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1. Twilight Zone Vic Morrow Scenes

Morrow was a veteran actor of both TV and film. His credits include the hit World War II series 'Combat!' And the groundbreaking film 'Blackboard Jungle' and TV miniseries 'Roots.' But by 1982 it had been some years since his last big role, and appearing in 'Twilight Zone: The Movie' could have marked his comeback. In 1982, Morrow was cast in a feature role in Twilight Zone: The Movie, in a segment directed by John Landis.Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a racist who is taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish Holocaust victim, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by U.S.

On July 23, 1982, a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes^[2] in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash killed three people on the ground (actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen) and injured the six helicopter passengers. The incident led to years of civil and criminal action and was responsible for the introduction of new procedures and safety standards in the filmmaking industry.

Twilight Zone Vic Morrow Scenes

Background[edit]

The film featured four sequences, one of which was based on a 1961 Twilight Zone episode, 'A Quality of Mercy'. In the script, character Bill Connor (Morrow), an American office worker, is transported back in time to the midst of the Vietnam War, where he has become a Vietnamese man protecting two children from American troops.^[3]

Director John Landis violated California's child labor laws by hiring seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le (Vietnamese: Myca Đinh Lê) and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen (Chinese: 陳欣怡; pinyin: Chén Xīnyí)^[4] without the required permits.^[3] Landis and several other staff members were also responsible for a number of labor violations connected with other people involved in the accident, which came to light after the incident.^[5][6]

Le and Chen were being paid under the table to circumvent California's child labor laws, which did not permit children to work at night. Landis opted not to seek a special waiver, either because he did not think he would get permission for such a late hour or because he knew he would not get approval to have young children in a scene with a large number of explosives. The casting agents were unaware that the children would be involved in the scene. Associate producer George Folsey, Jr. told the children's parents not to tell any firefighters on set that the children were part of the scene, and hid them from a fire safety officer who also worked as a welfare worker. A fire safety officer was concerned the blasts would cause a crash, but did not tell Landis of his concerns.^[3][7] Morrow's friend and former Combat! co-star Dick Peabody wrote that Morrow's last words a few minutes before the accident were 'I've got to be crazy to do this shot. I should've asked for a double.'^[8]

Accident[edit]

The filming location was a ranch, Indian Dunes, that was used through the 1980s in films and television shows, including The Color Purple, Escape From New York, MacGyver and China Beach. The location was popular; it was within the 30-mile zone, its wide-open area allowed for more pyrotechnic effects, and it was possible to shoot night scenes without city lights visible in the background. Additionally, Indian Dunes' 600 acres (2.4 km²) featured a wide topography—green hills, dry desert, dense woods, and jungle-like riverbeds along the Santa Clara River—that made it suitable to double for locations around the world, including Afghanistan, Myanmar, Brazil, and in particular, Vietnam.^[2][9]

The night scene called for Morrow's character to carry the two children out of a deserted village and across a shallow river while being pursued by US soldiers in a hovering helicopter. The helicopter was piloted by Vietnam War veteran Dorcey Wingo.^[10][11] During the filming of the scene, Wingo stationed his helicopter 25 feet (7.6 m) from the ground and, while hovering near a large mortar effect, he turned the aircraft 180 degrees to the left for the next camera shot.^[12] The effect was detonated while the helicopter's tail-rotor was still above it, causing the rotor to fail and detach from the tail. The low-flying helicopter spun out of control. At the same time this happened, Morrow dropped Chen into the water. As Morrow was reaching out to grab Chen, the helicopter fell on top of Morrow and the two children. Morrow and Le were decapitated by the helicopter's main rotor blades while Chen was crushed to death by the helicopter's right landing skid; all three died instantaneously.^[5]

At the subsequent trial, the defense claimed that the explosions were detonated at the wrong time. Randall Robinson, an assistant cameraman on board the helicopter, testified that production manager Dan Allingham told Wingo, 'That's too much. Let's get out of here,' when the explosions were detonated, but Landis shouted over the radio: 'Get lower.. lower! Get over [lower]!' Robinson said that Wingo tried to leave the area, but that 'we lost our control and regained it and then I could feel something let go and we began spinning around in circles.'^[13] Stephen Lydecker, also a camera operator on board, testified that Landis had earlier 'shrugged off' warnings about the stunt with the comment 'We may lose the helicopter.'^[14] While Lydecker acknowledged that Landis may have been joking when he made the remark, he said: 'I learned not to take anything the man said as a joke. It was his attitude. He didn't have time for suggestions from anybody.'^[15]

