Vic Morrow — actor with roots in the Russian Empire
Vic Morrow was an American actor best known for playing Sergeant Chip Saunders in Combat! (ABC, 1962-1967) — the WWII drama that ran for 152 episodes and made him one of the most recognisable faces on American television. He died tragically on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie in 1982.
Tracing the roots — Russian Empire
Born in the Bronx in 1929 to parents who had emigrated from the Russian Empire, Morrow grew up in the Jewish immigrant world of New York. His rugged authenticity as a screen presence carried the toughness of immigrant survival that the Russian Empire's Jewish communities passed to their American-born children.
Biographical sketches describe his parents as Russian-Jewish immigrants.[web:17]
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Russian Empire. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.