Victor Morrow was an American actor and director. He was best known for his starring role in the 1960s ABC television series Combat! Morrow also gained notice for his roles in movies Blackboard Jungle, King Creole, God’s Little Acre, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, and The Bad News Bears. Morrow and two child actors were killed in 1982 by a stunt helicopter crash during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie.
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Victor Morrow was an American actor and director. He was best known for his starring role in the 1960s ABC television series Combat! Morrow also gained notice for his roles in movies Blackboard Jungle, King Creole, God’s Little Acre, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, and The Bad News Bears. Morrow and two child actors were killed in 1982 by a stunt helicopter crash during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Morrow was born in the New York City borough of the Bronx, to a middle-class Jewish family. He dropped out of high school when he was 17 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Morrow had support roles in Men in War, directed by Anthony Mann, and he was third billed in Hell’s Five Hours. He starred alongside Elvis Presley and an all-star supporting cast including Walter Matthau and Carolyn Jones in the movie King Creoles. Morrow remained mostly a TV actor, appearing 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, The Tall Man, Outlaws, Bonanza and The Untouchables. He produced the 1965 film Deathwatch, an English-language version of Genet’s play Haute Surveillance. He also worked as a television director with Leonard Nimoy and Barbara Turner, starring in the pilot for The Hills Are for Heroes, which was written by Gene Lon Coon. He died in a car crash in Los Angeles, California, on November 17, 2007. He is survived by his wife, Jean, and their two children. He had a son, Michael, and a daughter, Emily. He has a son and a step-daughter, both of whom are actresses, and two step-daughters, who are also actors. Morrow is buried in New Jersey, where he lived with his wife Jean.
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