Mash star Harry Morgan, 96, dies

December 09, 2011 13:00

On the bbc.co.uk: Actor Harry Morgan, best known for playing Colonel Sherman Potter in US TV show Mash, has died aged 96. The star died at his Los Angeles home after suffering from pneumonia, his family confirmed. Mike Farrell, who played BJ Hunnicutt in the military series, said of Morgan: "There was not an unadorable bone in the man's body."

It was a TV series many of us have grown up watching when there was cable TV.

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