Harry Morgan

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

Murder, She Wrote

Grace Under Fire

The Love Boat

The Love Boat

The Love Boat

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H

All Movies (123)

• Greenboy: Prescription for Death2013 · as Bill Gannon (archive footage)
• M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion2002 · as Himself
• The Shootist: The Legend Lives On2001 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Family Plan1997 · as Sol Rubins
• Incident in a Small Town1994 · as Judge Bell
• Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore1992 · as Judge Stoddard Bell
• Memories of M*A*S*H1991 · as Self / Sherman Potter
• The Incident1990 · as Judge Bell
• 14 Going on 301988 · as Uncle Herb
• Dragnet1987 · as Captain Gannon
• Sparkling Cyanide1983 · as Captain Kemp
• Showbiz Goes to War1982 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Flight of Dragons1982 · as Carolinus (voice)
• Rivkin: Bounty Hunter1981 · as Father Everett Kolodny
• Making 'M*A*S*H'1981 · as Self
• More Wild Wild West1980 · as Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone
• Scout's Honor1980 · as Mr. Briggs
• Roughnecks1980 · as Plug Champion
• Better Late Than Never1979 · as Mr. Scott
• The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again1979 · as T.P. Gaskill
• You Can't Take it With You1979 · as Mr. DePinna
• The Wild Wild West Revisited1979 · as Robert T. Malone
• The Cat from Outer Space1978 · as General Stilton
• Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid1978 · as Hugo Peavey
• Murder at the Mardi Gras1978 · as Jim Bob Jackson
• Maneaters Are Loose!1978 · as Toby Waites
• Confessions of the D.A. Man1978 · as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
• Exo-Man1977 · as Arthur Travis
• The Shootist1976 · as Marshall Thibido
• The Apple Dumpling Gang1975 · as Homer McCoy
• The Last Day1975 · as Narrator
• Sidekicks1974 · as Sheriff Jenkins
• Charley and the Angel1973 · as Angel
• Snowball Express1972 · as Jesse McCord
• The Century Turns1972 · as Doc Amos B. Coogan
• Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You1971 · as Insp. Richard Queen
• Cat Ballou1971 · as The Rancher
• Scandalous John1971 · as Sheriff Pippin
• Support Your Local Gunfighter1971 · as Taylor
• The Barefoot Executive1971 · as E.J. Crampton
• The Feminist and the Fuzz1971 · as Horace Bowers
• But I Don't Want to Get Married!1970 · as Mr. Good
• Viva Max!1969 · as Chief of Police Sylvester
• Support Your Local Sheriff!1969 · as Olly Perkins
• Dragnet1969 · as Bill Gannon
• Star Spangled Salesman1968 · as TV Cop
• The Flim-Flam Man1967 · as Sheriff Slade
• What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?1966 · as Major Pott
• Frankie and Johnny1966 · as Cully
• John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!1965 · as Sarajevo
• How the West Was Won1962 · as Ulysses S. Grant
• Cimarron1960 · as Jessie Rickey
• Inherit the Wind1960 · as Judge Mel
• The Mountain Road1960 · as Mike Michaelson
• It Started with a Kiss1959 · as Charles Meriden
• Under Fire1957 · as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
• The Teahouse of the August Moon1957 · as Sergeant Gregovich
• Operation Teahouse1956 · as Self
• Star in the Dust1956 · as Lew Hogan
• Backlash1956 · as Tony Welker
• The Bottom of the Bottle1956 · as Felix - Barkeep
• Not as a Stranger1955 · as Oley
• Strategic Air Command1955 · as Sergeant Bible
• About Mrs. Leslie1954 · as Fred Blue
• The Forty-Niners1954 · as Alf Billings
• Prisoner of War1954 · as Maj. O.D. Hale
• The Far Country1954 · as Ketchum
• The Glenn Miller Story1954 · as Chummy MacGregor
• Torch Song1953 · as Joe Denner
• Champ for a Day1953 · as Al Muntz
• Arena1953 · as Lew Hutchins
• Thunder Bay1953 · as Rawlings
• Stop, You're Killing Me1952 · as Innocence
• Toughest Man in Arizona1952 · as Verne Kimber
• Apache War Smoke1952 · as Ed Cotten
• What Price Glory1952 · as Sergeant Moran
• High Noon1952 · as Sam Fuller
• My Six Convicts1952 · as Dawson
• The Devil and John Q1952 · as Abe Lincoln
• Bend of the River1952 · as Shorty
• Scandal Sheet1952 · as Biddle
• Boots Malone1952 · as Quarter Horse Henry
• The Blue Veil1951 · as Charles Hall
• The Well1951 · as Claude Packard
• The Highwayman1951
• When I Grow Up1951 · as Father Reed (Modern)
• Belle Le Grand1951 · as Abel Stone
• Dark City1950 · as Soldier
• The Showdown1950 · as Rod Main
• Appointment with Danger1950 · as George Soderquist
• Outside the Wall1950 · as Garth
• Holiday Affair1949 · as Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan)
• Strange Bargain1949 · as Richard Webb
• Red Light1949 · as Rocky
• Madame Bovary1949 · as Hyppolite
• Down to the Sea in Ships1949 · as Britton
• Hello Out There1949 · as The Young Gambler
• Yellow Sky1948 · as Half Pint
• Moonrise1948 · as Billy Scripture
• The Saxon Charm1948 · as Hermy
• Race Street1948 · as Hal Towers
• All My Sons1948 · as Frank Lubey
• The Big Clock1948 · as Bill Womack
• The Gangster1947 · as Shorty
• It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog1946 · as Gus Rivers
• Somewhere in the Night1946 · as Bath Attendant
• Dragonwyck1946 · as Klaas Bleecker
• Johnny Comes Flying Home1946 · as Joe Patillo
• From This Day Forward1946 · as Hank Beesley
• State Fair1945 · as Barker
• A Bell for Adano1945 · as Capt. N. Purvis
• Gentle Annie1944 · as Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)
• Take It or Leave It1944 · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Roger Touhy, Gangster1944 · as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
• The Eve of St. Mark1944 · as Private Shevlin
• Wing and a Prayer1944 · as Malcolm Brainard
• Happy Land1943 · as Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)
• Crash Dive1943 · as Brownie
• The Ox-Bow Incident1943 · as Art Croft
• To the Shores of Tripoli1942 · as Mouthy
• Orchestra Wives1942 · as Cully Anderson
• The Omaha Trail1942 · as Henchman Nat
• The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe1942 · as Ebenezer Burling

