Morse was cast in the role of the Wizard of Oz in the San Francisco run of the musical Wicked, but quit the show before it opened on Broadway. He was replaced by Joel Grey. Morse joined other performers, including Marlo Thomas, in creating the 1972 Free to Be... You and Me children's album. He also provided the voice for the cartoon character Howler in Hanna-Barbera's Pound Puppies. He was the voice of Jack in the 1979 animated Rankin/Bass special Jack Frost. In The First Easter Rabbit, also by Rankin/Bass, he was the voice of the main character, Stuffy. Morse appeared in dozens of TV shows, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. He also appeared on CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Beginning in 2007, Morse took on a recurring role in the critically acclaimed AMC dramatic series Mad Men as Bertram Cooper, a founding partner in the advertising agency Sterling Cooper, for which role he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014. Morse was cast as journalist Dominick Dunne in the critically acclaimed limited series The People v. O.J. Simpson on FX. At the age of 85, Morse returned to Broadway in the 2016 revival of The Front Page with Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, and Holland Taylor at the Broadhurst Theatre. Personal life and death Morse was married twice and had five children. He died at his home in Los Angeles, California, on April 20, 2022, at the age of 90. Theatre Filmography Film Television Video games Prototype 2 (2012) – Doctor Anton Koening (voice) Awards and nominations Tony Awards Primetime Emmy Awards Screen Actors Guild Awards References External links 1931 births 2022 deaths American male film actors American male musical theatre actors American male stage actors American male television actors American male voice actors Actors from Newton, Massachusetts Audiobook narrators Drama Desk Award winners Male actors from Boston Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Primetime Emmy Award winners Tony Award winners United States Navy personnel of the Korean War 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors