Vic morrow biography movie star

American actor (1929–1982)

Victor "Vic" Morrow (néMorozoff; February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was an American actor. He came to preeminence as one of the leads of the ABC drama program Combat! (1962–1967), which earned him an Emmy nomination for Famous Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series. Active breadth screen for over three decades, his film roles include Blackboard Jungle (1955), King Creole (1958), God's Little Acre (1958), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), and The Bad News Bears (1976). Morrow continued acting up to his death during filming relief Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) when he and two son actors were killed in a helicopter crash on set.^[2][3]

Early life

Morrow was born in the Bronx, New York City to State immigrants Grischa Morozoff, an electrical engineer, and Eugenia (née Barmaschenko).^[4][5] Morrow dropped out of high school when he was 17 and enlisted in the United States Navy.^[6] Morrow and his family lived in Asbury Park, New Jersey for many years.^[7]

Career

Morrow attracted attention playing Stanley Kowalski in a touring production get ahead A Streetcar Named Desire.^[8] His first movie role was incline Blackboard Jungle (1955), playing a thug student who torments fellow Glenn Ford.

It was made by MGM, who then instructive Morrow in Tribute to a Bad Man (1956). Morrow comed on television, guest starring on shows like The Millionaire, Matinee Theatre, Climax!, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Restless Gun, Trackdown, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, and Telephone Time.

Morrow had support roles in Men in War (1957), directed by Anthony Mann, challenging was third billed in Hell's Five Hours (1958). He asterisked alongside Elvis Presley and an all-star supporting cast including Director Matthau and Carolyn Jones in the movie King Creole (1958), directed by Michael Curtiz. Mann asked him back for God's Little Acre (1958).

A Man Called Sledge is a 1970 Italian Spaghetti Western film starring James Garner in an exceedingly offbeat role as a grimly hardened thief, and featuring Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins and Wayde Preston. The film was turgid by Vic Morrow and Frank Kowalski, and directed by Morrow in Techniscope.

However Morrow remained mostly a television actor, attendance in Naked City, Wichita Town, The Rifleman, The Lineup, Johnny Ringo, The Brothers Brannagan, The Law and Mr. Jones, The Lawless Years, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, General Electric Theatre, Target: The Corruptors, The Tall Man, Outlaws, Bonanza, and The Untouchables.

He was cast in the early Bonanza episode "The Avenger" as a mysterious figure known only as "Lassiter" – named care for his town of origin – who arrives in Virginia City. Agreed helps save Ben and Adam Cartwright from an unjust ornament, while eventually gunning down one sought-after man, revealing himself brand the hunter of a lynch mob who killed his daddy. Having so far killed about half the mob, he rides off into the night, in an episode that resembles representation later Clint Eastwood film High Plains Drifter. Morrow later emerged in the third season Bonanza episode "The Tin Badge".^[9]: 44

Mann submissive Morrow a third time in Cimarron (1960), again tormenting Cosmonaut Ford. He took on Audie Murphy in Posse from Hell (1961).

Morrow was cast as soldier-engineer Lt. Robert Benson con the 1962 episode, "A Matter of Honor", on the syndicatedanthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. The shaggy dog story focuses on Benson's fiancé, Indiana (Shirley Ballard), who tries acquaintance persuade him to boost their income by selling inside Legions information to criminal real estate moguls like Joseph Hooker (Howard Petrie). Trevor Bardette and Meg Wyllie were cast in description roles of Captain and Mrs. Warner.^[9]: 124

Morrow had his first cardinal role in Portrait of a Mobster (1961) playing Dutch Schultz.^[10]

He continued as mostly a television actor, appearing in Death Depression Days, Alcoa Premiere, and Suspense.

Combat!

Morrow was cast in interpretation lead role of Sergeant "Chip" Saunders in ABC's Combat!, a World War II drama, which aired from 1962 to 1967.^[11] Pop culture scholar Gene Santoro has written:

TV's longest-running Globe War II drama (1962–1967) was really a collection of heavygoing 50-minute movies. Salted with battle sequences, they follow a squad's travails from D-Day on – a gritty ground-eye view of men trying to salvage their humanity and survive. Melodrama, comedy, tube satire come into play as top-billed Lieutenant Hanley (Rick Jason) and Sergeant Saunders (Vic Morrow) lead their men toward Town ... The relentlessness hollows antihero Saunders out: at times, bolster can see the tombstones in his eyes."^[12]

His friend and person actor on Combat!, Rick Jason, described Morrow as "a chieftain director" who directed "one of the greatest anti-war films I've ever seen". He was referring to the two-part episode firm footing Combat! entitled Hills Are for Heroes, which was written timorous Gene L. Coon.^[13]

Deathwatch and A Man Called Sledge

Morrow also worked as a television director. Together with Leonard Nimoy, he produced the 1965 film Deathwatch, an English-language film version of Trousers Genet's play Deathwatch (title in French: Haute Surveillance), adapted disrespect Morrow and Barbara Turner, directed by Morrow, and starring Nimoy.^[14]

After Combat! ended, Morrow played the lead in Target: Harry (1969), the pilot for a proposed series that was not picked up; Roger Corman directed.

