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'''Read Lawrence Morgan''' (January 30, 1931 – April 20, 2022) was an American film and television actor.<ref name="kentucky">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Um6CDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155|title=So You Think You're a Kentucky Wildcats Basketball Fan?: Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards|page=155|first=Tom|last=Wallace|publisher=Sports Publishing|date=October 11, 2016|isbn=9781613219737|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> He |
'''Read Lawrence Morgan''' (January 30, 1931 – April 20, 2022) was an American film and television actor.<ref name="kentucky">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Um6CDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155|title=So You Think You're a Kentucky Wildcats Basketball Fan?: Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards|page=155|first=Tom|last=Wallace|publisher=Sports Publishing|date=October 11, 2016|isbn=9781613219737|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> He was known for playing the role of Sergeant Hapgood Tasker in the American [[Western (genre)|western]] television series ''[[The Deputy (TV series)|The Deputy]]''.<ref name="b">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/433009385/|title=Healthy Giant|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|location=[[Boston, Massachusetts]]|first=Elizabeth|last=Sullivan|date=January 15, 1961|access-date=October 31, 2021|page=175|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Closed access}}</ref> |
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| Born | Read Lawrence Morgan January 30, 1931 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | April 20, 2022 (aged 91) |
| Alma mater | University of Kentucky Northwestern University |
| Occupation(s) | Film and television actor |
| Years active | 1949–1994 |
| Spouse |
Elizabeth Oleyar (m. 1963) |
Read Lawrence Morgan (January 30, 1931 – April 20, 2022) was an American film and television actor.[2] He was known for playing the role of Sergeant Hapgood Tasker in the American western television series The Deputy.[3]
Life and career
Morgan was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He attended at the University of Kentucky,[4] where he played basketball.[1] After attending for two years there, Morgan pursued an acting career. He was also involved in bodybuilding, getting himself some "tough character" roles.[1]
Morgan attended Northwestern University and served in the United States Air Force for two years, pushing aside his acting career plans.[3] He began his acting career in the crime drama television series The Big Story, in 1949. Later, he joined the cast of the western television series The Deputy,[3] playing army officer Sergeant Hapgood Tasker, who had blindness in one eye, wearing a eye patch.[1] Morgan also appeared in the Broadway play Li'l Abner.[3]
Morgan then appeared in numerous television programs, as his credits include, Gunsmoke,[5] Wagon Train,[3] The United States Steel Hour,[1] M Squad,[3] How the West Was Won,[5] Laramie,[3] The Outsider,[5] The Twilight Zone (episode "What You Need"),[6] State Trooper[3] and Paradise.[1] He also appeared and co-starred in films, such as Back to the Future, Just Between Friends, The Beach Girls and the Monster, Dillinger, Lightning, the White Stallion and The New Centurions. Morgan retired in 1994, as his last credit was from the film Maverick, where he played the role of a "Card Dealer".[2]
Morgan died on April 20, 2022, at the age of 91.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Aaker, Everett (May 25, 2017). Television Western Players, 1960-1975: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. p. 310. ISBN 9781476662503 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Wallace, Tom (October 11, 2016). So You Think You're a Kentucky Wildcats Basketball Fan?: Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards. Sports Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 9781613219737 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Sullivan, Elizabeth (January 15, 1961). "Healthy Giant". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 175. Retrieved October 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Freese, Gene (April 6, 2016). Richard Jaeckel, Hollywood's Man of Character. McFarland. p. 75. ISBN 9781476662107 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c Kotar, S. L.; Gessler, J. E. (December 2009). Riverboat: The Evolution of a Television Series, 1959-1961. BearManor Media. p. 51. ISBN 9781593935054 – via Google Books.
- ^ Parisi, Nicholas (October 24, 2018). Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination. University Press of Mississippi. p. 211. ISBN 9781496819451 – via Google Books.
- ^ "In Memoriam, Summer 2022". SAG-AFTRA. p. 62. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
External links
- Read Morgan at IMDb
- Read Morgan at the TCM Movie Database
- Read Morgan at AllMovie
- Rotten Tomatoes profile
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- 1931 births
- 2022 deaths
- People from Chicago
- Male actors from Chicago
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- 20th-century American male actors
- American men's basketball players
- University of Kentucky alumni
- Northwestern University alumni
- Western (genre) television actors
- 20th-century American people
- 21st-century American people