Personal Info
Birth date
1908-12-20 (116 Years)
Day of death
1994-09-07
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Prentice, Wisconsin, USA
Also known as
Earl Stanley Morner
Stanley Morner
Richard Stanley
Dennis Morgan
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner, December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame. Morgan started working at MGM as Stanley Morner. His best roles were in Mama Steps Out (1937) and Song of the City (1937), but he mostly did small parts. Morgan signed with Paramount billed as Richard Stanley. He was in several films in 1938 and 1939, including Men With Wings (1938). At Warner Bros. Morgan was billed as Dennis Morgan and was finally given lead roles in B movies such as Waterfront (1939) and No Place to Go (1939). In 1940 he was promoted to A movies. His best parts were in Kitty Foyle (1940) (on loan to RKO), Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), and God is My Co-Pilot. He was often paired with Jack Carson. After Morgan's contract with Warner ended in 1952 he appeared in sporadic television guest roles. He retired from film work in 1956.
Filmography
The Love Boat
6.3
Overview:
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.Petticoat Junction
5.803
Overview:
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.7
Overview:
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.This Is Your Life
6.417
Overview:
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.General Electric Theater
6.25
Overview:
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.Pearl of the South Pacific
6.1
Overview:
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.This Woman Is Dangerous
5.7
Overview:
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.The Return of Doctor X
5.9
Overview:
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.The Time, The Place and The Girl
5.4
Overview:
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.No Place to Go
6
Overview:
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.Christmas in Connecticut
6.94
Overview:
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.Cheyenne
6.8
Overview:
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann, who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.Flight Angels
4.3
Overview:
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.The Road to Victory
5.5
Overview:
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place. Edited down from The Shining Future (1944).The Great Ziegfeld
6.269
Overview:
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular showsMarch On, Marines
2.5
Overview:
Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes the entrance exam. He soon finds out that his younger brother, Jimmy Lansing, just recently made sergeant as well, will also be taking the exam with him. The Lansing brothers are hard working and patriotic military men and both deserve to be accepted into the Academy, but they learn there is only one spot available. As entrance into Annapolis is dependent both on their exam results and their record, they are encouraged by the base colonel to enter into a friendly rivalry for the three weeks on the base prior to the exam. They also enter into a friendly rivalry for the affections of Penelope Hayworth, the admiral's daughter.Kitty Foyle
6.556
Overview:
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.Men with Wings
5
Overview:
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.The Shining Future
4
Overview:
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.Illegal Traffic
6.5
Overview:
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.That's Entertainment!
7.3
Overview:
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.Two Guys from Milwaukee
4.8
Overview:
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.Piccadilly Jim
6.5
Overview:
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.God Is My Co-Pilot
7
Overview:
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.Navy Blue and Gold
5.9
Overview:
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.The Lady Takes a Sailor
4.3
Overview:
Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill Craig. Trying to explain her absence after her boat sinks becomes very difficult as Bill and his cohorts attempt to discredit her story.Uranium Boom
6
Overview:
Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams (Patricia Medina.) Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancee. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.Acting
1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1977The Love Boat (1 Episode) as Steve Brian
1976Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood as Tour Guide
1974That's Entertainment! as (archive footage)
1968Rogue's Gallery as Dr. Jonas Pettingill
1963Petticoat Junction (1 Episode) as Dennis Roberts
195921 Beacon Street (13 Episodes) as Dennis Chase
1956Uranium Boom as Bradford "Brad" E. Collins
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 Episode) as Dennis O'Finn
1955Pearl of the South Pacific as Dan Merrill
1955The Gun That Won the West as Jim Bridger
1954A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Roger Duane
1952This Is Your Life (1 Episode) as Self
1952Cattle Town as Mike McGann
1952This Woman Is Dangerous as Dr. Ben Halleck
1951Painting The Clouds With Sunshine as Vince
1951Raton Pass as Marc Challon
1950Pretty Baby as Sam Morley
1950Perfect Strangers as David Campbell
1949Breakdowns of 1949 as Self
1949The Lady Takes a Sailor as Bill Craig
1949It's a Great Feeling as Dennis Morgan
1948One Sunday Afternoon as Timothy L. "Biff" Grimes
1948To the Victor as Paul Taggart
1948Two Guys from Texas as Steve Carroll
1947Blow-Ups of 1947 as Self
1947My Wild Irish Rose as Chauncey Olcott
1947Always Together as The Bridegroom (uncredited)
1947Hollywood Wonderland as Western Hero (clip from "Ride, Cowboy, Ride", 1939) (uncredited)
1947Cheyenne as James Wylie
1946Blow-Ups of 1946 as Self
1946The Time, The Place and The Girl as Steven Ross
1946Okay for Sound as Unknown
1946Two Guys from Milwaukee as Prince Henry
1946One More Tomorrow as Thomas Rufus 'Tom' Collier III
1945Christmas in Connecticut as Jefferson Jones
1945God Is My Co-Pilot as Col. Robert Lee Scott
1944Breakdowns of 1944 as Self
1944I Am an American as Self (uncredited)
1944Hollywood Canteen as Self
1944The Very Thought of You as Sgt. David Stewart
1944The Road to Victory as Dennis Morgan (uncredited)
1944The Shining Future as Self
1944Shine on Harvest Moon as Jack Norworth
1943The Desert Song as Paul Hudson / El Khobar
1943Thank Your Lucky Stars as Tommy Randolph
1943Stars on Horseback as Unknown
1943The Hard Way as Paul Collins
1942Wings for the Eagle as Corky 'Cork' Jones
1942In This Our Life as Peter Kingsmill
1942Captains of the Clouds as Johnny Dutton (bush pilot)
1941Bad Men of Missouri as Cole Younger
1941Kisses for Breakfast as Rodney Trask
1941Affectionately Yours as 'Rickey' Mayberry
1940Kitty Foyle as Wyn Strafford
1940March On, Marines as Bob Lansing
1940River's End as John Keith / Sgt. Derry Conniston
1940Flight Angels as Chick Farber
1940Tear Gas Squad as Tommy McCabe
1940Three Cheers for the Irish as Angus Ferguson
1940The Fighting 69th as Lieutenant Ames
1939The Return of Doctor X as Dr. Rhodes
1939No Place to Go as Joe Plummer
1939Ride, Cowboy, Ride as Dinny Logan
1939Waterfront as Jim Dolan
1939Persons in Hiding as Mike Flagler
1938Illegal Traffic as Cagey Miller
1938King of Alcatraz as First Mate Rogers (as Richard Stanley)
1938Men with Wings as Galton
1937Navy Blue and Gold as Marine 2nd Lt.
1937Song of the City as Tommy
1937Mama Steps Out as Chuck Thompson (as Stanley Morner)
1936Annie Laurie as William Douglas
1936Piccadilly Jim as Chrystal Club Singer (uncredited)
1936Suzy as Lieutenant
1936The Great Ziegfeld as Stage Singer in "Pretty Girl" Number
1936I Conquer the Sea! as Tommy Ashley