Gene Morgan on AllMovie

Pudgy character actor Gene Morgan started out as a utility player in Pathe's Folly comedies in the late teens, then worked for several years at Hal Roach studios. From 1935 to 1940, Morgan was under contract to Columbia Pictures, where he was usually cast as a perplexed cop or city detective. He was fleetingly but memorably seen in such Columbia's as She Couldn't Take It (1935), Meet Nero Wolfe (1936), The Devil's Playground (1937), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Gene Morgan made his last appearance in Warner Bros.' Meet John Doe (1941) under the direction of another longtime Columbia contractee, Frank Capra.