'Col. Potter' Has Died: Actor Harry Morgan Was 96

[thundley4]

Harry Morgan, who came into our living rooms as Col. Potter in M*A*S*-H, as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet and in guest star roles on other TV series from Murder, She Wrote to The Love Boat, has died. He was 96.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/07/143279154/col-potter-has-died-actor-harry-morgan-was-96?ft=1&f=1001

RIP Colonel Potter.

[CG6468]

HARRY MORGAN, the hardest working man in show biz and long time M*A*S*H star dead at 96.

Morgan, a prolific character actor who played Colonel Potter in the long-running television series “M*A*S*H,” died Wednesday morning at his home in Los Angeles, his son Charles confirmed.

With more than a 100 movies under his belt Harry, sometimes billed as Henry or Hank, played Wild West baddies, sidekicks, thugs, mugs and pugs -- soldiers, sailors, tinkers, police chiefs.

He played Officer Bill Gannon partnered with Jack Webb’s no-nonsense Sgt. Joe Friday in the 1960s reboot of  "Dragnet", battling pushers, JFK-inspired assassins and LSD imbibing hippies.

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But to many he was first and foremost Col. Sherman T. Potter, commander of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit in Korea from 1975 to 1983, when “M*A*S*H” finally ended the ratings war. He had replaced McLean Stevenson, who had quit the series.

RIP, Mr. Morgan. You were a classy guy and a good actor.

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[Wineslob]

I liked him alot. I still remember seeing a M A S H outtake where he takes a swig off a bottle of whisky and proclaims; "shitty".