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William Conrad

William Conrad

Actor · Born 1920-09-27 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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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),…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Box (2009) — Self (voice) (uncredited)
  2. Hudson Hawk (1991) — Narrator (voice)
  3. Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Anatole Karzof
  4. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) — (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
  5. The Killers (1946) — Max
  6. Police Squad! (1982) — Stabbed Man
  7. Battle of the Bulge (1965) — Narrator (uncredited)
  8. The Return of the King (1980) — Lord Denethor (voice)
  9. Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) — Morano
  10. Chisum (1970) — Narrator - Opening Credits (voice) (uncredited)
  11. Matlock (1986) — James McShane
  12. Body and Soul (1947) — Quinn
  13. The Naked Jungle (1954) — Commissioner
  14. Gunsmoke (1955) — Narrator (voice)
  15. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) — Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
  16. Joan of Arc (1948) — Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor
  17. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) — Sergent Cresse
  18. The Carol Burnett Show (1967) — Self - Guest / Various Characters
  19. The Fugitive (1963) — Narrator
  20. Countdown (1967) — TV Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
  21. The Bullwinkle Show (1959) — Narrator (voice)
  22. The Conqueror (1956) — Kasar
  23. Cry Danger (1951) — Louie Castro
  24. Tension (1949) — Lt. Edgar Gonsales
  25. Zero Hour! (1957) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  26. Jake and the Fatman (1987) — Jason McCabe
  27. 5 Against the House (1955) — Eric Berg
  28. Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
  29. The Racket (1951) — Turk
  30. Arch of Triumph (1948) — Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
  31. The Making of Star Wars (1977) — Narrator (voice)
  32. Cannon (1971) — Frank Cannon
  33. Two on a Guillotine (1965) — Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors (uncredited)
  34. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968) — Self
  35. How the West Was Won (1977) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  36. F Troop (1965)
  37. Chamber of Horrors (1966) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  38. Dial 1119 (1950) — Chuckles
  39. Brainstorm (1965) — Mental Patient (uncredited)
  40. Barnaby Jones (1973) — Frank Cannon

Directed

  1. Gunsmoke (1955) — Director
  2. The Rifleman (1958) — Director
  3. Have Gun, Will Travel (1957) — Director
  4. Two on a Guillotine (1965) — Director
  5. Brainstorm (1965) — Director
  6. 77 Sunset Strip (1958) — Director
  7. Route 66 (1960) — Director
  8. Bat Masterson (1958) — Director
  9. Naked City (1958) — Director
  10. The Name of the Game (1968) — Director
  11. Highway Patrol (1955) — Director
  12. Tombstone Territory (1957) — Director
  13. Lock-Up (1959) — Director
  14. The Man from Galveston (1963) — Director
  15. My Blood Runs Cold (1965) — Director
  16. Klondike (1960) — Director
  17. Men Into Space (1959) — Director
  18. Mackenzie's Raiders (1958) — Director
  19. The Rough Riders (1958) — Director
  20. Temple Houston (1963) — Director
  21. Target: The Corruptors! (1961) — Director
  22. Side Show (1981) — Director
  23. Saints and Sinners (1962) — Director
  24. Bold Venture (1959) — Director
  25. This Man Dawson (1959) — Director
  26. General Electric True (1962) — Director
  27. The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960) — Director