
William Conrad
Born September 27, 1920 · 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).
Notable Appearances
Movies

Hudson Hawk

The Box

Battle of the Bulge

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Chisum

The Brotherhood of the Bell

Sorry, Wrong Number

The Killers

The Return of the King

The Naked Jungle

Joan of Arc

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

5 Against the House

The Making of Star Wars

Two on a Guillotine

Body and Soul

The Conqueror

Arch of Triumph

East Side, West Side

The Racket

Any Number Can Play

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One

Chamber of Horrors

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill

Zero Hour!

Countdown

The Ride Back

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo

Cry of the Hunted

Shock-Trauma

The Sword of Monte Cristo

Lone Star

The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
TV Shows

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Bullwinkle Show

Hotel

Cannon

The Carol Burnett Show

The Name of the Game

Bambi

Jake and the Fatman

Barnaby Jones

Gunsmoke

The Ed Sullivan Show

The High Chaparral

77 Sunset Strip

Bat Masterson

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

The Dean Martin Show

Target: The Corruptors!

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

Tombstone Territory

How the West Was Won

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

F Troop

The Aquanauts

The Sonny and Cher Show

Tony Orlando and Dawn

Nero Wolfe

Police Squad!

General Electric True

The Man and the Challenge

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

The Dudley Do-Right Show

The Highwayman

This Man Dawson
More Movies

Brainstorm

Moonshine County Express

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

The Return of Frank Cannon

Killing Cars

The Mikado

One Way Street

The Force of Evil

Four Faces West

The Milkman

Night Cries

Cry Danger

The Desert Song

-30-

To the Victor

Cannon

The City

Hamburgers

The Macahans

Johnny Concho

Pillow to Post

Dial 1119

Tension

Side Show

Catastrophe

Keefer

Turnover Smith

In Like Flynn

Eggs Benedict

The Naked Sea




