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Victor "Vic" Morrow (February 14, 1929 - July 23, 1982; born Bronx, New York, USA) was an American actor. Morrow dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Navy at age seventeen. After leaving the Navy, he studied pre-law at Florida State University, where he became involved in the study of acting. He enrolled in the Actors Workshop school in New York. Morrow's first movie role was in Blackboard Jungle (1955). After this movie, he went into television and was cast in the TV series COMBAT! (1962-1967), in which he also worked as a television director. After COMBAT! ended, he worked in made-for-TV movies and several films. He appeared in two episodes of Australian-produced anthology series The Evil Touch (1973), one of which he also directed. Morrow also had a key role in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears. Morrow died on the set of while holding two small children (Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen). A helicopter being used on the set spun out of control and crashed, decapitating him and one of the children with its rotor blades. The remaining child was crushed to death as the helicopter crashed. Everyone inside the helicopter was unharmed. The accident led to massive reforms in U.S. child labor laws and safety regulations on movie sets in California. Vic Morrow is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Morrow is the father of actresses Jennifer Jason Leigh and Carrie Morrow.
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