Ed Harris

RECENT CREDITS
Appaloosa (FILM)  Sep. 19, 2008
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (FILM)  Dec. 21, 2007
Gone Baby Gone (FILM)  Oct. 19, 2007
Inside the Actors Studio (TV)  Dec. 11, 2006
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HIGHLIGHTS
2008 Directed and co-wrote the Western "Appaloosa"; also co-starred with Viggo Mortensen
2007 Played a Boston detective in Ben Affleck's feature directing debut "Gone, Baby, Gone"
2006 Portrayed Ludwig van Beethoven in Agnieszka Holland's "Copying Beethoven"
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

Once Fallen   -Father (Liam Ryan)
Actor
Film


The Way Back   -Cast
Actor
Film


Touching Home   -Cast
Actor
Film


What's Wrong With Virginia?   -Tipton
Actor
Film


So I Am Glad  
Producer, Actor
Film


Deconstruction Red  
Actor
Film


Appaloosa  2008 -Virgil Cole
Director, Producer, Screenplay, Actor, Song, Song Performer
Film


National Treasure: Book of Secrets  2007 -Mitch Wilkinson
Actor
Film


Gone Baby Gone  2007 -Remy Bressant
Actor
Film


Copying Beethoven  2006 -Ludwig van Beethoven
Actor
Film


Winter Passing  2006 -Don Holdin
Actor
Film


A History of Violence  2005 -Carl Fogarty
Actor
Film


Mantle  2005 -Interviewee
Actor
TV


Empire Falls  2005 -Miles Roby
Actor
TV


The Human Stain  2003 -Lester Farley
Actor
Film


Radio  2003 -Coach Harold Jones
Actor
Film


Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion  2003 -Voiceover
Actor
Film


Masked & Anonymous  2003
Actor
Film


The 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards  2003 -Presenter
Actor
TV


The Hours  2002 -Richard Brown
Actor
Film


Just a Dream  2002 -Older Henry Sturbuck
Actor
TV


Buffalo Soldiers  2002 -Colonel Wallace Berman
Actor
Film


A Beautiful Mind  2001 -William Parcher
Actor
Film


The Prime Gig  2001 -Kelly Grant
Actor
TV


Enemy At the Gates  2001 -Major Konig
Actor
Film


Pollock  2000 -Jackson Pollock
Director, Producer, Actor
Film


Waking the Dead  2000 -Jerry Carmichael
Actor
Film


The Third Miracle  1999 -Father Frank Shore
Actor
Film


Blast Off: True Stories From the Final Frontier  1999 -Narration
Narrator
TV


Stepmom  1998 -Luke Harrison
Actor
Film


The Truman Show  1998 -Christof
Actor
Film


Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western  1997 -Interviewee
Actor
TV


The Screen Actors Guild Awards  1997 -Presenter
Actor
TV


Absolute Power  1997 -Seth Frank
Actor
Film


The Rock  1996 -General Francis X Hummel
Actor
Film


Riders of the Purple Sage  1996 -Lassiter
Executive Producer, Actor
TV


Eye for An Eye  1996 -Mack McCann
Actor
Film


Nixon  1995 -Howard Hunt
Actor
Film


Apollo 13  1995 -Gene Kranz
Actor
Film


Inside the Actors Studio  1995 -Interviewee
Actor
TV


Just Cause  1995 -Blair Sullivan
Actor
Film


Baseball  1994
Voice
TV


Milk Money  1994 -Tom Wheeler
Actor
Film


Stephen King's The Stand  1994 -General William Starkey
Actor
TV


China Moon  1994 -Kyle Bodine
Actor
Film


Frasier  1993 -Guest Caller Rob
Actor
TV
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Needful Things  1993 -Sheriff Alan Pangborn
Actor
Film


