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Post by teleadm on Feb 14, 2019 9:26:49 GMT
Vic Morrow was one of those actors that usually played tough guys, on both sides of the law. He made his mark in his movie dubut The Blackboard Jungle 1955, as one of the juvenile delinquents. A movie that thrills needs a great "bad guy" to highten it's excitement. In the 1960s he fought "for us" on TV in Combat between 1962 and 1967 in 152 episodes. He acted in 97 movies and television productions up until his untimely death during the production of The Twilight Zone - The Movie 1983 in a helicopter accident. As director he made Deathwatch 1966 and Sledge 1970. Vic with his youngest daughter, the actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. Making an intense movie debut in The Blackboard Jungle 1955, threatening teacher Glenn Ford, and Sidney Poitier looking on. Fistfighting with Elvis Presley in King Creole 1958 A rare leading role, as mobster Dutch Schulz in Portrait of a Mobster 1961. As Sergeant Chip Saunders in TV-series Combat! between 1962 and 1967. Chasing Peter Fonda and Susan George in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry 1974 With Walter Matthau in The Bad News Bears 1976 Humanoids from the Deep 1980, not all his movies were good. 1990: The Bronx Warriors 1982, an Italian apocalyptic movie. Vic Morrow filmographyHow about You?
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Post by Eλευθερί on Feb 14, 2019 11:07:38 GMT
I had no idea that Jennifer Jason Leigh was his daughter.
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 14, 2019 15:41:46 GMT
Loved him as the laconic, non-heroic Sergeant Chip Saunders in Combat. When I was overseas in the army, just a few years after the series went off the air, I couldn't resist breaking radio protocol by saying, "White Rook, this is Checkmate King Two. Over."
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 14, 2019 23:52:24 GMT
Yeah it was a shocker to find out she was his daughter. I was reading about that awful Twilight Zone case and they mentioned her in the legal bits.
His role in THE LAST SHARK is funny as a Quint-type character.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 15, 2019 1:21:21 GMT
ONE of my many many favorites !
One of the best of the Guys you LOVE to Hate !
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 2:01:57 GMT
He was always Sgt. Saunders from Combat to me.
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Post by movielover on Feb 15, 2019 2:40:55 GMT
Roy Turner in The Bad News Bears (1976) Artie in Blackboard Jungle
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