Vic Morrow was born in the Bronx, New York City, to a middle-class Jewish family.
24 Facts About Vic Morrow
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Vic Morrow was a son of Harry Morozoff, an electrical engineer, and his wife Jean Morozoff.
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Vic Morrow dropped out of high school when he was 17 and enlisted in the United States Navy.
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Vic Morrow attracted attention playing Stanley Kowalski in a touring production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Vic Morrow had support roles in Men in War, directed by Anthony Mann, and was third billed in Hell's Five Hours.
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Vic Morrow starred alongside Elvis Presley and an all-star supporting cast including Walter Matthau and Carolyn Jones in the movie King Creole, directed by Michael Curtiz.
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However Vic Morrow remained mostly a television 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, General Electric Theatre, Target: The Corruptors, The Tall Man, Outlaws, Bonanza, and The Untouchables.
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Vic Morrow later appeared in the third season Bonanza episode "The Tin Badge".
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Vic Morrow took on Audie Murphy in Posse from Hell.
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Vic Morrow had his first leading role in Portrait of a Mobster playing Dutch Schultz.
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Vic Morrow continued as mostly a television actor, appearing in Death Valley Days, Alcoa Premiere, and Suspense.
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Vic Morrow wrote and directed a Spaghetti Western, produced by Dino DeLaurentiis, titled A Man Called Sledge and starring James Garner, Dennis Weaver and Claude Akins.
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Vic Morrow guest starred in Ironside, The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, Mission: Impossible, The FBI, Love Story, The Streets of San Francisco, and Police Story.
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Vic Morrow appeared in two episodes of Australian-produced anthology series The Evil Touch, one of which he directed.
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Vic Morrow played the wily local sheriff in director John Hough's road classic Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, as well as the homicidal sheriff, alongside Martin Sheen, in the television film The California Kid, and The Take.
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Vic Morrow had the lead in Funeral for an Assassin.
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Vic Morrow had key roles in Death Stalk, Wanted: Babysitter, The Night That Panicked America, Treasure of Matecumbe and had a key role as aggressive, competitive baseball coach Roy Turner, in the comedy The Bad News Bears.
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Vic Morrow was in TV movies The Man with the Power, The Hostage Heart, Curse of the Black Widow, Wild and Wooly, Stone, Paris.
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Vic Morrow married Gale Lester in 1975, but they separated just prior to Morrow's death in July 1982.
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Vic Morrow fell out with his daughter Jennifer after his divorce from her mother.
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Vic Morrow changed her last name to Leigh and they were still estranged at the time of his death.
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Vic Morrow used a Thompson submachine gun in our series, but that was work.
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In 1982, Vic Morrow was cast in a feature role in Twilight Zone: The Movie, in a segment directed by John Landis.
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Vic Morrow's remains are interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.