Born On Amsterdam Avenue in the West Harlem section and raised in New York City, Vic attended several colleges under the G.I. Bill after his Honorably Discharged Military service as an Aerial Photographic Intelligenceman/Navy Diver in the Naval Air Fleet aboard a Patrol Squadron in the Elite U.S. Navy's Hunter/Killer Combat Aircrew division. He majored in Pre-Law and was actually encouraged by Actor Herschel Bernardi whom he met at Princeton's McCarter Theatre,to pursue his real life-long ambition of acting.