Appaloosa (film) Appaloosa (film) Appaloosa is a 2008 American Western film based on the 2005 novel "Appaloosa" by crime writer Robert B. Parker. Directed by Ed Harris and co-written by Harris and Robert Knott, "Appaloosa" stars Harris alongside Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. The film premiered at 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in selected cities on September 19, 2008, then expanded into wide-release on October 3, 2008. The film shares some narrative similarities with the 1959 Western "Warlock", directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn and Richard Widmark. There is also a 1966 Western
Ed Harris later, Harris was nominated for his fourth Academy Award (third in the Best Supporting Actor category) for his role as Richard Brown in the British American drama film "The Hours". In between the two Oscar nominated roles, he appeared in the biographical drama "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) and portrayed German sniper Major Erwin König in the war thriller "Enemy at the Gates" (2001). From June to July 2002, he starred in adverts for the Vauxhall Vectra in the United Kingdom. For his lead role as Miles Roby in the 2005 miniseries "Empire Falls", Harris was nominated for the Primetime Emmy