The Firm  1993 -Wayne Tarrance
Actor
Film


Running Mates  1992 -Hugh Hathaway
Actor
TV


Glengarry Glen Ross  1992 -Dave Moss
Actor
Film


Paris Trout  1991 -Harry Seagraves
Actor
TV


State of Grace  1990 -Frankie
Actor
Film


To Kill a Priest  1989 -Stefan
Actor
Film


Jacknife  1989 -Dave
Actor
Film


The Abyss  1989 -Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Actor
Film


Walker  1987 -William Walker
Actor
Film


The Last Innocent Man  1987 -Harry Nash
Actor
TV


Sweet Dreams  1985 -Charlie Dick
Actor
Film


Code Name: Emerald  1985 -Gus Lang
Actor
Film


Alamo Bay  1985 -Shang Pierce
Actor
Film


A Flash of Green  1985 -Jimmy Wing, script consultant
Actor, Consultant
Film


Swing Shift  1984 -Jack Walsh
Actor
Film


Places in the Heart  1984 -Wayne Lomax
Actor
Film


The Right Stuff  1983 -John Glenn
Actor
Film


Under Fire  1983 -Oates
Actor
Film


Creepshow  1982 -Hank Blaine
Actor
Film


Knightriders  1981 -Billy
Actor
Film


Borderline  1980 -Hotchkiss
Actor
Film


The Aliens Are Coming  1980 -Chuck Polchek
Actor
TV


The Seekers  1979 -Lieutenant William Clark
Actor
TV


Coma  1978 -Pathology Resident
Actor
Film


CHiPs  1977
Actor
TV


The Amazing Howard Hughes  1977 -Russ
Actor
TV


Cleaner   -Eddie Lorenzo
Actor
Film


Two Tickets to Paradise   -Melville
Actor
Film


The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage   -of Sam Peckinpah
Voice
Film




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Highlights

2008 Directed and co-wrote the Western "Appaloosa"; also co-starred with Viggo Mortensen
2007 Played a Boston detective in Ben Affleck's feature directing debut "Gone, Baby, Gone"
2006 Portrayed Ludwig van Beethoven in Agnieszka Holland's "Copying Beethoven"
2005 Starred as Miles Roby in the HBO film adaptation of "Empire Falls," based on Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize winning novel; earned Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actor in a Television
2005 Co-starred with Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence"
2003 Portrayed the ex-husband of Nicole Kidman's character in the film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel "The Human Stain"
2003 Starred as a football coach in the southern drama "Radio"
2002 Co-starred with Meryl Streep in "The Hours"; received supporting role nominations for a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and an Oscar
2001 Played a German assassin sent to kill a Russian marksman in "Enemy at the Gates"; premiered at the Berlin Film Festival
2001 Cast as an American battalion commander in 1980s Germany in "Buffalo Soldiers"; (released theatrically in USA in 2002)
2001 Had featured role opposite Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind"; directed by Ron Howard
2000 Feature directorial debut, "Pollock"; also portrayed the artist; received first Best Actor Oscar nomination
1999 Cast as a disillusioned priest sent to investigate claims of miracles performed by a woman proposed for sainthood in "The Third Miracle"
1998 Received critical acclaim and his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as the God-like Christof, the creator and director of "The Truman Show"
1998 Co-starred with Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts in "Stepmom"
1996 Producing debut (as executive producer) of the TNT movie "Riders of the Purple Sage"; also co-starred with Madigan
1996 Returned to Broadway in "Taking Sides"
1995 Received Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as NASA mission control flight director Gene Krantz in "Apollo 13"
1994 Appeared in the ABC miniseries "Stephen King's 'The Stand'"
1994 Returned to the New York stage in the Off-Broadway staging of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico"; co-starred Beverly D'Angelo and Marcia Gay Harden
1992 Co-starred opposite Diane Keaton in the poitically-themed "Running Mates" (HBO)
1992 Co-starred in the feature version of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross"
1991 Appeared in the Showtime movie "Paris Trout"
1989 First lead in a major feature, "The Abyss"; directed by James Cameron
1986 Broadway debut in "Precious Sons"; received Tony nomination
1985 Delivered solid turn as Charlie Dick, husband of Patsy Cline in "Sweet Dreams"
1984 Credited as script consultant on the independent feature "A Flash of Green"; also starred
1984 Met future wife Amy Madigan, starring opposite her in "Places in the Heart"
1983 NY stage debut in the Off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love"
1981 First feature lead role, "Knightriders"
1978 Feature acting debut, "Coma"
1977 TV-movie debut, "The Amazing Howard Hughes" (CBS)
Professional stage debut as King Arthur in "Camelot" at the Jewel Box Theater in Oklahoma City
Appeared in the West Coast productions, "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Grapes of Wrath"


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Viggo Mortensen At the Los Angeles premiere of 'Appaloosa'. Samuel Goldwyn Theatre, Beverly Hills, CA. 09-17-08
Viggo Mortensen
Appaloosa
Released: Oct. 3, 2008

Nicolas Cage leaving ABC Studios after appearing on 'Good Morning America'. New York City, USA - 09-03-08
Nicolas Cage
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Released: Dec. 21, 2007

Casey Affleck at the Los Angeles Premiere of "No Country For Old Men". El Capitan Theater, Hollywood, CA. 11-04-07
Casey Affleck
Gone Baby Gone
Released: Oct. 19, 2007

Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger
Copying Beethoven
Released: Nov. 10, 2006

Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel
Winter Passing
Released: Feb. 17, 2006


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