William Conrad
Acting
- Born:
- 1920-09-27
- Died:
- 1994-02-11
- Place of birth:
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Biography
William Conrad (September 27, 1920 - February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director. He was born William Cann in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a theatre-owner who moved to southern California, where he excelled at drama and literature while at school. Starting work in radio in the late 1930s in California, Conrad went on to serve as a fighter pilot in World War II. He entered the army in 1942, and was commissioned at Luke Field, Arizona in 1943 (now Luke Air Force Base). On the day of his commission he married June Nelson. He returned to the airwaves after the war, going on to accumulate over 7,000 roles in radio by his own estimate. Among Conrad's various film roles, where he was usually cast as threatening figures, perhaps his most notable role was his first credited one, as one of the gunmen sent to eliminate Burt Lancaster in the 1946 film The Killers. He also appeared in Body and Soul (1947), Sorry, Wrong Number, Joan of Arc (both 1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954). As a producer for Warner Brothers, he made a string of feature films, including An American Dream (1966, retitled See You in Hell, Darling for British release), A Covenant With Death (1966), First to Fight (1967) and The Cool Ones (1967), and also directed My Blood Runs Cold, Brainstorm and Two on a Guillotine (all 1965).
Known For
Filmography
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
The Box
Hudson Hawk
Daws Butler: Voice Magician
Jake and the Fatman
The Highwayman
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
Matlock
Killing Cars
In Like Flynn
Blitz
Murder, She Wrote
The Mikado
Shock-Trauma
Hotel
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Police Squad!
The Cremation of Sam McGee: A Poem by Robert W. Service
Nero Wolfe
Side Show
The Return of Frank Cannon
Turnover Smith
The Return of the King
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Keefer
Night Cries
The Making of Star Wars
Moonshine County Express
Catastrophe
The Force of Evil
How the West Was Won
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
The City
The Sonny and Cher Show
The Macahans
Tony Orlando and Dawn
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Hamburgers
Voices
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Barnaby Jones
Cannon
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
Cannon
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Chisum
The Dudley Do-Right Show
The Name of the Game
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Carol Burnett Show
The High Chaparral
Countdown
Chamber of Horrors
Battle of the Bulge
The Dean Martin Show
F Troop
Brainstorm
Two on a Guillotine
Eggs Benedict
The Fugitive
General Electric True
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Design for Disaster
Target: The Corruptors!
The Aquanauts
The Bullwinkle Show
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
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This Man Dawson
The Man and the Challenge
77 Sunset Strip
Bat Masterson
Zero Hour!
Tombstone Territory
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Ride Back
Johnny Concho
The Conqueror
The Naked Sea
Gunsmoke
5 Against the House
The Naked Jungle
The Desert Song
Cry of the Hunted
Lone Star
The Racket
The Sword of Monte Cristo
Cry Danger
Dial 1119
The Milkman
One Way Street
East Side, West Side
Tension
Any Number Can Play
Joan of Arc
To the Victor
Sorry, Wrong Number
Four Faces West
The Ed Sullivan Show
Arch of Triumph
Bambi
Body and Soul
The Killers
Pillow to Post