Biografia

His father was a trumpet player who left the family when Greg was three years old. He spent part of his youth in New York, where his mother was a secretary to A. Philip Randolph, the black labor unionist leader, civil rights activist and socialist politician, who in 1925 organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly African-American labor union.

Had three children: Phil Morris, Iona Morris and Linda Morris. Each of them have had show business careers. Phil and Iona both became actors and Linda became a film production executive. In early 2000, Iona performed a one-woman show to pay tribute to her father. The show, "For You", used the same title her father had used on a jazz album he released in the 1970s.

A serious car accident resulted in major reconstructive plastic surgery which severely curtailed his career in 1981. He finally reappeared on television after a long absence with a short-lived remake of Il ritorno di missione impossibile (1988), which also featured his son, Phil Morris, in 1989. Greg had a cameo role.

While playing his supporting role as "Lieutenant Dave Nelson" on Vega$ (1978), he found the filming location in Nevada to his liking -- so much so that he and his wife, Lee Morris, eventually moved to Las Vegas.

Shortly before his death, he went to see the Mission: Impossible (1996) movie; he disliked it so much he walked out less than an hour after the film started.