Glenn Miller Story actor dead at 96

Tv and film actor Harry Morgan has died at age 96 at his home in California. Glenn Miller fans will remember Morgan from two Glenn Miller films.
   In 1942, Morgan had a small part in Orchestra Wives (1942) featuring Glenn Miller. In 1953, he co-starred in The Glenn Miller Story (1954) with Jimmy Stewart. In both films he was billed as Henry Morgan. He changed it latter to avoid confusion with the radio comedian with the same stage name, Henry Morgan.

   A character actor for almost five decades, Morgan's best known tv role was playing Colonel Sherman T. Potter on the long-running Korean war comedy that starred Alan Alda as Hawkeye.
   Morgan's first major television success was as Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's partner on the revived version of "Dragnet," which aired on NBC from 1967-70. (Trivia: Ben Alexander originated the part in the series that starred Jack Webb.)

   He had a long career in the movies, also, having appeared in over 100 films, many of them classics such as "The Ox-Bow Incident," "High Noon,"  and "Inherit the Wind." He was married to Eileen Detchon for 45 years until her death in 1985.
Morgan was born in Detroit, on April 10, 1915.
   He is survived by his wife second wife Barbara and three sons from his first marriage, Christopher, Charles and Paul... and eight grandchildren.