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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.
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.
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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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I like re-watching N by NW but every time I do I can’t help amusingly thinking of Fred Astaire in 1955’s Daddy Long Legs. I recall one film historian who was clearly as big a Leach fan as you are trying to put an acceptable spin on Al running around “cradle snatching” in his later movies. That historian said “You must remember that the great co-stars that he was used to in the past like Katie and Ginger were ageing badly as the 1950s drew to a close.” Actually Katie at 52 was three years younger than Archibald and Ginger being approx 48 was seven years Archie’s junior when N by NW was made!
In Daddy Long Legs the 56 year old Fred’s wealthy Jervis Pendleton 3rd mentors 24 year old Leslie Caron at a New English college by secretly paying her college fees and although never meeting while he’s her mentor they develop a pen-friendship and [presumably as a tribute to those still magical Astaire dancing legs] Leslie gives him a pet nickname. Fred’s all pleased with that and says to his best pal “She calls me her Daddy Long Legs!” to which the friend who has been disapproving of the albeit distant relationship angrily retorts “Her Daddy Sugar you mean!”
But according to Wikipedia Archie-admirers would have be pleased with the ending because Wiki says that when Fred and Leslie eventually do meet “Despite their age difference they fall in love.” Ah Fred/Archibald/Joel McCrea and Randy Scott a 1960 Alan Ladd/Sidney Poitier movie title provides a collective tag for you and your kind to my mind – “All the Young Men!”
[ADDITIONAL TRIVIA: Al Leach and Leslie Caron later teamed up too – in 1964’s Father Goose when Archie was 60 and Leslie 33 and of course they “fall in love” in the movie. However if that pal of Jervis Pendleton 3rd had been in charge of production he most likely would have called the movie “Father Sugar”!]
Anyway I hope you and your household have as relaxing a weekend as possible in the circumstances. I presume you are working from home and it occurred to me that maybe one of your young students can’t wait for the restrictions to end so that she can once again set eyes on her own “Daddy Long Legs!” Nobody has the magical feet of Fred [with the exception of maybe Steve’s idol The Great Eugene] but I am certain that many a feminine heart was a flutter at the sight of THOSE legs that twinkled up and down the Philly steps!
“Years are not important, my dear. Once you reach a certain age, you realize that men aren’t as important as you once thought they were.” Faye Dunaway who in her 50s and still sexy played the wife of The Great Mumbler then just into his 70s in Don Juan DeMarco [1994]
I’ve seen Harry Morgan in MASH on TV but I don’t think I’ve watched any reruns of Dragnet. I only knew the Tom Hanks comedy remake.
I’ve seen 18 of the 77 films on the chart, less than I thought. Favorites include – Bend of the River, The Far Country, High Noon, How the West Was Won, The Shootist, The Big Clock, Crash Dive, Support Your Local Sheriff & Gunfighter and Dragnet.
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HI STEVE: I’m glad you liked my Jimmy’s Far Country and Bend of the River. They are my all time fave westerns along with Shane and Kirk’s Last Train from Gun Hill and Greg/Chuck’s The Big Country.
I never found MASH funny so I have just watched a few episodes of it. Harry WAS good at comedy though and you should watch him in Holiday Affair. He has just a short scene or two in it with Big Bob but Morgan is riotious as a quirky Judge!
As I’ve said before it is one of my own fave Xmas movies. It was made in 1949 back in the days when we still beleived in Santa; he didn’t use swear words; and our High School virgins weren’t being chased through the snow or down chimneys by axe-wielding slashers in Santa suits.
All that was of course “A long time ago in a galaxy far away!” In short part of an old fashioned Christmas with Bing crooning out of the TV at us and Leslie Townes Hope doing the rounds dressed up as Santa.
Hey Steve. Thanks for checking out our Harry Morgan page. One of the better supporting actors to ever appear in movies. Apparently Dragnet had three different televison versions…Harry appeared on the third and last one. So I was aware of the significance of his role in the Hanks/Aykroyd Dragnet version (a comedy misfire…that I saw in theaters.) Flora destroys us all in the tally count. Our combined total of 30 does not top her single total. As for your favorites. Seen all of them. I do not remember his parts in Crash Dive and The Big Clock….but both are good movies. I would put Support Your Local James Garners, The Shootist and HTWWW in my Top 55 too. Good stuff as always.
