Acting Career and Life Today
Morris took a break from touring to pursue a serious acting career. One of his first big roles was in the Broadway production of Les Misérables, as Jean Valjean. The full symphonic recording of "Les Misérables" is a platinum selling, Grammy Award-winning album and features Morris' version of Bring Him Home. Morris has also appeared in a production of Puccini's opera La Boheme with fellow country/pop singer Linda Ronstadt.
In the 1980s, he did a stint on The Colbys as a blind country music singer signed to Dominique Deveraux's label.
In the 1990s, he spent a great deal of time working on music projects, such as the PBS special concert production, in Moscow, Russia, in the famous Tretyakov Gallery. He returned to country music in the 1990s, performing in concerts and as a record producer. Morris hosted and also produced the Nashville network's The North American Sportsman.
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