Byron Morrow

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

Career

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.

In 1973, he had the role of Admiral Phillips in the ABC-TV movie The President's Plane is Missing.

Death

Morrow died at the age of 94 in 2006 in Woodland Hills, California.

Selected filmography

References

• Byron Morrow's obituary from the Los Angeles Times (registration required)

External links

• Byron Morrow at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Byron Morrow at the Internet Movie Database