Unfortunately, someone didn’t take into account the necessary safety equipment and precautions that would be need to prevent the death of Vic Morrow.

Morrow was born February 14, 1929 in the Bronx, New York. He dropped out of High School at the age of 17 and joined the United States Navy. After the Navy, he appeared in the film The Blackboard Jungle and then appeared in various television series in the 1960s. He also appeared in the film The Bad News Bears in 1976. He was often cast as the bad guy or the misunderstood youth.

He was cast in the film The Twilight Zone Movie in 1982. In a scene where he plays a Vietnamese man trying to rescue his two children, a low flying helicopter is knocked down due to the pyrotechnics used in the film. The helicopter decapitated Morrow and one of the children and the other child also died. (You can see the clip on YouTube, it is not gory and the scene is filmed from a distance, but it is still disturbing.)

The children in the film were illegally hired to avoid child labor laws and the filming took place at night. The parents of the children and Vic Morrow’s children sued and won.

Vic Morrow married his girlfriend of seven years, Barbara Turner and they had two children Carrie and Jennifer Leigh (now known as Jennifer Jason Leigh). The couple divorced in 1965. This lead to heavy drinking and less roles for Morrow. When his daughter Jennifer, changed her name to avoid being labeled as “Vic Morrow’s daughter,” Morrow took it hard. When he was offered the role in the Twilight Zone Movie, he jumped at the chance.

He had written a will in purple felt-pen on yellow paper only seven months before his death. He left most of this estate to his daughter Carrie and left only $100 to his estranged daughter Jennifer.