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
Ed Harris Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. Also that year, he played a vengeful mobster in David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence" (2005) starring Viggo Mortensen. In 2006, he portrayed composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the film "Copying Beethoven", and starred in the television documentary film "The Armenian Genocide" as American diplomat Leslie Davis. He next appeared alongside Casey Affleck and Morgan Freeman in the Ben Affleck directed neo noir mystery film "Gone Baby Gone" (2007). Harris then co-starred as the antagonist Mitch