Harry Morgan is no longer on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. He was on back in the beginning days of the list. This seems kind of odd since he has such an impressive resume of people he appeared with and Oscar winners/ People on the current list he appeared with.
3 CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Dragnet (1987)
30 ANTHONY QUINN Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
30 ANTHONY QUINN The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
35 HARRY DEAN STANTON How the West Was Won (1962)
44 JAMES MASON Madame Bovary (1949)
48 JOHN CARRADINE The Shootist (1976)
79 BRUCE DERN Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
89 PETER USTINOV John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
89 PETER USTINOV Viva Max (1969)
92 CHARLTON HESTON Dark City (1950)
95 JAMES EARL JONES The Flight of Dragons (1982)
100 ELI WALLACH How the West Was Won (1962)
103 CLINT EASTWOOD Star in the Dust (1956)
105 ROBERT MITCHUM Holiday Affair (1949)
105 ROBERT MITCHUM Not as a Stranger (1955)
110 RODDY MCDOWELL The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
112 SHIRLEY MACLAINE John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
119 DEAN STOCKWELL Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
127 BURT LANCASTER All My Sons (1948)
137 SHELLEY WINTERS The Gangster (1947)
140 LAUREN BACALL The Shootist (1976)
142 MARC LAWRENCE The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
145 DAN AYKROYD Dragnet (1987)
168 ROBERT WAGNER What Price Glory (1952)
170 LESLIE NIELSEN Family Plan (1997)
173 TOM HANKS Dragnet (1987)
181 JAMES COBURN What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
193 WILLIAM HOLDEN Boots Malone (1952)
203 KURT RUSSELL Charley and the Angel (1973)
203 KURT RUSSELL The Barefoot Executive (1971)
208 TELLY SAVALAS John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
227 KEENAN WYNN Snowball Express (1972)
227 KEENAN WYNN Viva Max (1969)
230 JEFF COREY It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog (1946)
230 JEFF COREY Somewhere in the Night (1946)
230 JEFF COREY The Gangster (1947)
241 AKIM TAMIROFF The Gangster (1947)
264 JAMES GARNER Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
264 JAMES GARNER Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
269 JOHN WAYNE Big Jim McLain (1952)
269 JOHN WAYNE How the West Was Won (1962)
269 JOHN WAYNE The Shootist (1976)
281 CLORIS LEACHMAN Charley and the Angel (1973)
297 HENRY FONDA How the West Was Won (1962)
297 HENRY FONDA The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
302 GREGORY PECK How the West Was Won (1962)
302 GREGORY PECK Yellow Sky (1948)
305 JOSEPH COTTEN The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
308 GLENN FORD Cimarron (1960)
308 GLENN FORD It Started with a Kiss (1959)
308 GLENN FORD The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
341 CHARLES BRONSON My Six Convicts (1952)
342 EDDIE ALBERT The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
375 TERI GARR John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
379 JOHN IRELAND It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog (1946)
379 JOHN IRELAND Somewhere in the Night (1946)
379 JOHN IRELAND The Gangster (1947)
391 LLOYD BRIDGES High Noon (1952)
391 LLOYD BRIDGES Moonrise (1948)
428 RICHARD WIDMARK Backlash (1956)
428 RICHARD WIDMARK Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
428 RICHARD WIDMARK How the West Was Won (1962)
428 RICHARD WIDMARK Yellow Sky (1948)
433 JAMES BROLIN John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
445 DABNEY COLEMAN Dragnet (1987)
465 STUART WHITMAN Prisoner of War (1954)
467 PAUL FIX Big Jim McLain (1952)
467 PAUL FIX Star in the Dust (1956)
467 PAUL FIX What Price Glory (1952)
469 VINCENT PRICE Dragonwyck (1946)
469 VINCENT PRICE The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
479 VIVECA LINDFORS Dark City (1950)
487 MARCEL DALIO A Bell for Adano (1945)
496 ARTHUR KENNEDY Bend of the River (1952)
501 RAY MILLAND The Big Clock (1948)
504 WILFRID HYDE-WHITE John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
521 ROYAL DANO Bend of the River (1952)
521 ROYAL DANO Cimarron (1960)
521 ROYAL DANO The Far Country (1954)
