William Conrad
Acting
1920-09-27 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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).
Filmography
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024 · Movie
The Box
2009 · Movie
Hudson Hawk
1991 · Movie
Daws Butler: Voice Magician
1987 · Movie
Jake and the Fatman
1987 · Series
The Highwayman
1987 · Series
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
1986 · Movie
Matlock
1986 · Series
Killing Cars
1986 · Movie
In Like Flynn
1985 · Movie
Blitz
1985 · Movie
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Series
The Mikado
1983 · Movie
Shock-Trauma
1982 · Movie
Hotel
1982 · Series
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · Movie
Police Squad!
1982 · Series
The Cremation of Sam McGee: A Poem by Robert W. Service
1982 · Movie
Nero Wolfe
1981 · Series
Side Show
1981 · Movie
The Return of Frank Cannon
1980 · Movie
Turnover Smith
1980 · Movie
The Return of the King
1980 · Movie
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980 · Movie
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979 · Movie
Keefer
1978 · Movie
Night Cries
1978 · Movie
The Making of Star Wars
1977 · Movie
Moonshine County Express
1977 · Movie
Catastrophe
1977 · Movie
The Force of Evil
1977 · Movie
How the West Was Won
1977 · Series
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977 · Series
The City
1977 · Movie
The Sonny and Cher Show
1976 · Series
The Macahans
1976 · Movie
Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974 · Series
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974 · Movie
Hamburgers
1974 · Movie
Voices
1974 · Movie
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973 · Series
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Series
Cannon
1971 · Series
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971 · Series
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
1971 · Movie
Cannon
1971 · Movie
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1971 · Movie
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970 · Movie
Chisum
1970 · Movie
The Learning Tree
1969 · Movie
The Dudley Do-Right Show
1969 · Series
The Name of the Game
1968 · Series
Assignment to Kill
1968 · Movie
Chubasco
1968 · Movie
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 · Series
The Carol Burnett Show
1967 · Series
The High Chaparral
1967 · Series
Countdown
1967 · Movie
The Cool Ones
1967 · Movie
First to Fight
1967 · Movie
Chamber of Horrors
1966 · Movie
An American Dream
1966 · Movie
Battle of the Bulge
1965 · Movie
The Dean Martin Show
1965 · Series
F Troop
1965 · Series
Brainstorm
1965 · Movie
My Blood Runs Cold
1965 · Movie
Two on a Guillotine
1965 · Movie
Eggs Benedict
1965 · Movie
The Man from Galveston
1963 · Movie
Temple Houston
1963 · Series
The Fugitive
1963 · Series
General Electric True
1962 · Series
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Series
Saints and Sinners
1962 · Series
Design for Disaster
1962 · Movie
Target: The Corruptors!
1961 · Series
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960 · Series
Klondike
1960 · Series
Route 66
1960 · Series
The Aquanauts
1960 · Series
The Bullwinkle Show
1959 · Series
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
1959 · Series
-30-
1959 · Movie
This Man Dawson
1959 · Series
Men Into Space
1959 · Series
Lock-Up
1959 · Series
The Man and the Challenge
1959 · Series
Bold Venture
1959 · Series
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Series
Mackenzie's Raiders
1958 · Series
Bat Masterson
1958 · Series
The Rough Riders
1958 · Series
The Rifleman
1958 · Series
Naked City
1958 · Series
Zero Hour!
1957 · Movie
Tombstone Territory
1957 · Series
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Series
The Ride Back
1957 · Movie
Johnny Concho
1956 · Movie
The Conqueror
1956 · Movie
The Naked Sea
1955 · Movie
Highway Patrol
1955 · Series
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
5 Against the House
1955 · Movie
The Naked Jungle
1954 · Movie
The Desert Song
1953 · Movie
Cry of the Hunted
1953 · Movie
Lone Star
1952 · Movie
The Racket
1951 · Movie
The Sword of Monte Cristo
1951 · Movie
Cry Danger
1951 · Movie
Dial 1119
1950 · Movie
The Milkman
1950 · Movie
One Way Street
1950 · Movie
East Side, West Side
1949 · Movie
Tension
1949 · Movie
Any Number Can Play
1949 · Movie
Joan of Arc
1948 · Movie
To the Victor
1948 · Movie
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948 · Movie
Four Faces West
1948 · Movie
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
Arch of Triumph
1948 · Movie
Bambi
1948 · Series
Body and Soul
1947 · Movie
The Killers
1946 · Movie
Pillow to Post
1945 · Movie