Edward Allen Harris (lahir 28 November 1950) adalah seorang
aktor, produser, sutradara, dan penulis skenario Amerika. Penampilannya di
Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000) dan The Hours (2002)
membuatnya mendapatkan pujian kritis serta nominasi Academy Award. Harris telah
muncul di beberapa peran utama dan pendukung, seperti The Right Stuff (1983),
The Abyss (1989), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996),
Stepmom (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), A History
of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Snowpiercer (2013) dan Mother!
(2017). Selain mengarahkan Pollock, Harris juga mengarahkan West Appaloosa
(2008).
Di televisi, Harris terkenal karena perannya sebagai Miles
Roby dalam miniseri Empire Falls (2005), sebagai Senator Amerika Serikat John
McCain dalam film televisi Game Change (2012), yang membuatnya meraih Golden
Globe Award untuk Aktor Pendukung Terbaik - Seri , Miniseri atau Film Televisi,
dan saat ini dibintangi sebagai The Man in Black dalam seri Barat-fiksi ilmiah
HBO Westworld (2016-sekarang).
Harris lahir di Englewood Hospital di Englewood, New Jersey,
dan dibesarkan di Tenafly, New Jersey, putra Margaret (née Sholl), agen
perjalanan, dan Robert L. "Bob" Harris (1922–2014). ), yang bernyanyi
dengan paduan suara Fred Waring dan bekerja di toko buku di Art Institute of
Chicago. Dia memiliki dua saudara laki-laki, Paul dan Robert. Harris
dibesarkan di keluarga Presbyterian kelas menengah. Orangtuanya berasal
dari Oklahoma. Dia lulus dari Tenafly High School pada tahun 1969, di mana
dia bermain di tim sepak bola, menjabat sebagai kapten tim di tahun seniornya.
Seorang atlet bintang di sekolah menengah, Harris
berkompetisi di atletik di Universitas Columbia pada tahun 1969. Ketika
keluarganya pindah ke New Mexico dua tahun kemudian, Harris mengikuti, setelah
menemukan ketertarikannya untuk berakting dalam berbagai drama teater. Dia
mendaftar di Universitas Oklahoma untuk belajar drama. Setelah beberapa
peran sukses di teater lokal, ia pindah ke Los Angeles dan mendaftar di
Institut Seni California, di mana ia menghabiskan dua tahun dan lulus dengan
Bachelor of Fine Arts pada tahun 1975.
Harris menikahi aktris Amy Madigan pada 21 November 1983, ketika
mereka sedang syuting Places in the Heart bersama. Mereka memiliki satu anak
perempuan, Lily Dolores Harris (lahir 3 Mei 1993).
Pada 20 Maret 2012, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) dan American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) menyelesaikan penggabungan
sederajat untuk membentuk serikat baru, SAG-AFTRA. Harris, bersama dengan
Edward Asner, Martin Sheen, Valerie Harper, Michael Bell, dan Wendy Schaal
(untuk beberapa nama), dengan gigih menentang merger dan menggugat Presiden SAG
Ken Howard dan beberapa Wakil Presiden SAG, mencari, tidak berhasil, untuk
memiliki merger dibatalkan. Gugatan itu diberhentikan pada 22 Mei 2012.
Harris memiliki reputasi serius di set film. Pada 13 Maret 2015, ia dihormati
dengan bintang di Hollywood Walk of Fame. untuk karyanya dalam film, yang
terletak di 6712 Hollywood Boulevard. Harris menerima gelar kehormatan
dari Muhlenberg College pada 17 Mei 2015.
Harris adalah salah satu dari beberapa aktor yang telah
dijuluki "simbol seks" (yang lain termasuk Hugh
Laurie dan Denzel Washington).
