Harry Morgan

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Known For

Acting

Born

1915-04-10

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Harry Morgan

Biography

Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor whose TV and film career spanned six decades. Morgan's major roles included Pete Porter in both December Bride (1954–1959) and Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967–1970); Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey (1972–1974); and his starring role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in MASH (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1985). Morgan also appeared as a supporting player in more than 100 films.

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Acting History

2013
Greenboy: Prescription for Death as Bill Gannon (archive footage)
2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage)
2002
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion as Himself
2001
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
Love & Money
1997
Family Plan as Sol Rubins
1996
3rd Rock from the Sun as Professor Suter
1995
The Jeff Foxworthy Show
1994
Incident in a Small Town as Judge Bell
1993
Grace Under Fire
1992
Renegade
1992
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore as Judge Stoddard Bell
1991
Memories of M*A*S*H as Self / Sherman Potter
1990
The Incident as Judge Bell
1989
The Simpsons as Bill Gannon (voice)
1988
14 Going on 30 as Uncle Herb
1987
Dragnet as Captain Gannon
1986
Blacke's Magic as Leonard Blacke
1985
The Twilight Zone
1984
Murder, She Wrote as Retired Lt. Richard Webb
1983
Sparkling Cyanide as Captain Kemp
1983
AfterMASH as Sherman T. Potter
1982
Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
1982
The Flight of Dragons as Carolinus (voice)
1981
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter as Father Everett Kolodny
1980
More Wild Wild West as Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone
1980
Scout's Honor as Mr. Briggs
1980
Roughnecks as Plug Champion
1979
Better Late Than Never as Mr. Scott
1979
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again as T.P. Gaskill
1979
You Can't Take it With You as Mr. DePinna
1979
The Wild Wild West Revisited as Robert T. Malone
1979
Roots: The Next Generations as Bob Campbell
1979
Backstairs at the White House as Pres. Harry S. Truman
1978
The Cat from Outer Space as General Stilton
1978
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid as Hugo Peavey
1978
The Bastard as Capt. Caleb
1978
Murder at the Mardi Gras as Jim Bob Jackson
1978
Maneaters Are Loose! as Toby Waites
1978
Confessions of the D.A. Man as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
1977
The Love Boat as Wendell Snead
1977
The Love Boat as Charly Fields
1977
The Love Boat as Milo Endler
1977
The Love Boat as Professor Milo Endler
1977
Exo-Man as Arthur Travis
1976
The Shootist as Marshall Thibido
1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang as Homer McCoy
1975
The Last Day as Narrator
1974
Dinah! as Self
1974
Sidekicks as Sheriff Jenkins
1973
Charley and the Angel as Angel
1972
Snowball Express as Jesse McCord
1972
The Century Turns as Doc Amos B. Coogan
1972
M*A*S*H as General Steele
1972
M*A*S*H as Sherman Potter
1972
Hec Ramsey as Doc Amos Coogan
1971
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You as Insp. Richard Queen
1971
The D.A. as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
1971
Cat Ballou as The Rancher
1971
Scandalous John as Sheriff Pippin
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter as Taylor
1971
The Barefoot Executive as E.J. Crampton
1971
The Feminist and the Fuzz as Horace Bowers
1970
Night Gallery as Thaddeus Conway
1970
But I Don't Want to Get Married! as Mr. Good
1970
The Partridge Family as Willie Larkin
1970
The Partridge Family as Cal
1969
Viva Max! as Chief of Police Sylvester
1969
Love, American Style as Woody
1969
Support Your Local Sheriff! as Olly Perkins
1969
Dragnet as Bill Gannon
1968
Star Spangled Salesman as TV Cop
1967
The Flim-Flam Man as Sheriff Slade
