Victor Morrow (born Victor Morozoff; February 14, 1929 â July 23, 1982) was an American actor. He came to prominence as one of the leads of the ABC drama series Combat! (1962â1967), which earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series. Active on screen for over three decades, his film roles include Blackboard Jungle (1955), King Creole (1958), God’s Little Acre (1958), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), and The Bad News Bears (1976). Morrow continued acting up to his death during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) when he and two child actors were killed by a stunt helicopter crash.
Morrow dropped out of high school when he was 17 and enlisted in the United States Navy, serving from 1946-1948 reaching the rank of Seaman First Class
Morrow was cast in the lead role of Sergeant “Chip” Saunders in ABC’s Combat!, a World War II drama, which aired from 1962 to 1967.
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