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Garrett Isaac Morris (born February 1, 1937) is an American actor, comedian and singer.[1] He was part of the original cast of the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, appearing from 1975 to 1980, and played Jimmy on The Jeffersons (1983–1984). Morris also had a role as Junior "Uncle Junior" King on the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, which aired from 1996 to 2001. Morris had a starring role as Earl Washington on the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls, from 2011 to 2017. He is also known for his role in the sitcom Martin as Stan Winters, from 1992 to 1995, and the movie Cooley High. He played Slide in Car Wash (1976), and Carl in The Census Taker (1984).

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Garrett Morris
Morris in 2013
Born	Garrett Isaac Morris (1937-02-01) February 1, 1937 (age 85) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Education	Dillard University Juilliard School of Music
Occupation	Actor, comedian, singer
Years active	1960–present
Known for	Saturday Night Live The Jamie Foxx Show 2 Broke Girls
Spouse	Freda Morris ​ (m. 1996)​

Early life and career

Morris was born on February 1, 1937, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in the poverty-stricken Gert Town neighborhood in its 16th Ward.[2] A church-choir singer from his youth, he trained at the Juilliard School of Music and graduated from Dillard University in 1958. Early in his career, he performed with The Belafonte Folk Singers. In 1960 Garret Morris recorded South African Freedom Songs (EPC-601) with Pete Seeger and Guy Carawan for Folkways Records.[3] He performed in a number of Broadway musicals, including Hallelujah, Baby! and Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. In 1965, he worked alongside Amiri Baraka, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler and Sonia Sanchez at the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School in Harlem; during this period, the theater was frequently raided and surveilled by the New York City Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[4][5] He had a small role as a police sergeant in The Anderson Tapes (1971) and was a cast member in the short lived CBS sitcom, Roll Out. He also appeared as a high school teacher in the 1975 film Cooley High.

Morris also lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Saturday Night Live

Morris has appeared in numerous television shows and movies since the early 1970s, but is best known as one of the original cast members of NBC's Saturday Night Live.[6] Periodically on SNL he sang classical music: once a Mozart aria "Dalla Sua Pace", Don Ottavio's aria from Don Giovanni when guest-host Walter Matthau designated him as a "musical guest...in place of the usual crap", and once a Schubert lied while the titles on the screen expressed his colleagues' purported displeasure at having to accommodate a misguided request by him. In February 1977, he sang Tchaikovsky's Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt barefoot in colorful Caribbean dress while subtitles explained he had just returned from Jamaica where he had picked up a girl by claiming to be Harry Belafonte.

One of Morris' best known characters on SNL was the Dominican baseball player Chico Escuela. Chico spoke only limited and halting English, so the joke centered on his responding to almost any question with his catch phrase: "Baseball... been berra berra good... to me". Another recurring bit, used in the newscast segment Weekend Update, involved Morris being presented as "President of the New York School for the hard of hearing" and assisting the newscaster by shouting the main headlines, in a parody of the then-common practice of providing sign language interpretation in an inset on the screen as an aid to the deaf viewer.

According to the book Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, Morris was frequently unhappy during his tenure on SNL from 1975 to 1980, and expressed the opinion that he was usually typecast in stereotypical roles.[7] Black performers who have followed Morris on SNL have at times been publicly concerned with experiencing the same fate Morris did. Eddie Murphy, for example, told TV Guide in the early 1980s that SNL producer Jean Doumanian "had tried to Garrett Morris me".[7]

Recurring characters

• Chico Escuela, a Dominican baseball player for the New York Mets
• Cliff, the streetwise friend to the Festrunk Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin)
• Grant Robinson, Jr., one of The Nerds
• Hodo, one of Miles Cowperthwaite's cronies
• Merkon, the leader of the Coneheads
• Weekend Update's "News for the Hard of Hearing" translator, who simply repeated each line while speaking very loudly.

