Dennis Morgan | |
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Born | Earl Stanley Morner December 20, 1908 Prentice, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Died | September 7, 1994 Fresno, California, U.S. | (aged 85)
Alma mater | Carroll College |
Years active | 1929–1980 |
Spouse |
Lillian Vedder (m. 1933) |
Children | 3 |
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.
According to one obituary, he was "a twinkly-eyed handsome charmer with a shy smile and a pleasant tenor voice in carefree and inconsequential Warner Bros musicals of the forties, accompanied by Jack Carson."[1] Another said, "for all his undoubted star potential, Morgan was perhaps cast once too often as the likeable, clean-cut, easy-going but essentially uncharismatic young man who typically loses his girl to someone more sexually magnetic."[2] David Shipman said he "was comfortable, good-looking, well-mannered: the antithesis of the gritty Bogart."[3]