Film & TV · 1915–2011Harry MorganactorColonel Potter of M*A*S*H and Officer Gannon of Dragnet, born Harry Bratsberg in Detroit to Norwegian immigrant parents.DETROIT / A living lexicon / ¼
Famous Detroiters
People who were born here, moved here or built their careers in Detroit: musicians, carmakers, athletes, writers, inventors, civil-rights leaders and a few notorious names. With their dates, their Detroit story and the places where they lived, worked and played, closed ones included.
- 664 famous people
- 66 Detroit places
- 21 fields
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Clear filtersFilm & TV · 1915–2011Harry MorganactorColonel Potter of M*A*S*H and Officer Gannon of Dragnet, born Harry Bratsberg in Detroit to Norwegian immigrant parents.
Comedy · 1912–1991Danny Thomascomedian, actor, TV producerLebanese-American entertainer from Michigan who started his show-business career on Detroit radio in the 1930s before becoming a TV star and founding St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Film & TV · 1914–1955John HodiakactorHollywood leading man of the 1940s, of Ukrainian and Polish descent, who grew up in Hamtramck and started out in radio before starring in Hitchcock's Lifeboat.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own.