Harry Morgan

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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

The Simpsons

Bill Gannon (voice)

High Noon

Sam Fuller

M*A*S*H

General Steele

M*A*S*H

Sherman Potter

3rd Rock from the Sun

Professor Suter

Dragnet

Captain Gannon

How the West Was Won

Ulysses S. Grant

Inherit the Wind

Judge Mel

Full Filmography

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

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