Harry Morgan
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1915-04-10
Day of Death
2011-12-07 (96 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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
Acting
(2013)
Greenboy: Prescription for Death
as Bill Gannon (archive footage)
(2004)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage)
(2002)
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
as Himself
(2001)
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1997)
Family Plan
as Sol Rubins
(1994)
Incident in a Small Town
as Judge Bell
(1992)
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
as Judge Stoddard Bell
(1991)
Memories of M*A*S*H
as Self / Sherman Potter
(1990)
The Incident
as Judge Bell
(1988)
14 Going on 30
as Uncle Herb
(1987)
Dragnet
as Captain Gannon
(1983)
Sparkling Cyanide
as Captain Kemp
(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)
Roughnecks
as Plug Champion
(1980)
Scout's Honor
as Mr. Briggs
(1980)
More Wild Wild West
as Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone
(1979)
The Wild Wild West Revisited
as Robert T. Malone
(1979)
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
as T.P. Gaskill
(1979)
Better Late Than Never
as Mr. Scott
(1979)
You Can't Take it With You
as Mr. DePinna
(1978)
The Cat from Outer Space
as General Stilton
(1978)
The Bastard
as Capt. Caleb
(1978)
Maneaters Are Loose!
as Toby Waites
(1978)
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
as Hugo Peavey
(1978)
Murder at the Mardi Gras
as Jim Bob Jackson
(1978)
Confessions of the D.A. Man
as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
(1977)
Exo-Man
as Arthur Travis
(1976)
The Shootist
as Marshall Thibido
(1975)
The Apple Dumpling Gang
as Homer McCoy
(1975)
The Last Day
as Narrator
(1974)
Sidekicks
as Sheriff Jenkins
(1973)
Charley and the Angel
as Angel
(1972)
Snowball Express
as Jesse McCord
(1972)
The Century Turns
as Doc Amos B. Coogan
(1971)
The Barefoot Executive
as E.J. Crampton
(1971)
The Feminist and the Fuzz
as Horace Bowers
(1971)
Scandalous John
as Sheriff Pippin
(1971)
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Taylor
(1971)
Cat Ballou
as The Rancher
(1971)
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
as Insp. Richard Queen
(1970)
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
as Mr. Good
(1969)
Viva Max!
as Chief of Police Sylvester
(1969)
Support Your Local Sheriff!
as Olly Perkins
(1969)
Dragnet
as Bill Gannon
(1968)
Star Spangled Salesman
as TV Cop
(1967)
The Flim-Flam Man
as Sheriff Slade
(1966)
Frankie and Johnny
as Cully
(1966)
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
as Major Pott
(1965)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as Sarajevo
(1962)
How the West Was Won
as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
(1960)
Cimarron
as Jessie Rickey
(1960)
Inherit the Wind
as Judge Mel
(1960)
The Mountain Road
as Mike Michaelson
(1959)
It Started with a Kiss
as Charles Meriden
(1957)
The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Sergeant Gregovich
(1957)
Under Fire
as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
(1956)
Backlash
as Tony Welker
(1956)
Star in the Dust
as Lew Hogan
(1956)
Operation Teahouse
as Self
(1955)
Not as a Stranger
as Oley
(1955)
Strategic Air Command
as Sergeant Bible
(1954)
The Glenn Miller Story
as Chummy MacGregor
(1954)
Prisoner of War
as Maj. O.D. Hale
(1954)
The Far Country
as Ketchum
(1954)
About Mrs. Leslie
as Fred Blue
(1954)
The Forty-Niners
as Alf Billings
(1953)
Torch Song
as Joe Denner
(1953)
Thunder Bay
as Rawlings
(1953)
Arena
as Lew Hutchins
(1953)
Champ for a Day
as Al Muntz
(1952)
My Six Convicts
as Dawson
(1952)
Apache War Smoke
as Ed Cotten
(1952)
High Noon
as Sam Fuller
(1952)
Bend of the River
as Shorty
(1952)
Boots Malone
as Quarter Horse Henry
(1952)
What Price Glory
as Sergeant Moran
(1952)
Stop, You're Killing Me
as Innocence
(1952)
Toughest Man in Arizona
as Verne Kimber
(1952)
Scandal Sheet
as Biddle
(1952)
The Devil and John Q
as Abe Lincoln
(1951)
The Well
as Claude Packard
(1951)
Belle Le Grand
as Abel Stone
(1951)
The Blue Veil
as Charles Hall
(1951)
When I Grow Up
as Father Reed (Modern)
(1951)
(1950)
The Showdown
as Rod Main
(1950)
Dark City
as Soldier
(1950)
Outside the Wall
as Garth
(1950)
Appointment with Danger
as George Soderquist
(1949)
Madame Bovary
as Hyppolite
(1949)
Strange Bargain
as Richard Webb
(1949)
Holiday Affair
as Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan)
(1949)
Red Light
as Rocky
(1949)
Down to the Sea in Ships
as Britton
(1949)
Hello Out There
as The Young Gambler
(1948)
Moonrise
as Billy Scripture
(1948)
The Big Clock
as Bill Womack
(1948)
The Saxon Charm
as Hermy
(1948)
Race Street
as Hal Towers
(1948)
Yellow Sky
as Half Pint
(1948)
All My Sons
as Frank Lubey
(1947)
The Gangster
as Shorty
(1946)
Johnny Comes Flying Home
as Joe Patillo
(1946)
Somewhere in the Night
as Bath Attendant
(1946)
Dragonwyck
as Klaas Bleecker
(1946)
From This Day Forward
as Hank Beesley
(1946)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Gus Rivers
(1945)
A Bell for Adano
as Capt. N. Purvis
(1945)
State Fair
as Barker
(1944)
Gentle Annie
as Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)
(1944)
Wing and a Prayer
as Malcolm Brainard
(1944)
Take It or Leave It
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1944)
The Eve of St. Mark
as Private Shevlin
(1944)
Roger Touhy, Gangster
as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
(1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident
as Art Croft
(1943)
Crash Dive
as Brownie
(1943)
Happy Land
as Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)
(1942)
The Omaha Trail
as Henchman Nat
(1942)
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
as Ebenezer Burling
(1942)
To the Shores of Tripoli
as Mouthy
(1942)
Orchestra Wives
as Cully Anderson
(1933)
The Kennel Murder Case
as Gamble (uncredited)
Crew
(2024)
Bakari
Producer