Harry Morgan

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1915-04-10 (96 years old)

Deathday

2011-12-07

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Harry Morgan

Biography

Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg) 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.

Acting

1952

High Noon

as Sam Fuller

1987

Dragnet

as Captain Gannon

1960

Inherit the Wind

as Judge Mel

1971

The Barefoot Executive

as E.J. Crampton

1980

Roughnecks

as Plug Champion

1948

Yellow Sky

as Half Pint

1969

1978

Maneaters Are Loose!

as Toby Waites

1949

Holiday Affair

as Police Lieutenant

1962

How the West Was Won

as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

1972

Snowball Express

as Jesse McCord

1950

Appointment with Danger

as George Soderquist

1946

Dragonwyck

as Klaas Bleecker

1947

The Gangster

as Shorty

1976

The Shootist

as Marshall Thibido

1949

Red Light

as Rocky

1952

Scandal Sheet

as Biddle

1982

The Flight of Dragons

as Carolinus (voice)

1945

State Fair

as Barker

1948

Moonrise

as Billy Scripture

1951

The Well

as Claude Packard

1949

Strange Bargain

as Richard Webb

1950

Dark City

as Soldier

1967

The Flim-Flam Man

as Sheriff Slade

1953

Thunder Bay

as Rawlings

1956

Backlash

as Tony Welker

1955

Strategic Air Command

as Sergeant Bible

1952

1948

All My Sons

as Frank Lubey

1949

Madame Bovary

as Hyppolite

1952

1960

Cimarron

as Jessie Rickey

1969

Viva Max!

as Chief of Police Sylvester

1954

The Glenn Miller Story

as Chummy MacGregor

1975

1966

1954

The Far Country

as Ketchum

1978

The Cat from Outer Space

as General Stilton

1944

Wing and a Prayer

as Malcolm Brainard

1948

The Big Clock

as Bill Womack

1982

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage)

1994

1948

Race Street

as Hal Towers

1943

Crash Dive

as Brownie

1974

Sidekicks

as Sheriff Jenkins

1979

The Wild Wild West Revisited

as Robert T. Malone

1952

1950

The Showdown

as Rod Main

1960

The Mountain Road

as Mike Michaelson

1971

Scandalous John

as Sheriff Pippin

1954

About Mrs. Leslie

as Fred Blue

1953

Arena

as Lew Hutchins

1952

Apache War Smoke

as Ed Cotten

1956

Star in the Dust

as Lew Hogan

1951

The Blue Veil

as Charles Hall

1944

Roger Touhy, Gangster

as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon

1948

1946

From This Day Forward

as Hank Beesley

1949

Hello Out There

as The Young Gambler

1952

Boots Malone

as Quarter Horse Henry

1959

It Started with a Kiss

as Charles Meriden

1954

Prisoner of War

as Maj. O.D. Hale

1952

1978

Confessions of the D.A. Man

as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford

1972

The Century Turns

as Doc Amos B. Coogan

1943

Happy Land

as Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)

1944

The Eve of St. Mark

as Private Shevlin

1943

1954

The Forty-Niners

as Alf Billings

1950

1978

The Bastard

as Capt. Caleb

1944

Gentle Annie

as Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)

1979

1981

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

as Father Everett Kolodny

1971

1952

The Devil and John Q

as Abe Lincoln

1977

Exo-Man

as Arthur Travis

1980

Scout's Honor

as Mr. Briggs

1946

Somewhere in the Night

as Bath Attendant

1951

Belle Le Grand

as Abel Stone

1942

The Omaha Trail

as Henchman Nat

2013

Greenboy: Prescription for Death

as Bill Gannon (archive footage)

1942

Orchestra Wives

as Cully Anderson

1953

Torch Song

as Joe Denner

1978

Murder at the Mardi Gras

as Jim Bob Jackson

1942

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

as Ebenezer Burling

1980

More Wild Wild West

as Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone

1975

The Last Day

as Narrator

1952

What Price Glory

as Sergeant Moran

1951

When I Grow Up

as Father Reed (Modern)

1957

The Teahouse of the August Moon

as Sergeant Gregovich

1990

The Incident

as Judge Bell

1953

Champ for a Day

as Al Muntz

1944

Take It or Leave It

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1969

Dragnet

as Bill Gannon

1988

14 Going on 30

as Uncle Herb

1991

Memories of M*A*S*H

as Self / Sherman Potter

1933

The Kennel Murder Case

as Gamble (uncredited)

1945

A Bell for Adano

as Capt. N. Purvis

1979

2001

The Shootist: The Legend Lives On

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1983

Sparkling Cyanide

as Captain Kemp

1957

Under Fire

as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak

1997

Family Plan

as Sol Rubins

1946

1971

Cat Ballou

as The Rancher

1971

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