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Ed Harris
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Biography
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.
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The Truman Show
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Love Lies Bleeding
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Snowpiercer
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Top Gun: Maverick
As Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
The Firm
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Glengarry Glen Ross
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Right Stuff
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Abyss
As Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Reckless Edge - Talent as a Double-Edged Sword
Forty years after Top Gun roared into cinemas, Maverick's need for speed still feels as exhilarating as ever. But Pete Mitchell is part of a much bigger movie t...
7 films
Breaking the Frame: A Journey Through the Fourth Wall
It began with a gun, a bullet, and an audience leaping out of their seats. When Justus D. Barnes leveled his revolver at the camera in The Great Train Robbery (...
8 films
When the Cult Kids Get the Keys
A journey through the moments when outsider directors were handed studio money and a famous franchise, from Sam Raimi's Darkman to the new Resident Evil. The re...
8 films
Double Trouble
From the Academy's rare double nods to the performances that earned them, this chain celebrates actors who competed against themselves in a single awards season...
8 films
When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability
What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...
8 films
The Camera as Weapon
From Chris Hansen's sting operations to the blood sport of nightly news, this chain traces the moral rot at the heart of spectacle.
8 films
The Ghosts Our Machines Keep
A chain about virtual reality, digital afterlife and grief, beginning with Yeon Sang-ho's Paradise Lost and moving through Korean and international cinema's scr...
8 films
The Stage on Screen: A Theatrical Journey
From the claustrophobic confines of a cabin to the sprawling sets of a Shakespearean epic, these eight films celebrate the art of theatre translated to cinema.
7 films
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Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
2024 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Love Lies Bleeding
2024 · Lou Sr.
Top Gun: Maverick
2022 · Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
The Last Full Measure
2020 · Ray Mott
Geostorm
2017 · Leonard Dekkom
mother!
2017 · Man
Rules Don't Apply
2016 · Mr. Bransford
Gravity
2013 · Mission Control (voice)
Snowpiercer
2013 · Wilford
Pain & Gain
2013 · Ed DuBois
Man on a Ledge
2012 · David Englander
The Way Back
2010 · Mr. Smith
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 · Mitch Wilkinson
Gone Baby Gone
2007 · Remy Bressant
Winter Passing
2006 · Don Holden
A History of Violence
2005 · Carl Fogarty
Radio
2003 · Coach Jones
Buffalo Soldiers
2002 · Colonel Berman
A Beautiful Mind
2001 · William Parcher
The Truman Show
1998 · Christof
The Rock
1996 · Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Eye for an Eye
1996 · Mack McCann
Nixon
1995 · E. Howard Hunt
Apollo 13
1995 · Gene Kranz
The Firm
1993 · Wayne Tarrance
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 · Dave Moss
The Abyss
1989 · Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Places in the Heart
1984 · Wayne Lomax
The Right Stuff
1983 · John Glenn
Creepshow
1982 · Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")