Harry Morgan Bio

Harry Morgan was born as Harry Bratsberg on April 10, 1915, and he died on December 7, 2011. he was an American actor and director whose television 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 M*A*S*H (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1984). Morgan appeared in more than 100 films.

Morgan was born Harry Bratsberg in Detroit, the son of Hannah and Henry Bratsberg. His parents were of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. In his interview with the Archive of American Television, Morgan spelled his Norwegian family surname as “Brasburg”.

Many sources, however, including some family records, list the spelling as “Bratsburg”. According to one source, when Morgan’s father Henry registered at junior high school, “the registrar spelled it Bratsburg instead of Bratsberg. Bashful Henry did not demur.”

Morgan was raised in Muskegon, Michigan, and graduated from Muskegon High School in 1933, where he achieved distinction as a statewide debating champion. He originally aspired to a J.D. degree but began acting while a junior at the University of Chicago in 1935.

Harry Morgan Age & height

he was 96 years when he died. born and died(1915–2011). His height was 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m).

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Harry Morgan Wife

Morgan’s first marriage was to Eileen Detchon from 1940 until her death in 1985. During Morgan’s time on M*A*S*H, a photograph of Detchon regularly appeared on the desk of his character.

A drawing of a horse, seen on the wall behind Potter’s desk, was drawn by Morgan’s grandson, Jeremy Morgan. In addition, Eileen was the name of the wife of Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet. Morgan had four sons with his first wife: Christopher, Charles, Paul, and Daniel (who died in 1989).

He then married Barbara Bushman Quine the granddaughter of silent film star Francis X. Bushman, on December 17, 1986. The marriage lasted until his death. In July 1997, Morgan was charged with abusing his wife a year earlier, after a beating left her with injuries to her eye, foot, and arm. Prosecutors dropped the charges after the 82-year-old actor completed a six-month domestic violence counseling program.

Harry Morgan Died

Morgan died peacefully in his sleep at 3:00 am in Los Angeles, on December 7, 2011, at the age of 96. His son, Charles,  confirmed his death and the cause which was pneumonia which he was battling with. His body was cremated and his remains were given to his family.

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Harry Morgan

ORIGINAL NAME: Bratsberg
BIRTH: 10 Apr 1915
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

DEATH; 7 Dec 2011 (aged 96)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
BURIAL; Cremated Ashes gave to family or friend
MEMORIAL ID; 81653867 · View Source

Harry Morgan Obituary

The famous actor Harry Morgan  – Emmy-winning character actor Harry Morgan, whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on television’s “M-A-S-H” highlighted a show business career that included nine other TV series, 50 films and the Broadway stage, died Wednesday. He was 96.

His daughter-in-law, Beth Morgan, told The Associated Press the actor died at his home in Brentwood after having pneumonia.”He was side-splittingly funny, a very gent and loving father-in-law,” Beth Morgan said. “He was very humble about having such a successful career.”

Morgan appeared in mostly supporting roles on the big screen, playing opposite such stars as Henry Fonda, John Wayne, James Garner, Elvis Presley, and Dan Aykroyd. On television, he was more the comedic co-star, including roles on “December Bride,” its spin-off “Pete and Gladys,” as Sgt. Joe Friday’s loyal partner in later “Dragnet” episodes and on CBS-TV’s long-running “M-A-S-H” series, for which he earned an Emmy award in 1980.

Yet acting wasn’t Morgan’s first career choice. Born in Detroit in 1915, Morgan was studying pre-law at the University of Chicago when public speaking classes sparked his interest in the stage. Before long, he was working with a little-theater group in Washington, D.C., followed by a two-year stint on Broadway in the original production of “Golden Boy,” with Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb.

Morgan made his way to Hollywood in 1942 “without any assurance that I would find work,” he said in a 1976 interview with The Associated Press.”I didn’t have enough money to go back East, so I stayed around finding jobs mainly out of friendships.” He signed a contract with 20th Century Fox after a talent scout spotted him in the one-act play, “Hello, Out There.”

