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Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg, often spelled Harry Bratsburg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor. He was widely known for his roles as 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 Colonel Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1984). Additionally, Morgan appeared in more than 100 films.
Morgan was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Hannah and Henry Bratsberg, who were of Swedish and Norwegian heritage. Morgan's Norwegian family surname was Bratsberg, as he spelled it in his interview with the Archive of American Television. However, many sources, including some family records, list the spelling as "Bratsburg." According to one source, when Morgan's father Henry registered at junior high school, "the registrar spelled it Bratsburg instead of Bratsberg. Bashful Henry did not demur."
Morgan was raised in Muskegon, Michigan, and graduated from Muskegon High School in 1933, where he achieved distinction as a statewide debating champion. He originally aspired to a law degree, but began acting while a junior at the University of Chicago in 1935.
Actors: David Zayas (actor), James Remar (actor), Michael C. Hall (actor), Ray Stevenson (actor), Jennifer Carpenter (actress), Desmond Harrington (actor), C.S. Lee (actor), Lauren Vélez (actress), John Dahl (director), James Manos Jr. (writer), Wendy West (writer), Jeff Lindsay (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Wolfgang Lukschy (actor), Constantine Gregory (actor), Günter Meisner (actor), James Mason (actor), Telly Savalas (actor), Thom Noble (editor), Doris Kunstmann (actress), Adrian Hoven (actor), Elaine Schreyeck (miscellaneous crew), Aldo Ray (actor), Robert Culp (actor), Don Fellows (actor), Peter Schlesinger (actor), Richard Warner (actor), Randolf Kronberg (actor),
Plot: 30 years after the end of WW2 a team of ex-GIs and ex-German soldiers goes behind the Iron Curtain in order to locate a hidden Nazi treasure. The problem is that the only man who knows the exact location of the Nazi loot is a Nazi war criminal who's imprisoned in the Siegfried military prison. To make matters worse the Nazi loot is most likely hidden somewhere in the Soviet occupied area of East Germany.
Keywords: amsterdam-netherlands, bentley, berlin-germany, bomb-disposal, caper, chess, east-berlin-east-germany, east-germany, general, german-generalActors: David McMahon (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Paul McGuire (actor), John Close (actor), John Alvin (actor), Ralph Dumke (actor), Peter Brocco (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), John Garfield (actor), Alex Gerry (actor), John Doucette (actor), Dick Gordon (actor), James Griffith (actor), Jack Mower (actor),
Plot: Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan charters his boat. Due to strained finances, he is none too careful as to whom he does business with. Real trouble erupts when Harry hires out his boat to transport four men who turn out to be criminals on the lam from a racetrack heist.
Keywords: african-american, amputation, armed-robbery, bar, based-on-novel, bleach-blond, bleached-hair, cantina, charter-boat, chinese-americanActors: Ron Randell (actor), Walter Sande (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Maurice Marsac (actor), Louis Mercier (actor), Pedro Regas (actor), Paul Marion (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Marcel Dalio (actor), Sheldon Leonard (actor), Dan Seymour (actor),
Plot: Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced against their better judgement to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days.
Keywords: alcoholic, based-on-novel, boat-captain, cafe, charter-boat, chloroform, conversation-with-character-playing-piano, deep-sea-fishing, dock, evil-manActors: Ronald Adam (actor), O.B. Clarence (actor), Ronald Shiner (actor), Kay Walsh (actress), Jack Raymond (producer), Edgar Wallace (writer), Percival Mackey (composer), Jack Raymond (director), Laurence Hanray (actor), Anthony Holles (actor), Reginald Purdell (actor), Maire O'Neill (actress), Patricia Roc (actress), Lydia Hayward (writer), Lyn Harding (actor),
Genres: Mystery,Actors: Constantine Romanoff (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Anthony Quinn (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), Agostino Borgato (actor), James Dime (actor), J. Carrol Naish (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Kit Guard (actor), John Hart (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Fred Kohler (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), Lee Shumway (actor),
Plot: In an unidentified airplane flying over the ocean in which six aliens are huddled, alien-smugglers Frank Barden and Andrew Sleete are trying to evade a government pursuit plane. They dump the screaming "evidence" into the sea. Escaping pursuit, they later approach wealthy merchant Quan Lin and demand he take some aliens off of their hands. They kill him when he refuses. Lan Ying Lin, his daughter, goes to wealthy society matron Mrs. Mary Hunt for help. She introduces her to an inspector and Kim Lee, a government agent. Unknown to all, Mrs. Hunt is the power behind the smuggling ring. Turning detective to catch her father's killers, Lan Ying Lin finds herself on a remote island where she takes a job as a dancer in a honky-tonk operated by Otto Hartman, and discovers the island resort is a blind for an alien receiving station. She gets the evidence on Hartman and flees the island with agent Lee, disguised as a man, in the hold of the smuggling vessel. They are discovered by the ship's captain who radios for a sea plane. They are loaded into the plane, piloted by Barden and Sleete, and are being flown out to sea to be disposed of.
Keywords: airplane, american, asian, b-movie, blind, cabaret, candyman, china, chinese, chinese-american