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Vic Morrow (1929-1982) was an American actor and director. Morrow also gained notice for his roles in movies Blackboard Jungle (1955), King Creole (1958), God’s Little Acre (1958), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), and The Bad News Bears (1976). Morrow and two child actors were killed in 1982 by a stunt helicopter crash during the filming of 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie. His IMDb page shows 98 acting credits between 1955 to 1983. This page will rank Vic Morrow movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles, and movies that we unable to find box office grosses on were not included in the rankings.
Vic Morrow Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1976
The Bad News Bears (1976)
1955
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
1974
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
1958
God's Little Acre (1958)
1957
Men in War (1957)
1958
King Creole (1958)
1960
Cimarron (1960)
1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
1976
Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
1956
Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
1961
Posse From Hell (1961)
1958
Hell's Five Hours (1958)
1961
Portrait of a Mobster (1961)
1970
A Man Called Sledge (1970)
1970
A Man Called Sledge (1970)
1980
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
1969
Target: Harry (1969)
1966
Deathwatch (1966)
1974
The Take (1974)
1979
The Evictors (1979)
1982
1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
1978
Message from Space (1978)
1974
Funeral for an Assassin (1974)
1981
The Last Shark (1981)
Vic Morrow Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Vic Morrow movie received.
- Sort Vic Morrow movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
R
Movie (Year)
UMR Co-Star Links
Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil)
Review
Oscar Nom / Win
UMR Score
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) B.O. Rank by Year Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score S
3
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Walter Matthau &
Tatum O'Neal32.20
189.0
189.00
18
87
00 / 00
97.8
1
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Glenn Ford &
Sidney Poitier15.60
374.9
374.90
13
75
04 / 00
96.7
2
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Peter Fonda &
Roddy McDowall46.10
307.9
307.90
10
70
00 / 00
94.5
4
God's Little Acre (1958)
Robert Ryan &
Aldo Ray10.00
208.3
208.30
13
60
00 / 00
91.1
5
Men in War (1957)
Robert Ryan &
Aldo Ray4.30
95.7
95.70
52
76
00 / 00
85.0
6
King Creole (1958)
Elvis Presley &
Walter Matthau3.40
71.4
71.40
65
79
00 / 00
82.9
7
Cimarron (1960)
Glenn Ford &
Anne Baxter6.60
120.3
249.70
43
62
02 / 00
82.7
8
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Dan Aykroyd &
Albert Brooks29.50
116.9
168.50
24
60
00 / 00
80.0
9
Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
Robert Foxworth &
Peter Ustinov14.30
83.8
83.80
46
58
00 / 00
70.6
10
Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
James Cagney &
Lee Van Cleef3.40
77.5
132.60
101
59
00 / 00
69.6
11
Posse From Hell (1961)
Audie Murphy &
John Saxon1.40
23.4
23.40
109
67
00 / 00
57.4
12
Hell's Five Hours (1958)
Stephen McNally
1.00
20.8
20.80
136
67
00 / 00
56.1
13
Portrait of a Mobster (1961)
Leslie Parrish
1.50
25.4
25.40
105
61
00 / 00
48.7
15
A Man Called Sledge (1970)
James Garner &
Directed by Vic Morrow2.40
19.6
19.60
96
58
00 / 00
38.9
14
A Man Called Sledge (1970)
James Garner &
Dennis Weaver2.40
19.6
19.60
96
58
00 / 00
38.9
15
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Doug McClure &
Ann Turkel2.50
12.0
12.00
129
57
00 / 00
30.1
17
Target: Harry (1969)
Suzanne Pleshette
1.80
15.6
15.60
111
54
00 / 00
27.0
17
Deathwatch (1966)
Leonard Nimoy &
Directed by Vic Morrow0.10
1.4
1.40
155
58
00 / 00
25.9
18
The Take (1974)
Billy Dee Williams &
Frankie Avalon1.60
10.6
10.60
117
53
00 / 00
22.8
19
The Evictors (1979)
Jessica Harper
2.20
11.1
11.10
116
51
00 / 00
18.8
20
1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
Fred Williamson
0.50
2.1
2.10
146
50
00 / 00
13.3
21
Message from Space (1978)
Shin'ichi Chiba
2.60
13.9
13.90
99
46
00 / 00
12.8
22
Funeral for an Assassin (1974)
Gaby Getz
0.20
1.0
1.00
154
40
00 / 00
4.1
23
The Last Shark (1981)
James Franciscus
0.10
0.6
0.60
168
34
00 / 00
1.6
Check out Vic Morrow‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
My favorite movies of this actor:
Step out of Line
Glass House
I have seen 6 Vic Morrow movies, including the top 5 films.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Blackboard Jungle.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is King Creole.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Cimarron.