Later life and career

In 1976, Morris appeared in the movie Car Wash, playing the role of Slide the bookmaker. In 1983 and 1984, Morris appeared in five episodes of The Jeffersons, playing a character named Jimmy. He starred in the 1984 film The Census Taker, a 1984 black comedy directed by Bruce R. Cook.[8][9]

In 1985, he appeared in Larry Cohen's science fiction horror film The Stuff, playing cookie magnate "Chocolate Chip Charlie", a parody of Famous Amos. That year he also guested on Murder, She Wrote as "Lafayette Duquesne". In 1986, Morris began playing a regular occasional character, "Arnold 'Sporty' James", on the NBC cop drama Hunter, starring Fred Dryer and Stepfanie Kramer. Morris appeared in Married... with Children as Russ, one of Al's poker buddies, in "The Poker Game", in a 1987 season 1 episode and again in the season 23 episode "Requiem for a Dead Barber". Garrett Morris continually appeared as "Sporty" on Hunter through 1989. He also appeared in the 1992 horror comedy Severed Ties starring Oliver Reed.

In 1994, he was "shot by a would-be mugger", whom he "attempted to fight off", but recovered as he discussed on the January 14, 2016 episode of Marc Maron's podcast WTF. On Howard Stern's radio show on 7-20-95, Morris said the culprit was imprisoned not for the shooting, but for parole violations for other crimes. In another radio interview, he mentioned that the robber who shot him was eventually convicted and incarcerated. In prison, inmates who happened to be fans of Morris teamed up and beat up the robber in revenge.[10] At the time of the shooting, Morris was starring on Martin as Martin's first boss, Stan Winters. Morris' shooting rendered him temporarily unable to continue in the role; he was written out of the show by having the character become a national fugitive. The scene where he is about to undergo plastic surgery was shot on the hospital bed Morris occupied while recuperating from the 1994 assault. He made a final appearance as Stan during the show's third season, walking with a cane due to Morris' real injuries, but the reason given for Stan was that he had crashed his car during a police chase.^{[citation needed]}

Morris also had regular roles on Diff'rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, Hill Street Blues, 227, and Roc. He also appeared in an episode of Who's the Boss, "Sam's Car" (1989), playing the role of Officer Audette. He was a regular cast member on The Jamie Foxx Show, playing Jamie's uncle, Junior King, for the show's entire run.^{[citation needed]}

In 1998, Morris appeared as himself in the fourth episode of the fifth season of the TV series, Space Ghost Coast to Coast. In 2002, Morris made a cameo appearance on an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Brittany Murphy. In 2006, Morris reprised his role as "Headmaster of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing" in a cameo on the TV series Family Guy, in the episode "Barely Legal". He continued to perform regularly in films. He also operated and was the host of his own comedy club, The Downtown Comedy Club in downtown Los Angeles. On February 9, 2007, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa honored Garrett Morris for his work and contributions to the black community. He declared February 9, 2007, Garrett Morris Day and named The Downtown Comedy Club the official club of Los Angeles. In August 2008, Morris played the role of Reverend Pratt in the family comedy drama film, The Longshots, starring Ice Cube and Keke Palmer.

In 2009, Morris appeared in two TV commercials for the Nintendo DS—one featuring Mario Kart DS, and the other featuring Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!. In 2010, Morris appeared in a television commercial for Miller Lite. The national commercial, titled "PopPop", features Morris alongside actors Stacey Dash and Jason Weaver.[11] The commercial takes a light-hearted look at a family relationship with Morris playing the grandfather, PopPop, and Weaver as his grandson. Since summer 2010^[update], Morris has appeared in an ad for Orbit gum in the United States.^{[citation needed]} In 2011, Morris had a cameo role as a Catholic priest on the episode "Three Boys" on the Showtime series Shameless. He was cast as Earl in the CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls,[12] which premiered on September 19, 2011. During the second season he faced a lawsuit from the Global Agency accusing him of not paying 10% of his income from the show as agreed. However, a rep from the show stated that he had not actually failed to do so.[13]

