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Howard Morris

Age: 85 (passed away May. 21st, 2005)
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Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Sep. 4th, 1919

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Howard Morris' Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
The Jetsons	Jet Screamer
Garfield & Friends	Wade Duck
The Archie Show	Big Moose Jughead Jones Dilton Doiley
The Magilla Gorilla Show	Mr. Peebles Mushmouse
The Archie Comedy Hour	Big Moose Dilton Doiley Jughead Jones
Galaxy High School	Professor Ice&hellip Luigi La Bounci
Archie's Funhouse	Jughead Jones Big Moose Dilton Doiley
Archie's TV Funnies	Jughead Jones Hot Dog
The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty	Waldo Kitty Captain Herc Catman Catzan Robin Cat Lone Kitty
The US of Archie	Big Moose Jughead Jones Dilton Doily Pops
Your Show of Shows	Regular Perfo&hellip
The Groovie Goolies	Franklin 'Fra&hellip Orville Mummy Wolfgang 'Wol&hellip
Beetle Bailey	Beetle Bailey Otto Gen.Amos T. H&hellip Cookie Rocky Lt. Fuzz Lt. Flap Specialist Ch&hellip
How's Your Mother-in-Law?	Howard Morris
My Favorite Martians	Tim O'Hara Bill Brennan
The New Archie/Sabrina Hour	Big Moose Jughead Jones Dilton Doiley
The Revlon Revue	Howard Morris

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

This short, quicksilver comic of TV's "Golden Age" has been heard more than seen in the last few decades, as he possesses one of the finest vocal instruments around for animation. Howard ("Howie") Morris was born in New York City in 1919 and forged his own destiny after a chance meeting with Carl Reiner in a radio workshop. Following the war in which they entertained troops together, they performed in the stage musical "Call Me Mister", then came aboard as part of Sid Caesar's repertory/writing company in the classic sketch shows of the 50s. After years of "second banana" success, however, Morris sought his own solo identity and went off to pursue work as an actor, director and voice artist. Since the early 60s, he has been a main staple of the Hanna-Barbera Productions vocal team, offering hundreds and hundreds of voices for "The Flintstones" (1960), "The Jetsons" (1962), "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (1971), and other such Saturday morning shows. Interspersed have been some catchy offbeat characterizations in front of the camera. He has given zest to a number of standard comedy films including Boys' Night Out (1962) with Kim Novak (I), The Nutty Professor (1963) and Way... Way Out (1966), both with Jerry Lewis (I), and Mel Brooks' spoofs High Anxiety (1977) and History of the World: Part I (1981). Morris has directed Danny Thomas (I) and Andy Griffith (I) in their respective sitcoms, and made a wonderfully eccentric impression on-camera as the grizzled rock-tosser Ernest T. Bass in Griffiths' vehicle. He was so popular in that role, it was brought back faithfully for three seasons. The director of such comedy film fluff as Who's Minding the Mint? (1967), With Six You Get Eggroll (1968), and Woody Allen's Don't Drink the Water (1969), Morris continued on with directing commercials and popping up here and there well into the 1990s.

TRIVIA:

Howard's voice has been a regular in "Hanna-Barbera" cartoons from the 60's until the present.
Had four children: David, Gabrielle, Kim, and Devra
In the 1970s, he directed some McDonaldland commercials featuring Ronald, the Hamburglar, Mayor McCheese, and friends. Morris also performed the voice of Mayor McCheese throughout the decade.
Directed the classic black-and-white pilot of TV's _"Get Smart" (1965)_ (qv).
Buried at Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
He served as the voice of the Qantas Airlines Koala for the airline's famous television commercials during the 1980s. He also as well as television's Atom Ant in "The Atom Ant Show," Beetle Bailey and General Halftrack in "Beetle Bailey and His Friends," and Jughead Jones and Big Moose Mason in "The Archie Show."
He was always surprised by his notoriety because he only appeared five times as Ernest T. Bass. Mountain Wedding/29 April, '63; E.T.B. Joins the Army/14 October, '63; My Fair E.T.B./3 February, '64; The Education of E.T.B./12 October, '64; Malcom at the Crossroads/27 September, '65. He made other appearances as different characters, George and Leonard and one uncredited voice over.
Performed Army tour productions of "Hamlet" and "Macbeth" for 'Maurice Evans (I)' (qv) during WWII. Ironically, Howard was 'Carl Reiner' (qv)'s sergeant at the time and Reiner also performed.