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Morgan Woodward

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9/16/1925, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Birth Name

Thomas Morgan Woodward

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Thomas Morgan Woodward

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Biography

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Morgan has four brothers. He attended the University of Texas in the 1940s. Morgan divides his time between his ranch in Paso Robles and his home in Hollywood now that he's retired.

Credits

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Role
- Wild Country
  Star
  2005
- Gunsmoke: To the Last Man
  Star
  1992
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun
  J.P. Sands
  1985
- Battle Beyond the Stars
  Star
  1980
- Centennial
  General Wade
- Which Way is Up?
  Star
  1977
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
  Star
  1976
- One Little Indian
  Star
  1973
- Yuma
  Arch King
  1971
- The Wild Country
  Star
  1971
- A Small Town in Texas
  Star
- Death of a Gunfighter
  Star
  1969
- Cool Hand Luke
  Star
  1967
- Gunpoint
  Star
  1966
- Ride a Crooked Trail
  Star
  1958
- The Great Locomotive Chase
  Star
  1956
Recurring Role (17)

Role
- Gunsmoke
  Sheriff Abel Rose
  - — Gunsmoke: To The Last Man
    1/10/92
- Dallas
  Marvin "Punk" Anderson
  - S 11: Ep 13 Brother, Can You Spare a Child?
    12/11/87
  - S 11: Ep 7 Last Tango in Dallas
    10/30/87
  - S 10: Ep 14 The Fire Next Time
    12/19/86
  - S 10: Ep 13 Bar-B-Cued
    12/12/86
  - S 10: Ep 10 Who's Who at the Oil Baron's Ball?
    11/21/86
  - + 50 More Credits
- Hill Street Blues
  Mr. Renko
  - S 2: Ep 18 Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers
    5/13/82
  - S 2: Ep 17 Shooter
    5/6/82
  - S 2: Ep 16 Personal Foul
    3/25/82
  - S 2: Ep 15 Some Like it Hot-Wired
    3/18/82
- Hill Street Blues
  John Renko
  - S 2: Ep 13 Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement
    2/18/82
- Gunsmoke
  Abraham Wakefield
  - S 20: Ep 1 Matt Dillon Must Die
    9/9/74
- Gunsmoke
  Bear Sanderson
  - S 19: Ep 9 A Game of Death...An Act of Love (2)
    11/12/73
  - S 19: Ep 8 A Game of Death...An Act of Love (1)
    11/5/73
- Gunsmoke
  Lamoor Underwood
  - S 18: Ep 11 The Sodbusters
    11/20/72
- Gunsmoke
  Walt Clayton
  - S 17: Ep 24 The Wedding
    3/13/72
- Gunsmoke
  Luke Dangerfield
  - S 16: Ep 8 Luke
    11/2/70
- Gunsmoke
  Luke Brazo
  - S 14: Ep 12 Lobo
    12/16/68
- Gunsmoke
  Grant Lyle
  - S 14: Ep 1 Lyle's Kid
    9/23/68
- Gunsmoke
  Zack Johnson
  - S 13: Ep 5 Vengeance (2)
    10/9/67
  - S 13: Ep 4 Vengeance (1)
    10/2/67
- Gunsmoke
  Beaumont
  - S 12: Ep 15 The Hanging
    12/31/66
- Gunsmoke
  Earl Miller
  - S 12: Ep 8 The Whispering Tree
    11/12/66
- Gunsmoke
  Sholo
  - S 11: Ep 5 Taps for Old Jeb
    10/16/65
- Gunsmoke
  Deeks
  - S 11: Ep 1 Seven Hours to Dawn
    9/18/65
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
  Shotgun Gibbs
  - S 4: Ep 7 Cattle Thieves
    10/28/58
  - S 4: Ep 5 The Mysterious Cowhand
    10/14/58
  - S 4: Ep 4 Caught by a Whisker
    10/7/58
Guest Star (131)

