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), Ste...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
as James Tyrone
Over the course of a day, a married couple, Mary and James Tyrone, and their two sons, Jamie and Edmund, grapple with Mary's morphine addiction and co...
Riff Raff
2025
as Vince
A retired hitman's life is turned upside down when his ex-wife and son arrive unannounced during the holidays because they are on the run from his for...
Concrete
2024
as Boris
In an alternate version of 20th century America, all citizens are subject to government-issued neurological implants which they are told prevent their...
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
as Dale
Merit, a U.S. Army veteran suffering from PTSD, is repeatedly tortured by visions of her deceased friend and company buddy Zoe. After her Afghanistan ...
Love Lies Bleeding
2024
as Lou Sr.
Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ign...
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023
as H.C. Westermann
A 3D documentary film that chronicles the story of a marine veteran who navigated the profound traumas of war by making art, becoming a hero to genera...
Downtown Owl
2023
as Horace Jones
In 1983 Owl, North Dakota, the lives of three residents – elderly Horace, who spends his afternoons reminiscing in the local coffee shop; teenage Mitc...
Get Away If You Can
2022
as Alan
Hopeful that an open-ocean sailing trip might relight the spark of their passion, a troubled married couple hits a breaking point when one's refusal t...
Top Gun: Maverick
2022
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” ...
The Lost Daughter
2021
as Lyle
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
Resistance
2020
as George S. Patton
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans dur...
The Last Full Measure
2020
as Ray Mott
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirt...
A Crooked Somebody
2018
as Sam Vaughn
An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
Geostorm
2017
as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellit...
mother!
2017
as Man
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Kodachrome
2017
as Benjamin Ryder
Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last ...
Buried Child
2016
as Dodge
Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a production by The New Group, directed by Scott Elliott. Dodge (Ed Harris) and Halie (Amy Madigan) try t...
Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Mr. Bransford
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Ang...
In Dubious Battle
2016
as Joy
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger ...
The Adderall Diaries
2016
as Neil Elliott
Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of ...
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015
as Narrator
A World War II veteran returns to the Philippines to boost efforts to recover the remains of American GIs still listed as missing in action.
Run All Night
2015
as Shawn Maguire
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—...
Cymbeline
2014
as Cymbeline
War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.
Frontera
2014
as Roy
After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a forme...
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014
as Blade Ranger (voice)
When world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of...
Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space
2014
as Narrator (voice)
No matter how clear the night sky is, no matter how many millions of stars are within view, looking up at the sky on a clear night still hides the hal...
The Face of Love
2013
as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
Sweetwater
2013
as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson
In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the N...
Gravity
2013
as Mission Control (voice)
Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer, is on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight befo...
Snowpiercer
2013
as Wilford
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that tr...
Pain & Gain
2013
as Ed DuBois
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To ach...
Phantom
2013
as Demi
The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a co...
Game Change
2012
as John McCain
During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his r...
Man on a Ledge
2012
as David Englander
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. H...
Salvation Boulevard
2011
as Dr. Paul Blaylock
Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born-again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his m...
That's What I Am
2011
as Mr. Simon
A coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Andy Nichol, a bright student who, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict for fear ...
The Way Back
2010
as Mr. Smith
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and ...
Once Fallen
2010
as Liam
When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his fathe...
Virginia
2010
as Sheriff Dick Tipton
A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman ...
Appaloosa
2008
as Virgil Cole
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
Appaloosa
2008
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
Touching Home
2008
as Charlie Winston
The true story about a father struggling to make amends with his twin sons as they pursue their dreams of professional baseball.
Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008
as Himself
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Alex Cox's 1987 film WALKER.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
as Mitch Wilkinson
Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben ...
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007
as Self
Details the making of Stephen King & George A. Romero's 1982 horror anthology classic, from conception through to completion.
Gone Baby Gone
2007
as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hi...
Cleaner
2007
as Eddie Lorenzo
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban ...
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007
as Self - Narrator
1973 Miami Dolphins. It takes a village to win a Super Bowl, and America's Game covers all of those men and women who make it happen
Copying Beethoven
2006
as Ludwig van Beethoven
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new sym...
The Armenian Genocide
2006
as U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)
Explores the Ottoman Empire killings of more than one million Armenians during World War I. The film describes not only what happened before, during a...
Winter Passing
2006
as Don Holden
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive...
Two Tickets to Paradise
2006
as Melville
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventu...
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary about filmmaker Budd Boetticher.
A History of Violence
2005
as Carl Fogarty
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
as Self
The making of 'The Truman Show'.
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
The Human Stain
2003
as Lester Farley
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about ...
Radio
2003
as Coach Jones
In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nic...
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003
as Narrator
12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 feet underwater to explore the Azores, a constantly...
Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Oscar Vogel
A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on ...
The Hours
2002
as Richard Brown
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...
