Vic Morrow

Victor Morrow (born February 14, 1929 in the Bronx, New York, USA – died  July 23, 1982) was an American actor.Morrow dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Navy at age 17. 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. Morrow appeared in two episodes of Australian-produced anthology series The Evil Touch (1973), one of which he also directed. He memorably played the homicidal sheriff alongside Martin Sheen in the 1974 TV film The California Kid, and had a key role in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears.
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