Graph movies
seen per year

home

Graph # of
movies reviewed

Favorite 100 Movies Browse Movies
Search Movies by:
Title: Year:
Power Search
Search Cast by:
First: Last:
Browse Cast Lists Recently Reviewed Movies

Harry Morgan
Scroll down for movie list.
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

Originally billed as Henry Morgan, this agile, prolific character actor changed his name to "Harry" to avoid confusion with the radio comedian and quiz-show panelist. He has enjoyed a fifty-year career in films and television by being an everyman, equally effective playing characters who are wisecracking (the soda jerk in 1942's Orchestra Wives), brutal (the bodyguard thug in 1948's The Big Clock), obtuse (the next door neighbor in 1948's All My Sons) or authoritative (the Scopes Monkey Trial judge in 1960's Inherit the Wind). However, he is best known for his roles in an astonishing array of television series, both dramatic and comedic: "December Bride" (1954-59, as Pete Porter) and its spinoff "Pete and Gladys" (1960-62), "The Richard Boone Show" (1963-64), "Kentucky Jones" (1964-65), "Dragnet" (1967-70, as Officer Bill Gannon), "The D.A." (1971-72), "Hec Ramsey" (1972-74, also starring Boone), "M*A*S*H" (1975-83, as Col. Sherman T. Potter, for which he won an Emmy in 1980) and its spinoff "AfterMASH" (1984-85), and "Blacke's Magic" (1986). In retrospect, one of his most entertaining screen roles is in Dark City (1950), in which he and Jack Webb, his later "Dragnet" costar, are respectively cast as a former pug and punk who are forever antagonists. Morgan got to play Bill Gannon again in the 1987 remake of Dragnet as the head of the L.A.P.D.

Harry Morgan stared in:

Title Year Saw with/at: Scene On Rating
The Glenn Miller Story 1944 0000-00-00 ** 1/2
High Noon 1952 2019-12-18 *** 1/2
Support Your Local Sherriff 1969 0000-00-00 *** 1/2
Support Your Local Gunfighter 1971 On TV while babysitting 0000-00-00 *** 1/2
The Barefoot Executive 1971 With Recchia’s at The Whitney Theatre 0000-00-00 ** 1/2
The Apple Dumpling Gang 1975 Cine 1-4 0000-00-00 ***
Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again 1979 0000-00-00 **
Dragnet 1987 With Jessica 0000-00-00 ***