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"M*A*S*H" star Harry Morgan dies at 96 (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=253412)

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RIP
Damn good actor!!!!

Always liked him in any role I saw him in. Thought he was an excellent actor. While I liked the "zanier" early years of MASH better with Col. Blake, I thought Potter was also excellent.

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Morgan is survived by his second wife, Barbara Bushman (he was married to Eileen Detchon from 1940 until her death in 1985)

Which one was it that he beat the shit out of all the time...?

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Originally Posted by pr_capone (Post 8178078)

The bolded part is incorrect. He first appeared on M*A*S*H in 1974 as Maj. Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele.

That said... RIP Harry Morgan, easily my favorite supporting actor of all time.

I remember that well.

Harry Morgan had great sense of comedic timimg, and wasn't afraid to stretch boundaries.

RIP.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 8178108)

This is absolutely correct. He did a guest star spot as an inspection-crazy general named General Steele. When inspecting the troops, Klinger came straight at him in a cocktail dress. Gen Steele looked at him and said "Not now, Marjorie, I'm inspecting the troops!"

That guest spot showed everyone how funny he could be, and had a big bearing on choosing Col. Blake's replacement.

BTW:

Frank Burns was a FAR better character than Winchester. Larry Linville was unbelievably good as playing Burns. It's hard to be a convincing weasel. Linvelle was an amazing guy, and died way too young.

Honeycutt and Trapper, about equal. Both good character actors.

Radar better than Klinger. Both funny guys, Radar did drama better.

Blake better than Potter, but just barely.

I liked Potter better than Blake.

Never found the Blake character to be at all credible.

That sucks, what a great long life at 96 though

this reminds me....Do they even show MASH reruns anywhere anymore? I havent seen any in years.

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990 (Post 8178143)

this reminds me....Do they even show MASH reruns anywhere anymore? I havent seen any in years.

TV Land, I think.

RIP.....you will be remembered!

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 8178091)

Holy shit - Colonel Potter was still alive?

Man, I figured him for dead a decade ago. Way to go down swinging, Harry.

That is what I said.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 8178108)

BTW:

Frank Burns was a FAR better character than Winchester. Larry Linville was unbelievably good as playing Burns. It's hard to be a convincing weasel. Linvelle was an amazing guy, and died way too young.

Honeycutt and Trapper, about equal. Both good character actors.

Radar better than Klinger. Both funny guys, Radar did drama better.

Blake better than Potter, but just barely.

Spot on....You will be missed Colonel Potter.:(

RIP

Loved him in MASH

These are just the movies he was in:

To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
Orchestra Wives (1942)
The Omaha Trail (1942)
A Scrap of Paper (1943)
Crash Dive (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Happy Land (1943)
The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
Gentle Annie (1944)
A Bell for Adano (1945)
State Fair (1945)
From This Day Forward (1946)
Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)
Dragonwyck (1946)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)
The Gangster (1947)
All My Sons (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
Race Street (1948)
The Saxon Charm (1948)
Moonrise (1948)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Hello Out There (1949)
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
Madame Bovary (1949)
Strange Bargain (1949)
Red Light (1949)
Holiday Affair (1949)
Outside the Wall (1950)
The Showdown (1950)
Dark City (1950)
Belle Le Grand (1951)
When I Grow Up (1951)
Appointment with Danger (1951)
The Highwayman (1951)
The Well (1951)
The Blue Veil (1951)
Boots Malone (1952)
Scandal Sheet (1952)
Bend of the River (1952)
My Six Convicts (1952)
High Noon (1952)
What Price Glory? (1952)
Big Jim McLain (1952)
Apache War Smoke (1952)
Toughest Man in Arizona (1952)
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
Thunder Bay (1953)
Arena (1953)
Champ for a Day (1953)
Torch Song (1953)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Prisoner of War (1954)
The Forty-Niners (1954)
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
The Far Country (1955)
Strategic Air Command (1955)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
Backlash (1956)
Operation Teahouse (1956)
Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956)
Star in the Dust (1956)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
Under Fire (1957)
It Started with a Kiss (1959)
The Mountain Road (1960)
Inherit the Wind(1960)
Cimarron (1960)
How the West Was Won (1962)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
Frankie and Johnny (1966)
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Star Spangled Salesman (1968)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
Viva Max! (1969)
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971)
Scandalous John (1971)
Snowball Express (1972)
Charley and the Angel (1973)
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
The Shootist (1976)
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
The Wild Wild West Revisted (1979)
More Wild Wild West (1980)
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
Sparkling Cyanide TV Movie (1983)
Dragnet (1987)
The Incident (1990)
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
Family Plan (1998)
Crosswalk (1999)

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990 (Post 8178143)

this reminds me....Do they even show MASH reruns anywhere anymore? I havent seen any in years.

I have the complete series on DVD and VHS....one of the best series ever. Still watch them regularly.

I just realized something pretty cool. In one of the M*A*S*H episodes, they're watching a movie in the mess tent. The movie was "State Fair." Harry was actually IN that movie. Pretty cool!

I think some of the characters that had to come in as replacements were judged more harshly. Honeycutt, Potter, Winchester were all filling big shoes. They all did a wonderful job, which is why M*A*S*H was a special show.

TV now has nothing that can come close. Reality TV is total crap, and few comedy shows have the writing chops.