524 JACK ELAM High Noon (1952)
524 JACK ELAM Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
524 JACK ELAM Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
524 JACK ELAM The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
524 JACK ELAM The Far Country (1954)
537 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Appointment with Danger (1951)
537 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Dragnet (1987)
537 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
537 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
537 KATHLEEN FREEMAN The Far Country (1954)
537 KATHLEEN FREEMAN The Saxon Charm (1948)
595 SLIM PICKENS The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
595 SLIM PICKENS The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
609 MARTIN SCORSESE Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995)
613 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Not as a Stranger (1955)
613 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Scandal Sheet (1952)
613 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Stop, You’re Killing Me (1952)
634 DEBBIE REYNOLDS How the West Was Won (1962)
634 DEBBIE REYNOLDS It Started with a Kiss (1959)
651 CYRIL CUSACK The Blue Veil (1951)
681 ED BEGLEY JR. Charley and the Angel (1973)
687 FRANK SINATRA Not as a Stranger (1955)
691 DUB TAYLOR Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
698 ALDO RAY What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
708 JOHN DEHNER State Fair (1945)
708 JOHN DEHNER Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
715 LEE VAN CLEEF Arena (1953)
715 LEE VAN CLEEF High Noon (1952)
715 LEE VAN CLEEF How the West Was Won (1962)
717 ROBERT RYAN About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
725 BARRY SULLIVAN Strategic Air Command (1955)
725 BARRY SULLIVAN The Gangster (1947)
734 JAMES WHITMORE Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995)
760 LEE MARVIN Not as a Stranger (1955)
760 LEE MARVIN Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
780 MARLON BRANDO The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
781 EDWARD ANDREWS CHARLEY AND THE ANGEL (1973)
782 EDWARD G. ROBINSON All My Sons (1948)
784 CESAR ROMERO Orchestra Wives (1942)
784 CESAR ROMERO The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
805 CHARLES LANE John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
805 CHARLES LANE Moonrise (1948)
805 CHARLES LANE Race Street (1948)
808 RICHARD JAECKEL Wing and a Prayer (1944)
812 GEORGE C. SCOTT The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
815 DANA ANDREWS Crash Dive (1943)
815 DANA ANDREWS State Fair (1945)
815 DANA ANDREWS The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
815 DANA ANDREWS Wing and a Prayer (1944)
849 RICHARD CRENNA John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
853 LOUIS JOURDAN Madame Bovary (1949)
857 JOHN CRAWFORD Stop, You’re Killing Me (1952)
857 JOHN CRAWFORD The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
877 LLOYD NOLAN Somewhere in the Night (1946)
883 MARIA SCHELL Cimarron (1960)
904 JACK ALBERTSON THE FLIM-FLAM MAN (1967)
907 STROTHER MARTIN Prisoner of War (1954)
907 STROTHER MARTIN Strategic Air Command (1955)
907 STROTHER MARTIN The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
909 JAMES STEWART Bend of the River (1952)
909 JAMES STEWART How the West Was Won (1962)
909 JAMES STEWART Strategic Air Command (1955)
909 JAMES STEWART The Far Country (1954)
909 JAMES STEWART The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
909 JAMES STEWART The Mountain Road (1960)
909 JAMES STEWART The Shootist (1976)
909 JAMES STEWART Thunder Bay (1953)
942 RUSS TAMBLYN Cimarron (1960)
942 RUSS TAMBLYN How the West Was Won (1962)
966 JIM BACKUS John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
992 VITO SCOTTI What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
HM (863) EDMOND O’BRIEN Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
If you throw out the all star extravaganza How the West Was Won it doesn’t matter, he appeared with all his connections from the film in other pictures except Karl Malden..
Harry appeared with 54 Oscar winners including James Stewart 8 times.
