Vic Morrow
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Victor Morrow (born February 14, 1929 in the Bronx, New York, USA – died July 23, 1982;) was an American actor.
Morrow dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Navy at age 17. After leaving the Navy, he studied pre-law at Florida State University, where he became involved in the study of acting. He enrolled in the Actors' Workshop school in New York.
Morrow's first movie role was in Blackboard Jungle (1955). After this movie, he went into television and was cast in the TV series COMBAT! (1962-1967), in which he also worked as a television director. After COMBAT! ended, he worked in made-for-TV movies and several films. Morrow appeared in two episodes of Australian-produced anthology series The Evil Touch (1973), one of which he also directed. He memorably played the homicidal sheriff alongside Martin Sheen in the 1974 TV film The California Kid, and had a key role in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears.
Morrow died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie while holding two small children (Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen). A helicopter being used on the set spun out of control and crashed, decapitating Morrow and one of the children and crushing the other.[1] The six occupants inside the helicopter sustained minor injuries. The accident led to massive reforms in U.S. child labor laws and safety regulations on movie sets in California.
Vic Morrow is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Morrow is the father of actresses Jennifer Jason Leigh and Carrie Morrow.
[edit] External links
- Vic Morrow at the Internet Movie Database
- Filmography
- Twilight Zone Tragedy at crimelibrary.com
- Find A Death - Vic Morrow
- Article on Twilight Zone tragedy, written by friend and COMBAT! co-star Dick 'Little John' Peabody
- Sculptural Tribute to Actor Vic Morrow
- NTSB Accident Investigation Report
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