Harry Morgan

ProducerActorDirector Apr 10 (died age 96) Detroit, Michigan, USA 1933–2024 (91 year career)

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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

Film

High Noon

Sam Fuller

Film

MAS*H

Sherman Potter

Film

Inherit the Wind

Judge Mel

Film

The Ox-Bow Incident

Art Croft

Film

How the West Was Won

Ulysses S. Grant

Film

The Shootist

Marshall Thibido

Film

Dragnet

Captain Gannon

Film

The Big Clock

Bill Womack

Filmography

Acting (167)

Movies (125)

Greenboy: Prescription for Death

2013

as Bill Gannon (archive footage)

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004

as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage)

7.6

M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion

2002

as Himself

5.7

The Shootist: The Legend Lives On

2001

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.0

Family Plan

1997

as Sol Rubins

5.2

Incident in a Small Town

1994

as Judge Bell

6.6

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

1992

as Judge Stoddard Bell

5.8

Memories of M*A*S*H

1991

as Self / Sherman Potter

The Incident

as Judge Bell

14 Going on 30

as Uncle Herb

Dragnet

as Captain Gannon

Sparkling Cyanide

as Captain Kemp

The Flight of Dragons

as Carolinus (voice)

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

1981

as Father Everett Kolodny

More Wild Wild West

1980

as Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone

Scout's Honor

as Mr. Briggs

Roughnecks

as Plug Champion

The Wild Wild West Revisited

1979

as Robert T. Malone

5.2

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

1979

as T.P. Gaskill

6.5

Better Late Than Never

1979

as Mr. Scott

You Can't Take it With You

1979

as Mr. DePinna

The Bastard

1978

as Capt. Caleb

5.8

Maneaters Are Loose!

1978

as Toby Waites

The Cat from Outer Space

1978

as General Stilton

5.9

Murder at the Mardi Gras

1978

as Jim Bob Jackson

Confessions of the D.A. Man

1978

as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

as Hugo Peavey

Exo-Man

as Arthur Travis

The Shootist

as Marshall Thibido

The Apple Dumpling Gang

as Homer McCoy

The Last Day

as Narrator

Sidekicks

as Sheriff Jenkins

Charley and the Angel

as Angel

Snowball Express

as Jesse McCord

The Century Turns

as Doc Amos B. Coogan

Scandalous John

1971

as Sheriff Pippin

6.1

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971

as Taylor

6.6

The Barefoot Executive

1971

as E.J. Crampton

5.5

Cat Ballou

1971

as The Rancher

The Feminist and the Fuzz

1971

as Horace Bowers

4.5

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

1971

as Insp. Richard Queen

8.0

But I Don't Want to Get Married!

1970

as Mr. Good

Support Your Local Sheriff!

as Olly Perkins

Dragnet

as Bill Gannon

Viva Max!

as Chief of Police Sylvester

5.5

Star Spangled Salesman

as TV Cop

The Flim-Flam Man

as Sheriff Slade

Frankie and Johnny

as Cully

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

1966

as Major Pott

5.9

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

as Sarajevo

How the West Was Won

as Ulysses S. Grant

Cimarron

as Jessie Rickey

Inherit the Wind

as Judge Mel

The Mountain Road

as Mike Michaelson

It Started with a Kiss

1959

as Charles Meriden

5.2

The Teahouse of the August Moon

1957

as Sergeant Gregovich

6.2

Under Fire

1957

as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak

6.0

The Bottom of the Bottle

as Felix - Barkeep

Backlash

as Tony Welker

Star in the Dust

as Lew Hogan

Operation Teahouse

as Self

Strategic Air Command

as Sergeant Bible

Not as a Stranger

as Oley

The Glenn Miller Story

as Chummy MacGregor

About Mrs. Leslie

as Fred Blue

The Forty-Niners

as Alf Billings

The Far Country

as Ketchum

Prisoner of War

as Maj. O.D. Hale

Torch Song

as Joe Denner

Thunder Bay

as Rawlings

Champ for a Day

as Al Muntz

Arena

as Lew Hutchins

High Noon

as Sam Fuller

Apache War Smoke

as Ed Cotten

The Devil and John Q

as Abe Lincoln

Stop, You're Killing Me

1952

as Innocence

5.0

Boots Malone

1952

as Quarter Horse Henry

Bend of the River

as Shorty

What Price Glory

as Sergeant Moran

Scandal Sheet

as Biddle

My Six Convicts

as Dawson

Toughest Man in Arizona

1952

as Verne Kimber

The Blue Veil

as Charles Hall

The Well

as Claude Packard

The Highwayman

Belle Le Grand

as Abel Stone

When I Grow Up

as Father Reed (Modern)

