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
1989
The Love Boat
1977
The Love Boat
1977
The Love Boat
1977
M*A*S*H
1972
M*A*S*H
1972
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Love, American Style
1969
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Dr. Kildare
1961
Filmography
The Simpsons
as Bill Gannon (voice) · 1989
The Love Boat
as Wendell Snead · 1977
The Love Boat
as Charly Fields · 1977
The Love Boat
as Professor Milo Endler · 1977
M*A*S*H
as General Steele · 1972
M*A*S*H
as Sherman Potter · 1972
Murder, She Wrote
as Retired Lt. Richard Webb · 1984
Love, American Style
as Woody · 1969
3rd Rock from the Sun
as Professor Suter · 1996
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Fred Braus · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Sheriff Ernie Backwater · 1957
Dr. Kildare
as Francis X. Healy · 1961
The Virginian
as Kendall Jones · 1962
Renegade
· 1992
The Twilight Zone
· 1985
The Untouchables
as George 'Bugs' Moran · 1959
Dinah!
as Self · 1974
Night Gallery
as Thaddeus Conway · 1970
Gunsmoke
as Osgood Pickett · 1955
Gunsmoke
as John Milligan · 1955
Gunsmoke
as Jed Hockett · 1955
Dragnet
as Gannon · 1967
The Partridge Family
as Cal · 1970
The Partridge Family
as Willie Larkin · 1970
Grace Under Fire
· 1993
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Mike Feeney · 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Hermie Jenkins · 1955
December Bride
as Pete Porter · 1954
Cavalcade of America
as Homer Byington · 1952
Pete and Gladys
· 1960
The Jeff Foxworthy Show
· 1995
Roots: The Next Generations
as Bob Campbell · 1979
The Lone Wolf
as Jim Strait · 1954
The Lone Wolf
as Rev. Jeffrey Hallam · 1954
High Noon
as Sam Fuller · 1952
Going My Way
· 1962
Ensign O'Toole
as Charlie · 1962
AfterMASH
as Sherman T. Potter · 1983
The Shootist
as Marshall Thibido · 1976
Blacke's Magic
as Leonard Blacke · 1986
How the West Was Won
as Ulysses S. Grant · 1962
Here's Hollywood
· 1960
The Richard Boone Show
· 1963
Backstairs at the White House
as Pres. Harry S. Truman · 1979
The Bastard
as Capt. Caleb · 1978
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
· 1965
Inherit the Wind
as Judge Mel · 1960
Love & Money
· 1999
Kentucky Jones
as Seldom Jackson · 1964
Support Your Local Sheriff!
as Olly Perkins · 1969
Hec Ramsey
as Doc Amos Coogan · 1972
Frankie and Johnny
as Cully · 1966
The Ox-Bow Incident
as Art Croft · 1943
The Cat from Outer Space
as General Stilton · 1978
Dragnet
as Captain Gannon · 1987
Bend of the River
as Shorty · 1952
The Far Country
as Ketchum · 1954
The Flight of Dragons
as Carolinus (voice) · 1982
The Glenn Miller Story
as Chummy MacGregor · 1954
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Taylor · 1971
The Apple Dumpling Gang
as Homer McCoy · 1975
Madame Bovary
as Hyppolite · 1949
Dragonwyck
as Klaas Bleecker · 1946
The D.A.
