Career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Morrow served his country in World World War II, performing in theater productions during his tour of duty. He began appearing in film and television in the late 1950s and amassed some 200 appearances in a career spanning the next 35 years. Morrow"s television work ran from Peter Gunn in the late 1950s to Father Dowling Mysteries in 1991.
With white hair and patrician looks, Morrow strongly resembled General
William Westmoreland, who commanded United States. troops in Vietnam in the 1960s. Morrow mostly played authority figures, often in uniform.
He made seven appearances as a judge in Columbia Broadcasting System"s Perry Mason and played real-life Admiral Chester Nimitz in the pilot episode of National Broadcasting Company"s Baa Baa Black Sheep, starring Robert Conrad. In 1961 and 1962, Morrow was cast as Captain Keith Gregory in the episodes "Number Fat Cops" and "The Deadlier Sex" of the American Broadcasting Company crime drama The New Breed, starring Leslie Nielsen.
He appeared in two episodes of the original series of National Broadcasting Company"s Star Trek - in Amok Time as Admiral Komack, and in Foreign the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky as Admiral Westervliet (per the episode"s closing credits.
The name is omitted from dialogue). This was the first appearance of an admiral in the original series. In 1973, he had the role of Admiral Phillips in the American Broadcasting Company-television movie The President"s Plane is Missing.
Morrow died at the age of 94 in 2006 in Woodland Hills, California.
