Morgan Woodward Movies and Career Information

Morgan Woodward (born 16 September 1925 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American actor. He is probably best known for his recurring role in Dallas as "Punk" Anderson (an episode unveils his real name; Marvin Anderson). He also played the silent, sunglasses-wearing, "man with no eyes", Boss Godfrey (the Walking Boss) in Cool Hand Luke and holds the record for Most Guest Appearances on the long-running, western TV series, Gunsmoke, with 19. Woodward has many television guest appearances to his name, in shows such as: Film credits include: Woodward is notable for having starred in two different episodes of the original series of Star Trek as two different characters. In the first-season episode "Dagger of the Mind" Woodward plays Dr. Simon Van Gelder, an attending physician at a hospital for the criminally insane. After discovering that the director of the facility is engaged in illegal brain experimentation, Van Gelder himself becomes a victim of these experiments and is confined as one of the patients. Escaping the facility to the orbiting USS Enterprise the deranged and incoherent (due to his brain damage) Van Gelder eventually recovers enough to be able to divulge the nefarious