ANNE BAXTER Cimarron (1960)
ANNE BAXTER Crash Dive (1943)
ANNE BAXTER The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
ANNE BAXTER Yellow Sky (1948)
ANTHONY QUINN Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
ANTHONY QUINN The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Not as a Stranger (1955)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Scandal Sheet (1952)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Stop, You’re Killing Me (1952)
BURT LANCASTER All My Sons (1948)
CHARLES COBURN The Highwayman (1951)
CHARLES LAUGHTON The Big Clock (1948)
CHARLES LAUGHTON The Blue Veil (1951)
CHARLTON HESTON Dark City (1950)
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Dragnet (1987)
CLAIRE TREVOR Stop, You’re Killing Me (1952)
CLORIS LEACHMAN Charley and the Angel (1973)
DEAN JAGGER Dark City (1950)
DEAN JAGGER The Omaha Trail (1942)
DON AMECHE Happy Land (1943)
DON AMECHE Wing and a Prayer (1944)
DONNA REED Backlash (1956)
DONNA REED Gentle Annie (1944)
DONNA REED Scandal Sheet (1952)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
ETHEL BARRYMORE Moonrise (1948)
FRANK SINATRA Not as a Stranger (1955)
FREDRIC MARCH Inherit the Wind (1960)
GARY COOPER High Noon (1952)
GEORGE C. SCOTT The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
GIG YOUNG Arena (1953)
GIG YOUNG Torch Song (1953)
GLORIA GRAHAME Not as a Stranger (1955)
GRACE KELLY High Noon (1952)
GREGORY PECK How the West Was Won (1962)
GREGORY PECK Yellow Sky (1948)
HENRY FONDA How the West Was Won (1962)
HENRY FONDA The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
JACK ALBERTSON THE FLIM-FLAM MAN (1967)
JAMES CAGNEY What Price Glory (1952)
JAMES STEWART Bend of the River (1952)
JAMES STEWART How the West Was Won (1962)
JAMES STEWART Strategic Air Command (1955)
JAMES STEWART The Far Country (1954)
JAMES STEWART The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
JAMES STEWART The Mountain Road (1960)
JAMES STEWART The Shootist (1976)
JAMES STEWART Thunder Bay (1953)
JANE DARWELL The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
JANE DARWELL The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
JANE WYMAN The Blue Veil (1951)
JENNIFER JONES Madame Bovary (1949)
JESSICA TANDY Dragonwyck (1946)
JOAN CRAWFORD Torch Song (1953)
JOAN FONTAINE From This Day Forward (1946)
JOHN WAYNE Big Jim McLain (1952)
JOHN WAYNE How the West Was Won (1962)
JOHN WAYNE The Shootist (1976)
KARL MALDEN How the West Was Won (1962)
KATY JURADO High Noon (1952)
LEE MARVIN Not as a Stranger (1955)
LEE MARVIN Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
MARLON BRANDO The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Not as a Stranger (1955)
PETER USTINOV John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
PETER USTINOV Viva Max (1969)
RAY MILLAND The Big Clock (1948)
SHELLEY WINTERS The Gangster (1947)
SHIRLEY MACLAINE John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
SPENCER TRACY How the West Was Won (1962)
SPENCER TRACY Inherit the Wind (1960)
SUSAN HAYWARD The Saxon Charm (1948)
THOMAS MITCHELL HIGH NOON (1952)
TOM HANKS Dragnet (1987)
VAN HEFLIN Madame Bovary (1949)
VICTOR MCLAGLEN Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
WALTER BRENNAN How the West Was Won (1962)
WALTER BRENNAN Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
WALTER BRENNAN The Far Country (1954)
WALTER BRENNAN The Showdown (1950)
WALTER HUSTON Dragonwyck (1946)
WARNER BAXTER Crime Doctor’s Man Hunt (1946)
WILLIAM HOLDEN Boots Malone (1952)
Hey Dan. Good trivia lists as always. I agree with you about Morgan not being on the old list. So many movies that covered so many years…..makes you wonder how he did not crack this Top 1000. Looking at the first list….lots of candidates for the person that was his most frequent Oracle co-star…but almost at the bottom….the legend, James Stewart, gets those bragging rights. I thought for awhile it was going to be Kathleen Freeman. Second list has a very solid total of 54 Oscar winning co-stars. I noticed Not As A Stranger being on that list many times. That is a movie that always confused me. It is packed with acting legends, it was a big hit back in the day….yet I never hear anybody talk about. Heck, if I did run this website…I would not even know it even exists. Just don’t understand. Good stuff as always.