Investigation[edit]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had just instituted regulations in March of that year to define how aircraft were to be regulated during film and television productions. The new regulations, however, only covered fixed-wing aircraft and not helicopters. As a result of the fatal accident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended that the terms be extended to apply to all types of aircraft.^[16]

Aftermath[edit]

According to cinema journalist Charles Tashiro, it was eminently foreseeable that in determining culpability, the system would look to the director in charge—Landis—instead of to larger, systemic problems that may have enabled the accident:

On location, the crew photographing the scene is directed by someone who has been encouraged to believe he should create the most spectacular image his imagination and budget will allow. Since one law (forbidding child labor after hours) has already been broken, the precedent for ignoring constraints has been set. Because of this indifference of the critical community, the effort becomes strictly formal and legal, rather than moral or political. Since the ideology of singular creation and responsibility structures the thinking about film workers and studio executives and is fundamental to the legal system itself, the search for blame is directed toward finding the individuals responsible for the 'accident'.^[17]

The accident led to civil and criminal action against the filmmakers which lasted nearly a decade. Le's father, Daniel Lee, testified that he heard Landis instructing the helicopter to fly lower.^[18] All four parents testified that they were never told that there would be helicopters or explosives on set, and were reassured that there would be no danger, only noise.^[19] Lee, who survived the Vietnam War and immigrated with his wife to the United States, was horrified when the explosions began on the Vietnamese village set, bringing back memories of the war.^[20][21]

Landis, Folsey, Wingo, production manager Dan Allingham, and explosives specialist Paul Stewart were tried and acquitted on charges of manslaughter in a nine-month trial in 1986 and 1987.^[7][22] Morrow's family settled within a year;^[23] the children's families collected millions of dollars from several civil lawsuits.^[24]

As a result of the accident, second assistant director Andy House had his name removed from the credits and replaced with the pseudonym 'Alan Smithee.'^[7] It was the first time in the history of Hollywood that a director was charged due to a fatality on a set.^[24][25] The trial was described as 'long, controversial and bitterly divisive'.^[24]

Mark Locher, a spokesman for the Screen Actors Guild, said at the conclusion of the trial: 'The entire ordeal has shaken the industry from top to bottom.. with every actor concerned about their own safety [and] studio managements saying 'let's not take a risk.'^[25]Warner Bros. set up dedicated safety committees to establish acceptable standards 'for every aspect of filmmaking, from gunfire to fixed-wing aircraft to smoke and pyrotechnics.'^[10][25] The standards are regularly issued as Safety Bulletins and published as the Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) Safety Manual for Television & Feature Production. The IIPP manual, 'a general outline of safe work practices to be used as a guideline for productions to provide a safe work environment', is distributed to all studio employees.^[10][26]

The Directors Guild of America's safety committee began publishing regular safety bulletins for its members and established a telephone hotline to 'enable directors to get quick answers to safety questions.'^[25][27] The guild also began to discipline its members for violations of its safety procedures on sets, which it had not done prior to the crash.^[25] The Screen Actors Guild introduced a 24-hour hotline and safety team for its members and 'encouraged members to use the right of refusal guaranteed in contracts if they believe a scene is unsafe.'^[28]

Following the incident, accidents during filming between 1982 and 1986 fell by 69.6%, although there were still six deaths on sets.^[25][28] Speaking in 1987, film producer Saul David warned, however: 'I think ostensibly there will be more caution for a time. But, in effect, if they had the same shot to do again they would find a way to do it. If the audience says it wants more death-defying and terrible stunts, [the filmmakers] are going to give them more death-defying and terrifying stunts.'^[28]

Landis' career was not significantly affected by the incident, although he said in 1996: 'There was absolutely no good aspect about this whole story. The tragedy, which I think about every day, had an enormous impact on my career, from which it may possibly never recover.'^[24][28][29]

