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Beneath his many roles in big screen movies, he is mostly recognized due to his roles in 11 TV series. He starred as Pete Porter in the sitcom December Bride (1954-59) and subsequently in its spinoff Pete and Gladys (1960-62). He was a regular in The Richard Boone Show (1963), Kentucky Jones (1964-65), The D.A. (1971) and Hec Ramsey (1972). But he is best known for memorable supporting roles on two popular and innovative TV series:
In 1996 Harry Morgan's name made it in the news, when he was arrested for beating up his wife. The couple was drinking and fighting at a party and the fight escalated after their return home. The charges were dropped after Harry agreed to attend classes on spousal abuse. Since his last acting appearance in Crosswalk (1999), Harry Morgan is virtually retired. He is spending his time by reading books about history, the legal profession and poetry. He also used to raise quarterhorses at his Santa Rosa, California ranch. | |
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A talent scout of 20th Century Fox discovered him in a Santa Barbara stock company production of William Saroyan's one-act play, Hello, Out There. He debuted on the big screen in The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) and has starred in more than 50 movies since then, including To the Shores of Tripoli (1942), State Fair (1945), Dark City (1950), High Noon (1952), What Price Glory? (1952), My Six Convicts (1952), The Glenn Miller Story (1953), Inherit the Wind (1960), Strategic Air Command (1955), Viva Max! (1969), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), and the remake of Dragnet (1987). In the Forties and Fifties he was credited as Henry Morgan, but to avoid confusion with a then popular radio and TV personality of the same name, he changed it to Harry Morgan in the late Fifties.
Morgan was often cast as sidekicks to such luminaries as Henry Fonda and James Stewart, and he was favored by directors, who specialized in tough masculine fare, notably Anthony Mann, for whom he acted in six films, including Bend of the River (1952) and The Far Country (1955). He seemed most appropriate in Westerns and tough urban dramas, but his many credits span the gamut of genres. Morgan was the judge inInherit the Wind (1960), the harried director of Joan Crawford in Torch Song (1953) and the angel who helps Fred MacMurray change his ways in the Disney comedy Charley and the Angel (1973).
As Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (1967-70), playing the almost equally phlegmatic partner of Jack Webb's Joe Friday, and as Col. Sherman Potter in M*A*S*H (1975-83). Morgan made a first guest appearance in M*A*S*H in episode III/49 
Harry and his wife Barbara Morgan have four children. His son Christopher followed his footsteps into show business and works as a television producer.
