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It was on this day, April 10, 1915, American actor/director Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg, often spelled Harry Bratsburg) was born in Detroit, Michigan. .Morgan was raised in Muskegon, Michigan, and graduated from Muskegon High School in 1933, where he achieved distinction as a statewide debating champion
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);
But if you were ever a Mash fan when it ran on television, you would recognize him best as his starring role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1984). Morgan appeared in more than 100 films.
Mash The series, which was produced with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS, follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the “4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital” in Uijeongbu, South Korea during the Korean War.ran for eight seasons
Morgan’s first appearance on M*A*S*H was in the show’s third season (1974–1975), when he played eccentric Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele in “The General Flipped at Dawn”, which first aired on September 10, 1974.
The following season, Morgan joined the cast of M*A*S*H as Colonel Sherman T. Potter. A fan of the sitcom, Morgan replaced McLean Stevenson, who left the show at the end of the previous season. Unlike Stevenson’s character Henry Blake, Potter was a career Army officer who was a firm yet good-humored, caring father figure to those under his command.
In 1980, Morgan won an Emmy award for his performance on M*A*S*H.
Harry Morgan died in 2011. He would have been 102 years old today.