6.5

Appointment with Danger

as George Soderquist

Dark City

as Soldier

Outside the Wall

as Garth

The Showdown

as Rod Main

Red Light

as Rocky

Strange Bargain

as Richard Webb

Madame Bovary

as Hyppolite

Holiday Affair

as Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan)

6.8

Down to the Sea in Ships

as Britton

Hello Out There

as The Young Gambler

The Saxon Charm

as Hermy

All My Sons

as Frank Lubey

Race Street

as Hal Towers

The Big Clock

as Bill Womack

Yellow Sky

as Half Pint

Moonrise

as Billy Scripture

The Gangster

as Shorty

Johnny Comes Flying Home

1946

as Joe Patillo

Dragonwyck

1946

as Klaas Bleecker

6.7

Somewhere in the Night

1946

as Bath Attendant

6.7

From This Day Forward

1946

as Hank Beesley

5.2

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

as Gus Rivers

State Fair

as Barker

A Bell for Adano

as Capt. N. Purvis

Wing and a Prayer

as Malcolm Brainard

Gentle Annie

as Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)

5.2

Take It or Leave It

1944

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.0

Roger Touhy, Gangster

1944

as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon

The Eve of St. Mark

as Private Shevlin

The Ox-Bow Incident

as Art Croft

Crash Dive

as Brownie

Happy Land

as Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)

The Omaha Trail

as Henchman Nat

Orchestra Wives

as Cully Anderson

To the Shores of Tripoli

1942

as Mouthy

5.4

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

1942

as Ebenezer Burling

5.7

The Kennel Murder Case

1933

as Gamble (uncredited)

6.0

Television (42)

Love & Money

1999

3.0

3rd Rock from the Sun

1996

as Professor Suter

7.5

The Jeff Foxworthy Show

Grace Under Fire

Renegade

The Simpsons

as Bill Gannon (voice)

Blacke's Magic

as Leonard Blacke

The Twilight Zone

Murder, She Wrote

as Retired Lt. Richard Webb

7.5

AfterMASH

1983

as Sherman T. Potter

5.1

Roots: The Next Generations

1979

as Bob Campbell

7.5

Roots: The Next Generations

1979

as Bob Campbell

7.5

Backstairs at the White House

1979

as Pres. Harry S. Truman

5.9

The Bastard

1978

as Capt. Caleb

The Love Boat

as Wendell Snead

Dinah!

as Self

M*A*S*H

as Sherman Potter

M*A*S*H

as General Steele

Hec Ramsey

as Doc Amos Coogan

The D.A.

as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford

Night Gallery

as Thaddeus Conway

The Partridge Family

as Willie Larkin

Love, American Style

as Woody

Dragnet

as Officer Bill Gannon

6.8

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Kentucky Jones

as Seldom Jackson

The Richard Boone Show

The Virginian

as Kendall Jones

Going My Way

Ensign O'Toole

as Charlie

Dr. Kildare

as Francis X. Healy

Pete and Gladys

Here's Hollywood

The Untouchables

as George 'Bugs' Moran

7.8

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

as Fred Braus

7.3

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Hermie Jenkins

Gunsmoke

as Osgood Pickett

The 20th Century Fox Hour

as Mike Feeney

December Bride

as Pete Porter

The Lone Wolf

as Jim Strait

Cavalcade of America

as Homer Byington

The Amazing Mr. Malone

1951

Crew (6)

Movies (1)

Bakari

2024

Producer

Television (5)

M*A*S*H

Director

Hec Ramsey

Director

Adam-12

Director

The Richard Boone Show

1963

Director

7.0

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962

Director

7.8