Harry Morgan Movies

Want to know the best Harry Morgan movies?  How about the worst Harry Morgan movies?  Curious about Harry Morgan box office grosses or which Harry Morgan movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Harry Morgan movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Harry Morgan (1915-2011) was an American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades.  Morgan is best known for his role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1985).  His IMDb page shows 165 acting credits from 1933 to 1999.   This page will rank Harry Morgan movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows and a few of his low budget 1950s westerns were not included in the rankings.  To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Harry Morgan Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Harry Morgan Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Harry Morgan movies by his co-stars
  • Sort Harry Morgan movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Harry Morgan movies by yearly domestic box office rank.
  • Sort Harry Morgan movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Harry Morgan movie received.
  • Sort Harry Morgan movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)

Best IMDb Trivia On Harry Morgan

1. Harry Bratsberg was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1915.

2. Harry Morgan began acting on stage under his birth name, in 1937, joining the Group Theatre in New York City formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg in 1931.[7][8] He appeared in the original production of the Clifford Odets play Golden Boy, followed by a host of successful Broadway roles alongside such other Group members as Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, John Garfield, Sanford Meisner, and Karl Malden.

3. Harry Morgan and Jack Webb were best friends from 1949 to Thursday, December 23rd, 1982, when Jack Webb lost his life.  He was the last minute replacement for the role of Officer Bill Gannon on the third revival of Dragnet 1967 (1967), with the help of Webb.

4.  Harry Morgan appeared in three films nominated for Best Picture Academy Award®: The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), High Noon (1952) and How the West Was Won (1962).

5. Harry Morgan appeared as a regular on eleven TV series with no more than one TV season between them: December Bride (1954), Pete and Gladys (1960), The Richard Boone Show (1963), Kentucky Jones (1964), Dragnet 1967 (1967), The D.A. (1971), Hec Ramsey (1972), M*A*S*H (1972), “AfterMASH” (1983), Blacke’s Magic (1986) and You Can’t Take It with You (1987).

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19 thoughts on “Harry Morgan Movies

    1. Hey Taylor. Yes indeed, Colonel Potter was a very busy actor for almost six decades. Glad our page help shed some light on Harry Morgan’s movie career. As always thanks for stopping by.

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