Disappointed at being limited to duties as a mechanic and radar technician, he bided his time until demob day and then headed for Hollywood to discover whether acting might be his thing after all. His nascent acting talent may have drawn the attention of others, but Morgan was still set on pursuing his dream of being a jet fighter pilot, and when he graduated from high school he joined the US Air Force. All because I pulled that chair out from under Barbara." "We win the state championship, and dadgummit, I'm chosen as best actor. "We do this play about a family with a wounded son just home from the war," Morgan recounted later in life. Morgan's acting career began at junior high school, when he was forced to participate in the school's drama competition bid in punishment for trying to gain the attention of a girl called Barbara by pulling her chair out from under her. Upon her death, when he was six, the actor spent the several years travelling with his mother, moving from Chicago to Nashville, Tennessee, and finally to Greenwood, Mississippi, where they eventually settled down. In the course of his lengthy career Morgan has certainly proved his versatility, moving from children's TV through song-and-dance man in Hello Dolly to Shakespearean thespian.īut it is probably for his performances in a string of well-regarded movies, from Driving Miss Daisy to The Shawshank Redemption, that the actor is best known.īorn on June 1, 1937, in Memphis, Tennessee, to father Morgan Sr, a barber, and mother Mayme Edna - a cleaner - Morgan was still an infant when he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi.
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