Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor whose TV 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 MASH (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1985). Morgan also appeared as a supporting player in more than 100 films.

Filmography

• 2024Bakari — Producer
• 2013Greenboy: Prescription for Death — Bill Gannon (archive footage)
• Love & Money
• 1997Family Plan — Sol Rubins
• 3rd Rock from the Sun — Professor Suter
• The Jeff Foxworthy Show
• 1994Incident in a Small Town — Judge Bell
• Grace Under Fire
• 1992Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore — Judge Stoddard Bell
• Renegade
• 1990The Incident — Judge Bell
• The Simpsons — Bill Gannon (voice)
• 198814 Going on 30 — Uncle Herb
• 1987Dragnet — Captain Gannon
• You Can't Take It with You — Martin Vanderhof
• Blacke's Magic — Leonard Blacke
• The Twilight Zone
• Murder, She Wrote — Retired Lt. Richard Webb
• AfterMASH — Sherman T. Potter
• 1983Sparkling Cyanide — Captain Kemp
• 1982The Flight of Dragons — Carolinus (voice)
• 1981Rivkin: Bounty Hunter — Father Everett Kolodny
• 1980More Wild Wild West — Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone
• 1980Roughnecks — Plug Champion
• 1980Scout's Honor — Mr. Briggs
• Backstairs at the White House — Pres. Harry S. Truman
• 1979Better Late Than Never — Mr. Scott
• Roots: The Next Generations — Bob Campbell
• 1979The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again — T.P. Gaskill
• 1979The Wild Wild West Revisited — Robert T. Malone
• 1979You Can't Take it With You — Mr. DePinna
• 1978Confessions of the D.A. Man — H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
• 1978Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid — Hugo Peavey
• 1978Maneaters Are Loose! — Toby Waites
• 1978Murder at the Mardi Gras — Jim Bob Jackson
• The Bastard — Capt. Caleb
• 1978The Cat from Outer Space — General Stilton
• 1977Exo-Man — Arthur Travis
• The Love Boat — Wendell Snead, Charly Fields, Professor Milo Endler
• 1976The Shootist — Marshall Thibido
• 1975The Apple Dumpling Gang — Homer McCoy
• 1975The Last Day — Narrator
• 1974Sidekicks — Sheriff Jenkins
• 1973Charley and the Angel — Angel
• Hec Ramsey — Doc Amos Coogan, Director
• M*A*S*H — General Steele, Sherman Potter, Director
• 1972Snowball Express — Jesse McCord
• 1972The Century Turns — Doc Amos B. Coogan
• 1971Cat Ballou — The Rancher
• 1971Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You — Insp. Richard Queen
• 1971Scandalous John — Sheriff Pippin
• 1971Support Your Local Gunfighter — Taylor
• 1971The Barefoot Executive — E.J. Crampton
• The D.A. — H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
• 1971The Feminist and the Fuzz — Horace Bowers
• 1970But I Don't Want to Get Married! — Mr. Good
• Night Gallery — Thaddeus Conway
• The Partridge Family — Willie Larkin, Cal
• 1969Dragnet — Bill Gannon
• Love, American Style — Woody
• 1969Support Your Local Sheriff! — Olly Perkins
• 1969Viva Max! — Chief of Police Sylvester
• Adam-12 — Director
• 1968Star Spangled Salesman — TV Cop
• Dragnet — Gannon
• 1967The Flim-Flam Man — Sheriff Slade
• 1966Frankie and Johnny — Cully
• 1966What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? — Major Pott
• 1965John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! — Sarajevo
• The Wackiest Ship in the Army
• Kentucky Jones — Seldom Jackson
• The Richard Boone Show — Director
• Ensign O'Toole — Charlie
• Going My Way
• 1962How the West Was Won — Ulysses S. Grant
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Director
• The Virginian — Kendall Jones
• Dr. Kildare — Francis X. Healy
• 1960Cimarron — Jessie Rickey
• Here's Hollywood
• 1960Inherit the Wind — Judge Mel