In 2015, Morris appeared in a cameo in Ant-Man, referencing an old SNL sketch in which he played the first live-action incarnation of the character.[14] On September 9, 2016, Morris and his family appeared on the ABC's game show Celebrity Family Feud, playing against Alfonso Ribeiro and Ribeiro's friends.[15] In 2018, Morris appeared in the NBC show This Is Us. In 2019, Morris appeared in the fifth episode of A Black Lady Sketch Show, titled "Why Are Her Pies Wet, Lord?".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	Where's Poppa?	Garrett
1971	The Anderson Tapes	Sergeant Everson
1975	Cooley High	Mr. Mason
1976	Car Wash	Slide
1980	How to Beat the High Cost of Living	Power & Light Man
1984	The Census Taker	Harvey
1985	The Stuff	'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs
1987	Critical Condition	Helicopter Junkie
	The Underachievers	Dummont
1989	Dance to Win	-
1991	Children of the Night	Matty
	Motorama	Andy
	Blackbird Fly	-	Short
1992	Severed Ties	Stripes
1993	Coneheads	Captain Orecruiser
1995	Black Scorpion	Argyle
1996	Black Rose of Harlem	Wisdom
	Santa with Muscles	Clayton
	Almost Blue	Charles
1997	Black Scorpion II	Argyle
1999	Twin Falls Idaho	Jesus
	Palmer's Pick-Up	Tom Bolza
	Graham's Diner	-
2001	Jackpot	Lester Irving
	How High	PCC Agent
2003	Connecting Dots	Henry
2005	The Salon	Percy
2007	Implanted	Kadar	Short
	Who's Your Caddy?	The Reverend
	Frank	Billy Hamilton
	Amenic	Amenic	Short
2008	Dog Gone	Police Chief
	The Longshots	Reverend Pratt
2009	Bed Ridden	Billings	Short
	Just Like Family	Leroy	Short
	Sonny Dreamweaver	God
2010	Pickin' & Grinnin'	Richard A. Trophey
2011	Valley of the Sun	Joe
	Let Go	Donuts
2012	Pawn Shop	Rey
	Freeloaders	Mr. Abaeze
2015	Ant-Man	Cab Driver
2019	Grand-Daddy Day Care	Arnold

