Portrait of Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan

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.

Born: April 10, 1915

Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Filmography

2013
Greenboy: Prescription for Death

as Bill Gannon (archive footage)

2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage)

2001
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1997
Family Plan

as Sol Rubins

1996
3rd Rock from the Sun

as Professor Suter

1994
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

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
1979
1979
The Wild Wild West Revisited

as Robert T. Malone

1979
1979
Backstairs at the White House

as Pres. Harry S. Truman

1978
The Cat from Outer Space

as General Stilton

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
1975
The Last Day

as Narrator

1974
Dinah!

as Self

1974
Sidekicks

as Sheriff Jenkins

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
1971
Cat Ballou

as The Rancher

1971
Scandalous John

as Sheriff Pippin

1971
The Barefoot Executive

as E.J. Crampton

1971
1970
Night Gallery

as Thaddeus Conway

1970
The Partridge Family

as Willie Larkin

1969
Viva Max!

as Chief of Police Sylvester

1969
1967
The Flim-Flam Man

as Sheriff Slade

1967
Dragnet

as Officer Bill Gannon

1966
1962
How the West Was Won

as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

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
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
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel

as Sheriff Ernie Backwater

1957
The Teahouse of the August Moon

as Sergeant Gregovich

1956
Star in the Dust

as Lew Hogan

1956
Backlash

as Tony Welker

1955
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Hermie Jenkins

1955
Gunsmoke

as Osgood Pickett

1955
Gunsmoke

as John Milligan

1955
Gunsmoke

as Jed Hockett

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
1952
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
1952
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
When I Grow Up

as Father Reed (Modern)

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
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
Hello Out There

as The Young Gambler

1948
Yellow Sky

as Half Pint

1948
Moonrise

as Billy Scripture

1948
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
Somewhere in the Night

as Bath Attendant

1946
Dragonwyck

as Klaas Bleecker

1946
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
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)