• Pete and Gladys
• 1960The Mountain Road — Mike Michaelson
• 1959It Started with a Kiss — Charles Meriden
• The Untouchables — George 'Bugs' Moran
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Fred Braus, Sheriff Ernie Backwater
• 1957The Teahouse of the August Moon — Sergeant Gregovich
• 1957Under Fire — Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
• 1956Backlash — Tony Welker
• 1956Star in the Dust — Lew Hogan
• 1956The Bottom of the Bottle — Felix - Barkeep
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Hermie Jenkins
• Gunsmoke — Osgood Pickett, John Milligan, Jed Hockett
• 1955Not as a Stranger — Oley
• 1955Strategic Air Command — Sergeant Bible
• The 20th Century Fox Hour — Mike Feeney
• 1954About Mrs. Leslie — Fred Blue
• December Bride — Pete Porter
• 1954Prisoner of War — Maj. O.D. Hale
• 1954The Far Country — Ketchum
• 1954The Forty-Niners — Alf Billings
• 1954The Glenn Miller Story — Chummy MacGregor
• The Lone Wolf — Jim Strait, Rev. Jeffrey Hallam
• 1953Arena — Lew Hutchins
• 1953Champ for a Day — Al Muntz
• 1953Thunder Bay — Rawlings
• 1953Torch Song — Joe Denner
• 1952Apache War Smoke — Ed Cotten
• 1952Bend of the River — Shorty
• 1952Boots Malone — Quarter Horse Henry
• Cavalcade of America — Homer Byington
• 1952High Noon — Sam Fuller
• 1952My Six Convicts — Dawson
• 1952Scandal Sheet — Biddle
• 1952Stop, You're Killing Me — Innocence
• 1952The Devil and John Q — Abe Lincoln
• 1952Toughest Man in Arizona — Verne Kimber
• 1952What Price Glory — Sergeant Moran (uncredited)
• 1951Belle Le Grand — Abel Stone
• The Amazing Mr. Malone
• 1951The Blue Veil — Charles Hall
• 1951The Highwayman — Tim
• 1951The Well — Claude Packard
• 1951When I Grow Up — Father Reed (Modern)
• 1950Appointment with Danger — George Soderquist
• 1950Dark City — Soldier
• 1950Outside the Wall — Garth
• 1950The Showdown — Rod Main
• 1949Down to the Sea in Ships — Britton
• 1949Hello Out There — The Young Gambler
• 1949Holiday Affair — Police Lieutenant (as Henry Morgan)
• 1949Madame Bovary — Hyppolite
• 1949Red Light — Rocky
• 1949Strange Bargain — Richard Webb
• 1948All My Sons — Frank Lubey
• 1948Moonrise — Billy Scripture
• 1948Race Street — Hal Towers
• 1948The Big Clock — Bill Womack
• 1948The Saxon Charm — Hermy
• 1948Yellow Sky — Half Pint
• 1947The Gangster — Shorty
• 1946Dragonwyck — Klaas Bleecker
• 1946From This Day Forward — Hank Beesley
• 1946It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog — Gus Rivers
• 1946Johnny Comes Flying Home — Joe Patillo
• 1946Somewhere in the Night — Bath Attendant
• 1945A Bell for Adano — Captain Purvis
• 1945State Fair — Barker
• 1944Gentle Annie — Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)
• 1944Roger Touhy, Gangster — Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
• 1944Take It or Leave It — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1944The Eve of St. Mark — Private Shevlin
• 1944Wing and a Prayer — Malcolm Brainard
• 1943Crash Dive — Brownie
• 1943Happy Land — Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)
• 1943The Ox-Bow Incident — Art Croft
• 1942Orchestra Wives — Cully Anderson
• 1942The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe — Ebenezer Burling
• 1942The Omaha Trail — Henchman Nat
• 1942To the Shores of Tripoli — Mouthy

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2002M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion — Himself
• 2001The Shootist: The Legend Lives On — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1991Memories of M*A*S*H — Self / Sherman Potter
• 1982Showbiz Goes to War — Self (archive footage)
• 1981Making 'M*A*S*H' — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• 1956Operation Teahouse — Self