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1960	CBS Workshop	-	Episode: "The Bible Salesman"
1963	General Hospital	Mouth	Regular cast
1973	Roll Out	Wheels	Main cast
1974	Change at 125th Street	Janitor	TV movie
1975–80	Saturday Night Live	Himself/Cast Member	Main cast (season 1-5)
1978	ABC Weekend Special	Frank	Episode: "The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody"
1980	Easter Fever	Jack (voice)	TV movie
1982	Diff'rent Strokes	Santa Claus/Mr. Jones	Episode: "Santa's Helper"
1983	The Invisible Woman	Lieutenant Greg Larkin	TV movie
1983–84	The Jeffersons	Jimmy	Guest (season 9), recurring cast (season 10)
1984	At Your Service	Dwayne	TV movie
	Masquerade	Froog	Episode: "The French Correction"
	The New Scooby Doo Mysteries	Additional Voices (voice)	Recurring cast (season 2)
1984–85	It's Your Move	Principal Dwight Ellis	Recurring cast
1985	Murder, She Wrote	Lafayette Duquesne	Episode: "Murder to a Jazz Beat"
	Hill Street Blues	Derelict	Recurring cast (season 5)
	The Twilight Zone	Jake	Episode: "Dealer's Choice"
	Scarecrow and Mrs. King	Asam Ali Shamba	Episode: "The Wrong Way Home"
	Pound Puppies	Chief Williams (voice)	TV movie
1986	The Love Boat	Gary Samuels	Episode: "The Will/Deja Vu/The Prediction"
	New Love, American Style	-	Episode: "Love and the Teddy"
1986–89	Hunter	Arnold "Sporty" James	Guest (season 2), recurring cast (season 3-5)
1987	227	Bob Winslow	Episode: "The Working Game"
1987–89	Married... with Children	Russ	Episode: "The Poker Game" & "Requiem for a Dead Barber"
1988	Who's the Boss?	Officer Audette	Episode: "Sam's Car"
1991	Earth Angel	Joey	TV movie
1991–92	Roc	Wiz	Recurring cast (season 1)
1992	Maid for Each Other	Harold Brown	TV movie
1992–95	Martin	Stan Winters	Main cast (season 1-2), guest (season 3)
1993	Daddy Dearest	Stan	Episode: "American We"
1994	ER	Edgar Luck	Episode: "ER Confidential"
1995	The Wayans Bros.	Uncle Leon/Himself	Episode: "Goop-Hair-It-Is" & "The Poppa-Cabana"
	Minor Adjustments	Willie	Episode: "The Ex-Files"
	Cleghorne!	Sidney Carlson	Main cast
1996–2001	The Jamie Foxx Show	Uncle Junior King	Main cast
1997	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Buzzard (voice)	Episode: "Pinocchio"
	Boston Common	Sammy Sutherland	Episode: "I.D. Endow"
1998	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Himself	Episode: "Cahill"
1999	G vs E	Kentucky McQuaid	Episode: "Sunday Night Evil"
2000	City of Angels	Dr. Frank Hollister	Episode: "Prototype"
	Static Shock	Preacher (voice)	Episode: "Child's Play"
	Little Richard	Carl Rainey	TV movie
2001	Justice League	Al McGee (voice)	Episode: "In Blackest Night"
	According to Jim	Lewis	Episode: "The Turkey Bowl"
	The Hughleys	Father Roberts	Episode: "I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas"
2003	Maniac Magee	Mr. Cobble	TV movie
2005	Noah's Arc	Rev. Allen	Episode: "I'm with Stupid" & "Got 'til It's Gone"
2006	All of Us	Uncle Cyrus	Episode: "Neesee's Grave Plot"
	Family Guy	Himself	Episode: "Barely Legal"
2007	Halfway Home	Jimmy the Mailman	Episode: "Halfway Impotent"
	Frangela	Dave	TV movie
2011	Shameless	Old Priest	Episode: "Three Boys"
2011–17	2 Broke Girls	Earl Washington	Main cast
2013	Psych	Clizby	Episode: "100 Clues"
2017	Rhett & Link's Buddy System	Ignatius	Recurring cast (season 2)
2018	MacGyver	Willy	Episode: "Mardi Gras Beads + Chair"
	Scandal	Hector	Episode: "Army of One"
	Knight Squad	Old Fizzwick	Episode: "Working on the Knight Moves"
	This Is Us	Lloyd	Recurring cast (season 2), guest (season 3)
2019	A Black Lady Sketch Show	Deacon Jones	Episode: "Why Are Her Pies Wet, Lord?"
2020	Family Reunion	Grand Sensei Shandu	Episode: "Remember When Shaka Got Beat Up?"
	Station 19	Earl Davis	Episode: "Poor Wandering One"
	Self Made	Cleophus Walker	Main cast
2021	Fairfax	Albert (voice)	Episode: "Fairfolks"
	Grand Crew	Narrator	Episode: "Pilot"

References

External links

• Garrett Morris at IMDb
• Garrett Morris at the Internet Broadway Database
• Garrett Morris at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Garrett Morris at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
• Video: Colfax roasting Garrett Morris on YouTube
• Garrett Morris as Chico on Weekend Update
• The Downtown Comedy Club

На других языках

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[de] Garrett Morris

Garrett Gonzalez Morris (* 1. Februar 1937 in New Orleans, Louisiana) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, er wurde durch die Serien Saturday Night Live (1975–1980) sowie 2 Broke Girls bekannt.

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[es] Garrett Morris

Garrett González Morris (Nueva Orleans, Luisiana; 1 de febrero de 1937) es un actor y humorista estadounidense, especialmente conocido por participar en el elenco original de Saturday Night Live entre 1975 y 1980, donde destacó en varios papeles. Por su trabajo en ese programa, Morris obtuvo una nominación al premio Emmy, en 1979. También por su aparición en la exitosa serie 2 Broke Girls (Dos chicas sin blanca) haciendo el papel de Earl, el encargado de la recaudación de la cafetería.

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[ru] Моррис, Гарретт

Га́рретт Мо́ррис (англ. Garrett Gonzalez Morris, родился 1 февраля 1937 года, Новый Орлеан, США) — американский актёр кино и телевидения.

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