Vic Morrow

Victor "Vic" Morrow (February 14, 1929 - July 23, 1982) born Bronx, New York, USA was a Jewish-American actor. Morrow dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Navy at age seventeen. 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. His 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 director. After COMBAT! ended, he worked in made for TV movies and several films.

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 him and one of the children with its blades. The remaining child was crushed as the helicopter crashed. Everyone inside the helicopter was unharmed. 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 in Culver City, California.

Morrow was the father of actresses Jennifer Jason Leigh and Carrie Morrow.

External links

• Morrow, Vic at the Internet Movie Database
• Filmography
• All About the Twilight Zone Tragedy (crimelibrary.com)
• Find A Death - Vic Morrow
• Article on Twilight Zone tragedy, written by friend and COMBAT! co-star Dick 'Little John' Peabody