A fan for DECADES. His passing broke my heart. 💔💔💔💔💔

Brilliant. Organic Actor

+poetcomic1 "Sincerity--when you learn how to fake _that_, you've got it made."

poetcomic1 YEAH 💋

As of June 6, 2020 he is still alive, and 89.

Check out his musical scene in MadMen... It's epic.

He's still with us.

I didn't watch Madmen from the beginning .. but I've since caught up and I am glued when it's on ... and sad to see it's ending .. I recognized that face( Robert Morse ) immediately .. asked my wife "Don't you know who he is??" she said no .. to whohc I replied .. you couldn't turn on a TV in the med 60's to mid 70's and NOT see him

Yes it really is. A top 10 for me with great performances all around. I have watched it over and over again for the performances of Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Michelle Lee and the whole cast. What great songs and choreography. The sexism is so comically portrayed with songs like 'A secretary is not a toy', lyrics such as 'her pad is to write in, and not spend the night in'. Clever all the way through and never let's up.

To see him this young again is strange. Since he's in "Mad Men Series for the past years. He is appreciative of being in this show after so many years. Haven't seen him in years. Perhaps he's done a lot of plays on Broadway and other shows.

He knew "how to succeed" in many areas of life. And mad men added to the resume.

None of those mentioned are in Morse's class.

Very true, but the only regret is it took so long to make the movie after he established his “ownership” of the role. He’s great in the movie, but slightly old for the part, so you have to imagine him a few years younger to get the effect; same thing by the way with the seductive secretary character in the film, but to much more extreme extent. She was like 20 years (at least, possibly even 30!) too old for that role, but I give the director/producers credit for giving it to her on acting ability rather than looks, which would never, ever happen today. They have a woman with no extant (i.e., aged out of any) sex appeal a seductress role, which was completely generous and courageous on their part. She probably had the role on Broadway a decade earlier, I’m guessing. Mr. Morse is fantastic as the lead, but really the character should be like 20 or early 20’s, not 30-40 range. He seems easily 40 in the picture. But as in the secretary case, they made the film all about the talent and the story, not the physical attributes of the cast, which is to their extremest CREDIT, in so many ways the OPPOSITE of how things are done today. Even though he’s a bit old for the part, Mr. Morse absolutely *towers* in the film, an absolutely glorious performance worth every second.

Without a DOUBT. One of those situations where the originator of the role makes every successor look bad in comparison because they were just *that perfect* for it.

Ohhh yes. He IS Ponty. RIP Ponty. 💔💕

@@AnonYmous-ry2jn Old for the part? Odd that you say that, since he was around 35 when this released. Plus much to the female disgust level, no such thing in Hollywood as being too "old" if you're a GUY! I do have a bias in that I actually really like the film, but it does sound funny playing the "old card" for a MAN.

In 1963, I saw and heard Robert Morse sing "I Believe In You" on the stage, opposite Dyan Cannon, in "How To Succeed, etc." in Pasadena.

Right? I thought that was cute! Most guests just stick with yes or no, and I have watched the old shows enough to see.

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Aw, that's great. He'll never be forgotten.

...thanks to the genius of Frank Loesser !!

You have to be kidding, Robert was extremely famous in the 1960’s, just because there is a whole new generation that is being introduced to him it doesn’t mean he wasn’t as famous or even more so 50 years ago.

@@rapman5791 Not the point. As famous as he was back then (and certainly was during the 1960's), Morse's playing Bert Cooper on "Mad Men," widely considered one of the best TV series of all time is the role he will be most remembered for because of how he did it. This is where a bias towards more recent work kicks in and "Mad Men" was a memorable series.

I have seen him in some films in the past . He seemed to blend in like a character actor would. I never would have recognized him as Bert Cooper ! I watched every episode of Mad Men ! Loved his character ! RIP Robert I’m sorry to see you go ! 🥹 Wow !

@@tomcat630 And yet because of Mad Men he gained a new fan in a someone born in 1963 Me ! So you never know what direction life can take a person

@@tomcat630 Not widely viewed? I think you are a bit off on that.

He also played Dominick Dunne.

I absolutely ADORED finding out he was a southpaw. So am I and I was always a huge fan.

