Harry Morgan
Known for Acting · 164 credits
- Born
- 1915-04-10
- Died
- 2011-12-07
- Place of birth
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Also known as
- Henry Morgan · Henry 'Harry' Morgan · Гарри Морган · Harry Bratsberg · هری مورگان
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.
Known For
The Simpsons
1989
as Bill Gannon (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Retired Lt. Richard Webb
The Love Boat
1977
as Wendell Snead / Charly Fields / Professor Milo Endler
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Fred Braus / Sheriff Ernie Backwater
M*A*S*H
1972
as General Steele / Sherman Potter
The Virginian
1962
as Kendall Jones
TV Shows (41)
The Simpsons
1989
as Bill Gannon (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Retired Lt. Richard Webb
The Love Boat
1977
as Wendell Snead / Charly Fields / Professor Milo Endler
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
as Fred Braus / Sheriff Ernie Backwater
M*A*S*H
1972
as General Steele / Sherman Potter
The Virginian
1962
as Kendall Jones
Love, American Style
1969
as Woody
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
as Professor Suter
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Francis X. Healy
The Untouchables
1959
as George 'Bugs' Moran
Renegade
1992
The Twilight Zone
1985
Gunsmoke
1955
as Osgood Pickett / John Milligan / Jed Hockett
Night Gallery
1970
as Thaddeus Conway
Dinah!
1974
as Self
Grace Under Fire
1993
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Hermie Jenkins
The Partridge Family
1970
as Willie Larkin / Cal
Dragnet
1967
as Gannon
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
as Mike Feeney
December Bride
1954
as Pete Porter
Cavalcade of America
1952
as Homer Byington
AfterMASH
1983
as Sherman T. Potter
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
as Bob Campbell
The Lone Wolf
1954
as Jim Strait / Rev. Jeffrey Hallam
Pete and Gladys
1960
Ensign O'Toole
1962
as Charlie
Going My Way
1962
The Jeff Foxworthy Show
1995
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1965
Blacke's Magic
1986
as Leonard Blacke
Kentucky Jones
1964
as Seldom Jackson
Here's Hollywood
1960
Backstairs at the White House
1979
as Pres. Harry S. Truman
The Bastard
1978
as Capt. Caleb
The Richard Boone Show
1963
Love & Money
1999
Hec Ramsey
1972
as Doc Amos Coogan
The D.A.
1971
as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
You Can't Take It with You
1987
as Martin Vanderhof
The Amazing Mr. Malone
1951
Movies (123)
High Noon
1952
as Sam Fuller
How the West Was Won
1962
as Ulysses S. Grant
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969
as Olly Perkins
Dragnet
1987
as Captain Gannon
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944
as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
Inherit the Wind
1960
as Judge Mel
Dragonwyck
1946
as Klaas Bleecker
Somewhere in the Night
1946
as Bath Attendant
The Shootist
1976
as Marshall Thibido
Bend of the River
1952
as Shorty
The Flight of Dragons
1982
as Carolinus (voice)
Star in the Dust
1956
as Lew Hogan
The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975
as Homer McCoy
It Started with a Kiss
1959
as Charles Meriden
Snowball Express
1972
as Jesse McCord
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
as Taylor
What Price Glory
1952
as Sergeant Moran
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
as Art Croft
Charley and the Angel
1973
as Angel
Strategic Air Command
1955
as Sergeant Bible
The Glenn Miller Story
1954
as Chummy MacGregor
Frankie and Johnny
1966
as Cully
The Cat from Outer Space
1978
as General Stilton
Appointment with Danger
1950
as George Soderquist
Hello Out There
1949
as The Young Gambler
The Big Clock
1948
as Bill Womack
The Incident
1990
as Judge Bell
All My Sons
1948
as Frank Lubey
Madame Bovary
1949
as Hyppolite
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966
as Major Pott
Holiday Affair
1949
as Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan)
The Far Country
1954
as Ketchum
Sparkling Cyanide
1983
as Captain Kemp
The Mountain Road
1960
as Mike Michaelson
Viva Max!
