Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 [on the success of his movie Blackboard Jungle (1955)] "Sure, the reviews were great...but you would`ve thought they`d picked me up out of an ashtray, and made me a star. Hell, I`d already done Shakespeare and Chekhov and all those other cats." [his half-joking aside to a PA, shortly before filming the fateful helicopter sequence for Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)] "How did I let them talk me into doing this scene? I should have asked for a stunt double."
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Trivia
At the time of his death, he had a pet dog named Macho.
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He appeared with Elvis Presley in King Creole (1958).
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Interred at Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, California, USA.
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His funeral was attended by "Combat!" (1962) co-stars Dick Peabody and Rick Jason...and by John Landis, who directed Morrow in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). All three gave separate eulogies; Peabody also served as one of Vic's pallbearers.
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Was of Russian ancestry.
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Attented school in the bronx with producer Brandon Chase
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Daughters, Carrie Ann Morrow (b. 1958) and Jennifer Leigh Morrow, (aka Jennifer Jason Leigh) (b. 1962).
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The pilot episode of his TV series "Combat!" (1962), was directed by Boris Sagal. Two decades after collaborating, Sagal and Morrow would die almost exactly the same way (struck by a helicopter's rotor blade)...within a year of each other, both while shooting a movie on location. For Sagal, it was World War III (1982) (TV); for Morrow, it was Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).
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Personally thanked director John Landis for the opportunity to star in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). Morrow was excited about what turned out to be his final film, considering it a welcome change of pace from the myriad (and mostly-foreign) B-pictures he had been forced to fall back on during most of the 1970s.
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Despite playing heavies before and since, plus Saunders in "Combat", Morrow disliked guns. This according to Combat Co-star Rick Jason, who said Vic turned down his offer to shoot skeet, by saying he "can't stand to kill clay"
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His epitaph was written by daughter Carrie Ann Morrow. It reads, "I loved him as 'Dad'; to everyone else he was 'Vic'".
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Killed, along with two Vietnamese child actors, in a freak accident on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) when a hovering helicopter crashed landed on top of them, in which the top rotor blades decapitated Morrow and one of the children, and crushing to death the second one.
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