Creator / Vic Morrow

Morrow ready for Combat! (the show).

Victor Morrow (born Victor Morozoff; February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was a Jewish-American actor and director best known for Combat! and The Bad News Bears.

He tragically died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, along with Asian-American child actors My-Ca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, when the stunt helicopter crashed near them and all three were killed by one of the rotor blades. Their deaths would cause massive changes to child labor laws and safety standards in Hollywood.

Vic was the father of actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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Filmography

Film roles

• Blackboard Jungle (1955) as Artie West
• Its A Dogs Life (1955) as Voice of Wildfire (uncredited)
• Tribute To A Bad Man (1956) as Lars Peterson
• Men In War (1957) as Cpl. Zwickley
• Hells Five Hours (1958) as Nash
• King Creole (1958) as Shark
• Gods Little Acre (1958) as Shaw Walden
• Cimarron (1960) as Wes Jennings
• Posse From Hell (1961) as Crip
• Portrait Of A Mobster (1961) as Dutch Schultz
• Target Harry (1969) as Harry Black
• A Man Called Sledge (1970) as Gold Guard Scout (uncredited)
• Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974) as Capt. Everett Franklin
• The Take (1974) as Manso
• Funeral For An Assassin (1974) as Michael Cardiff
• Wanted Babysitter (1975) as Vic, the Kidnapper
• The Bad News Bears (1976) as Coach Roy Turner
• Treasure Of Matecumbe (1976) as Spangler
• Message from Space (1978) as Gen. Garuda
• Humanoids from the Deep (1980) as Hank Slattery
• The Last Shark (1981) as Ron Hammer
• 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982) as Hammer the Exterminator
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) as Bill Connor (segment "Time Out"; posthumous role)

Television roles

• The Millionaire (1 episode, 1956) as Joey Diamond
• Climax (1 episode, 1956) as Ted
• Matinee Theatre (1 episode, 1957)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode, 1957) as Benny Mungo
• The Restless Gun (1 episode, 1957) as Wes Singer
• Trackdown (1 episode, 1957) as Stony Buckram
• Richard Diamond Private Detective (1 episode, 1958) as Jos Rovi
• Telephone Time (1 episode, 1958) as Bud Hand
• The Rifleman (2 episodes, 1958–59) as Brett Stocker/Johnny Cotton
• Naked City (1 episode, 1959) as David Greco
• Wichita Town (1 episode, 1959) as Jimmy Relson
• The Lineup (2 episodes, 1959) as Hansen/Lucas
• Johnny Ringo (1 episode, 1959) as Bill Stoner
• The Lawless Years (2 episodes, 1959–60) as Little Augie Orgen/Nick Joseph
• The Brothers Brannagan (1 episode, 1960) as Locke
• The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1 episode, 1960) as Leroy Benson
• Outlaws (3 episodes, 1960–61) as various
• Bonanza (2 episodes, 1960–61) as Ab Brock/Lassiter
• The Untouchables (2 episodes, 1960–62) as Collier/Vince Shirer
• The Law And Mr Jones (1 episode, 1961) as Dr. Bigelow
• General Electric Theater (1 episode, 1961) as Lt. Mikhail Loptev
• Target The Corruptors (1 episode, 1961) as Marty
• The Tall Man (1 episode, 1961) as Skip Farrell
• The New Breed (1 episode, 1962) as Bellman
• Death Valley Days (1 episode, 1962) as Lt. Robert Benson
• Alcoa Premiere (1 episode, 1962) as Carl Balderson
• Combat! (1962–67) as Sgt. Saunders
• Suspense (1 episode, 1964) as Tommy Linden
• The Immortal (1 episode, 1970) as Sheriff Dan W. Wheeler
• Dan August (1 episode, 1970) as Steve Harrison
• A Step Out Of Line (TV movie, 1971) as Joe Rawlins
• Travis Logan DA (TV movie, 1971) as Travis Logan
• River Of Mystery (TV movie, 1971) as Phil Munger
• Hawaii Five-O (1 episode, 1971) as Edward Heron
• Mannix (1 episode, 1971) as Eric Latimer
• Sarge (1 episode, 1971) as Lt. Ross Edmonds
• The F.B.I. (2 episodes, 1971–73) as John Stahl/Porter Bent
• McCloud (1 episode, 1972) as Dick
• Owen Marshall Counselor At Law (1 episode, 1972) as Andy Capaso
• The Glass House (TV movie, 1972) as Hugo Slocum
• Ironside (1 episode, 1972) as Dr. William Ritter
• The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1 episode, 1972) as Dr. William Ritter
• Mission: Impossible (1 episode, 1972) as Joseph Collins
• The Weekend Nun (TV movie, 1972) as Chuck Jardine
• Tom Sawyer (TV movie, 1973) as Injun Joe
• Love Story (1 episode, 1973) as Dave Walters
• The Streets of San Francisco (1 episode, 1973) as Vic Tolliman
• Police Story (3 episodes, 1973–74) as Sgt. Joe LaFrieda
• The Evil Touch (2 episodes, 1973–74) as Harold Parkhurst/Purvis Greene
• Nightmare (TV movie, 1974) as Det. Rausch
• The California Kid (TV movie, 1974) as Sheriff Roy Childress
• Death Stalk (TV movie, 1975) as Leo Brunner
• The Night That Panicked America (TV movie, 1975) as Hank Muldoon
• Bronk (1 episode, 1976) as Frank Carey
• Captains And The Kings (3 episodes, 1976) as Tom Hennessey
• Hunter (2 episodes, 1977) as Victor
• Roots (2 episodes, 1977) as Ames
• The Ghost Of Cypress Swamp (TV movie, 1977) as Tom Stone
• The Man With The Power (TV movie, 1977) as Paul
• The Hostage Heart (TV movie, 1977) as Steve Rockewicz
• Curse Of The Black Widow (TV movie, 1977) as Lt. Gully Conti
• Wild And Wooly (TV movie, 1978) as Warden Willis
• Charlie's Angels (2 episodes, 1978–80) as Harry Stearns/Mark Haines
• Greatest Heroes Of The Bible (1 episode, 1979) as Arioch
• Stone (1 episode, 1979) as Morgan Teekington
• The Last Convertible (3 episodes, 1979) as Chief Lonborg
• Paris (1 episode, 1979) as Julius Wellman
• The Littlest Hobo (1 episode, 1979) as Sam Powers
• The Seekers (2 episodes, 1979) as Leland Pell
• BAD Cats (9 episodes, 1980) as Capt. Eugene Nathan
• Magnum, P.I. (1 episode, 1981) as Police Sgt. Jordan
• Fantasy Island (1 episode, 1982) as Douglas Picard

As director

• Combat (7 episodes)
• Deathwatch
• A Man Called Sledge
• The Evil Touch (1 episode)
• Quincy, M.E. (1 episode)
• Lucan (1 episode)
• Disney's Wonderful World (1 episode)

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