Henry Morgan



Dr Henry Morgan is the protagonist of Forever and he is compared to Sherlock Holmes. Dr Henry Morgan is played by Ioan Gruffudd.

Doctor Henry Morgan, born September 19, 1779, is a New York City medical examiner who studies the dead for criminal cases and to solve the mystery of his own immortality. Since his first death on April 7, 1814 while a doctor in the African slave trade, Morgan disappears almost immediately when he dies, and returns to life naked in a nearby body of water. His repeated deaths have given him insight and increased medical knowledge on human mortality— as well as his condition giving him such advantages as the ability to identify a poison based on how it kills him— while his long life has allowed him to pick up a great deal of knowledge about human nature. He has been married at least twice; his first wife, who he married before he became immortal, had him committed to an asylum because she thought his stories showed that he had gone insane, and his second wife, Abigail, died at some point between the 1950s and the present. In the 1880s, Henry was a part of the investigation into Jack the Ripper in London. He abandoned his original career as a doctor on October 8, 1956 after he and a butcher were shot by a gangster and Henry chose to crawl away and die when he could have stayed to try and save the other man, feeling that he couldn't be a doctor when he was willing to abandon his duty to preserve his own secret.