George Morfogen

George Morfogen (March 30, 1933 – March 8, 2019) was an American actor of Greek descent, born in the Bronx, New York, who worked across stage, film, and television throughout his career. He is perhaps best known to television audiences for his portrayal of Bob Rebadow in the HBO series Oz and for playing Stanley Bernstein in the original V miniseries.

Morfogen's Broadway career spanned from 1981 to 2008 and included appearances in A Man for All Seasons, Fortune, Arms and the Man, Kingdoms, and An Inspector Calls. His stage work extended beyond Broadway to include productions at the Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn and the off-Broadway Westside Theatre, where he appeared in Heinrich von Kleist's The Prince of Homburg. That production was videotaped for the PBS series Great Performances and subsequently released on DVD. The rehearsal process and staging of the production are documented in a chapter of Davi Napoleon's book Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater. Morfogen was also a teacher at HB Studio.

A significant thread of his film career was his lifelong friendship with director Peter Bogdanovich, for whom he served as best man at Bogdanovich's 1962 wedding to Polly Platt. Morfogen appeared in five films directed by Bogdanovich: What's Up, Doc? (1972), Daisy Miller (1974), They All Laughed (1981), Illegally Yours (1988), and She's Funny That Way (2014). He also served as producer on They All Laughed and co-producer on Illegally Yours. His off-screen contributions to Bogdanovich's work included serving as dialogue coach on At Long Last Love (1975) and as associate producer on both Saint Jack (1979) and Mask (1985).

In 2001, Morfogen originated the role of Bob in the off-Broadway premiere of Uncle Bob, written by Austin Pendleton, who created the role specifically with Morfogen in mind. The production, directed by Courtney Moorehead and produced by Steven Sendor, ran for 114 performances at The SoHo Playhouse, with Gale Harold and subsequently Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing Bob's nephew Josh. A decade later, in 2011, Morfogen received the best actor award in drama or comedy at the ninth annual New Hampshire Theatre Awards for his portrayal of Sigmund Freud in the Peterborough Players' production of Freud's Last Session.

Morfogen died on March 8, 2019, twenty-two days before his 86th birthday. He was survived by his husband, Gene Laughorne, with whom he had been partners for 51 years.