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