| Harry Morgan  AKA Harry Bratsburg
Born: 10-Apr-1915
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Col. Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H Harry Morgan is a long-time character actor, famous as Col. Sherman Potter on M*A*S*H, and as Officer Bill Gannon, Jack Webb's sidekick on the 1960s revival of Dragnet. He played Pete, the wacky neighbor, on the 1950s series December Bride with Spring Byington, then took the character to a spin-off series, Pete & Gladys with Cara Williams. On other series, he played sidekick to Dennis Weaver in Kentucky Jones, Robert Conrad on The D.A., and Richard Boone twice, on the early '60s anthology The Richard Boone Show, and on the early '70s cop show Hec Ramsey.
Morgan studied law at the University of Chicago, until Depression-era finances forced him to leave school. He worked as a salesman while appearing in amateur plays, and landed his first professional role in a 1937 staging of At Mrs. Beam's opposite Frances Farmer. His film career was mostly character work, including High Noon with Gary Cooper, The Ox Bow Incident with Henry Fonda, The Glenn Miller Story with Jimmy Stewart, Inherit the Wind with Spencer Tracy and Fredric March, Appointment with Danger with Alan Ladd, and John Wayne's last film, The Shootist.
Morgan was married for 45 years to stage actress Eileen Detchon, until her death. His second wife is Barbara Quine, granddaughter of Francis X. Bushman, a silent era movie star who played Messala in the 1925 Ben-Hur. In 1996, in an argument after attending a party, Morgan was arrested for beating Quine, and according to the police report, she had "a red, swollen left foot, a one-quarter-inch cut near her right eye and a bruised right arm." Charges were dropped when he agreed to attend anger management classes.
In addition to providing the only hints of humor on Dragnet, Morgan worked with Webb on numerous other projects. They both appeared in the 1949 noir Appointment with Danger, and the 1950 thriller Dark City starring Charlton Heston. Webb produced three of Morgan's TV series, The D.A., Hec Ramsey, and, of course, Dragnet, and Morgan directed several episodes of Webb's Adam-12. He also wrote the forward to Webb's biography, My Name's Friday.
For the first fifteen years of his movie career, he was billed as Henry Morgan, while at the same time a comedian used the same stage name with growing success. Both became well-known, both eventually starred in TV series, and to make matters more confusing they were very nearly the same age, born only weeks apart in 1915, with similar builds and facial structures. The Morgan of M*A*S*H and Dragnet yielded the name in the late 1950s, becoming Harry Morgan. That other Henry Morgan died in 1994. Father: Henry Bratsburg (mechanic)
Mother: Anna Olsen
Wife: Eileen Detchon (stage actress, m. 1940, d. 1985, four sons)
Son: Charles Morgan (attorney)
Son: Paul Morgan (attorney)
Son: Christopher Morgan (television producer)
Son: Daniel Morgan (d. 1982)
Wife: Barbara Bushman Quine (b. 1926, m. 12-Dec-1986)
High School: Muskegon High School, Muskegon, MI
University: University of Chicago (dropped out)
John Kerry for President
Emmy 1980 for M*A*S*H
Domestic Violence arrested in Brentwood, CA 2-Jul-1996, charges dropped
Norwegian Ancestry Paternal
Swedish Ancestry Maternal
TELEVISION
Third Rock from the Sun Dr. Suter (1996-97)
After MASH Dr. Sherman Potter (1983-84)
M*A*S*H Col. Sherman T. Potter (1975-83)
Dragnet 1967 Bill Gannon (1967-70)
Dr. Kildare Francis X. Healy (1965)
The Richard Boone Show Various Roles (1963-64)
Pete and Gladys Pete Porter (1960-62)
December Bride Pete Porter (1954-59)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Family Plan (12-Mar-1998)
Incident in a Small Town (23-Jan-1994)
The Incident (4-Mar-1990)
Dragnet (26-Jun-1987)
The Flight of Dragons (1982) [VOICE]
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (6-Jul-1979)
Roots: The Next Generations (18-Feb-1979)
The Cat from Outer Space (9-Jun-1978)
The Bastard (22-May-1978)
The Shootist (11-Aug-1976)
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1-Jul-1975)
Snowball Express (22-Dec-1972)
Support Your Local Gunfighter (26-May-1971)
The Barefoot Executive (17-Mar-1971)
Viva Max! (22-Jan-1970)
Support Your Local Sheriff (26-Mar-1969)
The Flim-Flam Man (22-Aug-1967)
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (31-Aug-1966)
Frankie and Johnny (31-Mar-1966)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (24-Mar-1965)
How the West Was Won (1-Nov-1962)
Cimarron (16-Feb-1961)
The Mountain Road (Jun-1960)
Inherit the Wind (Jun-1960)
It Started with a Kiss (19-Aug-1959)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (29-Nov-1956)
Backlash (20-Apr-1956)
Not as a Stranger (28-Jun-1955)
Strategic Air Command (25-Mar-1955)
The Far Country (4-Oct-1954)
The Glenn Miller Story (10-Dec-1953)
Torch Song (23-Oct-1953)
Thunder Bay (21-May-1953)
Stop, You're Killing Me (10-Dec-1952)
The Toughest Man in Arizona (10-Oct-1952)
What Price Glory (22-Aug-1952)
High Noon (7-Jul-1952)
My Six Convicts (12-Mar-1952)
Bend of the River (23-Jan-1952)
Scandal Sheet (16-Jan-1952)
The Blue Veil (26-Oct-1951)
The Highwayman (12-Aug-1951)
When I Grow Up (20-Apr-1951)
Dark City (17-Oct-1950)
Holiday Affair (23-Nov-1949)
Madame Bovary (25-Aug-1949)
Down to the Sea in Ships (22-Feb-1949)
Yellow Sky (1-Feb-1949)
Moonrise (1-Oct-1948)
Race Street (22-Aug-1948)
The Big Clock (9-Apr-1948)
All My Sons (27-Mar-1948)
Dragonwyck (10-Apr-1946)
State Fair (29-Aug-1945)
A Bell for Adano (21-Jun-1945)
Wing and a Prayer (24-Jul-1944)
The Eve of St. Mark (22-May-1944)
The Ox-Bow Incident (21-May-1943)
Crash Dive (22-Apr-1943)
To the Shores of Tripoli (11-Mar-1942)
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