One of his earliest films was “The Ox-Bow Incident” in 1943 with Fonda. Other films included: “High Noon,” ”What Price Glory,” ”Support Your Local Sheriff,” ”The Apple Dumpling Gang” and “The Shootist.” Morgan began his television career in 1954 when the medium was in its infancy.

“Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles,” Morgan said, referring to his typical sidekick or sheriff portrayals on the big screen. In “December Bride,” his first TV series, Morgan played Pete Porter, a perpetually henpecked neighbor. The CBS series lasted from 1954-1959 when he went on to star in his own series, “Pete and Gladys,” a spinoff of “December Bride.”

Demonstrating his diversity as a character actor and comedian, Morgan also starred in “The Richard Boone Show,” ”Kentucky Jones” and “Dragnet.”

But it was his role as Col. Sherman Porter on “M-A-S-H” for which Morgan became best known.”M-A-S-H was so damned good,” Morgan told the AP. “I didn’t think they could keep the level so high.”

His acting career didn’t stop after the popular series left the air in 1983 after 11 years – – one of television’s most successful prime-time runs. Morgan went on to appear in several made-for-TV movies and other television series, such as “AfterMASH” and “Blacke’s Magic.”When he was not on the set, Morgan enjoyed reading books about the legal profession and poetry. He also liked horses, which he once raised on his Northern California ranch.

Morgan is survived by three sons, Charles, Paul and Christopher; eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Harry Morgan Net Worth

Harry Morgan was an American actor and director who had a net worth of $10 million. his salary when he was alive is under review.

Harry Morgan Movies And Tv Shows

Filmography
1. To the Shores of Tripoli (1942) as Mouthy
2.The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) as Ebenezer Burling
3. The Omaha Trail (1942) as Henchman Nat

4.Orchestra Wives (1942) as Cully Anderson
5. Crash Dive (1943) as Brownie
6. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) as Art Croft
7. Happy Land (1943) as Anton ‘Tony’ Cavrek

8. The Eve of St. Mark (1944) as Pvt. Shevlin
9. Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) as Thomas J. ‘Smoke’ Reardon
10.Wing and a Prayer (1944) as Ens. Malcolm Brainard
11. Gentle Annie (1944) as Cottonwood Goss

12. A Bell for Adano (1945) as Capt. N. Purvis
13. State Fair (1945) as Barker
14. From This Day Forward (1946) as Hank Beesley
15. Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946) as Joe Patillo

16. Dragonwyck (1946) as Klaas Bleecker
17. Somewhere in the Night (1946) as Bath Attendant (uncredited)
18.It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog (1946) as Gus Rivers
19. Crime Doctor’s Man Hunt (1946) as Jervis (uncredited)

20. The Gangster (1947) as Shorty
21. The Big Clock (1948) as Bill Womack
22.All My Sons (1948) as Frank Lubey
23.Race Street (1948) as Hal Towers

24.The Saxon Charm (1948) as Hermy
25. Moonrise (1948) as Billy Scripture
26.Yellow Sky (1948) as Half Pint
27. Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) as Britton

28.The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) as Hoodlum (uncredited)
29. Madame Bovary (1949) as Hyppolite
30. Strange Bargain (1949) as Lt. Richard Webb
31. Red Light (1949) as Rocky

32. Holiday Affair (1949) as Police Lieutenant
33.Hello Out There (1949) as The Young Gambler
34. Outside the Wall (1950) as Garth
35. The Showdown (1950) as Rod Main
36. Dark City (1950) as Soldier

37. Belle Le Grand (1951) as Abel Stone
38. When I Grow Up (1951) as Father Reed (modern)
39. Appointment with Danger (1951) as George Soderquist
40.The Highwayman (1951) as Tim

41.The Well (1951) as Claude Packard
42. The Blue Veil (1951) as Charles Hall
43. Boots Malone (1952) as Quarter Horse Henry
44. Scandal Sheet (1952) as Biddle

45. Bend of the River (1952) as Shorty
47. My Six Convicts (1952) as Dawson
48. High Noon (1952) as Sam Fuller
49. What Price Glory? (1952) as Sgt. Moran (uncredited)
50. Big Jim McLain (1952) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
51. Apache War Smoke (1952) as Ed Cotten
52.Toughest Man in Arizona (1952) as Verne Kimber
53.Stop, You’re Killing Me (1952) as Innocence