Favourite Vic Morrow Movies:
Blackboard Jungle
Men in War
Other Vic Morrow Movies I Have Seen:
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
The Bad News Bears
God’s Little Acre
Cimarron
Hey Flora….thanks for checking out our Vic Morrow page. Tally count: Bob 7, Flora 6 and me 5. Looks like you have seen the best of Vic Morrow’s movies…if you have seen that many of his top rated UMR movies. I have seen 4 of the ones you have seen. I would put Bad News Bears as my favorite….with Blackboard Jungle being a close second. Good stuff as always.
Vic Morrow has always reminded me as being a bit like Ralph Meeker in physical appearance. I have seen 7 of the films in the tables above: Tribute to a Badman; Posse; King Creole; Deathwatch; Joel’s Little Acre and Men in War [both top-starring the 1950s screen team of Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray but The Work Horse giving Aldo credit for just one of the pair]; and two with Charlie Bill Stuart – Cimarron and the classic Blackboard Jungle which exploited the rock n roll craze of the time and made Charlie Bill a 1950s megastar.
One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock rock
Five, six, seven o’clock, eight o’clock rock
Nine, ten, eleven o’clock, twelve o’clock rock
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight.
When the chimes ring five, six, and seven
We’ll be right in seventh heaven
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight.
[Sung by Bill Hayley and The Comets]
As the Work Horse illustrates in his tables Vic directed Deathwatch and Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek starred in it. As well as that Vic and Leonard co-produced the movie and Vic co-wrote the script.
Good miniature above from Blackboard Jungle with Vic looking very young-Brandoesque; and is that young Poitier sitting beside Vic as the photo and WH’s co- star link column might suggest? As he often does WH takes “poetic license” by billing Sidney above the star of the movie Charlie Bill in the link column..
Despite the latter sacrilege “Voted Up!” as a page for a worthy subject. It is reported that Vic left behind a net worth equivalent to about $2.9 million in today’s money.
Hey Bob. Thanks for the thoughts on Vic Morrow (another Joel subject completed). Tally count..7 for you….and five for me. Speaking of Aldo Ray, he is one of the remaining Joel subjects to write about..currently the number is down to 41. So I know you want to know…that is 369 done….41 to go.
Good lyrics from Bill Hayley. I almost forgot Deathwatch….a movie I had never heard of before…but luckily I caught it before I database broke. That is indeed the young Sidney in the background in the Blackboard Jungle photo. I have switched Glenn and Sidney in the UMR Co-Star column. Good information on his networth. Good stuff as always.
HI BRUCE:
Thanks for the feedback and the “switch”: I am the least of your worries as Flora too might not have liked it had Charlie Bill not been given the billing to which he was entitled!!!
“Speaking of Aldo Ray, he is one of the remaining Joel subjects to write about.” Cogerson today.
I wonder what Aldo would have thought of THAT as his epitaph!
Hey Bob….he would probably say something about saving the best for the last. The database allows changes like that…..things that require a single movie….but currently the complete update..when it updates about 25,000 movies is stuck….and not working. A single newly imported movie…..causes many many changes to the database….lots of my research and Mike’s is stuck on the bridge between the database and the website..hoping we get it fixed tonight and hope it does not completely crash. Good stuff as always.
Excellent UMR page
Thanks Mike…we are working on fixing our issues on the website….WoC requested a page…and I pulled out this Vic Morrow page….but we had to do a lot of manual data entry to get this page done correctly. Still have some work to do.