<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Mary Helen McGowan (m . 1945; div. 1962) Dolores A. Wylie (m . 1962; div. 1977) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Howard Jerome Morris (September 4, 1919--May 21, 2005) was an American actor, voice actor and director who was best known for his role in The Andy Griffith Show as Ernest T. Bass, and as "Uncle Goopy" in one of the most celebrated comedy sketches in history, on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (1954). </P> <P> Morris was born to a Jewish family in The Bronx, New York, the son of Elsie and Hugo Morris, a rubber company executive . During World War II, he was assigned to a United States Army Special Services unit where he was the First Sergeant . Maurice Evans was the company commander and Carl Reiner and Werner Klemperer were soldiers in the unit . Based in Honolulu, the unit entertained American troops throughout the Pacific . </P>

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