Read Morgan
| Read Morgan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 30, 1931 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Kentucky |
| Occupation | Actor |
Read Morgan (born January 30, 1931) is an American former actor whose longest-running role was as a United States Army cavalry officer in the 1960-1961 season of The Deputy. Morgan appeared in thirty-five episodes as Sergeant Hapgood Tasker, recognized by his black eyepatch and referred to in the series as "Sarge".Henry Fonda had the starring role on The Deputy as Marshal Simon Fry. The program was set in fictitious Silver City in the Arizona Territory.
Morgan debuted on The Deputy as Sergeant Tasker in the episode, "Meet Sergeant Tasker" (October 1, 1960), followed by "The Jason Harris Story" in the title role. Morgan's later episodes included "Tension Point", "Brother in Arms", "The Return of Widow Brown", "Enemy of the Town", "The Deathly Quiet", "Brand of Honesty", and "Lorinda Belle" (the series finale episode).
A Chicago native, Morgan attended the University of Kentucky at Lexington, where he played for two years on the basketball team.
In 1950, he began a rigorous diet with regular exercise to accent his physique. One of his first roles was hence as an athletic mountaineer in the Broadway play Li'l Abner. His television debut was in two episodes of United States Steel Hour as a young wrestler named "Joey" (1956-1957). He later played a skindiver named Kelly Randall in the episode "Beached" of Adventures in Paradise.
Morgan appeared in numerous television westerns, before and after The Deputy, as Bob Kenyon in the episode "Jebediah Bonner" of The Restless Gun (1958), and as Clint Casey in the 1959 episode "The Barrier" of Riverboat. In 1959, he appeared as Jeff Peters in "The Little Man" episode of Tales of Wells Fargo. In 1958-59, he made guest appearances in two episodes of State Trooper. In 1959, he appeared as "Charlie" in the episode, "The General Must Die", about a foiled attempt to assassinate Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman in the NBC western series, Laramie. In 1961, he appeared on COronado 9 as "Mark Sidon" in the episode "Flim Flam".
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