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Ed Harris

Edward Allen Harris - born 28 November 1950, in Tenafly, New Jersey

Wise words: "Acting is not a competition to me. One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself."


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  • Farrell and Harris 'to join Way Back' - 9 January 2009
    Colin Farrell and Ed Harris are in final discussions to join the cast of Peter Weir's wartime drama The Way Back.-Based on the memoirs of Slavomir Rawicz, the movie tells the story of a group of soldiers who attempt to escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942.-Accordin


  • Harris and Mortensen set for violent encounter - 26 September 2005
    ng two robbers and is proclaimed a local hero.-But his life takes a troublesome turn with the arrival of Carl Fogaty, played by Ed Harris, who has appeared in A Beautiful Mind, The Human Stain and Buffalo Soldiers.-The film also features impressive performances fro

Ed Harris - what members say


  • The Right Stuff
  • The Right Stuff review by from UK
    Rated - 5 stars Reach for the Stars 18 June 2004
    ... and realised with a mature and intellgient approach and with an all star cast (Ed Harris and Sam Shepard are both excellent but Dennis Quaid's cocky pilot steals the sh...  
  • Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Glengarry Glen Ross review by A customer from Southampton, England
    Rated - 3 stars Pretty Good 18 September 2004
    ...formance in this film along with Jack Lemmon who is excellent. Kevin Spacey and Ed Harris give good performances in a film that is nothing special, but pretty good....  
  • The Truman Show
  • The Truman Show review by from Chester
    Rated - 4 stars Engaging and thoughtful comedy 25 April 2005
    ...y sensitive role shows he really can act, and the supporting cast, particularly Ed Harris, create a fine film. The DVD has precious little in the way of extras though...  

