Harry Morgan
Born: 1915-04-10 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 2011-12-07
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- Bakari ... (Producer)
2013
- Greenboy: Prescription for Death as Bill Gannon (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
1997
- Family Plan as Sol Rubins
1996
- 3rd Rock from the Sun as Professor Suter
1994
- Incident in a Small Town as Judge Bell
1993
1992
- Renegade
- 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
- You Can't Take It with You as Martin Vanderhof
1986
- Blacke's Magic as Leonard Blacke
1985
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Retired Lt. Richard Webb
1983
- AfterMASH as Sherman T. Potter
- Sparkling Cyanide as Captain Kemp
1982
- The Flight of Dragons as Carolinus (voice)
- Showbiz Goes to War as Self (archive footage)
1981
- Making 'M*A*S*H' as Self
- Rivkin: Bounty Hunter as Father Everett Kolodny
1980
- More Wild Wild West as Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone
- Roughnecks as Plug Champion
- Scout's Honor as Mr. Briggs
1979
- Roots: The Next Generations as Bob Campbell
- Backstairs at the White House as Pres. Harry S. Truman
- The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again as T.P. Gaskill
- The Wild Wild West Revisited as Robert T. Malone
- Better Late Than Never as Mr. Scott
- You Can't Take it With You as Mr. DePinna
1978
- The Bastard as Capt. Caleb
- The Cat from Outer Space as General Stilton
- Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid as Hugo Peavey
- Confessions of the D.A. Man as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
- Murder at the Mardi Gras as Jim Bob Jackson
- Maneaters Are Loose! as Toby Waites
1977
- The Love Boat as Wendell Snead
- Exo-Man as Arthur Travis
1976
- The Shootist as Marshall Thibido
1975
- The Apple Dumpling Gang as Homer McCoy
- The Last Day as Narrator
1973
- Charley and the Angel as Angel
1972
- M*A*S*H as General Steele
- Hec Ramsey as Doc Amos Coogan
- Snowball Express as Jesse McCord
- The Century Turns as Doc Amos B. Coogan
1971
- The D.A. as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Taylor
- The Barefoot Executive as E.J. Crampton
- The Feminist and the Fuzz as Horace Bowers
- Cat Ballou as The Rancher
- Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You as Insp. Richard Queen
- Scandalous John as Sheriff Pippin
1970
- Night Gallery as Thaddeus Conway
- The Partridge Family as Cal
- But I Don't Want to Get Married! as Mr. Good
1969
- Love, American Style as Woody
- Support Your Local Sheriff! as Olly Perkins
- Dragnet as Bill Gannon
- Viva Max! as Chief of Police Sylvester
1968
- Adam-12 ... (Director)
- Star Spangled Salesman as TV Cop
1967
- Dragnet as Gannon
- The Flim-Flam Man as Sheriff Slade
1966
- What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? as Major Pott
- Frankie and Johnny as Cully
1965
1964
- Kentucky Jones as Seldom Jackson
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ... (Director)
- The Virginian as Kendall Jones
- Going My Way
- Ensign O'Toole as Charlie
- How the West Was Won as Ulysses S. Grant
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Francis X. Healy
1960
- Pete and Gladys
- Here's Hollywood
- Inherit the Wind as Judge Mel
- Cimarron as Jessie Rickey
- The Mountain Road as Mike Michaelson
1959
- The Untouchables as George 'Bugs' Moran
- It Started with a Kiss as Charles Meriden
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Fred Braus
- The Teahouse of the August Moon as Sergeant Gregovich
- Under Fire as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
1956
- Backlash as Tony Welker
- Star in the Dust as Lew Hogan
- The Bottom of the Bottle as Felix - Barkeep
- Operation Teahouse as Self
1955
- Gunsmoke as Osgood Pickett
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Hermie Jenkins
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Mike Feeney
- Not as a Stranger as Oley
- Strategic Air Command as Sergeant Bible
1954
- December Bride as Pete Porter
- The Lone Wolf as Jim Strait
- The Glenn Miller Story as Chummy MacGregor
- The Far Country as Ketchum
- Prisoner of War as Maj. O.D. Hale
- About Mrs. Leslie as Fred Blue
- The Forty-Niners as Alf Billings
1953
- Thunder Bay as Rawlings
- Champ for a Day as Al Muntz
- Torch Song as Joe Denner
- Arena as Lew Hutchins
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Homer Byington
- High Noon as Sam Fuller
- Bend of the River as Shorty
- What Price Glory as Sergeant Moran (uncredited)
- Scandal Sheet as Biddle
- Stop, You're Killing Me as Innocence
- Toughest Man in Arizona as Verne Kimber
- My Six Convicts as Dawson
- Apache War Smoke as Ed Cotten
- Boots Malone as Quarter Horse Henry
- The Devil and John Q as Abe Lincoln
1951
- The Well as Claude Packard
- The Blue Veil as Charles Hall
- The Amazing Mr. Malone
- The Highwayman as Tim
- When I Grow Up as Father Reed (Modern)
- Belle Le Grand as Abel Stone
1950
- Dark City as Soldier
- Appointment with Danger as George Soderquist
- Outside the Wall as Garth
- The Showdown as Rod Main
1949
- Madame Bovary as Hyppolite
- Down to the Sea in Ships as Britton
- Holiday Affair as Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan)
- Strange Bargain as Richard Webb
- Red Light as Rocky
- Hello Out There as The Young Gambler
1948
- Yellow Sky as Half Pint
- The Big Clock as Bill Womack
- Race Street as Hal Towers
- Moonrise as Billy Scripture
- All My Sons as Frank Lubey
- The Saxon Charm as Hermy
1947
- The Gangster as Shorty
1946
- Dragonwyck as Klaas Bleecker
- Somewhere in the Night as Bath Attendant
- From This Day Forward as Hank Beesley
- Johnny Comes Flying Home as Joe Patillo
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog as Gus Rivers
1945
- A Bell for Adano as Captain Purvis
- State Fair as Barker
1944
- Wing and a Prayer as Malcolm Brainard
- Gentle Annie as Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)
- Take It or Leave It as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Roger Touhy, Gangster as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
- The Eve of St. Mark as Private Shevlin
1943
- The Ox-Bow Incident as Art Croft
- Crash Dive as Brownie
- Happy Land as Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)
1942
- Orchestra Wives as Cully Anderson
- To the Shores of Tripoli as Mouthy
- The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe as Ebenezer Burling
- The Omaha Trail as Henchman Nat