Buffalo Soldiers
2002
as Colonel Berman
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Just a Dream
2002
as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
A Beautiful Mind
2001
as William Parcher
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, ...
The Prime Gig
2001
as Kelly Grant
Pendelton "Penny" Wise is a smooth-talking con-artist who scams people with phoney travel comp vacations over the phone when, desperate for more fast ...
Enemy at the Gates
2001
as Major König
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Pollock
2000
as Jackson Pollock
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...
Pollock
2000
Director, Producer
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...
Waking the Dead
2000
as Jerry Charmichael
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
The Third Miracle
1999
as Frank Shore
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
1999
as Himself
A documentary about the life and tragic death of abstract artist Jackson Pollock. Features are interviews with Lee Krasner (Pollock's wife), and other...
Stepmom
1998
as Luke Harrison
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother t...
Junket Whore
1998
as Self
A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood.
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
as Self
Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait." Includes film clips, never-before-seen photos and interviews with
The Truman Show
1998
as Christof
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, ...
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998
as Christof
A promotional featurette for 1998's 'The Truman Show', 'TruTalk' is a "60 Minutes"-style mockumentary taking place inside the film's universe.
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
Absolute Power
1997
as Seth Frank
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. H...
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
Oscar nominated "Making of" documentary about Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
as Self
The making of the motion picture "Apollo 13", as well as the story of the space mission it details. Featuring interviews with director Ron Howard, ast...
The Rock
1996
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into Sa...
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
as Jim Lassiter
Jim Lassister seeks the man responsible for his sister's death. His quest draws him into an insular community ruled by an uncompromising charlatan and...
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
Executive Producer
Jim Lassister seeks the man responsible for his sister's death. His quest draws him into an insular community ruled by an uncompromising charlatan and...
Eye for an Eye
1996
as Mack McCann
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Ro...
Nixon
1995
as E. Howard Hunt
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
Apollo 13
1995
as Gene Kranz
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with th...
Just Cause
1995
as Blair Sullivan
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific...
Milk Money
1994
as Tom Wheeler
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then h...
China Moon
1994
as Kyle Bodine
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the...
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993
as Self
Documentary about the challenging making of the sci-fi film "The Abyss" , with commentary by various actors and crew, outtakes and behind-the-scenes f...
Needful Things
1993
as Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
The Firm
1993
as Wayne Tarrance
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't re...
Running Mates
1992
as Hugh Hathaway
Hugh Hathaway was captain of the high school football team when Aggie Snow first went giddy over him. Now, he's a successful senator running for presi...
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
as Dave Moss
When an office full of real estate salesmen is given the news that all but the top two will be fired at the end of the week, the atmosphere begins to ...
Paris Trout
1991
as Harry Seagraves
Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets P...
State of Grace
1990
as Frankie
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Iri...
Jacknife
1989
as David 'High School' Flannigan
A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who rem...
The Abyss
1989
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself o...
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Stefan
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Walker
1987
as William Walker
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
The Last Innocent Man
1987
as Harry Nash
A retired criminal lawyer is persuaded to take on one more case and becomes involved with his client's wife.
Sweet Dreams
1985
as Charlie Dick
The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.
Code Name: Emerald
1985
as Gus Lang
In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the details...
Alamo Bay
1985
as Shang
A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing indus...
A Flash of Green
1984
as Jimmy Wing
A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the ...
Places in the Heart
1984
as Wayne Lomax
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - ...
Swing Shift
1984
as Jack Walsh
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft p...
Under Fire
1983
as Oates
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
The Right Stuff
1983
as John Glenn
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history b...
Creepshow
1982
as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
Five tales in the style of classic '50s horror comics, involving a murdered man emerging from the grave, a meteor's ooze that makes everything grow, a...
Dream on!
1981
Dream On! takes real risks with cinema as form...manifesting a kind of narrative-collage. The film's action follows a group of young actors as they st...
Knightriders
1981
as Billy
A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and the...
Borderline
1980
as Hotchkiss
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of ...
The Aliens Are Coming
1980
as Chuck Polcheck
A young astrophysicist searches for sinister extraterrestrials looking for sanctuary for their comrades by possessing the bodies of humans.
The Seekers
1979
as Lt. William Clark
This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts ...
Coma
1978
as Pathology Resident
A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple oper...
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
as Russ
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' busines...
School for the Blind
N/A
Follow a couple of siblings as they confront their issues and strive to solve the cold case murder of a blind student who disappeared years before.
Huntington
N/A
A raucously entertaining revenge thriller about Becket Redfellow, the heir to a multi-billion-dollar fortune who will stop at nothing to get what he d...
The Dink
N/A
A washed-up tennis pro who, in trying to save a club in crisis and win his father’s respect, is forced to break a solemn vow and do the one thing he s...
The Ploughmen
N/A
Screenplay, Director, Producer
Strange friendship between a haunted young deputy sheriff and a notorious old murderer turns both their worlds upside down.