54. Thunder Bay (1953) as Rawlings
55. Arena (1953) as Lew Hutchins
56. Champ for a Day (1953) as Al Muntz
57. Torch Song (1953) as Joe Denner

58. The Glenn Miller Story (1954) as Chummy
59. Prisoner of War (1954) as Maj. O.D. Hale
60. The Forty-Niners (1954) as Alf Billings
61. About Mrs. Leslie (1954) as Fred Blue

62. The Far Country (1954) as Ketchum
63. Strategic Air Command (1955) as Sgt. Bible (flight engineer)
64. Not as a Stranger (1955) as Oley
65. Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955) (uncredited)

66. The Bottom of the Bottle (1956) as Felix – Barkeep
67. Backlash (1956) as Tony Welker
68. Operation Teahouse (1956) as Himself
69. UFO (1956) as “Red Dog 1” (voice)

70. Star in the Dust (1956) as Lew Hogan
71. The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) as Sgt. Gregovich
72. Under Fire (1957) as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
73. It Started with a Kiss (1959) as Charles Meriden
74. The Mountain Road (1960) as Sgt. ‘Mike’ Michaelson

75. Inherit the Wind (1960) as Judge Mel Coffey
76. Cimarron (1960) as Jesse Rickey
77. How the West Was Won (1962) as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
78. John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) as Secretary of State Deems Sarajevo
79. Frankie and Johnny (1966) as Cully

80. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) as Maj. Pott
81. The Flim-Flam Man (1967) as Sheriff Slade
82. Star Spangled Salesman (1968) as TV Cop
83. Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) as Olly Perkins

84. Viva Max! (1969) as Chief of Police Sylvester
85. The Barefoot Executive (1971) as E.J. Crampton
86. Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971) as Taylor
87. Scandalous John (1971) as Sheriff Pippin

88. Snowball Express (1972) as Jesse McCord
89. Charley and the Angel (1973) as The Angel formerly Roy Zerney
90. The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) as Homer McCoy
91. The Shootist (1976) as Marshall Thibido

92. Maneaters Are Loose! (1978) as Toby Waites
93. The Bastard (1978) as Capt. Caleb
94.The Cat from Outer Space (1978) as General Stilton
95. Backstairs at the White House (1979)[14] as President Harry S. Truman

96. The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979) as Robert T. Malone
97. The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) as Maj. T.P. Gaskill
98. Scout’s Honor (1980) as Mr. Briggs
99. More Wild Wild West (1980) as Robert T. ‘Skinny’ Malone

100. He Flight of Dragons (1982) as Carolinus (voice)
101.Sparkling Cyanide TV Movie (1983) as Captain Kemp
102. You Can’t Take It with You (1987-1988) as Martin Vanderhof
103. Dragnet (1987) as Gannon
104. 14 Going on 30 (TV, 1988) as Uncle Herb

105. The Incident (TV, 1990) as Judge Bell
106. Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV, 1992) as Judge Stoddard Bell
107. Incident in a Small Town (TV, 1994) as Judge Bell
108. Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
109.Family Plan (1997) as Sol Rubins
110. Crosswalk (1999) as Dr. Chandler

Harry Morgan Artist

In 1986, he co-starred with Hal Linden in Blacke’s Magic, a show about a magician who doubled as a detective solving unusual crimes. The series lasted only one season. Morgan’s character, Leonard Blacke, was a semiretired con artist.

Harry Morgan Military Service

In the tv show M*A*S*H
The actor Harry Morgan, who has died, was best known as Colonel Sherman T Potter, commander of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in M*A*S*H, the wonderfully witty and sharp television series set in an army camp during the Korean War. He played Potter, an expert surgeon and a father figure in the camp, from 1978 until 1983.

Harry Morgan Gunsmoke

The movie is about Three saloon girls are kidnapped in Dodge by 3 men who want to marry them, and oddly enough, the women do start to fall in love. the Director is Victor French and the Writer is Earl W. Wallace.