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who co-produced the film with Landis, broke off their friendship following the accident.^[11][30] Spielberg said that the crash had 'made me grow up a little more' and had left everyone who worked on the movie 'sick to the center of our souls'.^[31] With regard to how the crash had influenced people's attitudes towards safety, he said: 'No movie is worth dying for. I think people are standing up much more now than ever before to producers and directors who ask too much. If something isn't safe, it's the right and responsibility of every actor or crew member to yell, 'Cut!'^[31]

References[edit]

1. ^'FAA Registry (N87701)'. Federal Aviation Administration.
2. ^ ^abArkush, Michael (November 9, 1990). 'Hollywood Loses a Vietnam: Indian Dunes: TV and movie producers mourn the impending new role of the popular Valencia shooting location'. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 18, 2019.
3. ^ ^abcNoe, Denise. 'The Twilight Zone Tragedy: Introduction'. Crime Library. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
4. ^Grave of Renee Shin-Yi Chen
5. ^ ^abNoe, Denise. 'The Twilight Zone Tragedy: Out of the Twilight Zone'. Crime Library. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
6. ^Murray, Robin L.; Heumann, Joseph K. Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. p. 17. ISBN9780791477175.
7. ^ ^abcFarber, Stephen; Green, Marc (1988). Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and the Twilight Zone Case. Arbor House (Morrow).
8. ^Peabody, Dick. 'In Harm's Way: Vic Morrow's death on the set of the Twilight Zone movie'. jodavidsmeyer.com. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
9. ^Puig, Claudia (February 17, 1987). 'Twilight Zone' Site: Indian Dunes Remains a Star In All Its Guises'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
10. ^ ^abcWeintraub, Robert (July 26, 2012). 'A New Dimension of Filmmaking'. Slate. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
11. ^ ^abFarber, Stephen; Green, Marc (August 28, 1988). 'TRAPPED IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE: A Year After the Trial, Six Years After the Tragedy, the Participants Have Been Touched in Surprisingly Different Ways'. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
12. ^SAFETY RECOMMENDATION(S) A-84-16(PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. 1984. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
13. ^'Pilot Voiced Fears, 'Zone' Coworker Says'. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. January 6, 1987. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2013. – via HighBeam (subscription required)
14. ^Special To The New York Times (January 8, 1987). 'Warning on Accident on Film Set Described'. The New York Times.
15. ^''Twilight' Cameraman Lost Work'. The Washington Post. Washington , D.C. January 8, 1987. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2013. – via HighBeam (subscription required)
16. ^Aircraft Accident Report Western Helicopters, Inc. Bell UH-1B, N87701 Valencia, California, July 23, 1982(PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. 1982. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
17. ^Tashiro, Charles S. (May 1, 2002). 'The Twilight Zone of Contemporary Hollywood Production'. Cinema Journal. 41 (3): 34. doi:10.1353/cj.2002.0011. ISSN1527-2087.
18. ^'Parents tell of deaths on set of movie'. The Day, New London, Conn. AP. January 12, 1984. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
19. ^'MOTHER RECOUNTS MOVIE-SET DEATHS'. The New York Times. AP. January 11, 1984. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
20. ^'Mom Breaks Down In 'Twilight' Trial'. The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR. AP. January 12, 1984. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
21. ^Farber, Stephen; Green, Marc (August 28, 1988). 'TRAPPED IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
22. ^Feldman, Paul (May 29, 1987). 'John Landis Not Guilty in 3 'Twilight Zone' Deaths: Jury Also Exonerates Four Others'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
23. ^Noe, Denise. 'The Twilight Zone Tragedy: Funerals and Blame'. Crime Library. Archived from the original on March 10, 2014. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
24. ^ ^abcdMcBride, Joseph (2010). Steven Spielberg: A Biography. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. p. 344. ISBN9781604738377.
25. ^ ^abcdefDavis, Ivor (June 1, 1987). 'Trial shakes film industry'. The Times. London. p. 7.
26. ^'Injury and Illness Prevention Program'. Warner Bros. 2013. Archived from the original on August 25, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
27. ^Thompson, Anne (September 8, 1988). 'Unseemly Hush Greets 'Twilight Zone' Book'. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
28. ^ ^abcdArmstrong, Scott (June 1, 1987). 'Filmmakers tackle safety issue'. The Christian Science Monitor. Boston, MA. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
29. ^Andrews, Nigel (August 5, 1996). 'Golden boy howls at the moon: John Landis was feted in Hollywood for his comedies – then it all changed'. Financial Times. London. p. 11.
30. ^Kirchner, Lisa (January 19, 2012). 'An Interview with Director John Landis'. cineAWESOME!. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
31. ^ ^abMcBride, Joseph (2010). Steven Spielberg: A Biography. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. p. 350. ISBN9781604738360.

