Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 27, 1920
Died
Feb 11, 1994
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Credits
128 titles
William Conrad
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
Self (archive footage)
The Box
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Hudson Hawk
Narrator (voice)
Daws Butler: Voice Magician
Self—Host
Jake and the Fatman
Jason McCabe
The Highwayman
Narrator
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
Jim Dunn
Matlock
James McShane
Killing Cars
Mr. Mahoney
In Like Flynn
Sgt. Dominic
Blitz
Mr. Mahoney
Murder, She Wrote
Anatole Karzof
The Mikado
The Mikado
Shock-Trauma
Dr. R. Adams Cowley
Hotel
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Police Squad!
Stabbed Man
Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe
Side Show
Ring Announcer (voice)
The Return of Frank Cannon
Frank Cannon
Turnover Smith
Thaddeus Smith
The Return of the King
Lord Denethor (voice)
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
William Battles
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
Keefer
Col. Keefer
Night Cries
Dr. Whelan
The Making of Star Wars
Narrator (voice)
Moonshine County Express
Jack Starkey
Catastrophe
Narrator (voice)
The Force of Evil
Narrator (voice)
How the West Was Won
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
Narrator
The City
Narrator (voice)
The Sonny and Cher Show
Self
The Macahans
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tony Orlando and Dawn
Self
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Narrator (voice)
Hamburgers
self
Voices
Narrator (voice)
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self
Barnaby Jones
Frank Cannon
Cannon
Frank Cannon
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
Keegan
Cannon
Frank Cannon
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
Chief Vincent Kovac
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Bart Harris
Chisum
Narrator - Opening Credits (voice) (uncredited)
The Learning Tree
Executive Producer