Vic Morrow
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Victor Morrow (born Victor Morozoff, February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was an American actor and director whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s ABC television series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and film dramas, and numerous guest roles on television.
Morrow also gained notice for his roles in movies Blackboard Jungle (1955), King Creole (1958), God's Little Acre (1958), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), and The Bad News Bears (1976). Morrow and two child actors were killed in 1982 by a stunt helicopter crash during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Early years
Morrow was born in the New York City borough of the Bronx, to a middle-class Jewish family. He was a son of Harry Morozoff, an electrical engineer, and his wife Jean (Kress) Morozoff. Morrow dropped out of high school when he was 17 and enlisted in the United States Navy. Morrow and his family lived in Asbury Park, New Jersey for many years.
Personal life
In 1958, Morrow married actress and screenwriter Barbara Turner. They had two daughters, Carrie Ann Morrow (1958–2016) and actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (born 1962). Morrow's marriage to Turner ended in divorce after seven years. He married Gale Lester in 1975, but they separated just prior to Morrow's death in July 1982.
Morrow fell out with his daughter Jennifer after his divorce from her mother. She changed her last name to Leigh and they were still estranged at the time of his death.
Rick Jason, co-star of Combat!, wrote in his memoirs that Morrow "had an absolute dislike of firearms. He used a Thompson submachine gun in our series, but that was work. In any other respect he'd have nothing to do with them."
Career
In a touring performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, Morrow Attracted notice playing Stanley Kowalski. His first film appearance was in Blackboard Jungle (1955), as a thug student torments teacher Glenn Ford.
MGM created it, then added Morrow in Tribute to a Bad Man (1956). Morrow appeared on television, as a guest on programs including The Millionaire, Matinee Theatre, Climax!, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Restless Gun, Trackdown, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, and Telephone Time.
Morrow appeared in Men in War (1957), directed by Anthony Mann, and was third billed in Hell's Five Hours (1958). In the 1958 film King Creole (1958), directed by Michael Curtiz, he appeared alongside Elvis Presley and an all-star supporting cast, including Walter Matthau and Carolyn Jones. Mann asked him to visit God's Little Acre (1958).
Morrow, however, remained mainly a television actor, appearing in Naked City, Wichita Town, The Rifleman, Johnny Ringo, The Brothers Brannagan, The Law, and Mr. Jones, The Corruptors, The Tall Man, Outlaws, Bonanza, and The Untouchables.
He was cast in the early Bonanza episode "The Avenger" as a mysterious figure identified only as "Lassiter" after his hometown. He saves Ben and Adam Cartwright from an unjust hanging, while still killing half the population; in an episode that mimics Clint Eastwood's earlier film High Plains Drifter, he proceeds to gun down one sought-after man. Morrow appeared in the third season of Bonanza's "The Tin Badge."
Mann used Morrow in Cimarron (1960), a third time he screamed over Glenn Ford. Posse From Hell (1961) was he defeated Audie Murphy.
In the 1962 episode, "A Matter of Honor," directed by Stanley Andrews, Morrow was cast as soldier/engineer Lt. Robert Benson. The story revolves around Benson's fiancé, Indiana (Shirley Ballard), who is attempting to persuade him to increase their income by selling inside Army secrets to criminal real estate moguls like Joseph Hooker (Howard Petrie). In the roles of Captain and Mrs. Warner, Trevor Bardette and Meg Wyllie were cast.
Morrow appeared in Portrait of a Mobster (1961), playing Dutch Schultz, his first leading role.
He continued to act as mainly a television actor, appearing in Death Valley Days, Alcoa Premiere, and Suspense.
Morrow appeared in "Combat!," a World War II drama that aired from 1962 to 1967, with Sergeant "Chip" Saunders leading the cast. Gene Santoro, a pop culture scholar, has written: "Understand it," pop culture scholar Gene Santoro wrote:
Morrow's buddy and fellow actor on Combat!, Rick Jason, described him as "a master director" who produced "one of the finest anti-war films I've ever seen." He was referring to the two-part series of Combat! Hills Are for Heroes, a Gene L. Coon book that was written by them.
Morrow also served as a television producer. He co-produced the 1965 film Deathwatch, an English-language film version of Jean Genet's "Behavior" film version, directed by Morrow and Barbara Turner and directed by Morrow, as well as actor Nimoy.
After Combat!
Morrow, the pilot for a new series that was not picked up, was the lead; Roger Corman directed.Carleigh's founder started Carleigh in 1969.
Morrow wrote and directed a Spaghetti Western, directed by Dino DeLaurentiis (1970) and starring James Garner, Dennis Weaver, and Claude Akins. It was Morrow's first and only big screen outing behind the camera after Deathwatch. Sledge was shot in Italy in desert-like settings that were evocative of the Southwestern United States.
The Immortal, Dan August, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Sarge, McCloud, and Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, starred.
Morrow appeared in several television films, including A Step Out of Line (1971), Travis Logan, Washington, D.A. In the 1970s, Morrow appeared in A Step Out of Line (1971). (1971) (playing the title role), River of Myster (1971), The Glass House (1972), The Weekend Nun (1974), Nightmare (1974).
Mission: Impossible, The Love Story, The Streets of San Francisco, and Police Stories were among the guest stars in Ironside, The Bold Ones.
Morrow appeared in two episodes of Australian-produced anthology film The Evil Touch (1973), one of which he also directed.
In the television film The California Kid (1974), he portrayed the savvy local sheriff in John Hough's Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, as well as the homicidal sheriff.
In the funeral for an Assassin (1975), Morrow had the lead. In the film The Night That Panicked America (1975), Rick Tissue (1975), The Night That Panicked America (1975), He had a major role in Death Stalk (1975), Scar Tissue (1975), The Night That Panicked America (1975), Treasure of Matecumbe (1976), and Roy Turner, a strong, fair baseball coach, (1976).
Morrow spent more time in miniseries like Captains and the Kings (1977), Roots, and The Last Confederation (1979), as well as guest stars on shows such as Bronc, Hunter, The Littlest Hobo, and Charlie's Angels in the late 1970s.
He returned to directing and helming episodes of Quincy, M.E. Lucan and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, as well as Lucan and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.
Morrow had the lead in the 1979 film Message from Space (1978), which was based on Morrow's character. He appeared in television films The Man with the Power (1977), The Hostage Heart (1977), Curse of the Black Widow (1977), Stone (1979), Paris (1980).
Morrow made Humanoids from the Deep (1980) for Roger Corman and The Last Shark (1981) and appeared in the series B.A.D. (1980) Cats (1980).
Morrow's last appearances included guest appearances in Charlie's Angels, Magnum, P.I. The Bronx Warriors (1981) and Abenko Green Berets (1982) were two films from 1990.