Harry Morgan Biography

Fast Facts

• Won Michigan's high-school oratory championship
• Made professional debut in a summer-stock production of At Mrs
• Beam's, alongside Frances Farmer and Mildred Natwick
• Began acting career as Henry Morgan, but changed his first name to Harry to avoid confusion with actor-satirist Henry Morgan
• Received the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor in 1943 for his roles in The Ox-Bow Incident (the work he was said to be most proud of) and Happy Land
• Worked with Jack Webb in several projects in the 1950s and became friends
• When Webb revived Dragnet in the '60s, he called on Morgan to costar with him
• Prior to joining M*A*S*H in 1975 as Col
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• Served as the Arthritis Foundation's national celebrity chairman in the late '80s