Creator / Vic Morrow

Morrow ready for Combat! (the show).

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

He tragically and infamously died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, along with a child actor called Myca and a child actress called Renee, when a helicopter crashed on top of them.

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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