Morgens
Created by Sydney Sheldon

Art Carney plays MORGENS, a rumpled, eccentric Chicago gumshoe who lives in a dumpy apartment surrounded by timepieces and way too many cats, in a memorable (if not central) role in the film adaptation of The Naked Face (1970), an Edgar-winning Sidney Sheldon novel that the New York Times called "the best first mystery of the year."

Morgens is hired by psychoanalyst Dr. Judd Stevens (Roger Moore) who chooses his name at random from the Yellow Pages at random, after the police try to link him with several murders.

Carney also played a private eye in 1977's The Late Show.

NOVEL

• The Naked Face (1970)... Buy this book.. Kindle it!

FILM

• THE NAKED FACE
  (1984, Cannon)
  103 minutes
  Screenplay by Bryan Forbes
  Based on ther novel by Sidney Sheldon
  Directed by Bryan Forbes
  Starring Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliot Gould
  and Art Carney as MORGENS
  Also featuring Anne Archer, David Hedison, Deanna Dunagan, Ron Parady

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.