Henry Harry Morgan – wow what nostalgia! As pop icon Dusty Springfield once sang “Catch me if you can I’m GOING BACK!” Bruce’s comprehensive coverage of Henry’s career in the tables above illustrates that he made many movies and on balance these are the productions in which he most pleased me:
1/Three Universal International westerns/actioners with my Jimmy: Bend of the River/Thunder Bay/The Far Country.
2/Henry had a virtual “walk on” part as a deliciously humorous Judge in Mitchum’s Holiday affair which [along with Judy’s Meet Me in St Louis and Bing’s White Christmas]is one of my all-time fave Christmas films.
3/Henry was a Judge again in a series of 3 television “Incident” movies [1990-94]: (1) The Incident (2) Against Her Will-Incident in Baltimore and (3) Incident in a Small Town. In all 3 Henry played crafty Judge Bell to Walter Matthau’s brilliant but crusty lawyer Harmon Cobb. They made a good team.
I was surprised to see Bruce listing Teahouse above as I can’t remember Harry in that one. However with Mr Mumbles and Charlie Bill in the Teahouse lead roles Al Leach and The Thin Woman could have been running around naked in it and I probably wouldn’t have noticed THEM!!!
Henry Harry Morgan was one of my father’s top 3 or 4 favourite supporting actors and this excellent new page is “Voted Up” – and highly so because of the memory of my dad and because Henry’s is a career well worthy of a new page in its own right. As Bruce touches on above Henry also worked on stage and he directed around 20 individual television episodes across 6 productions including 9 in the MASH series!
Thanks for the enjoyable opportunity to comment on Henry’s career Work Horse.
Re: Teahouse of The August Moon – Harry Morgan was the assistant to Paul Ford who was Glenn’s boss. Near the end, Morgan is told to smash all the barrels of liquor and ends up very drunk.
Thanks for refreshing my memoy on Harry and Teahouse Flora. I saw it a couple of times in the 1950s but the last time that I saw it was around 60 years ago.
Brando was officially billed first in the film and on its posters but Glenn was so especailly popular here in Northern Ireland at that time that some Northern Ireland cinema owners made up their own posters so that Glenn got top billing.
I saw an interview with Glenn recently which was held before his death and in that interview he generously and very touchingly I thought praised Marlon’s performance.
They were together again of course [without actually sharing any scenes] 22 years after Teahouse in Superman 1978 with Brando playing The Man of Steel’s birth father on Krypton and Glenn playing Jonathan Kent Superman’s adoptive father on earth. Adjusted for inflation to today’s dollars it grossed $1.1 billion worldwide with Teahouse attracting an adjusted worldwide gross of just over half a billion dollars..
Hey Flora….thanks for jogging Bob’s memory with regards to Harry Morgan’s role in The Teahouse of the August Moon.
Hey Bob….shocked that you were not aware of all aspects of a Marlon Brando movie. Good thing Flora is around to set you right…lol.
HI BRUCE:
I agree and indeed many members of my amateur movie buffs group [some of them very knowledgeable in their own right] bow to HER knowledge when I share with them some of her unique historical grasp of classic era movies.
If they were to put her name to song they would probably paraphrase the lyrics from an old 1950s pop song as follows
“Each of us is a Flora fan
Myrna Loy is an also ran.”
Which is my roundabout way of declaring Flora and not The Thin Woman as the true Cogerson Queen.
Hey Bob….glad this page brought back so many good memories. Interesting that he was one of your dad’s favorite character actors. I watched both Apple Dumpling Gang movies….and as I was digesting that Morgan was playing different charcters…I realized he would make a good page. So many movies and so many television roles in his career I saw all those Incident movies….but none played on paid or streaming services. Our new feature is allowing me to include some of the Netflix and the old HBO movies into the pages. Glad you liked his three James Stewart westerns. As always…good stuff.
