Harry Morgan
Colonel Sherman T. Potter of the 4077th from 1975 to 1983, and an Emmy winner for the role.
Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor whose television and film career spanned six decades. On M*A*S*H he starred as Colonel Sherman T. Potter from 1975 to 1983, joining the cast in the fourth season; in the third season he had guest-starred as the mentally unbalanced Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele in "The General Flipped at Dawn" (1974). Unlike McLean Stevenson's Henry Blake, Potter was a career Army officer, a firm yet good-humored father figure to those under his command. Morgan won an Emmy Award for the role in 1980 and reprised Potter in the spinoff AfterMASH (1983–1985). His other major roles included Pete Porter in December Bride and Pete and Gladys, and Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet.
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Harry Bratsberg
- Born
- 10 April 1915
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- Died
- 7 December 2011
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Television
- M A S H; Dragnet
- Occupation
- Actor
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