Further reading[edit]

• Farber, Stephen; Green, Marc (June 1988). Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and the Twilight Zone Case. New York, NY: Arbor House/William Morrow. ISBN9780877959489.
• LaBrecque, Ron (1988). Special Effects: Disaster at 'Twilight Zone' The Tragedy and the Trial. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN0684189437.
• Chopper Down: Helicopter Deaths In The Movies (movie)

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Victor Morrow (born Victor Morozoff, February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was an American actor and director whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s ABC television series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and film dramas, and numerous guest roles on television. Morrow also gained notice for his roles in movies Blackboard Jungle (1955), King Creole (1958), God's Little Acre (1958), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), and The Bad News Bears (1976).

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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Biography[edit]

Background[edit]

Morrow was born in the New York Cityborough of the Bronx, to a middle-class Jewish family.^[2] He was a son of Harry Morozoff, an electrical engineer, and his wife Jean (Kress) Morozoff.^[3]

Morrow dropped out of high school when he was 17 and enlisted in the United States Navy.

Early roles[edit]

Morrow attracted attention playing Stanley Kowalski in a touring production of A Streetcar Named Desire.^[4] His first movie role was in Blackboard Jungle (1955), playing a thug student who torments teacher Glenn Ford.

It was made by MGM, who then put Morrow in Tribute to a Bad Man (1956). Morrow appeared in TV, guest starring on shows like The Millionaire, Matinee Theatre, Climax!, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Restless Gun, Trackdown, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, and Telephone Time.

Morrow had support roles in Men in War (1957), directed by Anthony Mann, and he was third billed in Hell's Five Hours (1958). He starred alongside Elvis Presley and an all-star supporting cast including Walter Matthau and Carolyn Jones in the movie King Creole (1958), directed by Michael Curtiz. Mann asked him back for God's Little Acre (1958).

However 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, General Electric Theatre, Target: The Corruptors, The Tall Man, Outlaws, Bonanza and The Untouchables.

He was cast in the early Bonanza episode 'The Avenger' as a mysterious figure known only as 'Lassiter' – named after his town of origin – who arrives in Virginia City, and helps save Ben and Adam Cartwright from an unjust hanging, while eventually gunning down one sought-after man, revealing himself as a hunter of a lynch mob who killed his father; having so far killed about half the mob, he rides off into the night,^[5] in an episode that resembles the later Clint Eastwood film High Plains Drifter. Morrow later appeared in the third season Bonanza episode The Tin Badge.^[6]

Mann used Morrow a third time in Cimarron (1960), again tormenting Glenn Ford. He took on Audie Murphy in Posse from Hell (1961).

Morrow was cast as soldier/engineer Lt. Robert Benson in the 1962 episode, 'A Matter of Honor', on the syndicatedanthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. The story focuses on Benson's fiance, Indiana (Shirley Ballard) (1925–2012), who tries to persuade him to boost their income by selling inside Army information to criminal real estate moguls like Joseph Hooker (Howard Petrie). Trevor Bardette and Meg Wyllie were cast in the roles of Captain and Mrs. Warner.^[7]

Leading man[edit]

Morrow had his first leading role in Portrait of a Mobster (1961) playing Dutch Schultz.^[8]

He continued as mostly a TV actor, appearing in Death Valley Days, Alcoa Premiere, and Suspense.

