Harry Morgan
Acting • Born 1915-04-10 – Died 2011-12-07
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.
Filmography
172 credits
High Noon
Movie • 1952
Sam Fuller
Dragnet
Movie • 1987
Captain Gannon
Inherit the Wind
Movie • 1960
Judge Mel
The Barefoot Executive
Movie • 1971
E.J. Crampton
Roughnecks
Movie • 1980
Plug Champion
Yellow Sky
Movie • 1948
Half Pint
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Movie • 1969
Olly Perkins
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Movie • 1979
T.P. Gaskill
Maneaters Are Loose!
Movie • 1978
Toby Waites
Holiday Affair
Movie • 1949
Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan)
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
Ulysses S. Grant
Snowball Express
Movie • 1972
Jesse McCord
Appointment with Danger
Movie • 1950
George Soderquist
Dragonwyck
Movie • 1946
Klaas Bleecker
The Gangster
Movie • 1947
Shorty
The Shootist
Movie • 1976
Marshall Thibido
Red Light
Movie • 1949
Rocky
Scandal Sheet
Movie • 1952
Biddle
The Flight of Dragons
Movie • 1982
Carolinus (voice)
State Fair
Movie • 1945
Barker
Moonrise
Movie • 1948
Billy Scripture
The Well
Movie • 1951
Claude Packard
Strange Bargain
Movie • 1949
Richard Webb
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Movie • 1966
Major Pott
Dark City
Movie • 1950
Soldier
The Flim-Flam Man
Movie • 1967
Sheriff Slade
Thunder Bay
Movie • 1953
Rawlings
Backlash
Movie • 1956
Tony Welker
Strategic Air Command
Movie • 1955
Sergeant Bible
My Six Convicts
Movie • 1952
Dawson
All My Sons
Movie • 1948
Frank Lubey
Madame Bovary
Movie • 1949
Hyppolite
Bend of the River
Movie • 1952
Shorty
Cimarron
Movie • 1960
Jessie Rickey
Viva Max!
Movie • 1969
Chief of Police Sylvester
The Glenn Miller Story
Movie • 1954
Chummy MacGregor
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Movie • 1975
Homer McCoy
Frankie and Johnny
Movie • 1966
Cully
The Far Country
Movie • 1954
Ketchum
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie • 1971
Taylor
The Cat from Outer Space
Movie • 1978
General Stilton
Wing and a Prayer
Movie • 1944
Malcolm Brainard
The Big Clock
Movie • 1948
Bill Womack
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie • 1982
(archive footage)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Movie • 2004
Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage)
Incident in a Small Town
Movie • 1994
Judge Bell
Race Street
Movie • 1948
Hal Towers
Crash Dive
Movie • 1943
Brownie
Sidekicks
Movie • 1974
Sheriff Jenkins
To the Shores of Tripoli
Movie • 1942
Mouthy
The Wild Wild West Revisited
Movie • 1979
Robert T. Malone
Stop, You're Killing Me
Movie • 1952
Innocence
The Showdown
Movie • 1950
Rod Main
The Mountain Road
Movie • 1960
Mike Michaelson
Charley and the Angel
Movie • 1973
Angel
Scandalous John
Movie • 1971
Sheriff Pippin
About Mrs. Leslie
Movie • 1954
Fred Blue
Arena
Movie • 1953
Lew Hutchins
Apache War Smoke
Movie • 1952
Ed Cotten
Star in the Dust
Movie • 1956
Lew Hogan
The Blue Veil
Movie • 1951
Charles Hall
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Movie • 1944
Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
The Saxon Charm
Movie • 1948
Hermy
From This Day Forward
Movie • 1946
Hank Beesley
Hello Out There
Movie • 1949
The Young Gambler
Down to the Sea in Ships
Movie • 1949
Britton
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Movie • 1946
Gus Rivers
Boots Malone
Movie • 1952
Quarter Horse Henry
It Started with a Kiss
Movie • 1959
Charles Meriden
Prisoner of War
Movie • 1954
Maj. O.D. Hale
Toughest Man in Arizona
Movie • 1952
Verne Kimber
Confessions of the D.A. Man
Movie • 1978
H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
The Century Turns
Movie • 1972
Doc Amos B. Coogan
Happy Land
Movie • 1943
Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)
The Eve of St. Mark
Movie • 1944
Private Shevlin
The Ox-Bow Incident
Movie • 1943
Art Croft
The Forty-Niners
Movie • 1954
Alf Billings
Outside the Wall
Movie • 1950
Garth
Gentle Annie
Movie • 1944
Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)
You Can't Take it With You
Movie • 1979
Mr. DePinna
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
Movie • 1981
Father Everett Kolodny
The Feminist and the Fuzz
Movie • 1971
Horace Bowers
Not as a Stranger
Movie • 1955
Oley
The Devil and John Q
Movie • 1952
Abe Lincoln
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Movie • 1965
Sarajevo
Exo-Man
Movie • 1977
Arthur Travis
Scout's Honor
Movie • 1980
Mr. Briggs
Somewhere in the Night
