Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor and director best known for his work in such television series as December Bride, Dragnet, Hec Ramsey, and M*A*S*H.
Morgan was married to Eileen Detchon (1940–85) and Barbara Bushman (1986–2011) and had four children with Detchon. He died in 2011 at the age of 96.
Filmography
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Film roles
- To The Shores Of Tripoli as Mouthy
- The Loves Of Edgar Allan Poe as Ebenezer Burling
- Orchestra Wives as Cully Anderson
- The Omaha Trail as Henchman Nat
- The Ox-Bow Incident as Art Croft
- Crash Dive as Brownie
- Happy Land as Anton 'Tony' Cavrek
- The Eve Of St Mark as Pvt. Shevlin
- Roger Touhy Gangster as Thomas J. 'Smoke' Reardon
- Wing And A Prayer as Ens. Malcolm Brainard
- Gentle Annie as Cottonwood Goss
- A Bell For Adano as Capt. N. Purvis
- State Fair as Barker
- From This Day Forward as Hank Beesley
- Johnny Comes Flying Home as Joe Patillo
- Dragonwyck as Klaas Bleecker
- Somewhere In The Night as Bath Attendant
- It Shouldnt Happen To A Dog as Gus Rivers
- Crime Doctor's Man Hunt as Jarvis
- The Gangster as Shorty
- The Big Clock as Bill Womack
- All My Sons as Frank Lubey
- Race Street as Hal Towers
- Moonrise as Billy Scripture
- The Saxon Charm as Hermy
- Yellow Sky as Half Pint
- Down To The Sea Ships as Britton
- Madame Bovary as Hyppolite
- Red Light as Rocky
- Strange Bargain as Lt. Richard Webb
- Holiday Affair as Police Lieutenant
- Outside The Wall as Garth
- Appointment With Danger as George Soderquist
- The Showdown as Rod Main
- Dark City 1950 as Soldier
- Belle Le Grand as Abel Stone
- When I Grow Up as Father Reed
- The Highwayman as Tim
- The Well as Claude Packard
- The Blue Veil as Charles Hall
- Boots Malone as Quarter Horse Henry
- Scandal Street as Biddle
- Bend of the River as Shorty
- My Six Convicts as Dawson
- High Noon as Sam Fuller
- Big Jim Mc Lain as Narrator (uncredited)
- Apache War Smoke as Ed Cotten
- Toughest Man In Arizona as Verne Kimber
- Stop Youre Killing Me as Innocence
- Thunder Bay as Rawlings
- Arena (1953) as Lew Hutchins
- Champ For A Day as Al Muntz
- Torch Song as Joe Denner
- The Glenn Miller Story as Chummy
- Prisoner Of War as Maj. O.D. Hale
- The Forty Niners as Alf Billings
- About Mrs Leslie as Fred Blue
- The Far Country as Ketchum
- Strategic Air Command as Sgt. Bible
- Not As A Stranger as Oley
- The Bottom Of The Bottle as Felix-Barkeep
- Backlash as Tony Welker
- Star In The Dust as Lew Hogan
- The Teahouse of the August Moon as Sgt. Gregovich
- Under Fire as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
- It Started With A Kiss as Charles Meriden
- Inherit the Wind as Judge Mel Coffey
- The Mountain Road as Sgt. 'Mike' Michaelson
- Cimmaron 1960 as Jesse Rickey
- How the West Was Won as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- John Goldfarb Please Come Home as Secretary of State Deems Sarajevo
- Frankie and Johnny (1966) as Cully
- What Did You Do In The War Daddy as Maj. Pott
- The Flim Flam Man as Sheriff Slade
- Support Your Local Sheriff as Olly Perkins
- Viva Max! as Chief of Police Sylvester
- The Barefoot Executive as E.J. Crampton
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Taylor
- Scandalous John as Sheriff Pippin
- Snowball Express as Jesse McCord
- Charley And The Angel as The Angel formerly Roy Zerney
- The Apple Dumpling Gang as Homer McCoy
- The Shootist as Marshall Thibido
- The Cat from Outer Space as Gen. Stilton
- The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again as Maj. T.P. Gaskill
- Rivkin Bounty Hunter as Father Kolodny (TV Movie)
- The Flight of Dragons as Carolinus
- Dragnet as Gannon
- Family Plan as Sol Rubins
Television roles
- The Lone Wolf as Rev. Jeffrey Hallam/Jim Strait (2 episodes)
- Cavalcade Of America as Homer Byington (2 episodes)
- December Bride as Pete Porter
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Hermie Jenkins (1 episode)
- Pete And Gladys as Pete Porter
- Ensign O Toole as Charlie (1 episode)
- Going My Way as Al Everett (1 episode)
- The Untouchables as George 'Bugs' Moran (1 episode)
- Have Gun – Will Travel as Sheriff Ernie Backwater/Fred Braus (2 episodes)
- The Virginian as Kendall James (1 episode)
- The Richard Boone Show as various
- Kentucky Jones as Seldom Jackson (7 episodes)
- Dr. Kildare as Francis X. Healy (3 episodes)
- Dragnet as Officer Bill Gannon
- Love, American Style as Woody (1 episode)
- The DA as H.M. 'Staff' Stafford (6 episodes)
- Night Gallery as Thaddeus Conway (1 episode)
- The Partridge Family as Cal/Willie Larkin (2 episodes)
- M*A*S*H as Maj. Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele/Col. Sherman T. Potter (1974, 1975-1983; 180 episodes)
- AfterMASH as Dr. Sherman T. Potter
- Hec Ramsey as Doc Amos B. Coogan (8 episodes)
- Gunsmoke as Jed Hockett/John Milligan/Osgood Pickett (4 episodes)
- Backstairs At The White House as President Harry S. Truman
- Roots The Next Generations as Bob Campbell (1 episode)
- The Love Boat as various (5 episodes)
- Blackes Magic as Leonard Blacke
- Murder, She Wrote as Retired Lt. Richard Webb (1 episode)
- You Cant Take It With You as Martin Vaderhof
- The Twilight Zone (1985) as Edgar Witherspoon (1 episode)
- The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Raymond (1 episode)
- The Simpsons as Bill Gannon (1 episode)
- Grace Under Fire as George (1 episode)
- 3rd Rock from the Sun as Prof. Suter (3 episodes)
- Love And Money as Fletcher Conklin (1 episode)
Director
- The Richard Boone Show (2 episodes)
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (2 episodes)
- Adam-12 (1 episode)
- The DA
- Hec Ramsey (2 episodes)
- M*A*S*H (9 episodes)
