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Harry Morgan (born April 10, 1915 in Detroit,
Michigan) is an USA|American television actor. He
is best known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on
M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H.

==Family==
Born as Harry Bratsburg, Morgan is descended from
Norwegian grandparents. 

Morgan has been married twice, first to Eileen
Detchon from 1940 until her death in 1985, and
then to Barbara Bushman Quine from 1998 to
present.  He had four sons with his first wife,
Christopher, Charles, Paul and Daniel. Daniel died
in 1982.

==Career==

Morgan made his debut, originally using the name
Henry Morgan, in the 1942 movie To the Shores of
Tripoli. His screen name later would become Henry
"Harry" Morgan and eventually Harry Morgan, to
avoid confusion with the then-popular Henry Morgan
(comedian)|comedian of the same name on radio and
TV.

Morgan continued to play a number of significant
roles on the big screen in such films as
Dragonwyck (1946), The Glenn Miller Story (1953),
Inherit the Wind (1960), How The West Was Won
(1962), Frankie and Johnny (1966 film)|Frankie and
Johnny (1966), and Support Your Local Sheriff in
1969.

On TV he played Pete in Pete and Gladys
(1960-1962) and in a widely-recognized role,
Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's partner in the
revived version of Dragnet (drama)|Dragnet
(1967-1970). Morgan had also appeared with Dragnet
star Jack Webb in two film noir movies, Dark City
(1950 movie)|Dark City (1950) and Appointment with
Danger (1951).

In a third-season episode of the television series
"M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H", The General Flipped
At Dawn, Morgan played a crazed general who wanted
to move the 4077th closer to the front line. In
the following season, he joined the show's cast as
the beloved Colonel Sherman T. Potter.

In 1980, Morgan won an Emmy award for his
performance on M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H. Morgan
reprised the Potter role in a shortlived spin-off
series, After M*A*S*H.

In 1987, Morgan also reprised his Bill Gannon
character for a cameo in the film version of
Dragnet (1987 movie)|Dragnet, a comedy. On the old
TV show, Morgan had usually played Gannon fairly
light and comedic, in keeping with his general
acting style in those days, and contrasting well
with Jack Webb's no-nonsense portrayal of Joe
Friday. Curiously, or perhaps purposely, in the
film version, he played Gannon as a brusque,
authoritarian captain of police, quite different
from his Detective Gannon in the 1967 TV show, and
rather closer to his characterization of Colonel
Potter.

In the 1990s, he played the role of Judge Stoddard
Bell in The Incident series of TV movies.

Morgan also directed episodes for several TV
series, including 2 episodes of The Alfred
Hitchcock Hour and 9 episodes of M*A*S*H (TV
series)|M*A*S*H.

== External Links ==
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604702/ IMDB Profile