ACTOR

Harry Morgan

1915 - 2011

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Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor whose television and film career spanned six decades. Morgan's major roles included Pete Porter in both December Bride (1954–1959) and Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967–1970); Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey (1972–1974); and his starring role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1985). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Morgan has received more than 5,727,419 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Morgan is the 3,796th most popular actor (down from 2,988th in 2019), the 5,668th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,679th in 2019) and the 1,719th most popular American Actor.

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  • 5.7M

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  • 49.58

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Harry Morgan ranks 3,796 out of 13,578. Before him are Mark Pellegrino, Irving Cummings, Kurt Fuller, Ichirō Nagai, JoBeth Williams, and Gavin MacLeod. After him are Carl Lumbly, Fernando Lamas, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Françoise Rosay, Haruko Sugimura, and Peter Simonischek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Harry Morgan ranks 168. Before him are Hasse Ekman, Derek Prince, Edmond Leburton, Leigh Brackett, Alan Lomax, and Julio César Méndez Montenegro. After him are John C. Lilly, Ann Sheridan, Kenneth Arnold, Johannes Kotkas, Gozo Shioda, and Eugene Polley. Among people deceased in 2011, Harry Morgan ranks 250. Before him are Zhanna Prokhorenko, Dennis Oppenheim, Jean Bartik, Nusrat Bhutto, Edward Hardwicke, and Klaus-Dieter Sieloff. After him are Peter Post, John Patrick Foley, Abderrahmane Mahjoub, John Stott, Inge Sørensen, and Marco Simoncelli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Morgan ranks 5,668 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Eisner (1942), Kurt Fuller (1953), Ray Barretto (1929), JoBeth Williams (1948), Gavin MacLeod (1931), and George Saling (1909). After him are Carl Lumbly (1951), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Kenneth Noland (1924), Anita Borg (1949), Forrest Smithson (1884), and Henry Knox (1750).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Harry Morgan ranks 1,719. Before him are M. C. Gainey (1948), Mark Pellegrino (1965), Irving Cummings (1888), Kurt Fuller (1953), JoBeth Williams (1948), and Gavin MacLeod (1931). After him are Carl Lumbly (1951), Ed O'Ross (1949), Tommy Rettig (1941), Sandra Bernhard (1955), Elizabeth Mitchell (1970), and David White (1916).

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Television and Movie Roles

High Noon
Sam Fuller
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Jun 9o 19527.7 / 10
M*A*S*H
General Steele
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.
7.905 / 10
Dragnet
Captain Gannon
LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.
Jun 23o 19875.9 / 10