All TV Shows (49)

• Love & Money1999
• 3rd Rock from the Sun1996 · as Professor Suter
• The Jeff Foxworthy Show1995
• Grace Under Fire1993
• Renegade1992
• The Simpsons1989 · as Bill Gannon (voice)
• You Can't Take It with You1987 · as Martin Vanderhof
• Blacke's Magic1986 · as Leonard Blacke
• The Twilight Zone1985
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Retired Lt. Richard Webb
• AfterMASH1983 · as Sherman T. Potter
• Roots: The Next Generations1979 · as Bob Campbell
• Backstairs at the White House1979 · as Pres. Harry S. Truman
• The Bastard1978 · as Capt. Caleb
• The Love Boat1977 · as Wendell Snead
• The Love Boat1977 · as Charly Fields
• The Love Boat1977 · as Professor Milo Endler
• Dinah!1974 · as Self
• M*A*S*H1972 · as General Steele
• M*A*S*H1972 · as Sherman Potter
• Hec Ramsey1972 · as Doc Amos Coogan
• The D.A.1971 · as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
• Night Gallery1970 · as Thaddeus Conway
• The Partridge Family1970 · as Willie Larkin
• The Partridge Family1970 · as Cal
• Love, American Style1969 · as Woody
• Dragnet1967 · as Gannon
• The Wackiest Ship in the Army1965
• Kentucky Jones1964 · as Seldom Jackson
• The Richard Boone Show1963
• Going My Way1962
• Ensign O'Toole1962 · as Charlie
• The Virginian1962 · as Kendall Jones
• Dr. Kildare1961 · as Francis X. Healy
• Here's Hollywood1960
• Pete and Gladys1960
• The Untouchables1959 · as George 'Bugs' Moran
• Have Gun, Will Travel1957 · as Fred Braus
• Have Gun, Will Travel1957 · as Sheriff Ernie Backwater
• The 20th Century Fox Hour1955 · as Mike Feeney
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Hermie Jenkins
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Osgood Pickett
• Gunsmoke1955 · as John Milligan
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Jed Hockett
• December Bride1954 · as Pete Porter
• The Lone Wolf1954 · as Jim Strait
• The Lone Wolf1954 · as Rev. Jeffrey Hallam
• Cavalcade of America1952 · as Homer Byington
• The Amazing Mr. Malone1951