Howard Morris

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Recent Role:
Wade Duck/ Wart on Garfield & Friends
Gender:
Male
Born:
9-4-1919
Died:
05-21-2005 (Heart Ailment (Los Angeles, California, USA))
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name:
Howard Jerome Morris
AKA:
Howie Morris
Howard and Carl Reiner entertained troops together in WWII and then starred in the musical Call Me Mister. In the 50's, he was on Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar, doing sketches and serving as a comedy writer.
By the 60's, Howard was providing voices for many cartoon characters, including among others : Atom Ant (… More href="http://www.tv.com/the-atom-ant-show/show/3729/summary.html">The Atom Ant Show), Mr. Peebles and Mushmouth (Magilla Gorilla), Jughead, Big Moose and Dilton Doily (The Archie Show), and Wade Duck (Garfield & Friends). He also served as the voice of the Hamburgerler in MacDonald's commercials.
However, Howard is almost certainly best known for his strange, rock-throwing character, Ernest T. Bass, on The Andy Griffith Show. Until he passed away in May of 2005, people routinely asked him to sign rocks (which he hated), play the gas can (which he did while serenading Charlene Darling) - and to throw bricks.

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    Howard Morris, one of the original cast of Your Show of Shows has been extremely talented. He also did a lot of voice talents and I believe his first cartoon that he was billed was a Loopy de Loop cartoon called 'Habbit Rabbit' where he voiced the rabbit. Then he went on to do the voice of Mr. Peebles, Breezly Bruin, and Atom Ant. But his main character role was on Andy Griffith where he was Ernest T. Bass. (They should've done a spin-off show following him.) He even was credited in many movies, especially in Mel Brooks films. The role that he may be best in was the psychiatrist in High Anxiety. In the 80's, he was also busy doing the voice for Wade Duck and other TV shows. He will be missed!

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