And you know who played the father slapping the kid?
Vic Morrow,
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Twilight Zone accident
In 1982, Morrow was cast in a feature role in
Twilight Zone: The Movie, in a segment directed by
John Landis. Morrow was playing the role of Bill Connor, a
racist who is taken back in time and placed in various situations where he would be a persecuted victim: as a Jewish man in
Vichy France, a black man about to be
lynched by the
Ku Klux Klan, and a Vietnamese man about to be killed by U.S. soldiers.
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, Morrow and two child actors, seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were filming on location in California, in an area that was known as
Indian Dunes, near
Santa Clarita. They were performing in a scene for the
Vietnam sequence, in which their characters attempt to escape out of a deserted Vietnamese village from a pursuing
U.S. Army helicopter.
[2] The helicopter was hovering at approximately 24 feet (7.3 m) above them when the heat from special effect
pyrotechnic explosions reportedly
delaminated the
rotor blades[16] and caused the helicopter to plummet and crash on top of them, killing all three instantly. Morrow and Le were decapitated and mutilated by the helicopter rotor blades, while Chen was crushed by a helicopter skid.
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Landis and four other defendants, including the helicopter pilot Dorsey Wingo, were ultimately acquitted of involuntary manslaughter after a nearly nine-month trial. The parents of Le and Chen sued and settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Both of Morrow's daughters also sued and settled for an undisclosed amount.
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Morrow is interred in
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in
Culver City, California.
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