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Byron Morrow

Byron Morrow
Born William Byron Morrow
(1911-09-08)September 8, 1911
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died May 11, 2006(2006-05-11) (aged 94)
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1955-1991

Byron Morrow (September 8, 1911 – May 11, 2006) was an American television and film actor.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Morrow served his country in 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 U.S. troops in the Vietnam War during the 1960s. Morrow mostly played authority figures, often in uniform.

He made seven appearances as a judge in CBS's Perry Mason and played real-life Admiral Chester Nimitz in the pilot episode of NBC's Baa Baa Black Sheep, starring Robert Conrad.

In 1961 and 1962, Morrow was cast as Captain Keith Gregory in the episodes "No Fat Cops" and "The Deadlier Sex" of the ABC crime drama The New Breed, starring Leslie Nielsen.

He appeared in two episodes of the original series of NBC's Star Trek - in Amok Time as Admiral Komack, and in For 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.


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