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Read Morgan is a Actor American born on 30 january 1931 at Chicago (USA)

Read Morgan

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Nationality USA
Birth 30 january 1931 at Chicago (USA)
Death 20 april 2022 (at 91 years)

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).

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James Garner
James Garner
(3 films)
Bob Gale
Bob Gale
(2 films)
Roy Jenson
Roy Jenson
(4 films)
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Filmography of Read Morgan (42 films)

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Maverick
Maverick (1994)
, 2h7
Directed by Richard Donner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Jeu, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Poker
Actors Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, Alfred Molina, James Coburn
Roles Dealer
Rating69% 3.4992953.4992953.4992953.4992953.499295
The story, set in the American Old West, is a first-person account by wisecracking gambler Bret Maverick (Mel Gibson) of his misadventures on the way to a major five-card draw poker tournament. Besides wanting to win the tournament for the prize money, he also wants to prove, once and for all, that he is the best card player of his time.
Fatal Beauty, 1h44
Directed by Tom Holland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Rubén Blades, Harris Yulin, John P. Ryan, Jennifer Warren
Roles Fletch
Rating54% 2.701552.701552.701552.701552.70155
Detective Rita Rizzoli (Whoopi Goldberg) is an undercover narcotics police officer who stages an undercover buy with drug dealer Tito Delgadillo, when during the bust she sees her friend and informant Charlene being dragged out of the bar by her pimp and runs to her aid, alerting Delgadillo of being an undercover cop. After saving Charlene and shooting the pimp, Rizzoli notices all the money used for the buy is missing. Delgadillo retreats to a warehouse in Los Angeles where a family of Asian immigrants is preparing plastic envelopes of imported cocaine stamped with the gang's brand name "Fatal Beauty". One worker, however, has been sampling too much of the drug and, in his intoxicated state, prepares envelopes with a fatally high concentration of cocaine and a misaligned stamp. Delgadillo discovers the error but before they can correct it, the house is attacked by two small-time hoods, Leo Nova and Earl Skinner (Brad Dourif and Mike Jolly) who kill everyone within including Delgadillo and steal the lethal product.
Just Between Friends, 1h50
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Danson, Christine Lahti, Sam Waterston, Jane Greer, Julie Payne
Roles Charlie
Rating58% 2.949782.949782.949782.949782.94978
Holly Davis is a wife and mother, happily married to Dr. Chip Davis, a seismologist. She isn't aware that Chip is having an affair with Sandy Dunlap, a television news reporter who interviewed him after a quake.
Nomads
Nomads (1986)
, 1h31
Directed by John McTiernan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, Nina Foch, Mary Woronov, John McTiernan, Frank Doubleday
Roles Cop
Rating51% 2.5989552.5989552.5989552.5989552.598955
The film begins with the violent and painful death of its protagonist, French sociologist Jean-Charles Pommier (Pierce Brosnan). The moment he dies in the Emergency Room of a Los Angeles city hospital the physician treating him, Dr. Eileen Flax (Lesley-Anne Down), becomes possessed with his memories.
Hollywood Harry
Directed by Robert Forster
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Robert Forster, Joe Spinell, Read Morgan, Redmond Gleeson, Suzanne Charney, Mario Roccuzzo
Roles Stinson
Rating49% 2.4942352.4942352.4942352.4942352.494235
A private detective who is drinking himself to death is rescued by his niece and a new client who needs help.
Lightning, the White Stallion, 1h35
Directed by William A. Levey
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Mickey Rooney, Susan George, Françoise Pascal, Isabel García Lorca, Read Morgan, Debra Berger
Roles Harvey Leeman
Rating45% 2.260392.260392.260392.260392.26039
A rich gambler by the name of Barney Ingram's horse, Cloverdale III is stolen by creditor Emmet Fallon. The horse is eventually stabled and renamed Lightning, but under the condition that it will be trained by a young rider as a racing horse.
Fright Night, 1h46
Directed by Tom Holland
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys, Roddy McDowall, Jonathan Stark
Roles The Octaman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5493053.5493053.5493053.5493053.549305
Charley Brewster loves traditional Gothic horror films. He stays up late to watch the horror movie TV series Fright Night, which is hosted by his hero, Peter Vincent, a former movie vampire hunter.