Role
- Millennium
  Iron Lung Man
  - S 1: Ep 13 Force Majeure
    2/7/97
- The X-Files
  Harry Cokely
  - S 2: Ep 12 Aubrey
    1/6/95
- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
  Sam Travis
  - S 1: Ep 16 Bounty Hunter's Convention
    1/7/94
- Renegade
  Dad Meechum
  - S 1: Ep 16 Billy
    2/18/93
- Matlock
  Zack Tannenbaum
  - S 6: Ep 12 The Outcast
    2/7/92
- 21 Jump Street
  Unknown
  - S 4: Ep 22 Shirts and Skins
    4/30/90
- Murder, She Wrote
  Sheriff Brademus
  - S 6: Ep 9 Test of Wills
    11/26/89
- T.J. Hooker
  retired Major General Robert Selkirk
  - S 5: Ep 5 The Assassin
    11/13/85
- The Fall Guy
  L.V. Vernon
  - S 4: Ep 16 Sheriff Seavers
    1/23/85
- The A-Team
  Captain Winnetka
  - S 3: Ep 9 Showdown!
    11/20/84
- The Dukes of Hazzard
  Colonel Cassius Clayborne
  - S 7: Ep 7 Cool Hands, Luke & Bo
    11/9/84
- Hunter
  Chuck Easterland
  - S 1: Ep 4 A Long Way From L. A.
    10/26/84
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King
  Bo Johnson
  - S 1: Ep 6 Always Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
    11/7/83
- The A-Team
  Bus Carter
  - S 2: Ep 6 When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (2)
    10/25/83
  - S 2: Ep 5 When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (1)
    10/25/83
- Knight Rider
  Winston
  - S 1: Ep 20 Knight Moves
    3/11/83
- Matt Houston
  Arnold Lazar (a.k.a. "Arnie the Iceman")*
- Fantasy Island
  Uncle Jack
  - S 5: Ep 17 Funny Man / Tattoo, The Matchmaker
    2/20/82
- Simon & Simon
  Jim Bob Raymond
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Hottest Ticket in Town
    1/12/82
- Fantasy Island
  Hall
  - S 4: Ep 22 Hard Knocks / Lady Godiva
    5/9/81
- Vegas
  Kurt Stryker
  - S 3: Ep 12 Backlash
    2/18/81
- Hill Street Blues
  John Renko
- Hill Street Blues
  Mr. Renko
- Enos
  Chester Dade
  - S 1: Ep 7 House Cleaners
    1/14/81
- Fantasy Island
  Targ
  - S 3: Ep 20 Nona / One Million B.C.
    3/1/80
- The Dukes of Hazzard
  Dempsey
  - S 2: Ep 21 Mason Dixon's Girls
    2/29/80
- CHiPs (1983)
  Dexter
  - S 3: Ep 21 The Strippers
    2/16/80
- Young Maverick
  Dalton
  - S 1: Ep 1 Clancy
    11/28/79
- The Incredible Hulk
  Ben Madrid
  - S 2: Ep 23 Vendetta Road
    5/25/79
- Fantasy Island
  Marshall Victor Grennan
  - S 2: Ep 22 The Comic / The Golden Hour
    5/5/79
- How the West Was Won
  Henry Coe
  - S 3: Ep 1 The Gunfighter
    1/15/79
- The Waltons
  Boone Walton
  - S 7: Ep 4 The Moonshiner
    10/12/78
  - S 3: Ep 2 The Conflict (2)
    9/12/74
  - S 3: Ep 1 The Conflict (1)
    9/12/74
- Centennial
  General Harvey Wade
- Project UFO
  Carlton Tanner
  - S 1: Ep 9 Sighting 4009: The French Incident
    4/30/78
- Dallas
  Marvin "Punk" Anderson
- How the West Was Won
  The Stranger
  - S 2: Ep 7 3/26/78
    3/26/78
  - S 2: Ep 6 3/19/78
    3/19/78
  - S 2: Ep 5 3/12/78
    3/12/78
- Starsky And Hutch
  Clay Zachary
  - S 3: Ep 20 Foxy Lady
    3/1/78
- Logan's Run
  Morgan
  - S 1: Ep 10 Carousel
    1/16/78
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Judas Goat (aka Wake The Dead)
    12/19/77
  - S 1: Ep 0 Logan's Run
    9/16/77
- The Quest
  Sheriff Moses
  - S 1: Ep 0 The Quest
    5/13/76
- Cannon
  General Longman
  - S 5: Ep 12 The Hero
    11/26/75
- Petrocelli
  Augie Briola
  - S 1: Ep 24 A Night of Terror
    4/2/75
- McCoy
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Big Ripoff
    3/11/75
- Planet of the Apes
  Martin
  - S 1: Ep 9 The Horse Race
    11/8/74
- Police Woman (1978)
  Maury Ziegler
  - S 1: Ep 7 Fish
    11/1/74
- Police Woman (1978)
  Guest Star
- Petrocelli
  Lt. Cayle
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Golden Cage
    9/11/74
- Kung Fu
  The adversary
  - S 2: Ep 21 The Nature of Evil
    3/21/74
- McMillan & Wife
  Teddy Samms
  - S 3: Ep 6 Cross & Double Cross
    2/17/74
- Kung Fu
  Col. Binns
  - S 1: Ep 9 Sun and Cloud Shadow
    2/22/73
- Hec Ramsey
  Ben Buckley
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Green Feather Mystery
    12/17/72
- The Waltons
  Boone
- Sarge
