Ed Harris In addition to directing "Pollock", Harris also directed the western "Appaloosa" (2008). In television, Harris is notable for his roles as Miles Roby in the miniseries "Empire Falls" (2005) and as United States Senator John McCain in the television movie "Game Change" (2012), the latter of which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He currently stars as the Man in Black in the HBO science fiction-western series "Westworld" (2016–present), for which he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Harris was
Patterns (film) 2008 edition of "TV Week", the television critic Tom Shales compared the movie unfavorably to the live TV production: Patterns (film) Patterns is a 1956 American drama film directed by Fielder Cook and starring Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, and Ed Begley. The screenplay by Rod Serling was an adaptation of his teleplay "Patterns" originally telecast January 12, 1955 on the "Kraft Television Theatre", which starred Sloane, Begley and Richard Kiley. Most of the scenes are set in the corporate boardroom and surrounding offices of Ramsey & Co., a Manhattan industrial empire headed by the ruthless Walter Ramsey. He brings youthful