"Emmy" Award winning actor Harry Morgan, who still plays with good bark Colonel T. Sherman Potter in the series "MASH" and hard nose LAPD, Bill Gannon in the television series "Seine", died Wednesday. He was 96.
Morgan died at his home in Brentwood, after a battle with pneumonia, his daughter, Beth Morgan, told The Associated Press.
Morgan for eight years in terms of "MASH," the first seven decades of his acting career began when he was 60 and had already appeared on stage on Broadway in dozens of TV series and more than 50 films.
Three years after his debut, he joined the show in 1975 as commander of the 4077th Army field surgical hospital Orthodox, who patched up wounded during the Korean War.
When two 1/2-hour final "MASH" was released in 1983, 77% of people who watch television are listening, making the show the most watched in history.
Shortly before the last episode aired, Morgan on "Times", "will never be another" MASH. There is nothing in the way of doing your best work on that, absolutely nothing. "
Although a lawyer, Morgan fell into acting and stayed. Son of a car mechanic, he was born to Harry Bratsberg in Detroit, April 10, 1915. He grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, played football high school, despite its small size and is a member of staff of the school debate champion.
Morgan attended the University of Chicago, but left in 1930 to sell office equipment in Washington, DC, as a salesman during the Great Depression, has free time, so he joined a theater group. Make the scene hotel had success in "The Front Page" and "Petrified Forest."
He retired as office equipment, to appear in summer stock. In the fall of 1937, he moved to New York City, and appeared in several Broadway productions, using the name of Harry Bratsburg.
"In my ignorance, I thought," Hey, this business works is a great life! "I do not know! Things were rough from now. If I had to struggle in the beginning as most of the players ... I've never said, but there is so successful at first, I was stuck with a player for life "Morgan 1983 book" "MASH": Exclusive, Inside Story of TV's most popular "
In 1941, he and his wife, actress Eileen headed for Hollywood, and Morgan hit a rocky patch is a kind of - it did not work for five months.
After appearing in a one-act play in Santa Barbara "," Hello Out There ", he was offered a contract with 20th Century Fox and Henry Morgan, immediately made six films, starting with the" shores of Tripoli. "
Morgan went on to appear in films such as "High Noon" (1953), "Glenn Miller Story" (1954), "Inherit the Wind" (1960), "Support Local Sheriff!" (1969) and his personal favorite, 1943 "Ox-Bow Incident."
One of his early television credits are "married in December, in which he played Pete Porter, ironic humor, a henpecked neighbor who joked about his wife, Gladys ever seen. At that time, Morgan began using Harry as his first name to avoid confusion with the TV comic Henry Morgan.
After December 7 years married, "Morgan appears on Cara Williams in the early 1960s impact" Pete and Gladys. "His television career continued with a series of anthology" Richard Boone Show "and" Kentucky Jones ", where Morgan played ranch handyman who works for the main character, played by Dennis Weaver.
For "MASH" Morgan is best known for his role as Officer Bill Gannon in "Dragnet" show that appeared in the 1940's on the radio. In 1967, Ben Alexander replaces Morgan as a partner of Jack Webb Sgt. Joe Friday show that lionized the LAPD. "He stayed for four seasons fixtures.
The shooting schedule intensive two-day contested Morgan, and Webb's insistence, they speak in a monotone flat, so they do not seem to be emotionally involved with other characters. (Morgan later had a small role in the 1987 Dan Aykroyd, parody "purse" and Tom Hanks provided the voice for Gannon, 1995 episode of "The Simpsons".)
In the work of Morgan in early 1970 on creating web, the courtroom drama "DA" and appeared with Richard Boone in "Hec Ramsey", western part of the "Mystery Movie of the NBC Sunday" series.
The role of Colonel Potter "MASH" came to fiction surgical unit needs a new commander in McLean Stevenson left the show in 1975. This is not the first appearance of the program Morgan - the role of a general crazy in the show earned him a nomination for "Emmy" in the same year he joined the series.
The anti-war comedy based on the film starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould and 1970, made its debut in 1972. Television series with Alan Alda, has already won the "Emmy" for comedy series and has long been declared a "hit" by the Times.
Even so, Morgan was nervous to replace Lt. Col. Henry Blake Stevenson, is "one of the boys." Colonel Morgan Potter is much spit and polish, there is still a sentimental side, which is evident in his paintings to Oil and interactions with the other base game outside of Seoul in the middle of the Korean War.
He received eight Emmy nominations and won the role again in 1980, the year he was appointed to direct an episode of "MASH."
Morgan co-starred in the sitcom spin "AfterMASH", which is in a veterans hospital in the United States and aired from 1983 to 1984.
Then he appeared in nearly 20 television productions, including several episodes of "3rd Rock From The Sun" in the late 1990s.
When the "MASH" was completed in 1983, he said the "Times": "the sadness will fade after a while the glass is so damn full, it can not be really sad that you do not need In addition, we obtained all. much more than what we will do something that will last a long, long time. "
With his first wife, Eileen, Morgan had four son. She died in 1985 after 45 years of marriage. Son of Daniel, died in 1989.