  Sergeant Matlock
  - S 1: Ep 11 The Combatants
    11/30/71
- Bearcats
  Tiger Thompson
  - S 1: Ep 10 Tiger, Tiger
    11/25/71
- Bonanza
  Sheriff Clyde Morehouse
  - S 13: Ep 5 The Prisoners
    10/17/71
- The High Chaparral
  Billings
  - S 4: Ep 13 The Badge
    12/18/70
- Then Came Bronson
  Gus Samos
  - S 1: Ep 26 What's An Ark Without Centaurs?
    4/1/70
- Gunsmoke
  Quentin Sargent
  - S 15: Ep 25 Hackett
    3/16/70
- The High Chaparral
  U.S. Marshal Ted Garnett
  - S 3: Ep 15 The Journal of Death
    1/9/70
- Salvage 1
  Hutchinson
  - S 2: Ep 5 Dry Spell
- Bonanza
  Jess Waddell
  - S 11: Ep 12 Old Friends
    12/14/69
- The Virginian
  Mr. Hamilton
  - S 8: Ep 9 The Bugler
    11/19/69
- Gunsmoke
  Josh Stryker
  - S 15: Ep 2 Stryker
    9/29/69
- Lancer
  Jay McKillen
  - S 1: Ep 20 The Great Humbug
    3/4/69
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
  Wilk
  - S 2: Ep 16 Trail's End
    1/31/69
- The High Chaparral
  Hilliard
  - S 2: Ep 10 The Buffalo Soldiers
    11/22/68
- It Takes a Thief
  Ivor Phillips
  - S 2: Ep 5 Get Me to the Revolution on Time
    10/22/68
- Bonanza
  Will McNabb
  - S 9: Ep 32 Pride of a Man
    6/2/68
- Star Trek
  Capt. Ronald Tracey
  - S 2: Ep 23 The Omega Glory
    3/1/68
- Tarzan (1966)
  Blaine
  - S 2: Ep 17 King of the Dwasari
    1/26/68
- Cimarron Strip
  Logan Purcell
  - S 1: Ep 17 Heller
    1/18/68
- Cimarron Strip
  Bill Henderson
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Last Wolf
    12/14/67
- Hondo
  Colonel Jake Spinner
  - S 1: Ep 14 Hondo And The Hanging Town
    12/8/67
- Gunsmoke
  Harlan P. 'Harl' Townsend
  - S 13: Ep 12 Death Train
    11/27/67
- Cimarron Strip
  Walter Forcey
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Roarer
    11/2/67
- The Virginian
  Randall
  - S 5: Ep 18 Requiem for a Country Doctor
    1/25/67
- The Lucy Show
  Pierce
  - S 5: Ep 10 Lucy and John Wayne
    11/21/66
- Star Trek
  Dr. Simon Van Gelder
  - S 1: Ep 9 Dagger of the Mind
    11/3/66
- Bonanza
  Catlin
  - S 8: Ep 8 Four Sisters from Boston
    10/30/66
- Gunsmoke
  Ben Rucker
  - S 12: Ep 5 The Good People
    10/15/66
- Pistols and Petticoats
  Hangman
  - S 1: Ep 2 No Sale
    9/24/66
- Branded
  Clyde
  - S 2: Ep 17 The Wolfers
    1/9/66
- Daniel Boone
  Elisha Tully
  - S 2: Ep 14 The Christmas Story
    12/23/65
- The Big Valley
  Aaron Condon
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Guilt of Matt Bentell
    12/8/65
- The Big Valley
  Aaron
- Bonanza
  Mike Gillis
  - S 6: Ep 30 Lothario Larkin
    4/25/65
- Daniel Boone
  Tom Sutton
  - S 1: Ep 16 The First Stone
    1/28/65
- Rawhide
  Kale Maddox
  - S 7: Ep 11 The Photographer
    12/11/64
- Temple Houston
  Sheriff Ivers
  - S 1: Ep 8 Jubilee
    11/14/63
- Bonanza
  McDermott
  - S 5: Ep 5 The Toy Soldier
    10/20/63
- The Virginian
  Jack Bandon
  - S 1: Ep 21 The Small Parade
    2/20/63
- Have Gun - Will Travel
  Canute
  - S 6: Ep 12 Man in an Hourglass
    12/1/62
- Lawman (1958)
  Nathan Adams
  - S 4: Ep 41 The Witness
    6/24/62
- 87th Precinct
  Matty
  - S 1: Ep 19 The Pigeon
    1/29/62
- Perry Mason
  Carl Pederson
  - S 5: Ep 18 The Case of the Tarnished Trademark
    1/20/62
- The Asphalt Jungle
  Kertz
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Dark Night
    6/18/61
- Bonanza
  Deputy Conley
  - S 2: Ep 31 The Secret
    5/6/61
- Wagon Train
  Keene
  - S 4: Ep 23 The Jed Polke Story
    3/1/61
- Wagon Train
  Jubal
  - S 4: Ep 14 The Jeremy Dow Story
    12/28/60
- Bat Masterson
  Kana
  - S 2: Ep 35 The Big Gamble
    6/16/60
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
  Shotgun Gibbs
  - S 5: Ep 41 Wyatt's Bitterest Enemy
    6/7/60
  - S 5: Ep 18 Wells Fargo Calling Marshall Earp
    12/29/59
  - S 5: Ep 11 Wyatt Wins One
    11/10/59
  - S 5: Ep 10 The Ring of Death
    11/3/59
  - S 4: Ep 2 The Peacemaker
    9/23/58
  - + 1 More Credits
- Bonanza
  Sheriff Biggs
  - S 1: Ep 32 Death at Dawn
    4/30/60
- The Texan
  Mark
  - S 2: Ep 28 Town Divided
    3/21/60
- Wagon Train
  Jupe
