Nickname:	Harry Morgan / Henry Morgan / Henry 'Harry' Morgan /
Known for:	Inherit the Wind, High Noon, The Glenn Miller Story
Birth name:	Harry Bratsburg
Birthday:	10 April 1915, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Height:	5' 4" (1.63 m)

Father of producer Christopher Morgan. Once belonged to the Group Theater in New York. Of Norwegian descent, his grandparents were immigrants from Scandanavia. In the episode "The Days Dwindle Down" (episode # 3.21) of "Murder, She Wrote" (1984)he played a LAPD Detective Webb. In 1967, he starred as a member of the LAPD in "Dragnet" which was created by and co-starred Jack Webb. Is the former father-in-law of Julie Cobb. In 1988, Cobb married James Cromwell, who had made a guest appearance on M*A*S*H. Once said that he enjoyed playing Colonel Potter on M*A*S*H so much that he felt that he could have "gone on forever" playing that character. In several episodes of M*A*S*H, Col. Potter was seen painting portraits, mainly of the other characters. These portraits were actually painted by Morgan. Reprised his Dragnet 1967, Dragnet 1966 and Dragnet character (Officer Bill Gannon) in The Simpsons episode "Mother Simpson". Appeared with Lee J. Cobb, the father of his future daughter-in-law Julie Cobb in How the West Was Won. Grandfather of Rosemary Morgan and Jeremy Morgan. Prior to joining the cast of M*A*S*H in the fourth season as the stern but decent Colonel Potter, he appeared in the third season episode "The General Flipped At Dawn" as a crazed general who wanted to move the 4077 unit closer to the front line. Had four sons by his first wife: Charles and Paul are both attorneys, Christopher Morgan, a TV producer, and Daniel, who died in 1989. Second wife, Barbara Bushman, is the granddaughter of silent screen star Francis X. Bushman and the daughter of Ralph Bushman. Graduated from Muskegon High School in Muskegon, Michigan

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