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Acting

Ed Harris

Career: Active from 1980 to 2026, busiest in 2013 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 73
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: The Truman Show
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 101 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ed Harris Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Physical Comedy
1.5, average 2.4
Fantasy
0.9, average 1.7
Situational Comedy
2.0, average 2.7
Absurdist Humor
1.5, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 17
Moral Ambiguity 11
Character Study 10
Social Commentary 9
Psychological Drama 8
Biographical Drama 6
Psychological Thriller 6
Crime Drama 5
Tense Atmosphere 5
Star-Studded Cast 4
Coming-of-Age 4
Political Intrigue 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

130

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

4 titles

as John Gload

as Judge Allen

as Vanity Fair Journalist

as Narrator

2020s

16 titles · average score 64

How to Make a Killing

56

as Whitelaw Redfellow

Long Day's Journey into Night

as James Tyrone

Dutton Ranch

79

TV show · as Everett McKinney

Riff Raff

54

as Vince

Love Lies Bleeding

76

as Lou Sr.

My Dead Friend Zoe

78

as Dale

Downtown Owl

49

as Horace Jones

Get Away If You Can

31

as Alan

Top Gun: Maverick

86

as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

The Lost Daughter

76

as Lyle

Resistance

62

as George S. Patton

The Last Full Measure

64

as Ray Mott

2010s

29 titles · average score 55

mother!

66

as Man

Kodachrome

68

as Benjamin Ryder

Run All Night

60

as Shawn Maguire

Planes: Fire & Rescue

51

as Blade Ranger (voice)

Frontera

60

as Roy

Gravity

85

as Mission Control (voice)

Snowpiercer

80

as Wilford

Sweetwater

42

as Sheriff Cornelius Jackson

Phantom

42

as Demi

Game Change

70

as John McCain

That's What I Am

59

as Mr. Simon

The Way Back

70

as Mr. Smith

2000s

27 titles · average score 62

Appaloosa

67

as Virgil Cole

Cleaner

43

as Eddie Lorenzo

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

52

as Mitch Wilkinson

Copying Beethoven

54

as Ludwig van Beethoven

Winter Passing

55

as Don Holden

A History of Violence

79

as Carl Fogarty

Empire Falls

68

TV show · as Miles Roby

Radio

53

as Coach Jones

The Human Stain

53

as Lester Farley

Buffalo Soldiers

65

as Colonel Berman

A Beautiful Mind

77

as William Parcher

Pollock

74

as Jackson Pollock

1990s

24 titles · average score 63

The Third Miracle

53

as Frank Shore

The Truman Show

88

as Christof

Stepmom

62

as Luke Harrison

Absolute Power

59

as Seth Frank

The Rock

71

as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

Eye for an Eye

37

as Mack McCann

Apollo 13

82

as Gene Kranz

Milk Money

32

as Dad

China Moon

48

as Kyle Bodine

Needful Things

48

as Sheriff Alan Pangborn

The Firm

68

as Wayne Tarrance

State of Grace

72

as Frankie

1980s

19 titles · average score 62

The Abyss

72

as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

Jacknife

61

as David 'High School' Flannigan

To Kill a Priest

64

as Stefan

Walker

56

as William Walker

The Last Innocent Man

54

as Harry Nash

Sweet Dreams

65

as Charlie Dick

Code Name: Emerald

55

as Gus Lang

Alamo Bay

52

as Shang

Places in the Heart

77

as Wayne Lomax

The Right Stuff

86

as John Glenn

Under Fire

68

as Oates

Knightriders

62

as Billy

1970s

11 titles · average score 66

Hart to Hart

60

TV show

The Seekers

72

TV show · as Lt. William Clark

Paris

TV show

Coma

68

as Pathology Resident

David Cassidy: Man Under Cover

TV show · as Ben

Lou Grant

73

TV show · as Warren

CHiPs

44

TV show · as Lonny

The Amazing Howard Hughes

62

as Russ

Delvecchio

TV show · as Davey Bresnihan

Gibbsville

TV show · as Steve

The Rockford Files

82

TV show · as Rudy Kempner