HI BRUCE: Thanks for the thoughtful feedback – always welcome. If you have seen some of the exchanges between Steve and me recently you may know we BOTH include Jimmy’s two westerns Bend of the River and Far Country among our fave Harry Morgan films.
Steve’s a Brit of course and as a rule Brit ACTORS don’t suit westerns and though Stewart Granger got away with doing them in 1956’s The Last Hunt and 1957’s Gun Glory the nearest performance that I can recall seeing to those outings is Dirk Bogarde as the Mexican outlaw Anacleto in 1961’s The Singer Not the Song in which my Dirk rode about on a great horse all dressed in black terrorising the locals. However that was set in 1950 and was more a psychological film with quirky undertones than the traditional “a man’s gotta what a man’s gotta do” fare that The Duke and Randy specialised in. [Today the movie is noted for having developed cult following among our movie-buff companions in the gay community].
Indeed what probably stopped me from joining you in enjoying Brit-born Archie’s performances THROUGHOUT his career was that he didn’t do westerns so that I came to like him in only his less frantic [non-screwball!] later years when his ‘action hero’ type characters in To Catch a Thief/N by NW/Charade did appeal to me and his comedies like that Touch of Mink with my Doris were somewhat more sedate and thus better appealed to my own sense of humour.
Indeed Hitch’s N by NW is now rightly regarded as one of the greatest action/adventure movies of all time. For me the only fly in the ointment is still after all these years the chronological age incongruity: in the film the 55 year old Archie had a mother [the 63 year old Jessie Royce Landis] who should have been his wife/lover in the plot and a romantic interest/ultimate wife [the 34 year old Eva Marie] who should have been his daughter!
I think Harry Morgan is just as famous for Dragnet as he is for M*A*S*H.
I have seen 35 Harry Morgan movies, including 8 of the top 10.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is High Noon.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is A Wing and a Prayer.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is What Did You Do In The War Daddy?
Favourite Harry Morgan Movies:
High Noon
The Ox-Bow Incident
How The West Was Won
Support Your Local Sheriff
The Glenn Miller Story
State Fair
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Dragonwyck
Yellow Sky
The Far Country
Bend in the River
Not as a Stranger
The Big Clock
Down to the Sea in Ships
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Holiday Affair
Cimarron
It Started With a Kiss
Scandal Sheet
About Mrs. Leslie
Dark City
Backlash
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Crash Dive
The Cat From Outer Space
Other Harry Morgan Movies I Have Seen:
Strategic Air Command
Inherit The Wind
The Shootist
Thunder Bay
Big Jim McLain
Madame Bovary
Appointment With Danger
Race Street
Torch Song
What Did You Do in the War Daddy?
Hey Flora. Interesting point, I think all the years he played Colonel Potter on MASH gives him the edge over the few years he was Jack Webb’s partner on Dragnet. It was another show in the 1950s that got him noticed. I have seen 12 of his movies, so I am well behind your 35. I have seen 10 of your favorites. Just rewatched both Apple Dumpling Gang movies…..which is why he got an UMR page. I have seen three of his other movies. Of that group, John Wayne’s movie The Shootist is my favorite. Good stuff as always.
He was on a 1950’s sitcom December Bride and then that was spun off to Pete and Gladys which ran 2 years. He was Pete and Cara Williams played his wife who was always mentioned on December Bride but never see, He was in another series that lasted a year pre the 2nd Dragnet, this was Kentucky Jones with Dennis Weaver who just left Gunsmoke. I’ve never seen any of these shows except for 4 half hour episodes of Gunsmoke and Dennis Weaver is not in those.
Hey Dan. Thanks for the information on Harry Morgan’s television career. I have only seen him in Dragnet and MASH. Growing up MASH was “must see” television. I still remember the disappointment about the series finale. It was depressing from beginning to end….it seemed to forget it was a comedy show. Also it left Hawkeye as a mess. Good stuff.