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)
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
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
1986
- Blacke's Magic as Leonard Blacke
1985
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Retired Lt. Richard Webb
1983
- Sparkling Cyanide as Captain Kemp
- AfterMASH as Sherman T. Potter
1982
- The Flight of Dragons as Carolinus (voice)
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
1981
- Rivkin: Bounty Hunter as Father Everett Kolodny
1980
- Roughnecks as Plug Champion
- More Wild Wild West as Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone
- Scout's Honor as Mr. Briggs
1979
- The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again as T.P. Gaskill
- Roots: The Next Generations as Bob Campbell
- 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
- Backstairs at the White House as Pres. Harry S. Truman
1978
- The Bastard as Capt. Caleb
- The Cat from Outer Space as General Stilton
- Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid as Hugo Peavey
- Murder at the Mardi Gras as Jim Bob Jackson
- Maneaters Are Loose! as Toby Waites
- Confessions of the D.A. Man as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
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
- Snowball Express as Jesse McCord
- Hec Ramsey as Doc Amos Coogan
- The Century Turns as Doc Amos B. Coogan
1971
- Cat Ballou as The Rancher
- Scandalous John as Sheriff Pippin
- The Feminist and the Fuzz as Horace Bowers
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Taylor
- Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You as Insp. Richard Queen
- The D.A. as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
- The Barefoot Executive as E.J. Crampton
1970
- Night Gallery as Thaddeus Conway
- The Partridge Family as Willie Larkin
- But I Don't Want to Get Married! as Mr. Good
1969
- Love, American Style as Woody
- Viva Max! as Chief of Police Sylvester
- Dragnet as Bill Gannon
- Support Your Local Sheriff! as Olly Perkins
1968
- Adam-12 ... (Director)
- Star Spangled Salesman as TV Cop
1967
- Dragnet as Officer Bill 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 Virginian as Kendall Jones
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ... (Director)
- How the West Was Won as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- Going My Way
- Ensign O'Toole as Charlie
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Francis X. Healy
1960
- Cimarron as Jessie Rickey
- Inherit the Wind as Judge Mel
- Pete and Gladys
- Here's Hollywood
- 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
- Under Fire as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
- The Teahouse of the August Moon as Sergeant Gregovich
1956
- Backlash as Tony Welker
- Star in the Dust as Lew Hogan
- Operation Teahouse as Self
1955
- Gunsmoke as Osgood Pickett
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Hermie Jenkins
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Mike Feeney
- Strategic Air Command as Sergeant Bible
- Not as a Stranger as Oley
1954
- December Bride as Pete Porter
- The Glenn Miller Story as Chummy MacGregor
- Prisoner of War as Maj. O.D. Hale
- About Mrs. Leslie as Fred Blue
- The Far Country as Ketchum
- The Lone Wolf as Jim Strait
- The Forty-Niners as Alf Billings
1953
- Torch Song as Joe Denner
- Thunder Bay as Rawlings
- Champ for a Day as Al Muntz
- Arena as Lew Hutchins
1952
- High Noon as Sam Fuller
- Cavalcade of America as Homer Byington
- Boots Malone as Quarter Horse Henry
- Bend of the River as Shorty
- Apache War Smoke as Ed Cotten
- What Price Glory as Sergeant Moran
- Stop, You're Killing Me as Innocence
- Toughest Man in Arizona as Verne Kimber
- The Devil and John Q as Abe Lincoln
- Scandal Sheet as Biddle
- My Six Convicts as Dawson
1951
- The Well as Claude Packard
- The Highwayman
- The Blue Veil as Charles Hall
- Belle Le Grand as Abel Stone
- When I Grow Up as Father Reed (Modern)
- The Amazing Mr. Malone
1950
- Dark City as Soldier
- The Showdown as Rod Main
- Appointment with Danger as George Soderquist
- Outside the Wall as Garth
1949
- Strange Bargain as Richard Webb
- Madame Bovary as Hyppolite
- Holiday Affair as Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan)
- Red Light as Rocky
- Down to the Sea in Ships as Britton
- Hello Out There as The Young Gambler
1948
- Race Street as Hal Towers
- Yellow Sky as Half Pint
- The Big Clock as Bill Womack
- The Saxon Charm as Hermy
- Moonrise as Billy Scripture
- All My Sons as Frank Lubey
1947
- The Gangster as Shorty
1946
- Dragonwyck as Klaas Bleecker
- From This Day Forward as Hank Beesley
- Somewhere in the Night as Bath Attendant
- Johnny Comes Flying Home as Joe Patillo
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog as Gus Rivers
1945
- State Fair as Barker
- A Bell for Adano as Capt. N. Purvis
1944
- Gentle Annie as Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)
- The Eve of St. Mark as Private Shevlin
- Wing and a Prayer as Malcolm Brainard
- Take It or Leave It as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Roger Touhy, Gangster as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
1943
- The Ox-Bow Incident as Art Croft
- Happy Land as Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)
- Crash Dive as Brownie
1942
- The Omaha Trail as Henchman Nat
- Orchestra Wives as Cully Anderson
- The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe as Ebenezer Burling
- To the Shores of Tripoli as Mouthy
1933
- The Kennel Murder Case as Gamble (uncredited)