
1983 · Movie
The Way Back
2010 · Movie
Paris
1979 · TV
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 · Movie
Delvecchio
1976 · TV
Creepshow
1982 · Movie
The Seekers
1979 · TV
Coma
1978 · Movie
The Lost Daughter
2021 · Movie
Under Fire
1983 · Movie
Frontera
2014 · Movie
Milk Money
1994 · Movie
Eye for an Eye
1996 · Movie
Just Cause
1995 · Movie
Needful Things
1993 · Movie
China Moon
1994 · Movie
Appaloosa
2008 · Movie
Gibbsville
1976 · TV
The Last Full Measure
2020 · Movie
Rules Don't Apply
2016 · Movie
Resistance
2020 · Movie
Nixon
1995 · Movie
Masked and Anonymous
2003 · Movie
State of Grace
1990 · Movie
In Dubious Battle
2016 · Movie
Riff Raff
2025 · Movie
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998 · Movie
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
2024 · TV
Junket Whore
1998 · Movie
Borderline
1980 · Movie
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024 · Movie
Buffalo Soldiers
2002 · Movie
Walker
1987 · Movie
Waking the Dead
2000 · Movie
Knightriders
1981 · Movie
The Adderall Diaries
2016 · Movie
Jacknife
1989 · Movie
Pollock
2000 · Movie
That's What I Am
2011 · Movie
Winter Passing
2006 · Movie
Sweetwater
2013 · Movie
Game Change
2012 · Movie
Phantom
2013 · Movie
A Crooked Somebody
2018 · Movie
Copying Beethoven
2006 · Movie
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
2019 · TV
Kodachrome
2017 · Movie
Swing Shift
1984 · Movie
Virginia
2010 · Movie
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
2011 · TV
The Third Miracle
1999 · Movie
The Face of Love
2013 · Movie
Cymbeline
2014 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · TV
Downtown Owl
2023 · Movie
Sweet Dreams
1985 · Movie
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977 · Movie
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996 · Movie
The Armenian Genocide
2006 · Movie
Just a Dream
2002 · Movie
Salvation Boulevard
2011 · Movie
Code Name: Emerald
1985 · Movie
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996 · Movie
Once Fallen
2010 · Movie
Two Tickets to Paradise
2006 · Movie
The Last Innocent Man
1987 · Movie
To Kill a Priest
1988 · Movie
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998 · Movie
A Flash of Green
1984 · Movie
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
1978 · TV
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997 · Movie
The Aliens Are Coming
1980 · Movie
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993 · Movie
Get Away If You Can
2022 · Movie
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003 · Movie
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996 · Movie
Concrete
2024 · Movie
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Movie
The Prime Gig
2001 · Movie
Paris Trout
1991 · Movie
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005 · Movie
Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008 · Movie
Realizing The Right Stuff
2003 · Movie
Alamo Bay
1985 · Movie
Touching Home
2008 · Movie
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007 · Movie
Running Mates
1992 · Movie
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025 · Movie
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005 · Movie
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007 · Movie
Buried Child
2016 · Movie
The Oklahoma Heisman
2006 · Movie
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023 · Movie
