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Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan was a prolific character actor who starred in over 100 films and was a stage performer. Known to a younger generation of fans as "Col. Sherman T. Potter" on M*A*S*H (1972). Also known for his commanding personality throughout his career, he tackled movies and television in a way no other actor would do it.

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Filmography
  • Born In Detroit, Michigan, USA
  • Born April 10, 1915
  • Died December 7, 2011
  • Gender Male
  • On Other Sites Wikipedia
  • Race White or Caucasian (Non-Hispanic)
  • Created October 12, 2020 by
    Administrator admin
  • Modified February 9, 2023 by
    NoemiTalavera

M*A*S*H

1972
as Colonel Sherman T. Potter

Greenboy: Prescription for Death

2013
as Bill Gannon (archive footage)

Scandal Sheet

1952
as Biddle (as Henry Morgan)

December Bride

1954

Belle Le Grand

1951
as Abel Stone

Backstairs at the White House

1979
as President Harry S. Truman

Gentle Annie

1944
as Cottonwood Goss

Arena

1953
as Lew Hutchins

The Flight of Dragons

1982
as Carolinus

Support Your Local Sheriff!

1969
as Olly Perkins

All My Sons

1948
as Frank Lubey

The Forty-Niners

1954
as Alf Billings

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

1992
as Judge Stoddard Bell

Inherit the Wind

1960
as Judge Mel

The Last Day

1975
as Narrator

How the West Was Won

1962
as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Holiday Affair

1949
as Police Lieutenant

Toughest Man in Arizona

1952
as Verne Kimber (as Henry Morgan)

Happy Land

1943
as Anton 'Tony' Cavrek

Frankie and Johnny

1966
as Cully

Madame Bovary

1949
as Hyppolite

AfterMASH

1983
as Dr. Sherman T. Potter

Hello Out There

1949
as The Young Gambler

My Six Convicts

1952
as Dawson

Viva Max!

1969
as Chief of Police Sylvester

Roots: The Next Generations

1979
as Bob Campbell

When I Grow Up

1951
as Father Reed (modern)

Strange Bargain

1949
as Lt. Richard Webb

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

1946
as Gus Rivers

Not as a Stranger

1955
as Oley

The Richard Boone Show

1963

Dark City

1950
as Soldier (as Henry Morgan)

Dragonwyck

1946
as Klaus Bleecker (as Henry Morgan)

The Blue Veil

1951
as Charles Hall

Yellow Sky

1948
as Half Pint

The Cat from Outer Space

1978
as Gen. Stilton

Scandalous John

1971
as Sheriff Pippin

Red Light

1949
as Rocky (as Henry Morgan)

Roger Touhy, Gangster

1944
as Thomas J. 'Smoke' Reardon (as Henry Morgan)

M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion

2002
as Harry Morgan

Appointment with Danger

1951
as George Soderquist (as Henry Morgan)

Dragnet

1967
as Officer Bill Gannon

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

1966
as Major Pott

The Feminist and the Fuzz

1971
as Dr. Horace Bowers

Strategic Air Command

1955
as Sgt. Bible

The Showdown

1950
as Rod Main (as Henry Morgan)

The Well

1951
as Claude Packard (as Henry Morgan)

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

1979
as Maj. T.P. Gaskill

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

1978
as Hugo Peavey

Johnny Comes Flying Home

1946
as Joe Patillo

The Wild Wild West Revisited

1979
as Robert T. Malone

The Omaha Trail

1942
as Henchman Nat

Torch Song

1953
as Joe Denner

The Big Clock

1948
as Bill Womack

The Saxon Charm

1948
as Hermy

Blacke's Magic

1986

Dragnet

1987
as Captain Gannon

The Incident

1990
as Judge Bell

Outside the Wall

1950
as Garth (as Henry Morgan)

High Noon

1952
as Sam Fuller

Crash Dive

1943
as Brownie

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943
as Art Croft

The D.A. (1971)

1971

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

1995
as Harry Morgan

Moonrise

1948
as Billy Scripture

Exo-Man

1977
as Arthur Travis

Incident in a Small Town

1994
as Judge Bell

Goodbye, Farewell & Amen

1983
as Colonel Sherman T. Potter

Hec Ramsey

1972

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

1942
as Ebenezer Burling (as Henry Morgan)

The Far Country

1954
as Ketchum

A Bell for Adano

1945
as Capt. N. Purvis

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

1965
as Secretary of State Deems Sarajevo

Down to the Sea in Ships

1949
as Britton (as Henry Morgan)

Charley and the Angel

1973
as The Angel formerly Roy Zerney

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

1981
as Father Kolodny

The Shootist

1976
as Marshall Walter Thibido

What Price Glory

1952
as Sgt. Moran

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971
as Taylor

Cimarron

1960
as Jessie Rickey

The Eve of St. Mark

1944
as Pvt. Shevlin

The Eve of St. Mark

1944
as Cpl. Tate

The Barefoot Executive

1971
as E.J. Crampton

From This Day Forward

1946
as Hank Beesley

Race Street

1948
as Hal Towers (as Henry Morgan)

Maneaters Are Loose!

