Howard Jerome Morris was an American actor, comedian, and director.
19 Facts About Howard Morris
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Howard Morris was best known for his role in The Andy Griffith Show as Ernest T Bass, and as "Uncle Goopy" in a celebrated comedy sketch on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.
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Howard Morris did some voices for television shows such as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Atom Ant Show, and Garfield and Friends.
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Howard Morris attended New York University on a dramatic arts scholarship.
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Howard Morris came to prominence in appearances on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.
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Never afraid to have talented people around him, Caesar is actually upstaged here by his second second banana : Howard Morris, who plays Duncey's long-lost Uncle Goopy, who, overcome with emotion, repeatedly clings to and slobbers over his favorite nephew.
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Howard Morris had appeared in several Broadway shows including the highly regarded 1960 revival of Finian's Rainbow as Og the leprechaun opposite Bobby Howes as Finian.
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Howard Morris was first heard in animated cartoons in the early 1960s.
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Howard Morris provided the voices for Gene Deitch's Academy Award-winning Munro, about a four-year-old boy who was drafted into the Army.
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Howard Morris was the original voice of Atom Ant and provided the voice of Mr Peebles in The Magilla Gorilla Show, teaming up again with Allan Melvin who performed the voice for Magilla.
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Years later, the two men reconciled and Howard Morris was back doing those voices and others.
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Howard Morris voiced the characters Professor Icenstein and Luigi La Bounci in the animated series Galaxy High.
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Howard Morris supplied the voice of the koala in TV commercials for Qantas from 1967 through 1992, and voiced the character of Gopher in the Disney featurettes Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
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Howard Morris directed Doris Day in her final film, With Six You Get Eggroll.
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Howard Morris worked with his old friend and trouping partner Sid Caesar as nervous Jewish tailors in the 1998 movie of Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.
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Howard Morris was first married to Mary Helen McGowan from 1945 to 1962.
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Howard Morris married his second wife Dolores A Wylie later in 1962; the marriage lasted until 1977 when they divorced.
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On May 21,2005, Howard Morris died of congestive heart failure, at the age of 85.
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Howard Morris is entombed in Laurel Gardens Wall crypt at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.