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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). Morgan also appeared as a supporting player in more than 100 films. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Harry Morgan is the 3,439th most popular actor (up from 3,792nd in 2024), the 5,694th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,667th in 2019) and the 1,616th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Harry Morgan ranks 3,439 out of 13,578. Before him are Judy Holliday, Élodie Yung, Bradford Dillman, Nikolai Karachentsov, Dora Gerson, and Lydia Shum. After him are Danai Gurira, Kim Coates, Holly Marie Combs, Haruo Nakajima, John Randolph, and Keenan Wynn.

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Among people born in 1915, Harry Morgan ranks 156. Before him are Patrick Leigh Fermor, Harry Edison, Nikos Beloyannis, Tapio Rautavaara, John Profumo, and Vladimir Zeldin. After him are John Randolph, Saifuddin Azizi, Robert Lockwood Jr., Knut Nystedt, Tomás Fernández, and Boris Paichadze. Among people deceased in 2011, Harry Morgan ranks 224. Before him are Justinas Marcinkevičius, Würzel, Imre Makovecz, Jim Rathmann, Ulrich Biesinger, and Max van der Stoel. After him are Luigi Carpaneda, Grete Waitz, Andrea True, James Arness, Peter Gethin, and Lilian Jackson Braun.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Morgan ranks 5,694 out of 20,380. Before him are Bradford Dillman (1930), Rosa Ponselle (1897), Anita O'Day (1919), Ross the Boss (1954), Walter Isaacson (1952), and S. Robson Walton (1944). After him are Danai Gurira (1978), Holly Marie Combs (1973), John Randolph (1915), Keenan Wynn (1916), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), and Michael Blake (1945).

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Among actors born in United States, Harry Morgan ranks 1,616. Before him are John Phillip Law (1937), R. G. Armstrong (1917), Nathan Lane (1956), Taryn Power (1953), Judy Holliday (1921), and Bradford Dillman (1930). After him are Danai Gurira (1978), Holly Marie Combs (1973), John Randolph (1915), Keenan Wynn (1916), Bob Peterson (1961), and Don Murray (1929).

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