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Howard Jerome Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American actor, comedian, and director. He 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 (1954).
Howard Morris. Actor: The Andy Griffith Show. Comedic actor Howard ("Howie") Jerome Morris, of Jewish heritage, was born in The Bronx, New York, on September 4, 1919. This short, quicksilver comic of TV's "Golden Age" also went on to possess one of the finest vocal instruments for animation.
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Howard Morris. Actor: The Andy Griffith Show. Comedic actor Howard ("Howie") Jerome Morris, of Jewish heritage, was born in The Bronx, New York, on September 4, 1919. This short, quicksilver comic of TV's "Golden Age" also went on to possess one of the finest vocal instruments for animation. Classically trained on the Shakespearean stage, he forged his own destiny in an entirely different ...
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- May 21, 2005
May 23, 2005 · Prolific actor, writer, director and producer Howard Morris died on Saturday, May 21, at age 85. Morris’ son David announced his father’s passing online at www.ernestt.com, a website devoted to Ernest T. Bass, the eccentric, hill-dwelling bumpkin Morris played in five episodes of The Andy Griffith Show in 1963 and ’64.
May 25, 2005 · Howard Morris was born in the Bronx in 1919. He learned early to joke about life's darkest moments: when he was a youth, his father lost his job in the Depression and shortly afterward died of a ...
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Howard Jerome Morris was born on September 4, 1919, in The Bronx, New York. His family had Jewish ancestry. His father, Hugo Morris, worked as an executive in a rubber company. His mother, Elsie, worked as a cinema organist. Morris’ father lost his job during ‘The Depression’ and died of a heart failure a little later.
May 24, 2005 · Howard Morris, the comedic actor who provided memorable support for Sid Caesar on the landmark "Your Show of Shows" in the 1950s and later played rock-throwing hillbilly Ernest T.
