Vic Morrow
Brooding, intense character actor Vic Morrow played men of few words and definitive actions, most notably on the WWII action-drama series "Combat!" (ABC, 1962-67) and scores of television episodes and features from the late-1950s until his tragic death in 1982. His debut as a switchblade-wielding tough in 1955's "The Blackboard Jungle" marked him as a screen heavy, but he bristled at the typecasting. "Combat" turned him into a strong and silent action hero, but he was unable to capitalize on its fame and floundered for most of the 1970s on television, save for memorable turns in "The Bad News Bears" (1976) and "Roots" (ABC, 1977). "Twilight Zone: The Movie" (1983) should have been his comeback, but he was killed during a freak on-set accident that ultimately made him an industry martyr, ending a long and hard-fought career that won many fans but too few successes.
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Vic Morrow
Filmography
Movies
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1990: The Bronx Warriors | Hammer (Character) | - | 1983 |
59% |
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Twilight Zone: The Movie | Bill Connor (Character) | - | 1983 |
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The Last Shark | Ron Hamer (Character) | - | 1981 |
55% |
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Humanoids From the Deep | Hank Slattery (Character) | - | 1980 |
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The Evictors | Jake Rudd (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Supertrain | Unknown (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Message From Space | General Garuda (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Funeral for an Assassin | Michael Cardiff (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ghost of Cypress Swamp | Toni Stone (Character) | - | 1977 |
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Curse of the Black Widow | Lt. Gully Conti (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hostage Heart | Steve Rockewicz (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man With the Power | Paul (Character) | - | 1977 |
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Treasure of Matecumbe | Spangler (Character) | - | 1976 |
97% |
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The Bad News Bears | Coach Roy Turner (Character) | - | 1976 |
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Wanted: Babysitter | Vic (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Stalk | Leo Brunner (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Night That Panicked America | Hank Muldoon (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Take | Manso (Character) | - | 1974 |
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The California Kid | Sheriff Roy Childress (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nightmare | Detective Rausch (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Police Story | Sgt. Joe LaFreida (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tom Sawyer | Injun Joe (Character) | - | 1973 |
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The Glass House | Hugo Slocum (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Weekend Nun | Chuck Jardine (Character) | - | 1972 |
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A Man Called Sledge |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Step Out of Line | Joe Rawlins (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Travis Logan D.A. | Travis Logan (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | River of Mystery | Phil Munger (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deathwatch |
Director, Producer |
- | 1966 |
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Posse From Hell | Crip (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Portrait of a Mobster | Dutch Schultz (Character) | - | 1961 |
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Cimarron | Wes Jennings (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza: The Avenger | Lassiter (Character) | - | 1960 |
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God's Little Acre | Shaw Walden (Character) | - | 1958 |
96% |
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King Creole | Shark (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hell's Five Hours | Nash (Character) | - | 1958 |
89% |
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Men in War | Cpl. James Zwickley (Character) | - | 1957 |
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Tribute to a Bad Man | Lars Peterson (Character) | - | 1956 |
74% |
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Blackboard Jungle | Artie West (Character) | - | 1955 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Police Sergeant Jordan (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disney's Wonderful World | Director | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Littlest Hobo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quincy, M.E. | Director | 1977 |
76% | 64% | Roots | Ames (Character) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bronk | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story | Sgt. Joe LaFreida (Character) | 1973-1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Vic Tolliman (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Story | Dave Walters (Character) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Dick (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Eric Latimer (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dan August | Steve Harrison (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Immortal | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! |
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1962-1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Lassiter (Guest Star) | 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tall Man | Skip Farrell (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Law and Mr. Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Ringo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958-1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trackdown | Stony Buckram (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Gun | Wes Singer (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Benny Mungo (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |