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Ed Harris Biography (1950-)

Full name, Edward Allen Harris; born November 28, 1950, in Tenafly, NJ (somesources say Englewood, NJ); son of Bob L. (a bookseller and singer) and Margaret (a travel agent) Harris; married Amy Madigan (an actress), 1983; children: Lily Dolores. Addresses: Manager: Koenigsberg Management, 200 N. Larchmont Blvd., Suite 2, Hollywood, CA 90004.; Publicist: PMK/HBH Public Relations, 8500 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor, producer, director

Birth Details

November 28, 1950

Tenafly, New Jersey, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• Lee, True West, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA, 1981
• Prairie Avenue, c. 1981
• (Off-Broadway debut) Eddie, Fool for Love, Circle Repertory Theatre, 1983
• Eddie, Fool for Love, Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, New York City, 1983
• Scar, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 1985
• (Broadway debut) Fred Small, Precious Sons, Longacre Theatre, 1986
• Scar, Met Theater, Los Angeles, 1992
• Simpatico, Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City, 1994
• Major Steve Arnold, Taking Sides, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1996
• Also appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweet Bird of Youth, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Camelot, Are You Lookin'?, The Time of Your Life, Cowboy Mouth, Learned Ladies, Kingdom of Earth, The Grapes of Wrath, Present Laughter, Balaam, and Killers' Head.
• Film Appearances
• (Film debut) Pathology resident, Coma, United Artists, 1978
• Hotchkiss, Borderline, ITC, 1980
• Billy, Knightriders, United Film, 1981
• Dream On, Magic Cinema, 1981
• Hank Blaine, "Father's Day," Creepshow, Warner Bros., 1982
• Oates, Under Fire, Orion, 1983
• Major John Glenn, Jr., The Right Stuff, Warner Bros., 1983
• Wayne Lomax, Places in the Heart, TriStar, 1984
• Jimmy Wing, A Flash of Green, Spectrafilm, 1984
• Jack Walsh, Swing Shift, Warner Bros., 1984
• Shang Pierce, Alamo Bay, TriStar, 1985
• Gus Lang, Code Name: Emerald (also known as Deep Cover andEmerald), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1985
• Charlie Dick, Sweet Dreams, TriStar, 1985
• William Walker, Walker, Universal, 1987
• Stefan, To Kill a Priest (also known as Le complot, Popieluszko, and Zabic ksiedza), Columbia, 1989
• David "Dave/Highschool" Flannigan, Jacknife, Cineplex Odeon, 1989
• Virgil "Bud" Brigman, The Abyss, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989
• Tommy Flannery, State of Grace, Orion, 1990
• Dave Moss, Glengarry Glen Ross, New Line Cinema, 1992
• Sheriff Alan Pangborn, Needful Things, Columbia, 1993
• Wayne Tarrance, The Firm, Paramount, 1993
• Tom Wheeler, Milk Money, Paramount, 1994
• Kyle Bodine, China Moon, Orion, 1994
• Blair Sullivan, Just Cause, Warner Bros., 1995
• Gene Kranz, Apollo 13 (also known as Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience), Universal, 1995
• E. Howard Hunt, Nixon, 1995
• Mack McCann, Eye for an Eye, Paramount, 1996
• General Francis X Hummel, The Rock, Buena Vista, 1996
• Himself, Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13, 1996
• Seth Frank, Absolute Power, Columbia, 1997
• Himself, Sean Connery Close Up, 1997
• Himself, Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait, 1997
• Luke Harrison, Stepmom, Columbia TriStar, 1998
• Christof, The Truman Show, Paramount, 1998
• Himself, Junket Whore, 1998
• Frank Shore, The Third Miracle, Sony Pictures Classics, 1999
• Himself, Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island, 1999
• Himself, The Directors: Clint Eastwood (also known as AFI's theDirectors: Clint Eastwood), 2000
• Jerry Charmichael, Waking the Dead, USA Films, 2000
• Kelly Grant, The Prime Gig, Fine Line, 2000
• Jackson Pollock, Pollock, Sony Pictures Classics, 2000
• Major Konig, Enemy at the Gates (also known as Duell--Enemy atthe Gates), Paramount, 2001
• Colonel Wallace Berman, Buffalo Soldiers (also known as Army GoHome), Miramax, 2001
• Parcher, A Beautiful Mind, Universal, 2001
• Himself, Film-Fest DVD: Issue 6, Moviemaking in the New Millennium, 2001
• Richard Brown, The Hours, 2002
• Masked & Anonymous, Sony Pictures Classics, 2003
• Lester Farley, The Human Stain, Miramax, 2003
• Coach Harold Jones, Radio, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2003
• Also appeared in Portalana; Suspect.
• Film Work
• Script consultant, A Flash of Green, Spectrafilm, 1984
• Director and producer, Pollock, Sony Pictures Classics, 2000
• Television Appearances
• Miniseries
• Russ, The Amazing Howard Hughes, CBS, 1977
• Lieutenant William Clark, The Seekers, HBO, 1979
• (Uncredited) General William Starkey, Stephen King's "The Stand" (also known as The Stand), ABC, 1994
• Voice, Baseball (also known as The History of Baseball), PBS, 1994
• Movies
• Chuck Polcheck, The Aliens Are Coming, NBC, 1980
• Harry Nash, The Last Innocent Man, HBO, 1987
• Harry Seagraves, Paris Trout (also known as Rage), Showtime, 1991
• Hugh Hathaway, Running Mates (also known as Dirty Tricks),HBO, 1992
• Jim Lassiter, Riders of the Purple Sage, TNT, 1996
• Voice of older Henry Sturbuck, Just a Dream, 2002
• Specials
• Premiere: Inside the Summer Blockbusters, Fox, 1989
• Narrator, A Moon Man from Massachusetts: The Robert Goddard Story,The Disney Channel, 1994
• Himself, The American Film Institute Salute to Clint Eastwood, 1996
• Voice of Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage, 1996
• Interviewee, Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western, TNT, 1997
• Presenter, The Screen Actors Guild Awards, 1997
• Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself, PBS, 1998
• Narrator, Blast Off: True Stories from the Final Frontier, The Learning Channel, 1999
• The 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, TNT, 2003
• Episodic
• Officer Rudy Kempner, "Kill the Messenger," The Rockford Files, NBC, 1978
• Warren, "Hit," Lou Grant, CBS, 1979
• Glenn Morgan, "School of Terror," Barnaby Jones, 1979
• Rick Reiner, "Hazard," Lou Grant, 1980
• Ralph Cooper, "Survival," Lou Grant, 1981
• Lonny, "Vagabounds," CHiPs, NBC, 1981
• Arnold Harmon, "Hart of Darkness," Hart to Hart, 1981
• Guest Caller Rob, "Leapin' Lizards," Frasier, NBC, 1995
• Also appeared as interviewee, Inside the Actors Studio.
• Television Movies
• Executive Producer
• Riders of the Purple Sage, TNT, 1996

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 3: Actors and Actresses, St. James Press, 1996
• Newsmakers, Issue 2, Gale Group, 2002

Periodicals

• Entertainment Weekly, March 1, 1999, p. 64; February 21, 2003, p.44
• Interview, September, 1992, pp. 112-15; December, 2000, p. 105
• Los Angeles Magazine, March, 2001, p. 77
• Premiere, November, 1990, p. 76