FrameThrower · Actors · Ed Harris
Ed Harris
15 films · 1,209 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1982–2024
Born 28 November 1950 · Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Edward Allen Harris is an American actor and director. His performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000), and The Hours (2002) earned him critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations.
Harris has appeared in numerous leading and supporting roles, including in Creepshow (1982), The Right Stuff (1983), Under Fire (1983), Places in the Heart (1984), The Abyss (1989), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Radio (2003), A History of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), Mother! (2017), The Lost…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,209 frames · top-billed in 12 · 1982–2024
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film2013
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture1998
- Golden Globe Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role1996
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture1996
- New Jersey Hall of Fame2019
- Sitges Grand Honorary Award2018
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor2005
- Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor2001
- Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor1999
- National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor1998
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor1995
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,209 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ed takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Ed takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Love Lies Bleeding
2024 · Lou Sr.
mother!
2017 · Man
Run All Night
2015 · Shawn Maguire
Frontera
2014 · Roy
Cymbeline
2014 · Cymbeline
Gravity
2013 · Mission Control (voice)
Snowpiercer
2013 · Wilford
A History of Violence
2005 · Carl Fogarty
Pollock
2000 · Jackson Pollock
The Rock
1996 · Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
The Abyss
1989 · Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
The Right Stuff
1983 · John Glenn
Pain & Gain
2013 · Ed DuBois
Creepshow
1982 · Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
The Truman Show
· Christof
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,209 frames from Ed Harris's 15 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.