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
High Noon
(1952)
Sam Fuller
How the West Was Won
(1962)
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
The Glenn Miller Story
(1954)
Chummy MacGregor
Support Your Local Sheriff!
(1969)
Olly Perkins
The Ox-Bow Incident
(1943)
Art Croft
Dragnet
(1987)
Captain Gannon
The Shootist
(1976)
Marshall Thibido
The Big Clock
(1948)
Bill Womack
The Cat from Outer Space
(1978)
General Stilton
The Far Country
(1954)
Ketchum
The Flight of Dragons
(1984)
Carolinus (voice)
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Judge Mel
Support Your Local Gunfighter
(1971)
Taylor
Cimarron
(1960)
Jessie Rickey
Holiday Affair
(1949)
Police Lieutenant
The Apple Dumpling Gang
(1975)
Homer McCoy
Full Filmography
Acting
The Kennel Murder Case
(1933)
Gamble (uncredited)
To the Shores of Tripoli
(1942)
Mouthy
The Omaha Trail
(1942)
Henchman Nat
Orchestra Wives
(1942)
Cully Anderson
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
(1942)
Ebenezer Burling
Crash Dive
(1943)
Brownie
Happy Land
(1943)
Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan)
The Ox-Bow Incident
(1943)
Art Croft
Wing and a Prayer
(1944)
Malcolm Brainard
Roger Touhy, Gangster
(1944)
Thomas "Smoke" Reardon
The Eve of St. Mark
(1944)
Private Shevlin
Gentle Annie
(1944)
Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan)
Take It or Leave It
(1944)
Himself
State Fair
(1945)
Barker
A Bell for Adano
(1945)
Capt. N. Purvis
Dragonwyck
(1946)
Klaas Bleecker
From This Day Forward
(1946)
Hank Beesley
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
(1946)
Gus Rivers
Johnny Comes Flying Home
(1946)
Joe Patillo
Somewhere in the Night
(1946)
Bath Attendant
The Gangster
(1947)
Shorty
Yellow Sky
(1948)
Half Pint
Moonrise
(1948)
Billy Scripture
All My Sons
(1948)
Frank Lubey
The Big Clock
(1948)
Bill Womack
Race Street
(1948)
Hal Towers
The Saxon Charm
(1948)
Hermy
Holiday Affair
(1949)
Police Lieutenant
Red Light
(1949)
Rocky
Strange Bargain
(1949)
Richard Webb
Madame Bovary
(1949)
Hyppolite
Hello Out There
(1949)
The Young Gambler
Down to the Sea in Ships
(1949)
Britton
Appointment with Danger
(1950)
George Soderquist
Dark City
(1950)
Soldier
The Showdown
(1950)
Rod Main
Outside the Wall
(1950)
Garth
The Well
(1951)
Claude Packard
The Blue Veil
(1951)
Charles Hall
Belle Le Grand
(1951)
Abel Stone
When I Grow Up
(1951)
Father Reed (Modern)
High Noon
(1952)
Sam Fuller
Scandal Sheet
(1952)
Biddle
My Six Convicts
(1952)
Dawson
Bend of the River
(1952)
Shorty
Stop, You're Killing Me
(1952)
Innocence
Apache War Smoke
(1952)
Ed Cotten
Boots Malone
(1952)
Quarter Horse Henry
Toughest Man in Arizona
(1952)
Verne Kimber
What Price Glory
(1952)
Sergeant Moran
The Devil and John Q
(1952)
Abe Lincoln
Thunder Bay
(1953)
Rawlings
Arena
(1953)
Lew Hutchins
Torch Song
(1953)
Joe Denner
Champ for a Day
(1953)
Al Muntz
The Glenn Miller Story
(1954)
Chummy MacGregor
The Far Country
(1954)
Ketchum
About Mrs. Leslie
(1954)
Fred Blue
The Forty-Niners
(1954)
Alf Billings
Prisoner of War
(1954)
Maj. O.D. Hale
Strategic Air Command
(1955)
Sergeant Bible
Not as a Stranger
(1955)
Oley
Backlash
(1956)
Tony Welker
Star in the Dust
(1956)
Lew Hogan
The Teahouse of the August Moon
(1957)
Sergeant Gregovich
Under Fire
(1957)
Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
It Started with a Kiss
(1959)
Charles Meriden
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Judge Mel
Cimarron
(1960)
Jessie Rickey
The Mountain Road
(1960)
Mike Michaelson
How the West Was Won
(1962)
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
(1965)
Sarajevo
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
(1966)
Major Pott
Frankie and Johnny
(1966)
Cully
The Flim-Flam Man
(1967)
Sheriff Slade
Star Spangled Salesman
(1968)
TV Cop
Support Your Local Sheriff!
(1969)
Olly Perkins
Viva Max!
(1969)
Chief of Police Sylvester
Dragnet
(1969)
Bill Gannon
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
(1970)
Mr. Good
Support Your Local Gunfighter
(1971)
Taylor
Scandalous John
(1971)
Sheriff Pippin
The Feminist and the Fuzz
(1971)
Horace Bowers
The Barefoot Executive
(1971)
E.J. Crampton
Cat Ballou
(1971)
The Rancher
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
(1971)
Insp. Richard Queen
Snowball Express
(1972)
Jesse McCord
The Century Turns
(1972)
Doc Amos B. Coogan
Charley and the Angel
(1973)
Angel
Sidekicks
(1974)
Sheriff Jenkins
The Apple Dumpling Gang
(1975)
Homer McCoy
The Last Day
(1975)
Narrator
The Shootist
(1976)
Marshall Thibido
Exo-Man
(1977)
Arthur Travis
Maneaters Are Loose!
(1978)
Toby Waites
The Cat from Outer Space
(1978)
General Stilton
The Bastard
(1978)
Capt. Caleb
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
(1978)
Hugo Peavey
Murder at the Mardi Gras
(1978)
Jim Bob Jackson
Confessions of the D.A. Man
(1978)
H.M. 'Staff' Stafford
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
(1979)
T.P. Gaskill
The Wild Wild West Revisited
(1979)
Robert T. Malone
You Can't Take it With You
(1979)
Mr. DePinna
Better Late Than Never
(1979)
Mr. Scott
More Wild Wild West
(1980)
Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone
Roughnecks
(1980)
Plug Champion
Scout's Honor
(1980)
Mr. Briggs
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
(1981)
Father Everett Kolodny
Showbiz Goes to War
(1982)
(archive footage)
Sparkling Cyanide
(1983)
Captain Kemp
The Flight of Dragons
(1984)
Carolinus (voice)
Dragnet
(1987)
Captain Gannon
14 Going on 30
(1988)
Uncle Herb
The Incident
(1990)
Judge Bell
Memories of M*A*S*H
(1991)
Self / Sherman Potter
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
(1992)
Judge Stoddard Bell
Incident in a Small Town
(1994)
Judge Bell
Family Plan
(1997)
Sol Rubins
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
(2001)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion
(2002)
Himself
Los Angeles Plays Itself
(2004)
Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage)
Greenboy: Prescription for Death
(2013)
Bill Gannon (archive footage)
Production