Ed Harris - filmography


  • Appaloosa on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Renee Zellweger,  Ed Harris
    Director: Ed Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When two gunmen, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg. Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 11,870 members
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  • Cleaner on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Ed Harris,  Eva Mendes
    Director: Renny Harlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tom Cutler is an ex-cop turned crime scene cleaner. When he arrives at a suburban house to clear up a gruesome murder he finds no one home. Finding a key outside the house he enters and proceeds with his horrific task. But when he returns with the key he meets the owner Ann Norcut who has no ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 20,394 members
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  • A History of Violence on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Maria Bello,  William Hurt
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 72,829 members
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  • Radio on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr.,  Ed Harris,  Alfre Woodard
    Director: Michael Tollin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in South Carolina and spanning almost 40 years time beginning in the 1960s, RADIO is the moving story of the friendship between a mentally disabled man (played by Cuba Gooding Jr. in adulthood) and the high school football coach (Ed Harris) who gives him guidance, hope, and confidence. Growing ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,819 members
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  • The Human Stain on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Nicole Kidman,  Ed Harris
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Robert Benton brings Philip Roth's 2000 novel THE HUMAN STAIN to the screen in this lavish production, with expert cinematography from Jean-Yves Escoffier. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a light-skinned African-American college professor who has kept his true racial identity secret for ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 11,093 members
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  • The Hours on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Allison Janney,  Meryl Streep
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham, THE HOURS employs Virginia Woolf's classic novel and central character, MRS. DALLOWAY, as its foundation and inspiration. Spanning three different eras, during one day, the film focuses on the parallel lives of three women joined in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 20,304 members
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  • Buffalo Soldiers on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Scott Glenn,  Ed Harris,  Elizabeth McGovern
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joaquin Phoenix stars in this dark service comedy as Ray Elwood, an Army clerk stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Part of a company made up almost entirely of ex-convicts and school dropouts, Elwood takes advantage of his daft commanding officer, Col. Berman (..read more »
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  • Pollock on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ed Harris,  Amy Madigan,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Ed Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ed Harris's POLLOCK is a moving portrait of artist Jackson Pollock, a leader of abstract expressionist painting whose work had major influence on the modern art movement. A serious alcoholic who was married to Lee Krasner, another prominent painter, the film illustrates Pollock's rise to art world ..read more »
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  • Prime Gig on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Christina Cabot,  Julia Ormond
    Director: Gregory Mosher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Given a telephone, small-time scam artist Pendleton Wise, also known as Penny (Vince Vaughn), can talk people into almost anything. But as he whiles away his time in a small office, selling fake travel packages to the unsuspecting public, Penny dreams of something bigger, of the prime gig. His ship ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 235 members
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  • Stepmom on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Susan Sarandon,  Ed Harris
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jackie (Susan Sarandon) and Luke (Ed Harris) are divorcing after years of marriage and two children, Anna and Ben. Their new stepmother, Isabel (Julia Roberts), wants to be involved in the children's life, but is unwilling to sacrifice anything for her work. Jackie considers this to be selfish and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,428 members
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  • Truman Show, The - BLU-RAY Version (1998)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Ed Harris,  Laura Linney
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,001 member
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  • The Truman Show on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Ed Harris,  Laura Linney
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: £2.49
    The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 19,493 members
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  • Absolute Power on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Gene Hackman,  Ed Harris
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this slick political thriller, an emotionally disconnected, aesthetically refined master thief is out for one final score before retiring to his treasure-lined hideaway. But during a robbery at a mansion near Washington, he witnesses a bizarre sex murder involving the President of the United ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 4,003 members
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  • The Rock on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Nicolas Cage,  Ed Harris
    Director: Michael Bay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Michael Bay's THE ROCK, gung-ho general Francis Hummel (Ed Harris), armed with deadly chemical rockets and aided by violent cohorts, takes over the island of Alcatraz, holding 81 tourists hostage. Hummel promises to deploy the missiles over San Francisco if Washington doesn't make amends to ..read more »
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  • Milk Money on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Ed Harris,  Michael Patrick Carter
    Director: Richard Benjamin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A romantic comedy in which 12 years-old Frank and his friends pool their savings to find a lady who will satisfy their curiosity about the naked female body. They find a willing "working girl" in the form of V, a warmhearted girl with a beautiful figure. But unfortunately, Frank sees her as a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 384 members
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  • Apollo 13 on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Kevin Bacon,  Bill Paxton
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A vividly rendered dramatisation of Apollo 13's true-life brush with disaster on the way to the Moon in 1971. This mesmerising film combines computer graphics, archive footage and seamless special effects to recreate the adrenalised odyssey of Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert who ..read more »
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  • Nixon on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Joan Allen,  James Woods