I have no illusions of having any talent like his whatsoever...but since you mentioned it...I think its cool...I have the same birthday as he did...and I'm left-handed. That guy was really all-around talented!

I was in NYC in March 1967 (12 years old). My uncle was an entertainment editor for a magazine and he sent all the kids to see the reporter's showing of How To Succeed. That was probably a few weeks before this broadcast, because it hadn't been released in theaters yet. This show was probably taped la little more than a year before Bobby Kennedy was killed.

Interesting you should have written that, as Robert Morse was, in fact, a friend of Senator Robert Kennedy, when the latter was a United States senator from New York. And, like Kennedy, Morse had been born in Massachusetts, in the city of Newton. To my recollection Morse had resided in Newton Upper Falls. As a boy, I recall having seen a photograph of Kennedy with Morse, in a LOOK magazine photo spread of the former with his celebrity friends. Morse was playing a game of charades in the Kennedy family mansion at Hickory Hill, Virginia. Also pictured in that LOOK photo layout were former Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Roosevelt "Rose"' Grier (who, as a bodyguard in Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, was involved in the apprehending of Sirhan Sirhan after the latter assassinated Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel ballroom following Kennedy's victory party in the California presidential primary), actress Lauren Bacall, singer Andy Williams and the comedy duo The Smother Brothers.

@@gymnastix I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought Robert Morse looked like Robert Kennedy. I first saw Robert Morse on the ABC television series "That's Life," in which he starred in the fall of 1968. It premiered just three months after Bobby Kennedy was killed. I was 11 years old. I was still hurting inside over the loss of RFK. His character on the show was named "Bobby," and every time I saw him I thought of Bobby Kennedy. I loved his smile and his hairstyle, which reminded me of Bobby Kennedy. I was saddened to hear of the passing this talented performer, Robert Morse, and I'm glad he lived a long, full, and successful life. R.I.P.

He won TWO Tony awards for best actor before "Mad Men." His talent was recognized.

That's just not true. How old are you? 50 years ago and the entire panel there were "recognizing" his talent and the fans continued to adore him. Sheeze.

he was never underrated

That series is where I first saw him too!

Saw his performance of Tru in San Francisco back in 1990. Phenomenal, also met up with him backstage and wished him well with the new baby he and Libby would have soon. Very genuine and gracious. 💕

And a bit of Richard Dreyfus (but this was long before his time).

Check out his astonishing one man Tony winning show 'Tru' in which he did an astonishing interpretation of Truman Capote. It is free on You tube

DENY! DENY! DENY! (classic line from the film)

Jim Carrey was an over-the-top self-indulgent "comedian" and now is a psycho loser.

What a lovely observation, but nope you are not wrong.

It's Morse's best known role to people who know nothing else of his work.

I thought he had died back in the 1990s, like 1998 or so, because I "remember" my dad being sad that he had passed away. It surprised me several months ago when I looked on IMDB and read that he was still alive! I have had some Nelson Mandela Effect experiences.

I was going to bring that up myself, had I not found your comment. Back in the days of VHS tape, I had collected 3 films I very much enjoyed on one tape. "One Two, Three," "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," and Disney's original "The Parent Trap." The latter two, coincidentally, having the same director, the late David Swift. You can spot him in "How to Succeed," as the elevator operator who tells Michelle Lee, "Rosemary! In or Out! I have other clients, you know!" He and Haley Mills have a wonderful commentary track on the Parent Trap DVD.

"Sitzenmachen!"

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Bobby definitely was the very best Truman Capote! Nailed it in 'Tru'. A natural on the stage! (Broadway) Did and outstanding job in Mad Men as the irrassable Bert Cooper.

Her claim to fame is that she would never go out with someone as stupid as you.

Cool. Who is he?

OK thanks bro lol

You're kidding, right???

He invented the Morse Code

Ha ! :-)

It was so _not_ rigged.

yeah weird in my opinion on his looks but something else

Doesn't look that good now in his 80s, but we all have the images and memories.

I first heard about him when I was in jr high school and looked him up in a copy of Current Biography, one of those green hard backed books. They had described him as "a head-on collision between John F. Kennedy and Mickey Rooney"!

@@robsieger1886 I saw him two nights ago and he looks GREAT!

@@blackwingy where'd you see him