Col. Sherman T. Potter Passed Away at 96.

[twyacht]

Veteran actor of over 100 movies, Harry Morgan, died at 96 years old.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/arts/television/harry-morgan-mash-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html

RIP Colonel Potter, Detective Gannon, Mr. Harry Morgan, and thank you.

[Pathfinder]

Saw that a few minutes ago, very sad, but what a hell of a career he had. Don't know his politics, but I enjoyed the heck out of his acting, especially in MASH and The Shootist.

[Timothy]

A fellow Michigander, I knew Muskegon where he grew up well...  Right on Lake Michigan, great town, great beaches, parks, etc...

RIP Mr. Morgan.

[fightingquaker13]

Saw that a few minutes ago, very sad, but what a hell of a career he had. Don't know his politics, but I enjoyed the heck out of his acting, especially in MASH and The Shootist.

And Dragnet and a few old WWII movies, where he still looked kind of old. The guy must have been born at 40! I have gotten a lot more enjoyment from him than most other actors. My personal favorite was the scene where he shoots his jeep after Frank runs over it with a tank. It was classic. RIP.
FQ13

[twyacht]

And Dragnet and a few old WWII movies, where he still looked kind of old. The guy must have been born at 40! I have gotten a lot more enjoyment from him than most other actors. My personal favorite was the scene where he shoots his jeep after Frank runs over it with a tank. It was classic. RIP.
FQ13

One of my all time favorites. The episode was titled Hey Doc, but I cannot find it...Some of his old Westerns were and still are great.

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[gunman42782]

He was also in John Wayne's last movie, The Shootist.  Helluva actor.

[tombogan03884]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Morgan

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)
Ghostbusters (uncredited) (1984)
Dragnet (1987)
The Incident (TV-1990)
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV-1992)
Incident in a Small Town (TV-1994)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
Family Plan (1998)
Crosswalk (1999)

[PegLeg45]

Enjoyed him in whatever he was in....great character actor, but he will always be Col. Potter in my mind.
He led a long life....RIP

[Hazcat]

Showing my age but he will always be Sgt Bill Gannon (Dragnet) to me.

[alfsauve]

I even remember him back in December Bride (TV Series)

As others have said, don't know a thing about his personal life, but he brought a smile to my face in whatever role he was did.