Garfield Morgan was a leading British character actor in films and television. He made one of his final screen appearances as an ill-fated elderly farmer in the 2007 zombie horror film 28 Weeks Later.
Morgan was born in Birmingham, England, on April 19, 1931. He attended drama school in Birmingham and began performing on the local stage in the early 1950s. He became a prolific television actor later in the decade, with roles in such series as Out of This World, The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Undermind, The Saint, The Baron, Out of the Unknown, The Avengers, Department S, My Partner, the Ghost, Paul Temple, and The Persuaders. He was featured as Tao Gan on the ancient Oriental mystery series Judge Dee in 1969, and was the slave master in the 1985 television adaptation of John Christopher’s juvenile sci-fi novel The Tripods: The City of Gold and Lead.
Morgan also appeared in a handful...
Morgan was born in Birmingham, England, on April 19, 1931. He attended drama school in Birmingham and began performing on the local stage in the early 1950s. He became a prolific television actor later in the decade, with roles in such series as Out of This World, The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Undermind, The Saint, The Baron, Out of the Unknown, The Avengers, Department S, My Partner, the Ghost, Paul Temple, and The Persuaders. He was featured as Tao Gan on the ancient Oriental mystery series Judge Dee in 1969, and was the slave master in the 1985 television adaptation of John Christopher’s juvenile sci-fi novel The Tripods: The City of Gold and Lead.
Morgan also appeared in a handful...
- 12/31/2009
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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