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