Byron Morrow

Byron Morrow was a veteran character actor who played Admiral Komack in the second season episode and Admiral Westervliet in the third season episode .
He was the first actor on Star Trek to appear as a character in the admiralty. Morrow filmed his scene for "Amok Time" on Monday at Desilu Stage 9. He filmed his scene as Westervliet on Friday , at Stage 8 in Desilu's Culver City studios.
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 two hundred appearances in a career spanning the next thirty-five years.
Morrow's television work includes guest appearances on The Twilight Zone (starring Roddy McDowall, with Vic Perrin, Susan Oliver and Paul Comi), The Untouchables (two episodes: one with Michael Ansara, Clegg Hoyt, and Brian Keith, another with Jeff Corey and Jason Wingreen), , , , (including an episode where he plays an U.N.C.L.E. doctor with Bill Quinn), (starring Roy Thinnes, with Barry Russo and Garth Pillsbury), (including an episode where he again works with Bill Quinn), (with Bill Mumy), Get Smart, (two episodes, both with Arthur Batanides, one with Michael Dunn), , (with Clarence Williams III and Tige Andrews), , Barnaby Jones (working with Bill Erwin, Meg Foster, Vince Howard, and Lee Meriwether), Kolchak: The Night Stalker (with John Fiedler and Vince Howard), (with Robert Ito and Garry Walberg), Fantasy Island (starring Ricardo Montalban), (starring Kate Jackson), , and multiple episodes of , Mannix, and . Perhaps most notably, he was often seen in the role of a judge on Perry Mason, a series on which he appeared seven times between 1960 and 1966.
Morrow was also seen in a 1970 episode of Mission: Impossible, during which time his Original Series co-star Leonard Nimoy had become a regular on that series. Morrow would also reunite with William Shatner in a 1974 episode of The Magician. And in 1989, Morrow appeared on (starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Stephen McHattie and s actor Armin Shimerman).
Star Trek wasn't the only franchise in which Morrow played two different admirals; he also played two different characters with that same rank in the two mini-series based on novels by Herman Wouk, The Winds of War (1983) and War and Remembrance (1988). Fellow Trek alumni Peter Brocco, Michael Ensign, Ken Lynch, Logan Ramsey, and Lawrence Pressman also had roles in the former series; Ian Abercrombie, Lawrence Dobkin, Bruce French, Richard Lineback, Glenn Morshower, Charles Napier, John Rhys-Davies, and William Schallert appeared in the latter. George Murdock appeared in both.
On film, Morrow made appearances in the English version of 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla, (also featuring Barry Atwater, Paul Carr, Seamon Glass, James Gregory, and Paul Sorensen), (1964), (1969, with Ed Begley, Jr. and William Schallert), (1971, with Peter Brocco, Robert Easton, and David Soul), and (1976, co-starring Tige Andrews, Seymour Cassel, and Jeff Corey), among others. Morrow went uncredited in nearly all of these films; however, one film he did receive credit for was (1970, directed by Joseph Sargent).
Morrow retired from acting in 1991, with his last work being an episode of Father Dowling Mysteries. He passed away in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California fifteen years later. He was 94 years old.
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