Harry Morgan, MAH and Dragnet Actor, Dies at 9. Colonel Potters office had several personal touches. The picture on his desk was of Mr. Morgans wife, Eileen Detchon. Monkey Town The Summer Of The Scopes Trial Movies' title='Monkey Town The Summer Of The Scopes Trial Movies' />To relax, the colonel liked to paint and look after his horse, Sophie a sort of inside joke, since the real Harry Morgan raised quarter horses on a ranch in Santa Rosa. Sophie, to whom Colonel Potter says goodbye in the final episode, was Mr. Morgans own horse. Photo. Mr. Morgan, left, with Alan Alda in the mess tent in MS. Mr. Monkey Town The Summer Of The Scopes Trial Movie KirkMorgan played Col. Sherman T. Potter. Credit. CBS, via Photofest In 1. Colonel Potter earned him an Emmy Award as best supporting actor in a comedy series. During the shooting of the final episode, he was asked about his feelings. Sadness and an aching heart, he replied. Harry Morgan was born Harry Bratsburg on April 1. Diamondback moths may be a mere halfinch in length, but their voracious appetite for Brussels sprouts, kale and cauliflower make them a major pain for farmers. This. The Paper Clips Project, by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee town of Whitwell, created a monument for the Holocaust victims of Nazi Germany. Hot town, summer in the city. The girl Marilyn Monroe keeps her underwear in the icebox. The guy Tom Ewell thinks the girl is warming up to his advances. During the 1920s, the National Womens Party fought for the rights of women beyond that of suffrage, which they had secured through the 19th Amendment in 1920. Part three of a 15part series of documentaries produced by the American Broadcasting Company on the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a. Detroit. His parents were Norwegian immigrants. After graduating from Muskegon High School, where he played varsity football and was senior class president, he intended to become a lawyer, but debating classes in his pre law major at the University of Chicago stimulated his interest in the theater. Burt Bacharach Greatest Hits Download Youtube. He made his professional acting debut in a summer stock production of At Mrs. Beams in Mount Kisco, N. Y., and his Broadway debut in 1. Golden Boy, starring Luther Adler, in a cast that also included Karl Malden. After moving to California in 1. Santa Barbara stock companys production of William Saroyans one act play Hello Out There. Signing a contract with 2. Century Fox, he originally used the screen name Henry Morgan, but changed Henry to Harry in the 1. Henry Morgan. Mr. Morgan attracted attention almost immediately. In The Ox Bow Incident 1. Henry Fonda, he was praised for his portrayal of a drifter caught up in a lynching in a Western town. Reviewing A Bell for Adano 1. John Herseys novel about the Army in a liberated Italian town, Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times that Mr. Morgan was crude and amusing as the captain of M. P. s. He went on to appear in All My Sons 1. Arthur Miller play, with Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster The Big Clock 1. Charles Laughton Yellow Sky 1. Gregory Peck and Anne Baxter and the critically praised western High Noon 1. Gary Cooper. Among his other notable films were The Teahouse of the August Moon 1. Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford, and Inherit the Wind 1. Spencer Tracy and Fredric March, in which he played a small town Tennessee judge hearing arguments about evolution in the fictionalized version of the Scopes monkey trial. In How the West Was Won 1. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Photo. Harry Morgan, right, with Jack Webb in Dragnet in 1. Credit. Everett Collection After a personable performance as Glenn Millers pianist, Chummy Mac. Gregor, in The Glenn Miller Story 1. James Stewart, he often played softer characters as well as his trademark hard bitten tough guys. There were eventually a number of comedies on his rsum, among them John Goldfarb, Please Come Home 1. Shirley Mac. Laine and Peter Ustinov The Flim Flam Man 1. George C. Scott Support Your Local Sheriff 1. James Garner and Walter Brennan and The Apple Dumpling Gang 1. Disney movie with Tim Conway and Don Knotts. He returned as Bill Gannon, by now promoted to captain, in the 1. Dragnet, a comedy remake of the series starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. Mr. Morgans television credits were prodigious. He once estimated that in one show or another, he was seen in prime time for 3. Regarded as one of the busiest actors in the medium, he had continuing roles in at least 1. He reprised the role of Sherman Potter in After. MASH 1. 98. 3 8. Among the later shows on which he appeared as a guest star were The Love Boat, 3rd Rock From the Sun,  Murder, She Wrote and The Jeff Foxworthy Show. Mr. Morgans first wife, Eileen Detchon, died in 1. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Bushman, whom he married in 1. Christopher, Charles and Paul and eight grandchildren. A fourth son, Daniel, died in 1. Mr. Morgan lived in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. His son Charles, a lawyer in Los Angeles, said in a telephone interview that he would marvel at his fathers photographic memory. My dad would read a script the way somebody else would read Time magazine and put it down and be on the set the next day, he said. But Harry Morgan never sat as a guest on a talk show, Charles Morgan said it did not seem appropriate or necessary. Appearing on a talk show to focus on himself because he was Harry Morgan, he said, was not nearly as natural as appearing in a role as Pete Porter or Bill Gannon or Colonel Potter, or as the cowboy drifter who wandered into town with Henry Fonda and got wrapped up in a vigilante brigade in Ox Bow Incident. Correction December 1. An obituary on Thursday about the actor Harry Morgan described incorrectly his appearances on the television series You Cant Take It With You. He was a regular cast member he was not a guest star on the show. Continue reading the main story.