Frank Morgan

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street. Petersen, who has one child from a previous marriage, married longtime girlfriend Gina Cirone in June of 2003. Other movies of note include The Shop Around the Corner, The Human Comedy, The White Cliffs of Dover and his last movie, Key to the City, which was released after his death, in Beverly Hills, California. From 2000 to the present, Petersen has starred as Gil Grissom in the successful CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He was so popular that MGM gave him a lifetime contract. Hathaway is a candidate for Vice President following the death of the incumbent. But Morgan's most famous role was the title role in The Wizard of Oz, where he played both the wizard and the carnival huckster. In the 2000 release The Contender, Petersen played the role of Governor Jack Hathway.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1934's The Affairs of Cellini, where he played the cuckolded Duke of Florence and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942's Tortilla Flat, where he played a simple Hispanic man. Instead, he worked on the 1987 made for TV movie Long Gone. His career actually took off when talkies began, his most stereotypical role that of a befuddled but good-hearted middle-aged man. In a move perhaps indicative of his career choices, Petersen is alleged to have passed on a part in Oliver Stone's Platoon, as it would have kept him away from his family. His first film was The Suspect in 1916. His film career began with a small part in the 1981 film Thief, and in 1986 he starred as Will Graham in Manhunter (later to be remade as Red Dragon). Frank Morgan (June 1, 1890 - September 18, 1949) was an American actor. Born Francis Phillip Wuppermann in New York City to the wealthy family which distributed Angostura bitters, he followed his older brother Ralph Morgan into show business, first on the Broadway stage and then into movies. After attending Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho and Idaho State University, the latter on a football scholarship, Petersen became a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company.

William Petersen, an American actor, was born on February 21, 1953, in Evanston, Illinois.