Most Recent Role: Douglas Picard on Fantasy Island
Gender: Male
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York, USA
Birthday: 2-14-1929
Birth Name: Victor Morrow
Date of Death: 7-23-1982
Cause of Death: Helicopter Accident
Gender: Male
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York, USA
Birthday: 2-14-1929
Birth Name: Victor Morrow
Date of Death: 7-23-1982
Cause of Death: Helicopter Accident
Vic Morrow was born in the Bronx, N.Y., on February 14, 1929. He, along with a bother and sister, were raised in a typical, middle class, Jewish family. Vic's father was an electrical engineer.
At age 17, feeling "restless, rebellious, and stifled" (Dern 31), Vic Morrow quit high school and joined the Navy. After completing his hitch, he earned his diploma at night school. He then enrolled...
Most Recent Appearance
The Challenge / A Genie Named Joe
Saturday 13 February 1982 on ABC
In "The Challenge" Douglas Picard, the richest man in the world comes to the Island with specific intentions of claiming it for his own. And in "A Genie Named Joe" Rebecca Walters a florist wishes to meet and marry the man of her dreams and ends up encountering a two-thousand-year-old genie...
His first wife Barbara Turner arranged his funeral.
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The accident that killed him and two small children led to massive reforms in U.S. child labor laws and safety regulations on movie sets in California.
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He had a key role in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears.
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After COMBAT! ended, he worked in made-for-TV movies.
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He has been in 23 movies.
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(His half-joking aside to a PA, shortly before filming the fateful helicopter sequence for Twilight Zone: The Movie)
Vic: ...I gotta be crazy to do this scene. I should've asked for a stunt double. (edit) (on his movie The Blackboard Jungle)
Vic: ...Sure, the reviews were great--But you'd have thought they'd picked me up out of an ashtray, or something, and made me a star. Hell, I'd already done Shakespeare and Chekhov and all those other cats. (edit)
Vic: ...I gotta be crazy to do this scene. I should've asked for a stunt double. (edit) (on his movie The Blackboard Jungle)
Vic: ...Sure, the reviews were great--But you'd have thought they'd picked me up out of an ashtray, or something, and made me a star. Hell, I'd already done Shakespeare and Chekhov and all those other cats. (edit)
Other Appearances
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B.A.D. Cats
Capt. Eugene Nathan |
Combat!
Sgt. Saunders |
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Roots
Mr. Ames |
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Combat!
Saunders |
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Alcoa Premiere
All My Clients Are Innocent Carl Balderson |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A Little Sleep Bennie Mungo |
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Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Key to a Killer Leroy Benson |
Bonanza
The Avenger Lassiter |
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Bonanza
The Tin Badge Ab Brock |
Charlie's Angels
Angel in Hiding (1) Harry Stearns |
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Combat!
Cry in the Ruins |
Combat!
Gulliver |
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Combat!
Hills Are For Heroes (1) |
Combat!
Losers Cry Deal |
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Combat!
The Glory Among Men |
Combat!
The Pillbox |
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"Underrated"Superb What a brilliant actor Vic Morrow was. All you have to do is watch an old episode of Combat! and realize how much this actor deserved the Emmy for his performance of Sergeant Saunders. Great highly underrated actor. Continue » Posted Jul 30, 2005 9:39 am PST |
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