  - S 3: Ep 23 The Alexander Portlass Story
    3/16/60
- Bonanza
  Deputy Sheriff Conley
- The Restless Gun
  Jubal Carney
  - S 2: Ep 14 The Way Back
    12/29/58
- Steve Canyon
  Maj. Tex Berry
  - S 1: Ep 1 Operation Towline
    9/13/58
- Frontier Justice
  Pete
  - S 1: Ep 9 A Quiet Sunday In San Ardo
    9/8/58
- Buckskin
  Pike
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Outlaw's Boy
    7/17/58
- Broken Arrow
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 37 The Outlaw
    6/10/58
- The Restless Gun
  Ben Cotterman
  - S 1: Ep 37 The Manhunters
    6/2/58
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
  Captain Langley
  - S 3: Ep 35 Three
    5/13/58
- Sugarfoot
  Yates
  - S 1: Ep 15 Hideout
    4/1/58
- Wagon Train
  Laverty
  - S 1: Ep 22 The Bill Tawnee Story
    2/12/58
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
  Starbuck
  - S 3: Ep 19 The Manly Art
    1/21/58
- Gunsmoke
  Calhoun
  - S 3: Ep 5 Potato Road
    10/12/57
- Tales of Wells Fargo
  Phil Slavin
  - S 1: Ep 8 Renegade Raiders
    5/20/57
- Zane Grey Theater
  Pete Daley
  - S 1: Ep 8 A Quiet Sunday In San Ardo
    11/23/56
- Disneyland
  "Obie" Foster
  - S 3: Ep 10 Along the Oregon Trail
    11/14/56
- Gunsmoke
  Bear Sanderson
- Gunsmoke
  Walt Clayton
- Gunsmoke
  Harlan P. "Harl" Townsend
- Gunsmoke
  Abraham Wakefield
- Gunsmoke
  Earl Miller
- Gunsmoke
  Lamoor Underwood
- Gunsmoke
  Luke Dangerfield
- Gunsmoke
  Beaumont
- Gunsmoke
  Luke Brazo
- Gunsmoke
  Deeks
- Gunsmoke
  Sheriff Abel Rose
- Gunsmoke
  Sholo
- Gunsmoke
  Zack Johnson
- Gunsmoke
  Grant Lyle

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- An article in "Newsweek" magazine named Morgan as on of the six most wanted bad guys in television.
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- Arlington, Texas named a prominent street "Morgan Woodward Way".
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- Morgan received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1995.
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- Morgan's star was placed on the "Walk of Western Stars" in 1990.
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- He has received recognition as a Distinguished Alumni of the University.
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- Morgan's brother is Dr. Lewis Woodward.
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- After he came back from Korea he went into acting instead of going back to law school.
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- Morgan was sent to Korea to fight in the Korean War and served with the Military Air Transport Command.
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- Morgan's recognized as an authority on Early American Aircraft in aviation circles.
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- He had been flying airplanes ever since he was sixteen years old.
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- In 1951 Morgan went to the University of Texas Law School.
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- His brother was a weatherman on KOTV, Tulsa.
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- He celebrated 50 years in show business in 1997.
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- Morgan was presented with the "Golden Lariat Award" in 1988.
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- He served as a pilot in the Air Force during World War II.
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- Morgan's main hobby is restoring, rebuilding, and flying antique airplanes.
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- He attended the University of Texas in the 1940s.
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- Morgan is 6 feet 3 inches tall (1.91 meters).
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- His father was a doctor.
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- Morgan is a brother of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, University of Texas chapter.
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