After The Deputy left the air, Morgan was frequently cast as law enforcement officers or detectives in such films as Fort Utah (1967), Easy Come, Easy Go (1968) as Ensign Tompkins, Marlowe (1969) as Gumpshaw, Dillinger (1973) as Big Jim Wollard, The New Centurions (1972) as Woodrow Gandy, Shanks (1974), and in made for television films, Return of the Gunfighter (1967) as Wid Boone, Helter Skelter (1976) as an officer named "Columbine", The Billion Dollar Threat (1979), Power (1980), and A Year in the Life (1986).