1969
as Chief of Police Sylvester
The Barefoot Executive
1971
as E.J. Crampton
Yellow Sky
1948
as Half Pint
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as Self (archive footage)
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1979
as T.P. Gaskill
Not as a Stranger
1955
as Oley
A Bell for Adano
1945
as Capt. N. Purvis
Wing and a Prayer
1944
as Malcolm Brainard
Down to the Sea in Ships
1949
as Britton
To the Shores of Tripoli
1942
as Mouthy
Family Plan
1997
as Sol Rubins
Better Late Than Never
1979
as Mr. Scott
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
as Sarajevo
You Can't Take it With You
1979
as Mr. DePinna
Backlash
1956
as Tony Welker
The Flim-Flam Man
1967
as Sheriff Slade
Incident in a Small Town
1994
as Judge Bell
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978
as Hugo Peavey
Scandalous John
1971
as Sheriff Pippin
The Blue Veil
1951
as Charles Hall
Exo-Man
1977
as Arthur Travis
14 Going on 30
1988
as Uncle Herb
About Mrs. Leslie
1954
as Fred Blue
Sidekicks
1974
as Sheriff Jenkins
From This Day Forward
1946
as Hank Beesley
Cimarron
1960
as Jessie Rickey
Dark City
1950
as Soldier
Crash Dive
1943
as Brownie
Champ for a Day
1953
as Al Muntz
The Feminist and the Fuzz
1971
as Horace Bowers
State Fair
1945
as Barker
The Last Day
1975
as Narrator
The Wild Wild West Revisited
1979
as Robert T. Malone
Arena
1953
as Lew Hutchins
The Gangster
1947
as Shorty
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
1992
as Judge Stoddard Bell
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956
as Felix - Barkeep
Scandal Sheet
1952
as Biddle
Moonrise
1948
as Billy Scripture
Murder at the Mardi Gras
1978
as Jim Bob Jackson
Memories of M*A*S*H
1991
as Self / Sherman Potter
The Highwayman
1951
Stop, You're Killing Me
1952
as Innocence
When I Grow Up
1951
as Father Reed (Modern)
The Omaha Trail
1942
as Henchman Nat
My Six Convicts
1952
as Dawson
Thunder Bay
1953
as Rawlings
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957
as Sergeant Gregovich
Star Spangled Salesman
1968
as TV Cop
The Century Turns
1972
as Doc Amos B. Coogan
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
1981
as Father Everett Kolodny
Boots Malone
1952
as Quarter Horse Henry
More Wild Wild West
1980
as Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone
The Eve of St. Mark
1944
as Private Shevlin
Happy Land
1943
as Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)
Race Street
1948
as Hal Towers
Red Light
1949
as Rocky
Dragnet
1969
as Bill Gannon
Torch Song
1953
as Joe Denner
Operation Teahouse
1956
as Self
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
1970
as Mr. Good
Belle Le Grand
1951
as Abel Stone
The Showdown
1950
as Rod Main
Orchestra Wives
1942
as Cully Anderson
The Saxon Charm
1948
as Hermy
Apache War Smoke
1952
as Ed Cotten
Scout's Honor
1980
as Mr. Briggs
Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
as Verne Kimber
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
2002
as Himself
Outside the Wall
1950
as Garth
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942
as Ebenezer Burling
The Well
1951
as Claude Packard
Take It or Leave It
1944
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
1971
as Insp. Richard Queen
The Forty-Niners
1954
as Alf Billings
Making 'M*A*S*H'
1981
as Self
Strange Bargain
1949
as Richard Webb
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
as Toby Waites
The Devil and John Q
1952
as Abe Lincoln
Prisoner of War
1954
as Maj. O.D. Hale
Confessions of the D.A. Man
1978
as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
Johnny Comes Flying Home
1946
as Joe Patillo
Greenboy: Prescription for Death
2013
as Bill Gannon (archive footage)
Under Fire
1957
as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946
as Gus Rivers
Gentle Annie
1944
as Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)
About Harry Morgan
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. With 164 credits spanning from 1942 to 2013, Harry Morgan has appeared in 123 films and 41 TV shows.
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Most Popular Harry Morgan Movies
- High Noon (1952) — as Sam Fuller
- How the West Was Won (1962) — as Ulysses S. Grant
- Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) — as Olly Perkins
- Dragnet (1987) — as Captain Gannon
- Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) — as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
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