Combat![edit]

Morrow was cast in the lead role of Sergeant 'Chip' Saunders in ABC'sCombat!, a World War II drama, which aired from 1962–1967.^[9] Pop culture scholar Gene Santoro has written:

TV's longest-running World War II drama (1962–1967) was really a collection of complex 50-minute movies. Salted with battle sequences, they follow a squad's travails from D-Day on – a gritty ground-eye view of men trying to salvage their humanity and survive. Melodrama, comedy, and satire come into play as top-billed Lieutenant Hanley (Rick Jason) and Sergeant Saunders (Vic Morrow) lead their men toward Paris .. The relentlessness hollows antihero Saunders out: at times, you can see the tombstones in his eyes.'^[10]

His friend and fellow actor on Combat!, Rick Jason, described Morrow as 'a master director' who directed 'one of the greatest anti-war films I've ever seen'. He was referring to the two-part episode of Combat! entitled Hills Are for Heroes, which was written by Gene L. Coon.^[11]

Deathwatch and A Man Called Sledge[edit]

Morrow also worked as a television director. Together with Leonard Nimoy, he produced the 1965 film Deathwatch, an English-language film version of Jean Genet's play Haute Surveillance, adapted by Morrow and Barbara Turner, directed by Morrow, and starring Nimoy.^[12]

After Combat! ended, Morrow played the lead in Target: Harry (1969), the pilot for a proposed series that was not picked up; Roger Corman directed.

In 1969 he set up his own company, Carleigh.^[13]

Morrow wrote and directed a Spaghetti Western, produced by Dino DeLaurentiis, titled A Man Called Sledge (1970) and starring James Garner, Dennis Weaver and Claude Akins. After Deathwatch, it was Morrow's first and only big screen outing behind the camera. Sledge was filmed in Italy^[14] with desert-like settings that were highly evocative of the Southwestern United States.

Morrow guest starred in The Immortal, Dan August, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Sarge, McCloud', and Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law.

TV movies[edit]

In the 1970s Morrow starred in some TV movies including A Step Out of Line (1971), Travis Logan, D.A. (1971) (playing the title role), River of Mystery (1971), The Glass House (1972), The Weekend Nun, Tom Sawyer (1973), Nightmare (1974).

He guest starred in Ironside, The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, Mission: Impossible, The FBI, Love Story, The Streets of San Francisco, and Police Story.

Morrow appeared in two episodes of Australian-produced anthology series The Evil Touch (1973), one of which he also directed.

He memorably 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 (1974), and The Take (1974).

Morrow had the lead in Funeral for an Assassin (1975). He had key roles in Death Stalk (1975), Scar Tissue (1975), The Night That Panicked America (1975), Treasure of Matecumbe (1976) and had a key role, as aggressive, competitive baseball coach Roy Turner, in the comedy The Bad News Bears (1976).

In the late 1970s Morrow worked increasingly in mini series such as Captains and the Kings (1977), Roots and The Last Convertible (1979), as well as guest starring on shows like Bronc, Hunter, The Littlest Hobo and Charlie's Angels.

He returned to directing, helming episodes of Quincy, M.E. as well as Lucan and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

Final roles[edit]

Morrow had the lead in The Ghost of Cypress Swamp (1977), the Japanese film Message from Space (1978) and The Evictors (1979). He was in TV movies The Man with the Power (1977), The Hostage Heart (1977), Curse of the Black Widow (1977), Wild and Wooly (1978), Stone (1979), Paris (1980)

Morrow made Humanoids from the Deep (1980) for Roger Corman and The Last Shark (1981) and had a regular role in the series, B.A.D. Cats (1980).

Morrow's last roles included guest roles in Magnum, P.I. and the films 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1981) and Abenko Green Berets (1982).

Death[edit]

In 1982, Morrow was cast in a feature role in Twilight Zone: The MovieDownload full movie despicable me 1. , in a segment directed by John Landis. Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a racist who is taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish Holocaust victim, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by U.S. soldiers.

