# 36
Hometown: Milwaukee, WI (Rufus King)
Position: F Playing Height: 6-4 Playing Weight: 200
Date of Birth: January 30, 1931
Date of Death: April 20, 2022
Additional Photos: (1) (2) (3)
Game by Game Statistics
Kentucky Career Notes:
Transferred from Wisconsin
| Season | Games Played | FG | FT | FTA | % | F | Total Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-50 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 9 | 13 |
| 1950-51 | 17 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 54.55 | 19 | 44 |
| Total | 24 | 25 | 7 | 12 | 58.33 | 28 | 57 |
Biography - All Movie Guide by Hal Erickson
In 1950, Morgan went on a regular dietary and exercise regimen that earned him quite a few photo spreads in major American magazines like TV Guide. Thanks to his physique, Morgan was cast as an athletic mountaineer in the Broadway play Li'l Abner, which led to TV work in a similar vein: he played a wrestler on US Steel Hour, a ballplayer on Twilight Zone, a skindiver on Adventures in Paradise and a boxer on Steve Canyon. Thus it was that Morgan was more than prepared for the strenuous requirements of his role as cavalry sergeant Tasker on the Henry Fonda TV-western vehicle The Deputy (1960).
Following the cancellation of this series, Read Morgan found himself on call for innumerable rugged character roles, usually as sheriffs, detectives or highway patrolmen. Among his many film credits were Fort Utah (1967), Easy Come, Easy Go (1968), Marlowe (1969), Dillinger (1971), The New Centurions (1972), Shanks (1967), and the made-for-TV movies Return of the Gunfighter (1967), Helter Skelter (1976), The Billion Dollar Threat (1979), Power (1980) and A Year in the Life (1986).
