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
Richard Harris at the Venice Film Festival. Harris received an offer to support Kirk Douglas in a British war film, "The Heroes of Telemark" (1965), directed by Anthony Mann, playing a Norwegian resistance leader. He then went to Hollywood to support Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah's "Major Dundee" (1965), as an Irish immigrant who became a Confederate cavalryman during the American Civil War. He played Cain in John Huston's film "" (1966). More successful at the box office was "Hawaii" (1966), which Harris starred alongside Julie Andrews and Max Von Sydow. As a change of pace, he was the romantic lead in