Movie • 1946
Bath Attendant
Belle Le Grand
Movie • 1951
Abel Stone
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Movie • 1978
Hugo Peavey
The Omaha Trail
Movie • 1942
Henchman Nat
Greenboy: Prescription for Death
Movie • 2013
Bill Gannon (archive footage)
Orchestra Wives
Movie • 1942
Cully Anderson
Torch Song
Movie • 1953
Joe Denner
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Movie • 1978
Jim Bob Jackson
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Movie • 1942
Ebenezer Burling
More Wild Wild West
Movie • 1980
Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone
The Last Day
Movie • 1975
Narrator
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
Movie • 2002
Himself
What Price Glory
Movie • 1952
Sergeant Moran
When I Grow Up
Movie • 1951
Father Reed (Modern)
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Movie • 1957
Sergeant Gregovich
The Incident
Movie • 1990
Judge Bell
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Movie • 1992
Judge Stoddard Bell
Champ for a Day
Movie • 1953
Al Muntz
Take It or Leave It
Movie • 1944
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Dragnet
Movie • 1969
Bill Gannon
14 Going on 30
Movie • 1988
Uncle Herb
Memories of M*A*S*H
Movie • 1991
Self / Sherman Potter
The Kennel Murder Case
Movie • 1933
Gamble (uncredited)
A Bell for Adano
Movie • 1945
Capt. N. Purvis
Better Late Than Never
Movie • 1979
Mr. Scott
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sparkling Cyanide
Movie • 1983
Captain Kemp
Under Fire
Movie • 1957
Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
Family Plan
Movie • 1997
Sol Rubins
Johnny Comes Flying Home
Movie • 1946
Joe Patillo
Cat Ballou
Movie • 1971
The Rancher
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
Movie • 1970
Mr. Good
Star Spangled Salesman
Movie • 1968
TV Cop
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
Movie • 1971
Insp. Richard Queen
Operation Teahouse
Movie • 1956
Self
The Highwayman
Movie • 1951
The Bottom of the Bottle
Movie • 1956
Felix - Barkeep
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Retired Lt. Richard Webb
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Bill Gannon (voice)
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
General Steele
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Sherman Potter
Renegade
TV • 1992
December Bride
TV • 1954
Pete Porter
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Wendell Snead
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Grace Under Fire
TV • 1993
Ensign O'Toole
TV • 1962
Charlie
AfterMASH
TV • 1983
Sherman T. Potter
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Osgood Pickett
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Thaddeus Conway
Backstairs at the White House
TV • 1979
Pres. Harry S. Truman
Hec Ramsey
TV • 1972
Doc Amos Coogan
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Hermie Jenkins
Going My Way
TV • 1962
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
TV • 1965
The Jeff Foxworthy Show
TV • 1995
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Kendall Jones
The D.A.
TV • 1971
H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
Pete and Gladys
TV • 1960
Roots: The Next Generations
TV • 1979
Bob Campbell
The Richard Boone Show
TV • 1963
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Homer Byington
Blacke's Magic
TV • 1986
Leonard Blacke
The Amazing Mr. Malone
TV • 1951
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Francis X. Healy
Here's Hollywood
TV • 1960
Kentucky Jones
TV • 1964
Seldom Jackson
Love & Money
TV • 1999
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Officer Bill Gannon
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Mike Feeney
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
John Milligan
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jed Hockett
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Woody
3rd Rock from the Sun
TV • 1996
Professor Suter
The Partridge Family
TV • 1970
Cal
The Partridge Family
TV • 1970
Willie Larkin
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
George 'Bugs' Moran
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Charly Fields
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Fred Braus
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Sheriff Ernie Backwater
The Lone Wolf
TV • 1954
Jim Strait
The Lone Wolf
TV • 1954
Rev. Jeffrey Hallam
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Professor Milo Endler
The Bastard
TV • 1978
Capt. Caleb