1978
as Toby Waites

The Apple Dumpling Gang

1975
as Sheriff Homer McCoy

Orchestra Wives

1942
as Cully Anderson (as Henry Morgan)

Star in the Dust

1956
as Lew Hogan

Backlash

1956
as Tony Welker

Bend of the River

1952
as Shorty

Pete and Gladys

1960

Kentucky Jones

1964

Apache War Smoke

1952
as Ed Cotten

State Fair

1945
as Barker

Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

1946
as Jervis

The Glenn Miller Story

1954
as Chummy MacGregor

Wing and a Prayer

1944
as Ens. Malcolm Brainard

Boots Malone

1952
as Quarter Horse Henry

The Teahouse of the August Moon

1956
as Sgt. Gregovich

The Mountain Road

1960
as Sgt. 'Mike' Michaelson

The Flim-Flam Man

1967
as Sheriff Slade

About Mrs. Leslie

1954
as Fred Blue

The Gangster

1947
as Shorty

To the Shores of Tripoli

1942
as Mouthy (as Henry Morgan)

Stop, You're Killing Me

1952
as Innocence

Thunder Bay

1953
as Rawlings

Snowball Express

1972
as Jesse McCord

It Started With A Kiss

1959
as Charles Meriden

Director

Episode M*A*S*H
U.N., the Night and the Music 		1983
Episode M*A*S*H
Tell it To the Marines 		1981
Episode M*A*S*H
Stars and Stripes 		1979
Episode M*A*S*H
Blood Brothers 		1981
Episode M*A*S*H
The Novocaine Mutiny 		1976
Episode Adam-12
Log 051: A Jumper - Code Two 		1969
Episode M*A*S*H
End Run 		1977
Episode M*A*S*H
Rally Round the Flagg, Boys 		1979
Episode The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Who Needs an Enemy? 		1964
Episode M*A*S*H
Who Knew? 		1982
Episode M*A*S*H
Patent 4077 		1978
Episode The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The World's Oldest Motive 		1965

Writer

Movie The Homosexuals 1967

Producer

Movie The Homosexuals 1967

Crew

Movie Trepidation 2014

Guest Star

Episode Night Gallery
The Late Mr. Peddington 		1972
Episode Love & Money
Career Daze 		1970
Episode The Virginian
Strangers at Sundown 		1963
Episode 3rd Rock from the Sun
Much Ado About Dick 		1996
Episode The Richard Boone Show
Statement Of Fact 		1963
Episode The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West Revisited 		1979
Episode The Richard Boone Show
Wall to War War 		1963
Episode M*A*S*H
The General Flipped at Dawn 		1974
Episode The Richard Boone Show
Where do You Hide an Egg? 		1963
Episode The Jeff Foxworthy Show
Jeff & Ray & Rascal's Big Adventure 		1995
Episode 3rd Rock from the Sun
Sensitive Dick 		1997
Episode The Wild Wild West
More Wild Wild West 		1980
Episode The Untouchables
Doublecross 		1962
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
A Snare for Murder 		1958
Episode Grace Under Fire
Head Games 		1996
Episode Murder, She Wrote
The Days Dwindle Down 		1987
Episode It's My Shout: Short Films from Wales
That's What I 'Eard 		2018
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Anniversary Gift 		1959
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
American Primitive 		1963
Episode The Twilight Zone (1985)
The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon 		1988
Episode Gunsmoke
Brides and Grooms 		1975
Episode 3rd Rock from the Sun
Selfish Dick 		1996
Episode Gunsmoke
The Witness 		1970
Episode The Simpsons
Mother Simpson 		1995
Episode The Love Boat
Taking Sides/A Friendly Little Game/Going by the Book 		1978
Episode Gunsmoke
Milligan 		1972
Episode Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You (Original Unsold Pilot) 		1971
Episode Gunsmoke
The Wiving 		1974