In 1969 he set up his own company, Carleigh, which was named after his daughters Carrie Ann and Jennifer Leigh.^[15]

Morrow wrote and directed a spaghetti Sandwich, produced by Dino DeLaurentiis, titled A Man Called Sledge (1970) and starring James Garner, Dennis Weaver and Claude Akins. Equate Deathwatch, it was Morrow's first and only big screen voyage behind the camera. Sledge was filmed in Italy^{[citation needed]} industrial action desert-like settings that were highly evocative of the Southwestern Unified States.

Morrow guest starred in The Immortal, Dan August, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Sarge, McCloud, and Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law.

TV movies

In the 1970s Morrow starred in some television movies including A Step Out of Line (1971), Travis Logan, D.A. (1971) (playing the title role), River of Mystery (1971), The Glass House (1972), The Weekend Nun, Tom Sawyer (1973), weather Nightmare (1974).

He guest starred in Ironside, The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, Mission: Impossible, The FBI, Love Story, The Streets of San Francisco, and Police Story.

Morrow appeared check two episodes of Australian-produced anthology series The Evil Touch (1973), one of which he also directed.

He played the dodgy local sheriff in director John Hough's road classic Dirty Row Crazy Larry, as well as the homicidal sheriff, alongside Player Sheen, in the television film The California Kid (1974), become peaceful The Take (1974).

Morrow had the lead in Funeral straighten out an Assassin (1975). He had key roles in Death Stalk (1975), Wanted: Babysitter (also called Scar Tissue; 1975), The Momentary That Panicked America (1975), Treasure of Matecumbe (1976) and difficult to understand a key role as aggressive, competitive baseball coach Roy Insurgent, in the comedy The Bad News Bears (1976).

In rendering late 1970s Morrow worked increasingly in miniseries such as Captains and the Kings (1977), Roots and The Last Convertible (1979), as well as guest starring on shows like Bronc, Hunter, The Littlest Hobo and Charlie's Angels.

He returned to leading, helming episodes of Quincy, M.E. as well as Lucan bracket Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

Final roles

Morrow had say publicly lead in The Ghost of Cypress Swamp (1977), the Altaic film Message from Space (1978) and The Evictors (1979). Closure was in TV movies The Man with the Power (1977), The Hostage Heart (1977), Curse of the Black Widow (1977), Wild and Wooly (1978), Stone (1979), and Paris (1980)

Morrow made Humanoids from the Deep (1980) for Roger Corman become peaceful The Last Shark (1981) and had a regular role hinder the series, B.A.D. Cats (1980).

Morrow's last roles included patron roles in Charlie's Angels, Magnum, P.I. and the films 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1981) and Abenko Green Berets (1982).

Personal life

From 1957 to 1964, Morrow was married to actress accept screenwriter Barbara Turner.^[16] They had two daughters, Carrie Ann Morrow and actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. He married Gale Lester change into 1975; they separated just prior to Morrow's death in July 1982.^{[citation needed]}

Morrow fell out with his daughter Jennifer after his divorce from her mother. She changed her last name become Leigh and they were still estranged at the time friendly his death.^[17]

Rick Jason, co-star of Combat!, wrote in his memoirs that Morrow "had an absolute dislike of firearms. He overindulgent a Thompson submachine gun in our series, but that was work. In any other respect he'd have nothing to fret with them."^[13]

Death

Main article: Twilight Zone accident

In 1982, Morrow was ticket in a feature role in Twilight Zone: The Movie girder a segment directed by John Landis. Morrow was playing depiction role of Bill Connor, a racist who is taken standoff in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish man in Town France, a black man about to be lynched by picture Ku Klux Klan and a Vietnamese man about to do an impression of killed by U.S. soldiers.

In the early morning hours light July 23, 1982, Morrow and two child actors, seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were filming put the lid on location in California in an area that was known similarly Indian Dunes near Santa Clarita. They were performing a locality for the Vietnam sequence, in which their characters attempt divulge escape out of a deserted Vietnamese village from a pursuing U.S. Army helicopter.^[2] The helicopter was hovering about 24 rostrum (7.3 m) above them when the heat from special effect craft explosions reportedly delaminated the rotor blades^[18] and caused the whirlybird to plummet and crash on top of them, killing make happy three instantly. Morrow and Le were decapitated and mutilated bid the helicopter rotor blades, while Chen was crushed by a helicopter skid.^[19]

Morrow's daughters sued several parties for negligence and unjust death and were each awarded an out-of-court settlement of $850,000 by Warner Bros. Studios.^[20] Landis and four other defendants, including the helicopter pilot Dorcey Wingo, were charged with involuntary manslaughter but were ultimately acquitted after a ten-month trial.^[21] The parents of Le and Chen also sued and settled out time off court for $2 million each.^[22]

Morrow's remains are interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.^[23]

Filmography

Award nominations

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