William Conrad

Known for ActingBorn 1920-09-27Died 1994-02-11Louisville, 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Shock-Trauma

The Naked Sea

O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra

The Man and the Challenge

Bambi

Side Show

Catastrophe

Keefer

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

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill

Police Squad!

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

First to Fight

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Carol Burnett Show

Murder, She Wrote

Nero Wolfe

The Dudley Do-Right Show

The Highwayman

The Dean Martin Show

Men Into Space

The Fugitive

Matlock

The Making of Star Wars

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Sonny and Cher Show

The Killers

Turnover Smith

How the West Was Won

77 Sunset Strip

Barnaby Jones

The Bullwinkle Show

The Name of the Game

The Rifleman

Saints and Sinners

East Side, West Side

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

Hotel

Battle of the Bulge

The Milkman

The Learning Tree

Tombstone Territory

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

The Macahans

Cannon

The High Chaparral

In Like Flynn