Howard Morris

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Howard Jerome Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005), an American actor, voice actor, and producer who was best known for his appearances on "Uncle Goopy" on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (1954).

Personal life

Morris was married and divorced five times. He was first married to Mary Helen McGowan from 1945 to 1962. Dolores A. Wylie, his second wife, married him in 1962, but the marriage didn't continue until 1977, when they separated. He had three daughters and a son as well as three grandchildren during his lifetimes.

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Life and career

Morris was born in Bronx, New York, and he was the son of Hugo and Elsie (née Theobald) Morris. His father was a rubber company executive. Morris earned a coveted arts scholarship at New York University. Howard was sent by the US Army Special Services unit where he was the First Sergeant during WWII. Maurice Evans was the company's chief, while Carl Reiner and Werner Klemperer were soldiers in the company. The unit, which was based in Honolulu, entertained American troops throughout the Pacific.

He rose to prominence in appearances on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (a live sketch comedy series that aired in the United States from 1950 to 1954). Morris appeared in "This Is Your Life" in April 1954, an 11-minute parody of Ralph Edwards' "This Is Your Life" an 11-minute rebut on his Ralph Edwards' "This Is Your Life." Morris said it was his favorite sketch job. In 2014, David Margolick of The New Yorker wrote an article.

The New York Times and Hollywood.com, among others, have expressed their displeasure with this report. "I remember this Sid Caesar sketch when I was a boy," Conan O'Brien wrote in 2014. "I wanted to make people laugh" was the message sent by the BBC. Billy Crystal later called it a defining early influence: "That's how I used to go to bed." "I'd grab my dad's leg and Sid Caesar would drag me to bed like Sid Caesar." Morris begins at 4:14 p.m., and the sketch can be seen here.

Morris appeared twice in 1957 on episodes of the short-lived NBC comedy/variety show The Polly Bergen Show.

Despite Morris' classically trained Shakespearean actor, Ernest T. Bass, who appeared on The Andy Griffith Show, is best remembered for his portrayal of Ernest T. Bass, who was wily and over-the-top mountain man character. In addition, he played George, the TV mechanic in the episode "Andy and Helen Have Their Day." When he was in the army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he lampooned southern accents. "I Dream of Genie" was one of Twilight Zone's more comedic early hour episodes. In an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Elmer Kelp's appearance in The Nutty Professor, a film studio clerk in the short film Star Spangled Salesman, and an art appraiser were among Elmer Kelp's other roles. He had appeared in numerous Broadway shows, including the well-regarded 1960 revival of Finian's Rainbow as Og the leprechaun opposite Bobby Howes as Finian. He appeared in the film, Boys' Night Out (1962), starring Tony Randall, Kim Novak, and James Garner, he was portrayed as Schmidlap.

Morris was first seen in animated cartoons in the early 1960s. He and Allan Melvin joined up for Beetle Bailey, a 50-episode King Features Syndicate serial for which he and Melvin also wrote a number of episodes. He was also a voice for Gene Deitch's Academy Award-winning Munro, a four-year-old boy who was sent into the Army.

Morris performed many characters in many Hanna-Barbera films, including The Jetsons as a Jet Screamer who sang the phrase, "Eep opp ork ah ah!" began in 1962. The song (said to be Morris' first for Hanna-Barbera) and The Flintstones were among Morris' debuts. Mr. Peebles in The Magilla Gorilla Show was the first voice of Atom Ant and he appeared in The Magilla Gorilla Show, working with Allan Melvin who acted as Magilla. Morris was portrayed as the voice of Breezly Bruin in another series, a reference to Bullwinkle's Bill Scott vocalization. During Joseph Barbera's production of Magilla Gorilla and Atom Ant, Morris had a problem with Joseph Barbera, and most of his voices were recast, mainly using Don Messick. The two men were reconciled, and Morris was back doing those voices and others years later. He also lent his voice to Forsythe "Jughead" Jones on Filmation's "The Archies" from 1968 to 1977. In addition, he was the voice of Leonard Blush, "The Masked Singer," he had a skin disease, as well as the regular voice of the Mount Pilot radio station's host on The Andy Griffith Show.

In the animated series Galaxy High, Morris also voiced Professor Icenstein and Luigi La Bounci. He portrayed Mayor McCheese and then the Hamburglar (taking over for Larry Storch in 1986) in a McDonaldland ad campaign for McDonald's, which Morris also managed. In the United States, Wade Duck gave the voice to Wade Duck. Acres segments of Garfield and Friends, as well as a webbly embedded in Bobby's World and Flem in Cow & Chicken. Morris appeared in TV commercials for Qantas from 1967 to 1992 (saying the tag line "I hate Qantas") and portraying Gopher in Disney's films Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. In an episode of Disney's Chip 'n Dale's "Le Purrfect Crime"), he also sang a French gangster cat named Monte De Zar (Fat Cat's Cousin) in 1989.

Although Morris continued to perform in voice and sound effects roles, he also began a new career in voice and sound effect direction. Among the many projects he supervised are Police Academy, Richie Rich, Bionic Six, Goin' Coconuts, The Snorks, The Dogfather, The Dogfather, Dragon's Lair, Thomas Levy, Rob Roy, The Little Clowns, Space Stars, and Kidd Video.

Morris produced some episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes, The Dick Van Dyke Show, the black and white pilot episode of Get Smart, Bewitched, and single episodes of many other comedy shows.

Doris Day was also directed by Morris in her last film, With Six You Get Eggroll (1968). Don't Drink the Water (1969), and Who's Minding the Mint were two other films he directed. (1967).

Mel Brooks has occasionally appeared in Morris' films. For example, he portrayed Brooks' mentor psychiatrist Dr. Lilloman in the film High Anxiety (1977), the emperor's court spokesman ("Here, wash this!") Part I (1981), and played a bum named Sailor who lived in the streets of Life Stinks (1991).

In 1984, he appeared in Splash, a Ron Howard film (the two had previously appeared together on The Andy Griffith Show). In Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, he worked with his longtime friend and troubling companion Sid Caesar as tameless Jewish tailors.

Ernest T. Bass, a popular television actor, appeared in the high-rated television film Return to Mayberry in 1986.

She Wrote, a 1989 guest star on Murder, She Wrote.

He competed with Fleming on Cows and Chickens from 1997 to 1999.

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