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.

Filmography

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