1967
Dragnet as Officer Bill Gannon
1966
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? as Major Pott
1966
Frankie and Johnny as Cully
1965
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1965
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as Sarajevo
1964
Kentucky Jones as Seldom Jackson
1963
The Richard Boone Show
1962
How the West Was Won as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
1962
Going My Way
1962
Ensign O'Toole as Charlie
1962
The Virginian as Kendall Jones
1961
Dr. Kildare as Francis X. Healy
1960
Cimarron as Jessie Rickey
1960
Here's Hollywood
1960
Pete and Gladys
1960
Inherit the Wind as Judge Mel
1960
The Mountain Road as Mike Michaelson
1959
The Untouchables as George 'Bugs' Moran
1959
It Started with a Kiss as Charles Meriden
1957
Under Fire as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel as Fred Braus
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel as Sheriff Ernie Backwater
1957
The Teahouse of the August Moon as Sergeant Gregovich
1956
Operation Teahouse as Self
1956
Star in the Dust as Lew Hogan
1956
Backlash as Tony Welker
1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour as Mike Feeney
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Hermie Jenkins
1955
Gunsmoke as Osgood Pickett
1955
Gunsmoke as John Milligan
1955
Gunsmoke as Jed Hockett
1955
Not as a Stranger as Oley
1955
Strategic Air Command as Sergeant Bible
1954
December Bride as Pete Porter
1954
About Mrs. Leslie as Fred Blue
1954
The Forty-Niners as Alf Billings
1954
Prisoner of War as Maj. O.D. Hale
1954
The Lone Wolf as Jim Strait
1954
The Lone Wolf as Rev. Jeffrey Hallam
1954
The Far Country as Ketchum
1954
The Glenn Miller Story as Chummy MacGregor
1953
Torch Song as Joe Denner
1953
Champ for a Day as Al Muntz
1953
Arena as Lew Hutchins
1953
Thunder Bay as Rawlings
1952
Stop, You're Killing Me as Innocence
1952
Toughest Man in Arizona as Verne Kimber
1952
Cavalcade of America as Homer Byington
1952
Apache War Smoke as Ed Cotten
1952
What Price Glory as Sergeant Moran
1952
High Noon as Sam Fuller
1952
My Six Convicts as Dawson
1952
The Devil and John Q as Abe Lincoln
1952
Bend of the River as Shorty
1952
Scandal Sheet as Biddle
1952
Boots Malone as Quarter Horse Henry
1951
The Blue Veil as Charles Hall
1951
The Well as Claude Packard
1951
The Highwayman
1951
When I Grow Up as Father Reed (Modern)
1951
The Amazing Mr. Malone
1951
Belle Le Grand as Abel Stone
1950
Dark City as Soldier
1950
The Showdown as Rod Main
1950
Appointment with Danger as George Soderquist
1950
Outside the Wall as Garth
1949
Holiday Affair as Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan)
1949
Strange Bargain as Richard Webb
1949
Red Light as Rocky
1949
Madame Bovary as Hyppolite
1949
Down to the Sea in Ships as Britton
1949
Hello Out There as The Young Gambler
1948
Yellow Sky as Half Pint
1948
Moonrise as Billy Scripture
1948
The Saxon Charm as Hermy
1948
Race Street as Hal Towers
1948
All My Sons as Frank Lubey
1948
The Big Clock as Bill Womack
1947
The Gangster as Shorty
1946
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog as Gus Rivers
1946
Somewhere in the Night as Bath Attendant
1946
Dragonwyck as Klaas Bleecker
1946
Johnny Comes Flying Home as Joe Patillo
1946
From This Day Forward as Hank Beesley
1945
State Fair as Barker
1945
A Bell for Adano as Capt. N. Purvis
1944
Gentle Annie as Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)
1944
Take It or Leave It as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1944
Roger Touhy, Gangster as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
1944
The Eve of St. Mark as Private Shevlin
1944
Wing and a Prayer as Malcolm Brainard
1943
Happy Land as Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)
1943
Crash Dive as Brownie
1943
The Ox-Bow Incident as Art Croft
1942
To the Shores of Tripoli as Mouthy
1942
Orchestra Wives as Cully Anderson
1942
The Omaha Trail as Henchman Nat
1942
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe as Ebenezer Burling
1933
The Kennel Murder Case as Gamble (uncredited)