[4] He played the title character of Kid Galahad (1937), a story of a young prizefighter that featured some of Hollywood's biggest stars, Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart.

Losing his boyish looks but not demeanor, Morris spent much of the 1950s in low-budget westerns, but also appeared as the cowardly Lieutenant Roget, one of the main characters, in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957).

[citation needed] Morris was first married to tobacco heiress Leonora (Bubbles) Schinasi; the couple later divorced.

Eighteen months later, Morris married the 19-year-old Patricia Ann O'Rourke at the Long Beach, California Naval Air Base February 25, 1942.

[3] Aged 45, Morris died of a coronary occlusion on September 14, 1959, aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard.