Vic Morrow Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Vic Morrow was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jean (Kress) and Harry Morrow, an electrical engineer. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants. Morrow dropped out of high school at 17 to join the U.S. Navy. When he left the Navy, he used the G.I. Bill to study pre-law at Florida State. While Morrow was working on his degree in Law, he also took ...
Full Name
Vic Morrow
Net Worth
$1 Million
Date Of Birth
February 14, 1929
Died
July 23, 1982, Ventura County, California, United States
Death Cause
Accidental decapitation
Place Of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Height
1.75 m
Profession
Actor, Soldier, Screenwriter, Television Director
Education
Florida State University
Nationality
American
Spouse
Gale Lester, Barbara Turner
Children
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Carrie Ann Morrow
Parents
Harry Morrow, Jean Morrow
Siblings
George Morrow
Nicknames
Vic Morrow, Morrow, Vic
IMDB
Movies
Twilight Zone: The Movie, Blackboard Jungle, The Bad News Bears, Monster, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, King Creole, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Great White, Message from Space, A Man Called Sledge, Men in War, Cimarron, God's Little Acre, Portrait of a Mobster, The Glass House, Treasure of Matecumbe, The ...
[his half-joking aside to a PA, shortly before filming the fateful helicopter sequence for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)] "How did I let them talk me into doing this scene? I should have asked for a stunt double."
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[on the success of his movie Blackboard Jungle (1955)] "Sure, the reviews were great...but you would've thought they'd picked me up out of an ashtray, and made me a star. Hell, I'd already done Shakespeare and Chekhov and all those other cats."
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Fact
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While he was filming Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) in 1973, he insisted on having a one million dollar life insurance policy before he would shoot any scenes involving the helicopter he was due to ride in. He was very insistent, and when asked why, Morrow replied "I have always had a premonition I was going to die in a helicopter crash!". As Morrow was waiting to film what would turn out to be scene that killed him in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), he said to a production assistant, "I must be out of my mind to be doing this. I should've asked for a stunt double. What can they do but kill me, right?!".
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Born on February 14, 1929, the same day as the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, an event strongly associated with the Thompson submachine gun. As Sergeant Chip Saunders in "Combat!" (1962), he became an iconic figure also strongly associated with the Thompson submachine gun.
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Morrow had an elder brother, George, born 1924.
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His epitaph was written by daughter Carrie Ann Morrow. It reads, "I loved him as 'Dad'; to everyone else he was 'Vic'".
The pilot episode of his TV series Combat! (1962), was directed by Boris Sagal. Two decades after collaborating, Sagal and Morrow would die almost exactly the same way (struck by a helicopter's rotor blade)...within a year of each other, both while shooting a movie on location. For Sagal, it was World War III (1982); for Morrow, it was Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).
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Personally thanked director John Landis for the opportunity to star in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). Morrow was excited about what turned out to be his final film, considering it a welcome change of pace from the myriad (and mostly-foreign) B-pictures he had been forced to fall back on during most of the 1970s.
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Despite playing heavies before and since, plus Saunders in "Combat", Morrow disliked guns. This according to Combat Co-star Rick Jason, who said Vic turned down his offer to shoot skeet, by saying he "can't stand to kill clay"
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At the time of his death, he had a pet dog named Macho.
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His parents, Harry Morrow (Morozoff) and Jeanette Kress, were both Russian Jewish immigrants.
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Interred at Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, California, USA.
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Killed, along with two Vietnamese child actors, in a freak accident on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) when a hovering helicopter crashed landed on top of them, in which the top rotor blades decapitated Morrow and one of the children, and crushing to death the second one.
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Attented school in the bronx with producer Brandon Chase