as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford · 1971
Yellow Sky
as Half Pint · 1948
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
as T.P. Gaskill · 1979
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
as Major Pott · 1966
The Big Clock
as Bill Womack · 1948
A Bell for Adano
as Captain Purvis · 1945
The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Sergeant Gregovich · 1957
Cimarron
as Jessie Rickey · 1960
Snowball Express
as Jesse McCord · 1972
Somewhere in the Night
as Bath Attendant · 1946
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as Sarajevo · 1965
What Price Glory
as Sergeant Moran (uncredited) · 1952
Not as a Stranger
as Oley · 1955
Holiday Affair
as Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan) · 1949
Sparkling Cyanide
as Captain Kemp · 1983
Star in the Dust
as Lew Hogan · 1956
The Flim-Flam Man
as Sheriff Slade · 1967
Down to the Sea in Ships
as Britton · 1949
The Barefoot Executive
as E.J. Crampton · 1971
Charley and the Angel
as Angel · 1973
Dark City
as Soldier · 1950
Showbiz Goes to War
as Self (archive footage) · 1982
The Feminist and the Fuzz
as Horace Bowers · 1971
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
as Insp. Richard Queen · 1971
It Started with a Kiss
as Charles Meriden · 1959
Wing and a Prayer
as Malcolm Brainard · 1944
All My Sons
as Frank Lubey · 1948
Confessions of the D.A. Man
as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford · 1978
From This Day Forward
as Hank Beesley · 1946
14 Going on 30
as Uncle Herb · 1988
To the Shores of Tripoli
as Mouthy · 1942
Strategic Air Command
as Sergeant Bible · 1955
Crash Dive
as Brownie · 1943
Backlash
as Tony Welker · 1956
When I Grow Up
as Father Reed (Modern) · 1951
Champ for a Day
as Al Muntz · 1953
Memories of M*A*S*H
as Self / Sherman Potter · 1991
The Wild Wild West Revisited
as Robert T. Malone · 1979
Family Plan
as Sol Rubins · 1997
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
as Judge Stoddard Bell · 1992
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
as Himself · 2002
Sidekicks
as Sheriff Jenkins · 1974
The Gangster
as Shorty · 1947
Appointment with Danger
as George Soderquist · 1950
Stop, You're Killing Me
as Innocence · 1952
Take It or Leave It
as (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1944
About Mrs. Leslie
as Fred Blue · 1954
Greenboy: Prescription for Death
as Bill Gannon (archive footage) · 2013
Moonrise
as Billy Scripture · 1948
Scandal Sheet
as Biddle · 1952
The Bottom of the Bottle
as Felix - Barkeep · 1956
Thunder Bay
as Rawlings · 1953
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
as Hugo Peavey · 1978
Toughest Man in Arizona
as Verne Kimber · 1952
More Wild Wild West
as Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone · 1980
Dragnet
as Bill Gannon · 1969
You Can't Take it With You
as Mr. DePinna · 1979
Better Late Than Never
as Mr. Scott · 1979
Prisoner of War
as Maj. O.D. Hale · 1954
Murder at the Mardi Gras
as Jim Bob Jackson · 1978
State Fair
as Barker · 1945
Scandalous John
as Sheriff Pippin · 1971
The Omaha Trail
as Henchman Nat · 1942
The Mountain Road
as Mike Michaelson · 1960
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2001
Orchestra Wives
as Cully Anderson · 1942
The Incident
as Judge Bell · 1990
Torch Song
as Joe Denner · 1953
Happy Land
as Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan) · 1943
My Six Convicts
as Dawson · 1952
Incident in a Small Town
as Judge Bell · 1994
The Eve of St. Mark
as Private Shevlin · 1944
Making 'M*A*S*H'
as Self · 1981
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Gus Rivers · 1946
Viva Max!
as Chief of Police Sylvester · 1969
The Well
as Claude Packard · 1951
The Blue Veil
as Charles Hall · 1951
Apache War Smoke
as Ed Cotten · 1952
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
as Mr. Good · 1970
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
as Ebenezer Burling · 1942
The Last Day
as Narrator · 1975
Maneaters Are Loose!
as Toby Waites · 1978
Johnny Comes Flying Home
as Joe Patillo · 1946
The Showdown
as Rod Main · 1950
Roger Touhy, Gangster
as Thomas "Smoke" Reardon · 1944
The Saxon Charm
as Hermy · 1948
Race Street
as Hal Towers · 1948
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
as Father Everett Kolodny · 1981
You Can't Take It with You
as Martin Vanderhof · 1987
Star Spangled Salesman
as TV Cop · 1968
Roughnecks
as Plug Champion · 1980
Exo-Man
as Arthur Travis · 1977
Outside the Wall
as Garth · 1950
Red Light
as Rocky · 1949
Boots Malone
as Quarter Horse Henry · 1952
Hello Out There
as The Young Gambler · 1949
Gentle Annie
as Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan) · 1944
The Century Turns
as Doc Amos B. Coogan · 1972
Strange Bargain
as Richard Webb · 1949
The Devil and John Q
as Abe Lincoln · 1952
The Highwayman
as Tim · 1951
Scout's Honor
as Mr. Briggs · 1980
The Amazing Mr. Malone
· 1951
The Forty-Niners
as Alf Billings · 1954
Operation Teahouse
as Self · 1956
Arena
as Lew Hutchins · 1953
Under Fire
as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak · 1957
Cat Ballou
as The Rancher · 1971
Belle Le Grand
as Abel Stone · 1951