VIC MORROW
Name: Vic Morrow
Born: 14 February 1929 New York City, USA
Died: 23 July 1982 Indian Dunes, Ventura County, California, USA
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. 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.
Vic Morrow, along with two Vietnamese children My-Ca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi
Chen, died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. At the time of his death,
Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a bigot who was taken back in time
and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: a Jewish
Holocaust victim, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a
Vietnamese man about to be killed by United States soldiers. Morrow was 53, Le
was 7, Chen was 6.
Name: Vic Morrow
Born: 14 February 1929 New York City, USA
Died: 23 July 1982 Indian Dunes, Ventura County, California, USA
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. 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.
Vic Morrow, along with two Vietnamese children My-Ca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi
Chen, died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. At the time of his death,
Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a bigot who was taken back in time
and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: a Jewish
Holocaust victim, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a
Vietnamese man about to be killed by United States soldiers. Morrow was 53, Le
was 7, Chen was 6.