In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, Morrow and two child actors, seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le, and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were filming on location in California, in an area that was known as Indian Dunes, near Santa Clarita. They were performing in a scene for the Vietnam sequence, in which their characters attempt to escape out of a deserted Vietnamese village from a pursuing U.S. Army helicopter. The helicopter was hovering at approximately 24 feet (7.3 m) above them when the heat from special effect pyrotechnic explosions reportedly delaminated the rotor blades^[15] and caused the helicopter to crash on top of them, killing all three instantly. Morrow and Le were decapitated and mutilated by the helicopter rotor blades, while Chen was crushed by a helicopter strut.^[16]

Landis and four other defendants, including pilot Dorsey Wingo, were ultimately acquitted of involuntary manslaughter after a nearly nine-month trial. The parents of Le and Chen sued and settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Morrow's children also sued and settled for an undisclosed amount.^[16][17]

Morrow is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.^[18]

Personal life[edit]

In 1958,^[2] Morrow married actress and screenwriter Barbara Turner. They had two daughters, Carrie Ann Morrow (born 1958) and actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (born 1962). Morrow's marriage to Barbara ended in divorce after seven years. He married Gale Lester in 1975, but they separated just prior to Morrow's death.

Morrow fell out with his daughter Jennifer after his divorce from her mother. She changed her last name to Leigh to avoid being publicly associated with Morrow. They were still estranged at the time of his death.^[19]

Rick Jason, co-star of Combat!, wrote in his memoirs,

Vic Morrow had an absolute dislike of firearms. He used a Thompson submachine gun in our series, but that was work. In any other respect he'd have nothing to do with them. On one of the few days we got off early while there were still several hours of daylight left, I said to him, 'I've got a couple of shotguns in the back of my station wagon. You want to shoot some skeet?' Without so much as a pause he responded, 'No, thanks. I can't stand to kill clay.' He knew he could always break me up and during our five years together he did it quite a bit. His sense of humor happened to tickle my funny bone and he knew he had my number.^[11]

Partial filmography[edit]

Award nominations[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Victor Morozoff in the 1940 Census'.
2. ^ ^ab'About Vic Morrow'. Jodavidsmeyer. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
3. ^Donnelley, Paul (2003). Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries. Omnibus. p. 504. ISBN0-7119-9512-5.
4. ^Schallert, E. (November 17, 1954). Moss hart to write duchin story; video man plans features. Los Angeles Times (
5. ^'The Avenger'. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
6. ^'The Tin Badge'. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
7. ^'A Matter of Honor on Death Valley Days'. Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
8. ^MacMINN, A. (January 13, 1963). Camera angles. Los Angeles Times (
9. ^Combat' Star Finds It's Hard to Sleep on the SetHumphrey, Hal. Los Angeles Times (1923–Current File); Los Angeles, Calif. [Los Angeles, Calif]Sep 20, 1964: B22.
10. ^Santoro, Gene (March – April 2011). 'Infantrymen on the Small Screen'. World War II. Leesburg, Virginia: Weider History Group. 25 (6): 69. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
11. ^ ^abJason, Rick (July 2000). 'Scrapbooks of My Mind: A Hollywood Autobiography'. www.scrapbooksofmymind.com. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
12. ^DRAMA BY GENET WILL BE FILMED. (November 27, 1962). New York Times
13. ^Martin, B. (October 25, 1969). Carleigh productions buys two properties. Los Angeles Times (1923–Current File) Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/156298595?accountid=13902
14. ^'A Man Called Sledge (1970): Filming Locations'. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 24, 2013.
15. ^'NTSB Accident Report'(PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. Washington, D.C. July 23, 1982. Archived from the original(PDF) on May 5, 2012.
16. ^ ^abFarber, Stephen; Green, Marc (1988). Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and the Twilight Zone Case. Arbor House/Morrow. p. 394. ISBN9780877959489. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
17. ^Noe, Denise. 'The Twilight Zone Tragedy: Funerals and Blame'. Crime Library. TruTV. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013.
18. ^Calisphere
19. ^Wallace, David. 'For Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fast Times Are Slowed by Personal Tragedy'. People. October 18, 1982. Vol. 18, No. 16.

External links[edit]

• Vic Morrow on IMDb
• Vic Morrow at the TCM Movie Database
• Vic Morrow at AllMovie
• Vic Morrow at Find a Grave