Harry Morgan

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Harry Morgan (born April 10, 1915 as Harry Bratsburg in Detroit , † December 7, 2011 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor .

Life

Morgan initially wanted to study law at the University of Chicago . But then he discovered his love for acting. He had his first appearance in 1942 in the film To the Shores of Tripoli under the name Henry Morgan . He changed this in the first half of the 1950s so as not to be confused with a well-known radio comedian. In the first years of his career he played mainly supporting roles in westerns , crime novels , thrillers and war films . His performance in Ritt zum Ox-Bow (1943) by William A. Wellman alongside Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews was particularly impressive . He shot several times together with director Anthony Mann and with James Stewart . He was seen in Mann's The Glenn Miller Story as the best friend of Stewart's Glenn Miller . 1960 followed another brilliant performance as a judge in Stanley Kramer's drama Who sows the wind .

Harry Morgan was regularly seen on television from the 1950s. In the sitcom December Bride , he played the neighbor of leading actress Spring Byington in over 150 episodes between 1954 and 1959 . From 1960 he was one of the main characters in the two-year sitcom Pete and Gladys . His comedic side should now come into play more and more often. From 1967 to 1970, however, he had a leading role alongside Jack Webb in the crime series Police Report . He was also able to show his comic side in 1969 as mayor in Even a Sheriff Needs Help . In the 1970s, he was seen in the cinema, primarily in a number of Disney films.

He took on his most famous role in 1975 when he joined the sitcom M * A * S * H as "Colonel Sherman T. Potter" from season four . Before that, he was in the third season of the series (episode 1) as General Steele in a guest role. Like several other actors, he was also allowed to incorporate aspects of his own personality into the role. So the audience could often watch Colonel Potter painting. The pictures that could be seen had actually been painted by Harry Morgan. When the series ended in 1983, Morgan, who loved his role as Potter began with his co-stars from * H M * A * S , William Christopher and Jamie Farr , the unsuccessful spinoff Aftermash .

Morgan's career spanned seven decades. From 1942 to the end of his career in 1999, he played in more than 150 film and television productions. In the 1940s and 1950s he took an active part in the fight against the McCarthy persecution in Hollywood.

Morgan was married twice. He had four sons with his first wife. One of them was a television producer and married to actress Julie Cobb , daughter of Lee J. Cobb , with whom Morgan had filmed. Her daughter - Harry Morgan's granddaughter - is also an actress, her brother also works in film. One son died of AIDS . His second wife, Barbara Bushman, is the daughter of silent film actor Ralph Bushman and granddaughter of silent film actor Francis X. Bushman . In 1996, then 81-year-old Morgan was arrested after beating his wife.

Harry Morgan died in December 2011 at the age of 96 of complications from pneumonia .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M * A * S * H ​​star Harry Morgan dies at 96 ( memento from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at vancouversun.com
  2. ↑ Actor Harry Morgan Accused of Beating Wife on latimes.com
  3. ↑ "M * A * S * H" star: Harry Morgan is dead . In: Spiegel Online . December 7, 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 4, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morgan, Henry; Bratsburg, Harry (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2011
Place of death Los Angeles , California