Bob Morgan (1916 - 1999)
During the filming of the 1962 film How the West Was Won, Bob was involved in a serious accident while filming the climatic train shootout. During the filming of a gunfight that takes place on a moving railroad flatcar loaded with logs, one of the chains that held the logs snapped, and Bob was crushed by the falling timber and lost a leg.
Film Deaths
- The Alamo (1960) [Tennessean]: As one of the band that followed John Wayne to Texas; Bob is killed along with the rest of the Alamo defenders as the fort was overrun by Mexican forces.
Notable connections
- Ex-Mr. Yvonne De Carlo.