Harry Morgan dies at 96 M*A*S*H star

[flusher]

That was actually the new Dragnet series!
I can't recall Friday's sidekick from the original series of the late 50's to early 60's.

Friday was played by Jack Webb, if you recall...

Harry Morgan's first flick was "The Ox Bow Incident"...very good western.

Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith--funny how you remember tiny details like that.

I remember seeing "The Ox Bow Incident" with my Dad when I was 5 years old -- a classic western.

 

[Depmandog]

Growing up in around Kirksville in NE Missouri, I loved MASH, as Col Potters character was from Hannibal MO, and Radar's character was from Ottumwa, IA, both a short drive away. That added a special 'connection' for me to the show.

As all have said, great actor, RIP.

Dean

 

[jonyyuma]

Harry Morgan could play about any part he wanted.. He was good at it too...

 

[Bird]

Harry Morgan could play about any part he wanted.. He was good at it too...

Yep, and everyone remembers Col. Potter, but how many remember him appearing on M.A.S.H. before that as a General with mental problems?

 

[RoyJackson]

Yep, and everyone remembers Col. Potter, but how many remember him appearing on M.A.S.H. before that as a General with mental problems?

That was when McLean Stevenson was still on the show...one of the few MASH programs I watched...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Yes a very big loss, I also remember him best in M*A*S*H and did see him in other movies and TV shows. Very sad. Who was the character he played in Dragnet? I can remember it shown here in Oz.

Detective Bill Gannon?

 

[s219]

Yep, and everyone remembers Col. Potter, but how many remember him appearing on M.A.S.H. before that as a General with mental problems?

That was a hilarious role. I liked his song & dance at the end.

 

[Bird]

That was a hilarious role. I liked his song & dance at the end.

Yep, you obviously remember it.:laughing:

 

[Ridgewalker]

Harry Morgan could play about any part he wanted.. He was good at it too...

I think he did play any part he wanted...his film credits are amazing!
Who can forget the "Apple Dumpling Gang"!

Filmography

To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
Orchestra Wives (1942)
The Omaha Trail (1942)
Crash Dive (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Happy Land (1943)
The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
Gentle Annie (1944)
A Bell for Adano (1945)
State Fair (1945)
From This Day Forward (1946)
Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)
Dragonwyck (1946)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)
The Gangster (1947)
All My Sons (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
Race Street (1948)
The Saxon Charm (1948)
Moonrise (1948)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Hello Out There (1949)
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
Madame Bovary (1949)
Strange Bargain (1949)
Red Light (1949)
Holiday Affair (1949)
Outside the Wall (1950)
The Showdown (1950)
Dark City (1950)
Belle Le Grand (1951)
When I Grow Up (1951)
Appointment with Danger (1951)
The Highwayman (1951)
The Well (1951)
The Blue Veil (1951)
Boots Malone (1952)
Scandal Sheet (1952)
Bend of the River (1952)
My Six Convicts (1952)
High Noon (1952)
What Price Glory? (1952)
Big Jim McLain (1952) (voice only)
Apache War Smoke (1952)
Toughest Man in Arizona (1952)
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
Thunder Bay (1953)
Arena (1953)
Champ for a Day (1953)
Torch Song (1953)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Prisoner of War (1954)
The Forty-Niners (1954)
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
The Far Country (1955)
Strategic Air Command (1955)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
Backlash (1956)
Operation Teahouse (1956)
Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956)
Star in the Dust (1956)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
Under Fire (1957)
It Started with a Kiss (1959)
The Mountain Road (1960)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Cimarron (1960)
How the West Was Won (1962)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
Frankie and Johnny (1966)
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Star Spangled Salesman (1968)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
Viva Max! (1969)
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971)
Scandalous John (1971)
Snowball Express (1972)
Charley and the Angel (1973)
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
The Shootist (1976)
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
The Wild Wild West Revisted (1979)
More Wild Wild West (1980)
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
Sparkling Cyanide TV Movie (1983)
Dragnet (1987)
The Incident (TV-1990)
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV-1992)
Incident in a Small Town (TV-1994)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
Family Plan (1998)
Crosswalk (1999)

 

[Bird]

Yep, he played good guys, bad guys, serious roles and comedy. I liked that scene in Support Your Local Sheriff, where he was talking about his daughter "takes after her dear departed mother." James Garmer replies, "Oh, her mother died?" and Harry replies, "Nope, just departed."

 

[jonyyuma]

I checked the list and he was in Flim-flam man, that show was funny too..And support your sheriff too..

 

[CompactTractorFan]

I never watched MASH, but I did like the "newer" Dragnet series. Harry Morgan played officer Bill Gannon.
IMO, the Dragnet 67-70 series was the best. :thumbsup:

RIP

 

[Bird]

I never watched MASH, but I did like the "newer" Dragnet series. Harry Morgan played officer Bill Gannon.
IMO, the Dragnet 67-70 series was the best. :thumbsup:

RIP

You never watched M.A.S.H.?:shocked: Oddly enough, I didn't think I'd care for it and never watched it when it originally ran. I know my Dad liked it. But years later, my wife and I started watching the re-runs and I'm sure we've seen every episode at least twice and probably 3 or more times.:laughing:

But yes, I used to be a fan of Dragnet, both before and after Harry Morgan joined the cast.

 

[jonyyuma]

Oddly enough Bird, I did not really appreciate Mash, until I had put in my time in the Guard? My father served as a Marine tanker in Korea, can you say" Mortar magnet"??He did not like Mash at all. I served in the Artillery unit here in town..Mash was humor directly at the military. Morgan played the better commander..