Survivors include his second wife, Barbara, his son Christopher, Charles and Paul ", eight grandchildren and seven grandchildren.
Morgan died at his home in Brentwood, after a battle with pneumonia, his daughter, Beth Morgan, told The Associated Press.
Morgan for eight years in terms of "MASH," the first seven decades of his acting career began when he was 60 and had already appeared on stage on Broadway in dozens of TV series and more than 50 films.
Three years after his debut, he joined the show in 1975 as commander of the 4077th Army field surgical hospital Orthodox, who patched up wounded during the Korean War.
When two 1/2-hour final "MASH" was released in 1983, 77% of people who watch television are listening, making the show the most watched in history.
Shortly before the last episode aired, Morgan on "Times", "will never be another" MASH. There is nothing in the way of doing your best work on that, absolutely nothing. "
Although a lawyer, Morgan fell into acting and stayed. Son of a car mechanic, he was born to Harry Bratsberg in Detroit, April 10, 1915. He grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, played football high school, despite its small size and is a member of staff of the school debate champion.
Morgan attended the University of Chicago, but left in 1930 to sell office equipment in Washington, DC, as a salesman during the Great Depression, has free time, so he joined a theater group. Make the scene hotel had success in "The Front Page" and "Petrified Forest."
He retired as office equipment, to appear in summer stock. In the fall of 1937, he moved to New York City, and appeared in several Broadway productions, using the name of Harry Bratsburg.
"In my ignorance, I thought," Hey, this business works is a great life! "I do not know! Things were rough from now. If I had to struggle in the beginning as most of the players ... I've never said, but there is so successful at first, I was stuck with a player for life "Morgan 1983 book" "MASH": Exclusive, Inside Story of TV's most popular "
In 1941, he and his wife, actress Eileen headed for Hollywood, and Morgan hit a rocky patch is a kind of - it did not work for five months.
After appearing in a one-act play in Santa Barbara "," Hello Out There ", he was offered a contract with 20th Century Fox and Henry Morgan, immediately made six films, starting with the" shores of Tripoli. "
Morgan went on to appear in films such as "High Noon" (1953), "Glenn Miller Story" (1954), "Inherit the Wind" (1960), "Support Local Sheriff!" (1969) and his personal favorite, 1943 "Ox-Bow Incident."
One of his early television credits are "married in December, in which he played Pete Porter, ironic humor, a henpecked neighbor who joked about his wife, Gladys ever seen. At that time, Morgan began using Harry as his first name to avoid confusion with the TV comic Henry Morgan.
After December 7 years married, "Morgan appears on Cara Williams in the early 1960s impact" Pete and Gladys. "His television career continued with a series of anthology" Richard Boone Show "and" Kentucky Jones ", where Morgan played ranch handyman who works for the main character, played by Dennis Weaver.
For "MASH" Morgan is best known for his role as Officer Bill Gannon in "Dragnet" show that appeared in the 1940's on the radio. In 1967, Ben Alexander replaces Morgan as a partner of Jack Webb Sgt. Joe Friday show that lionized the LAPD. "He stayed for four seasons fixtures.
The shooting schedule intensive two-day contested Morgan, and Webb's insistence, they speak in a monotone flat, so they do not seem to be emotionally involved with other characters. (Morgan later had a small role in the 1987 Dan Aykroyd, parody "purse" and Tom Hanks provided the voice for Gannon, 1995 episode of "The Simpsons".)
In the work of Morgan in early 1970 on creating web, the courtroom drama "DA" and appeared with Richard Boone in "Hec Ramsey", western part of the "Mystery Movie of the NBC Sunday" series.
The role of Colonel Potter "MASH" came to fiction surgical unit needs a new commander in McLean Stevenson left the show in 1975. This is not the first appearance of the program Morgan - the role of a general crazy in the show earned him a nomination for "Emmy" in the same year he joined the series.
The anti-war comedy based on the film starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould and 1970, made its debut in 1972. Television series with Alan Alda, has already won the "Emmy" for comedy series and has long been declared a "hit" by the Times.
Even so, Morgan was nervous to replace Lt. Col. Henry Blake Stevenson, is "one of the boys." Colonel Morgan Potter is much spit and polish, there is still a sentimental side, which is evident in his paintings to Oil and interactions with the other base game outside of Seoul in the middle of the Korean War.
He received eight Emmy nominations and won the role again in 1980, the year he was appointed to direct an episode of "MASH."
Morgan co-starred in the sitcom spin "AfterMASH", which is in a veterans hospital in the United States and aired from 1983 to 1984.
Then he appeared in nearly 20 television productions, including several episodes of "3rd Rock From The Sun" in the late 1990s.
When the "MASH" was completed in 1983, he said the "Times": "the sadness will fade after a while the glass is so damn full, it can not be really sad that you do not need In addition, we obtained all. much more than what we will do something that will last a long, long time. "
With his first wife, Eileen, Morgan had four son. She died in 1985 after 45 years of marriage. Son of Daniel, died in 1989.
Survivors include his second wife, Barbara, his son Christopher, Charles and Paul ", eight grandchildren and seven grandchildren.
