Harry Morgan

Biography

Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg) was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his television serials roles as Detective Bill Gannon on Dragnet and as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H.

Known For

Sam Fuller

High Noon

Captain Gannon

Dragnet

Judge Mel

Inherit the Wind

E.J. Crampton

The Barefoot Executive

Plug Champion

Roughnecks

Half Pint

Yellow Sky

Olly Perkins

Support Your Local Sheriff!

T.P. Gaskill

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

Toby Waites

Maneaters Are Loose!

Police Lieutenant

Holiday Affair

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

How the West Was Won

Jesse McCord

Snowball Express

George Soderquist

Appointment with Danger

Klaas Bleecker

Dragonwyck

Shorty

The Gangster

Marshall Thibido

The Shootist

Rocky

Red Light

Biddle

Scandal Sheet

Carolinus (voice)

The Flight of Dragons

Barker

State Fair

Billy Scripture

Moonrise

Claude Packard

The Well

Richard Webb

Strange Bargain

Major Pott

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Soldier

Dark City

Sheriff Slade

The Flim-Flam Man

Rawlings

Thunder Bay

Tony Welker

Backlash

Sergeant Bible

Strategic Air Command

Dawson

My Six Convicts

Frank Lubey

All My Sons

Hyppolite

Madame Bovary

Shorty

Bend of the River

Jessie Rickey

Cimarron

Chief of Police Sylvester

Viva Max!

Chummy MacGregor

The Glenn Miller Story

Homer McCoy

The Apple Dumpling Gang

Cully

Frankie and Johnny

Ketchum

The Far Country

Taylor

Support Your Local Gunfighter

General Stilton

The Cat from Outer Space

Malcolm Brainard

Wing and a Prayer

Bill Womack

The Big Clock

(archive footage)

Showbiz Goes to War

Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage)

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Judge Bell

Incident in a Small Town

Hal Towers

Race Street

Brownie

Crash Dive

Sheriff Jenkins

Sidekicks

Mouthy

To the Shores of Tripoli

Robert T. Malone

The Wild Wild West Revisited

Innocence

Stop, You're Killing Me

Rod Main

The Showdown

Mike Michaelson

The Mountain Road

Angel

Charley and the Angel

Sheriff Pippin

Scandalous John

Fred Blue

About Mrs. Leslie

Lew Hutchins

Arena

Ed Cotten

Apache War Smoke

Lew Hogan

Star in the Dust

Charles Hall

The Blue Veil

Thomas "Smoke" Reardon

Roger Touhy, Gangster

Hermy

The Saxon Charm

Hank Beesley

From This Day Forward

The Young Gambler

Hello Out There

Britton

Down to the Sea in Ships

Gus Rivers

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

Quarter Horse Henry

Boots Malone

Charles Meriden

It Started with a Kiss

Maj. O.D. Hale

Prisoner of War

Verne Kimber

Toughest Man in Arizona

H.M. 'Staff' Stafford

Confessions of the D.A. Man

Doc Amos B. Coogan

The Century Turns

Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)

Happy Land

Private Shevlin

The Eve of St. Mark

Art Croft

The Ox-Bow Incident

Alf Billings

The Forty-Niners

Garth

Outside the Wall

Capt. Caleb

The Bastard

Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)

Gentle Annie

Mr. DePinna

You Can't Take it With You

Father Everett Kolodny

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

Horace Bowers

The Feminist and the Fuzz

Oley

Not as a Stranger

Abe Lincoln

The Devil and John Q

Sarajevo

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Arthur Travis

Exo-Man

Mr. Briggs

Scout's Honor

Bath Attendant

Somewhere in the Night

Abel Stone

Belle Le Grand

Hugo Peavey

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

Henchman Nat

The Omaha Trail

Bill Gannon (archive footage)

Greenboy: Prescription for Death

Cully Anderson

Orchestra Wives

Joe Denner

Torch Song

Jim Bob Jackson

Murder at the Mardi Gras

Ebenezer Burling

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone

More Wild Wild West

Narrator

The Last Day

Himself

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

Sergeant Moran

What Price Glory

Father Reed (Modern)

When I Grow Up

Sergeant Gregovich

The Teahouse of the August Moon

Judge Bell

The Incident

Judge Stoddard Bell

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

Al Muntz

Champ for a Day

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Take It or Leave It

Bill Gannon

Dragnet

Uncle Herb

14 Going on 30

Self / Sherman Potter

Memories of M*A*S*H

Gamble (uncredited)

The Kennel Murder Case

Capt. N. Purvis

A Bell for Adano

Mr. Scott

Better Late Than Never

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Shootist: The Legend Lives On

Captain Kemp

Sparkling Cyanide

Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak

Under Fire

Sol Rubins

Family Plan

Joe Patillo

Johnny Comes Flying Home

The Rancher

Cat Ballou

Mr. Good

But I Don't Want to Get Married!

TV Cop

Star Spangled Salesman

Insp. Richard Queen

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

Self

Operation Teahouse

The Highwayman

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

124

Gender

Male

Birthday

1915-04-10

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

Henry Morgan