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| - Gary Morgan (b. 1950) is an actor and stuntman who appeared in the 2011 film The Muppets, as the unfortunate teacher in the popular CDE series Punch Teacher. The son of acrobat parents, Morgan began his showbiz career as a child actor, including the role of Richie Petrie in Head of the Family, Carl Reiner's unsold 1960 pilot which would eventually be recast as The Dick Van Dyke Show. Shifting into juvenile and young adult roles, and often typecast as troubled teen or hoodlum, he appeared in Room 222, Bonanza, Ironside (with Raymond Burr), The Partridge Family, Happy Days, and the movies Wait Until Dark (1967, with Alan Arkin), Fuzz (1972), and most notably Logan's Run (1976). Keeping in type, he played Candlewick in a 1976 TV Pinocchio (starring Danny Kaye as Geppetto). He had one of his larger film roles in Disney's Pete's Dragon (1977) as Grover (no relation), one of the villainous Gogans. Smaller Disney parts followed, in The North Avenue Irregulars (1979, as the bighaired head of a rock band) and The Devil and Max Devlin (1981, with Bill Cosby and Elliott Gould). In 1978, Morgan played the title role in Gould's comedy Matilda, wearing a suit as a boxing kangaroo. Not long after, he shifted to stuntwork primarily, some of which would again involve animal suits (a bear in The Great Outdoors with John Candy and yet another kangaroo in Storybook). His stunt resume includes Cujo, 2010, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Army of Darkness, Bean (with Rowan Atkinson), and both Hook and the 2003 version of Peter Pan. He doubled for Martin Short in Three Fugitives (1989) and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) and for Ricky Dean Logan in the second and third Back to the Future movies. On TV, he was a stunt Ferengi on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and doubled for Shia LaBeouf in The Even Stevens Movie. In 2011, in addition to The Muppets, he performed stunts for The Artist.
- Morgan was born in New Jersey and started to work as an actor at the age of eight. Among his first appearances are episodes of Naked City (1958, with Lawrence Dobkin), Head of the Family (1960), THe United States Steel Hour (1962), The Patty Duke Show (1964, with William Schallert), N.Y.P.D. (1967, with Robert Hooks), Room 222 (1969), Bonanza (1970), and Adam-12 (1970, with William Boyett). He also had a background part in the 1967 crime thriller Wait Until Dark. The following years he worked on episodes of Ironside (1971, with Barbara Anderson), The Partridge Family (1973, with Alan Oppenheimer and Vic Tayback), Happy Days (1974), CHiPs (1982, with Robert Pine, Lou Wagner, and Julie Newmar), Hotel (1984, with Kim Darby), Spenser: For Hire (1987, with Avery Brooks), Alien Nation (1990, with Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Tony Rizzoli, and Branscombe Richmond), Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1998, with Kay E. Kuter), Black Scorpion (2001, with Sidney Liufau and Robert Pine), and NCIS (2007, with Scottie Thompson and Brian George). Film work includes the crime comedy Fuzz (1972, with Steve Ihnat and Bert Remsen), the thriller Summer School Teachers (1974, with Grainger Hines and Dick Miller), the science fiction film Logan's Run (1976, with Glenn R. Wilder and Johnny Haymer), the Walt Disney classic Pete's Dragon (1977), the comedy Lovelines (1984, with Todd Bryant), the comedy Gone Fishin' (1997, with Louise Fletcher), the television drama Growing Up Brady (2000, with Daniel Hugh Kelly, Mark Chaet, and Thomas Knickerbocker), and the comedy Unaccompanied Minors (2006, with Jim Wilkey). In the early 1980s he also started to work in the stunt industry and performed stunts in films such as the crime comedy Going Ape! (1981, with Beth Nufer), the science fiction thriller 2010 (1984, with Jim Burk, Jim Halty, John Meier, and Mic Rodgers), Joe Dante's science fiction film Explorers (1985, with James Cromwell, Robert Picardo, and stunts by Janet Brady, Robert Herron, and Kym Washington), the action comedy The Golden Child (1986, with stunts by Jeff Cadiente, Vince Deadrick, Gene LeBell, Matt McColm, Noon Orsatti, and Spiro Razatos), the science fiction film Alien Nation (1988, with Tom Morga, Leslie Hoffman, Richard Hancock, and Brian J. Williams), the horror comedy The 'burbs (1989, with Gary Epper, Frank Orsatti, and Jeff Smolek), the horror sequel Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, with Al Jones and Noon Orsatti), and Steven Spielberg's fantasy adventure Hook (1991, with stunts by Joey Box, Richard E. Butler, Bud Davis, Deep Roy, Scott Leva, and Michael J. Sarna). Morgan was one of the stunt bear performers in the comedy The Great Outdoors (1988, with Ben Scott and Manny Perry), doubled actor Martin Short in the crime comedy Three Fugitives (1989, with Tony Brubaker, Spike Silver, and Don Pulford), doubled José Pérez in the adventure film The Mask of Zorro (1998), Paulo Costanzo in the comedy Scorched (2003, with Jennifer Caputo, Kim Koscki, and Tim Trella), and Shia LaBeouf in the television comedy The Even Stevens Movie (2003, with Ron Althoff and Christopher Doyle). As stunt coordinator he worked on the comedy Troop Beverly Hills (1989), the comedy Il silenzio dei prosciutti (1994, with Alex Daniels, Jimmy Ortega, Tom Morga, Gerard Williams, and Brian J. Williams), the adventure movie White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild (1995), the television drama Max Is Missing (1995), the television horror film Humanoids from the Deep (1996, with Alex Daniels), the science fiction comedy Alien Avengers (1997) and its sequel Alien Avengers II (1998), and the short drama Stop (2005). Other film credits as stunt performer include the comedy sequel Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992), the thriller Under Siege (1992), the horror comedy Army of Darkness (1992, with Chuck Borden, George Colucci, B.J. Davis, Chris Doyle, Maria R. Kelly, Gene LeBell, Ken Lesco, Dennis Madalone, Tom Morga, John Nowak, and Brian J. Williams), the superhero sequel Batman Forever (1995), the comedy Bean (1997), the comic adaptation Spawn (1997, with Michael Papajohn, Spice Williams-Crosby, Jay Caputo, Kane Hodder, Faith Minton, and Denney Pierce), the action sequel Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), the comedy Free Enterprise (1998, with William Shatner, Thomas Hobson, Chase Masterson, and stunts by Mark DeAlessandro), the science fiction western Wild Wild West (1999), the action comedy Rush Hour 2 (2001), and the fantasy adventure Peter Pan (2003). More recently, Morgan worked as stunt coordinator on the short films Dracula's Daughters vs. the Space Brains (2010) and Night of the Little Dead (2011) and had a featured part in the mystery comedy Disappearing Bakersfield (2010).
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