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| Edward Allen Harris - November 28, 1950 |
The great actor Ed Harris celebrates his 69th birthday today and what better way to celebrate it (and use this occasion as an excuse) than to post my five favorite characters that the man has played in his 40-year career. I was aware of the man's work growing up and HBO airing many of his films like Apollo 13, The Rock and Milk Money but Harris has had steady work in the film industry for years and in 2018 I decided to seek out many of his films I was unfamiliar with thanks to randomly stumbling into Cinematic Corner and a friend I've found on twitter who we'll just call Paul it was quite easy to track down many films in Harris' filmography particularly the ones they highly recommend. His first lead role was in George A. Romero's Knightriders in 1981, two years later he got his big break in a big budget film in 1983's The Right Stuff playing astronaut John Glenn and since then Harris has proved time and time again why he deserves his place in American cinema with performances in Sweet Dreams, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross, Apollo 13, The Rock, The Truman Show, Pollock and The Hours, four of which earned him Academy Award nominations among his impeccable filmography and perhaps also proving that he deserves to be in better roles than the ones he has been given lately. This list will only contain his fictional characters so his roles in The Right Stuff, Apollo 13 etc. won't be included on this list.