Back to the Future, 1h56
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Transport films, Time travel films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Films about dogs, Alternate history films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Teen movie
Actors Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Marc McClure
Roles Cop
Rating83% 4.163164.163164.163164.163164.16316
Teenager Marty McFly is an aspiring musician dating girlfriend Jennifer Parker in Hill Valley, California. His father George is bullied by his supervisor, Biff Tannen, while his mother Lorraine is an overweight, depressed alcoholic. Whilst expressing disapproval of Marty's relationship with Jennifer, Lorraine recounts how she met George when her father hit him with a car.
Rocky IV
Rocky IV (1985)
, 1h31
Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Politique, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films, Le boxe anglaise, Robot films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Tony Burton
Rating69% 3.451633.451633.451633.451633.45163
In 1985, Ivan Drago (Lundgren), a muscular 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet boxer, arrives in the United States with his wife Ludmilla (Nielsen), and a team of trainers from the USSR and Cuba. His manager, Nicolai Koloff (Pataki), takes every opportunity to promote Drago's athleticism as a hallmark of Soviet superiority. Motivated by patriotism and an innate desire to prove himself, Apollo Creed (Weathers) challenges Drago to an exhibition bout. Rocky (Stallone) has reservations, but agrees to train Apollo despite his misgivings about the fight. He asks Apollo whether the fight is against the Russian, or "you against you".
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, 1h43
Directed by W. D. Richter
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Peter Weller, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Ronald Lacey
Roles Exhibitor
Rating61% 3.0986253.0986253.0986253.0986253.098625
Banzai (Peter Weller) prepares to test his Jet Car, a modified Ford F-350 pickup truck powered by a jet engine and capable of exceeding the speed of sound. The car is also equipped with a secret device called an "oscillation overthruster", which Banzai and his associates hope will allow it to drive through solid matter. The test is a success: Banzai stuns onlookers by driving the Jet Car directly through a mountain. Emerging on the other side, Banzai finds that an alien organism has attached itself to the undercarriage.
Hollywood Hot Tubs
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Jewel Shepard, Maxine Elliott Hicks, Edy Williams, Katt Shea, Read Morgan
Roles Wally Wright
Rating38% 1.9333451.9333451.9333451.9333451.933345
A teenager gets in trouble for vandalizing the Hollywood sign and goes to work for his uncle's hot tub repair business rather than go to prison. The nephew falls in love with a secretary at his uncle's company, but risks losing her when caught in compromising situations while performing his duties as a hot tub repairman.
Jinxed!
Jinxed! (1982)
, 1h43
Directed by Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Val Avery, Jack Elam, Jacqueline Scott
Roles Reno Player
Rating47% 2.358522.358522.358522.358522.35852
Harold Benson (Rip Torn) and his lounge-singer wife Bonita Friml (Bette Midler) follow a young blackjack dealer Willie Brodax (Ken Wahl) around the country. Harold has a blackjack winning jinx on Willie, and seemingly can't lose to him.
A Stranger Is Watching, 1h32
Directed by Sean S. Cunningham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Kate Mulgrew, Rip Torn, James Naughton, Barbara Baxley, Joanne Dorian, James Russo
Roles Galloway
Rating53% 2.653392.653392.653392.653392.65339
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11-year-old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below Grand Central Station, he throws the police into a race against time to save the girls and catch the killer.
The Munsters' Revenge, 1h36
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Frankenstein films, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis, Yvonne De Carlo, K. C. Martel, Bob Hastings, Herb Voland
Roles Loader #2
Rating59% 2.953912.953912.953912.953912.95391
The film begins with the Munster family making a visit to the wax museum. They take a picture of themselves standing next to their wax replicas. When the family leaves, the statues in the museum (which are actually robots) mysteriously come to life and begin wreaking havoc across the city. Herman and Grandpa are then arrested for various crimes they did not commit and try to clear their names in time for the Halloween celebration at the Munster home.