Filmography
Film
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1978 | Coma | Pathology Resident | |
1980 | Borderline | Hotchkiss | |
1981 | Knightriders | William "Billy" Davis | |
1982 | Creepshow | Hank Blaine | |
1983 | The Right Stuff | John Glenn | |
1983 | Under Fire | Oates | |
1984 | Swing Shift | Jack Walsh | |
1984 | Places in the Heart | Wayne Lomax | |
1985 | Code Name: Emerald | Gus Lang | |
1985 | Alamo Bay | Shang Pierce | |
1985 | Sweet Dreams | Charlie Dick | |
1987 | Walker | William Walker | |
1988 | To Kill a Priest | Police Captain Stefan | |
1989 | Jacknife | David "Dave" Flannigan | |
1989 | Field of Dreams | The Voice | |
1989 | The Abyss | Virgil "Bud" Brigman | |
1990 | State of Grace | Frankie Flannery | |
1991 | Paris Trout | Harry Seagraves | |
1992 | Glengarry Glen Ross | Dave Moss | |
1993 | The Firm | Wayne Tarrance | |
1993 | Needful Things | Sheriff Alan Pangborn | |
1994 | Milk Money | Tom Wheeler | |
1994 | China Moon | Kyle Bodine | |
1995 | Nixon | E. Howard Hunt | |
1995 | Apollo 13 | Gene Kranz | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
1995 | Just Cause | Blair Sullivan | |
1996 | Eye for an Eye | Mack McCann | |
1996 | The Rock | Gen. Francis X. Hummel | |
1997 | Absolute Power | Det. Seth Frank | |
1998 | The Truman Show | Christof | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
1998 | Stepmom | Luke Harrison | |
1999 | The Third Miracle | Father Frank Shore | |
2000 | Pollock | Jackson Pollock | Also director and producer, nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor |
2000 | The Prime Gig | Kelly Grant | |
2000 | Waking the Dead | Jerry Charmichael | |
2001 | A Beautiful Mind | William Parcher | |
2001 | Buffalo Soldiers | Colonel Berman | |
2001 | Enemy at the Gates | Major Erwin König | |
2002 | The Hours | Richard Brown | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
2003 | Masked and Anonymous | Oscar Vogel | |
2003 | Radio | Coach Harold Jones | |
2003 | The Human Stain | Lester Farley | |
2005 | Winter Passing | Don Holdin | |
2005 | A History of Violence | Carl Fogarty | |
2006 | Two Tickets to Paradise | Melville | |
2006 | Copying Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven | |
2007 | Gone Baby Gone | Det. Remy Bressant | |
2007 | Cleaner | Eddie Lorenzo | |
2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Mitch Wilkinson | |
2008 | Touching Home | Charlie Winston | |
2008 | Appaloosa | Virgil Cole | Also writer, director and producer |
2010 | Once Fallen | Liam Ryan | |
2010 | The Way Back | Mr. Smith | |
2010 | Virginia | Sheriff Dick Tipton | |
2011 | That's What I Am | Mr. Steven Simon | |
2011 | Salvation Boulevard | Dr. Peter Blaylock | |
2012 | Man on a Ledge | David Englander | |
2013 | Phantom | Dmitri "Demi" Zubov | |
2013 | Pain & Gain | Ed Du Bois, III | |
2013 | Snowpiercer | Minister Wilford | |
2013 | Sweetwater | Sheriff Cornelius Jackson | |
2013 | The Face of Love | Tom Young / Garret Mathis | |
2013 | Gravity | Mission Control | Voice role |
2014 | Planes: Fire & Rescue | Blade Ranger | Voice role |
2014 | Frontera | Roy McNary | |
2015 | Cymbeline | King Cymbeline | |
2015 | Run All Night | Shawn Maguire | |
2015 | The Adderall Diaries | Neil Elliott | |
2016 | In Dubious Battle | Joy | |
2016 | Rules Don't Apply | Mr. Bransford | |
2017 | A Crooked Somebody | ||
2017 | Mother! | Man | |
2017 | Kodachrome | Ben Ryder | |
2017 | Geostorm | Secretary Leonard Dekkom | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1976 | Gibbsville | Steve | Episode: "Trapped" |
1977 | Delvecchio | Davey Bresnihan | Episode: "Cancelled Contract" |
1977 | The Amazing Howard Hughes | Russ | Television film |
1978 | The Rockford Files | Rudy Kempner | Episode: "Kill the Messenger" |
1978 | David Cassidy: Man Undercover | Ben | Episode: "Deadly Convoy" |
1979 | The Seekers | Lt. William Clark | Television film |
1979 | Barnaby Jones | Glenn Morgan | Episode: "School of Terror" |
1979–1981 | Lou Grant | Warren | 3 episodes |
1980 | Paris | John Dantley | Episode: "America the Beautiful" |
1980 | The Aliens Are Coming | Chuck Polcheck | Television film |
1981 | CHiPs | Lonny | Episode: "Vegabonds" |
1981 | Hart to Hart | Arnold Harmon | Episode: "Hart of Darkness" |
1984 | American Playhouse | Jimmy Wing | Episode: "A Flash of Green" |
1987 | The Last Innocent Man | Harry Nash | Television film |
1992 | Running Mates | Hugh Hathaway | Television film |
1994 | The Stand | General William Starkey | Miniseries, episode: "The Plague" |
1995 | Frasier | Guest Caller Rob | Voice role, episode: "Leapin' Lizards" |
1996 | Riders of the Purple Sage | Jim Lassiter | Television film; also executive producer |
2005 | Empire Falls | Miles Roby | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
2006 | The Armenian Genocide | Leslie Davis | Documentary |
2012 | Game Change | John McCain | Television film |
2016–present | Westworld | Man in Black/Older William | 10 episodes |
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