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A surprisingly sympathetic account of the life of Richard Nixon from Oliver Stone, NIXON stars Anthony Hopkins as the former American president. Told out of chronological order, the film traces Nixon's life from his strict Quaker upbringing, through his rise in the Republican party, to his wounding ..read more »
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  • China Moon on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Ed Harris,  Madeline Stowe,  Charles Dance
    Director: John Bailey
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this sumptuous erotic thriller, a small town detective has a passionate affair with a stunning local woman. When her wealthy husband is brutally murdered, her lover is immediately suspected and he must stumble through a maze of deceit to find out the truth and clear his name.
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  • Firm, The - BLU-RAY Version (1993)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jeanne Tripplehorn,  Ed Harris
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of ..read more »
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  • The Firm on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jeanne Tripplehorn,  Ed Harris
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of ..read more »
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  • Glengarry Glen Ross on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Jack Lemmon,  Alec Baldwin
    Director: James Foley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Glengarry Glen Ross tells the powerful story of the wheelings and dealings of a small Chicago real estate office, where the name of the game is to close the deal and stay on top. The film boasts an all-star cast, including: Al Pacino; Jack Lemmon; Alec Baldwin; Ed Harris; Alan Arkin; and Kevin ..read more »
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  • State Of Grace on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Ed Harris,  Gary Oldman
    Director: Phil Joanou
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Terry Noonan returns to New York's Hell Kitchen after twelve years to find that his old neighbourhood of seedy bars and Irish-American mobsters has been taken over by Yuppies hell-bent on gentrification. Terry's childhood buddies, ruthless gang leader Frankie Flannery and his psychotic brother ..read more »
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  • The Abyss on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Ed Harris,  Michael Biehn,  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
    Director: James Cameron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A team of civilian divers working on a prototype underwater oil-drilling rig are coerced by the US Navy into helping them look for a lost nuclear submarine. Whilst in deep water the Navy supervisor has paranoid ideas about what they've found in the Abyss.....
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  • Jacknife on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ed Harris,  Kathy Baker
    Director: David Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A troubled Vietnam vet pays a visit to an old war buddy. Finding him in a depressed and drunken state with only a sister for company, he stays around and helps to free his friend from the past. The sister comes to know a tender love that she has never experienced before.
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  • Walker on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Ed Harris,  Marlee Matlin,  Rene Assa
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This offbeat historical drama is another in a line of hard-to-categorize films from cult director Alex Cox. Ed Harris stars as William Walker, an idealistic doctor, lawyer, and journalist who, at age 32, led a bloody revolution and installed himself as president of Nicaragua under orders from ..read more »
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  • Sweet Dreams on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Jessica Lange,  Ed Harris,  P.J. Soles
    Director: Karel Reisz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Karel Reisz's SWEET DREAMS, Jessica Lange stars as Patsy Cline, the ill-fated country singer whose trembling, emotion packed renditions of 'Crazy', 'Sweet Dreams', and 'I Fall to Pieces', made her one the most enduring voices in all of American popular music. Starting out by performing more ..read more »
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  • The Right Stuff on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Sam Shepard,  Scott Glenn,  Dennis Quaid
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe (THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES) and directed by visionary filmmaker Philip Kaufman (QUILLS, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING).Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test ..read more »
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  • Borderline on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Wilford Brimley,  Michael Lerner
    Director: Jerrold Freedman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Charles Bronson stars as a U.S. Border Guard who is trying to protect the country from the millions of illegal Mexican immigrants who attempt to cross the border annually. He becomes involved in a murder hunt when his partner and a poor youth are murdered...
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  • Milk Money to Watch Now (1995)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Ed Harris,  Michael Patrick Carter
    Director: Richard Benjamin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
    Watch now: FREE
    Run time: 108 minutes
    Twelve-year-old Frank Wheeler (Michael Patrick Carter) and his two best buddies are determined to solve life's biggest mystery – women! So they pool their piggy-bank money and head for the big city. Their plan: to peek at a naked lady. The kids hit the jackpot when they meet V (Melanie Griffith), a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 26 members
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  • Borderline to Watch Now (1980)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Wilford Brimley,  Michael Lerner
    Director: Jerrold Freedman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 106 minutes
    Charles Bronson stars as a U.S. Border Guard who is trying to protect the country from the millions of illegal Mexican immigrants who attempt to cross the border annually. He becomes involved in a murder hunt when his partner and a poor youth are murdered...
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Ed Harris facts

5 most recent films

Appaloosa - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Appaloosa - 3.0 stars
Gone Baby Gone - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Gone Baby Gone - 3.5 stars
Cleaner - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Rock, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Truman Show, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Apollo 13 - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
History of Violence, A - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Gone Baby Gone - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Empire Falls - 3.0 stars
Copying Beethoven - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Firm, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Prime Gig - 2.5 stars
Copying Beethoven - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Bower - 6 times - show films
Viggo Mortensen - 6 times - show films
Lance Henriksen - 5 times - show films
Wilford Brimley - 5 times - show films
Luce Rains - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

James Foley - 4 times - show films
Sydney Pollack - 3 times - show films
Richard Benjamin - 3 times - show films
Jerrold Freedman - 2 times - show films
Ben Affleck - 2 times - show films