Harry Morgan is still alive

[MonkeyFunk]

he's 93. Who knew? :shrug:

[ThomCat]

1. I hope he's still enjoying his life.

It would be a shame to live that long if you can't still enjoy it. I wish him good health. :)

[democracyindanger]

2. As is Abe Vigoda

And he has the website to prove it:

http://www.abevigoda.com/ffb.php

[SeattleGirl]

3. Col. Potter!!!

:patriot:

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Sweet Nefertiti!

:wow:

[SeattleGirl]

8. Amazing, ain't it?

Who'da thunk it???

:wow:

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Well, you know what they say:

Scuttlebutt is as common as cooties in your skivvies.



:patriot:

[old mark]

20. I remember him from Dragnet in the late '50's

with Jack Webb, then in a ton of westerns, including Support Your Local Gunfighter, with James Gerner, and finally on MASH. He did several single episodes before coming on as Potter, and then graduated to a series with Potter and Klinger tha lasted a season or so.
He is a very under-rated actor, and I hope he stays healthy for many more years.
I really DID grow up with him, at least as much as I have grown up at all.
mark

[Fenris]

4. So is Karl Malden.

He's 96!

[MonkeyFunk]

5. They should TOTALLY

do "The Sunshine Boys" together.

[old mark]

21. Malden won Best Supporting Actor for

"On The Waterfront", a great film starring Brando.
He is a very versatile actor.

mark

[MikeH]

6. I remember him on Dragnet

I remember him as Officer Bill Gannon on the TV show Dragnet. He was the partner of Sergeant Joe Friday, played by Jack Webb, who died in 1982.

[jobycom]

9. And no longer beating his wife, it seems.

[sammythecat]

11. Whoa! That's way more than I want to know about him.

You just destroyed an icon from my childhood. :(

[jobycom]

13. Well, it may not have been that bad.

He was married to his first wife for 45 years, until her death in 1985. (wikipedia). He married his second wife a year later, 1986, and in 1996 was arrested for spousal abuse after an argument. Charges were dismissed after he completed a program.

He was 81 at the time, and had never been accused, at least not publicly, before, and hasn't been since. So maybe it was a one-time thing. It just stuck in my head for some reason, maybe because he didn't seem the type. Funny how you can live 93 years and be judged for five minutes of that time.

[MonkeyFunk]

15. Yeah

it was like when Robert Young was arrested for the same thing. It was shocking. He was the dad on "Father Knows Best" and was Marcus Welby.

Evidently was a violent alcoholic and got in trouble very late in life. Sad.

[Dogtown]

29. Jack Webb

Was married to Julie London for years and apparently beat her fairly often.

[sammythecat]

34. That's not good to hear either,

but all of Harry Morgan's characters seemed incapable of that and makes it seem surprising.

I also read an article a long time ago where one of Jack Webb's associates, I don't know who, said he practically lived on coffee and five (5) packs of cigarettes a day. I smoke myself, but I wouldn't have time for 5 packs a day.

Coffee, cigarettes, and slapping around a beautiful dame. Sounds so 1950's. The 50's were pretty weird in a lot of ways. Glad they're gone.

[sammythecat]

10. I feel like I grew up with that guy.

From December Bride on through to Mash, he was always on some show that I watched. What a long and steady career he had.

[jobycom]

14. He was old enough to vote before John McCain was born.

Even if the voting age was 21.

[MonkeyFunk]

16. Holy crap, that's old!

I hope I didn't kill him by posting this. I once commented to a friend that "wow, Katherine Hepburn is still alive" and she died the next day. Then I did the same thing to Madame Chang Kai-Shek. But fuck, she was like 107, so I doubt I was responsible.

Still, if Morgan dies this week, I'll feel bad.

[jobycom]

17. I thought the same thing. Someone here once posted that Fay Wray was alive

and she died not long afterwards. Then again, with all the sites marvelling at Abe Vigoda, I think we can discount an inescapable curse.

[MonkeyFunk]

18. The funny part is Vigoda's not THAT old..

well, he is NOW, but people thought he was 80 thirty years ago. He was 50-something on Barney Miller, but everybody thought he was much older.

[Bake]

27. Geez, Monkey, you need to STFU ...

Just sayin', don't be a cereal killer!

:rofl:

:hi:

Bake

[terrya]

19. So is Luise Rainier

She's 98. Won back to back Academy Awards in 1937 and 1938.

[ThatsMyBarack]

22. SHERMAN! T.! POTTER!

[trof]

23. Oh, HARRY. I was thinking HENRY.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/07/henry-morgan-fu.html
Henry ain't with us any more.

[trof]

24. OK, so...HENRY Morgan on the first Iraq war:

Twenty years after Morgan had retreated from public life, he published his autobiography, Here's Morgan! The Original Bad Boy of Broadcasting (1994, Barricade Books). The book's introduction, featuring the first public words from Morgan since the early eighties, started with a sarcastic indictment of American foreign policy:

"... we live at a time when the island of Grenada has been completely forgotten. Who remembers now that we fought a war there, a wonderful triumph, during the course of which the Armed Forces of the United States of America (without ANY outside help) shot and killed a Cuban workman who, the Pentagon said, had ties to the Communist Party. How could we have so soon forgotten that four thousand seven hundred medals were awarded to the American heroes who were there?

"Not too long ago we won another sensational victory during the course of which combined forces from countries having a total population of 500,000,000 (five hundred million) people fought and managed to beat Iraq, population, nineteen million. The United States alone spent eighty billion dollars, including carfare. For every Iraqi killed, military or civilian, the cost was three hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.

Truly, an Age of Gold."

[Auggie]

26. Ah yes, the talk show king of the late '60s.

[terrya]

28. Henry Morgan was a regular on "What's My Line" if I'm not mistaken.

I remember Henry Morgan.

[Auggie]

30. Games shows and talk shows

The Merv Griffin Show, especially

[Tommy_Carcetti]

25. So is Wilford Brimley....

...Although in the past decade I could have sworn he's died twice already.

[mnhtnbb]

31. I saw Harry Morgan one day on Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica coming out of

Baskin Robbins with an ice cream cone. Must have been about 1974.

:)

[Roon]

32. Sherman Potter reminded me of my Grandfather

Just his colorful language and what not...but my Grandfather was about the same age as Potter.

[lumberingbear]

33. I remember him on "December Bride"

It was on TV from 1954 to 1959 and then in the spin-off "Pete and Gladys" from 1960 to 1962.


M.A.S.H. Trivia: The picture of Mrs Potter on Col Potter's desk was of Verna Felton, an actress from "December Bride".

[GOPisEvil]

35. Meadow muffins!

Mule fritters!