
William Conrad
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).
107 acting credits · 27 directing credits
Acting · 107

Murder, She Wrote
1984

The Fugitive
1963

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

Hotel
1982

Matlock
1986

The Bullwinkle Show
1959

The Carol Burnett Show
1967

Jake and the Fatman
1987

Barnaby Jones
1973

Cannon
1971

Bambi
1948

The Name of the Game
1968

77 Sunset Strip
1958

Gunsmoke
1955

Bat Masterson
1958

The High Chaparral
1967

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

F Troop
1965

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

The Dean Martin Show
1965

How the West Was Won
1977

Tombstone Territory
1957

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973

Target: The Corruptors!
1961

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971

Nero Wolfe
1981

The Aquanauts
1960

The Sonny and Cher Show
1976

General Electric True
1962

Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974

Police Squad!
1982

The Man and the Challenge
1959

Hudson Hawk
1991

The Box
2009

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
1959

The Highwayman
1987

Battle of the Bulge
1965

Chisum
1970

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977

The Dudley Do-Right Show
1969

The Killers
1946

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982

The Conqueror
1956

Sorry, Wrong Number
1948

Joan of Arc
1948

The Return of the King
1980

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975

The Naked Jungle
1954

Brainstorm
1965

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979

Lone Star
1952

Zero Hour!
1957

O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
1971

The Racket
1951

Body and Soul
1947

Chamber of Horrors
1966

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974

Tension
1949

The Ride Back
1957

Moonshine County Express
1977

The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970

Arch of Triumph
1948

Cannon
1971

Any Number Can Play
1949

Countdown
1967

Eggs Benedict
1965

The Macahans
1976

The Desert Song
1953

The Milkman
1950

The Making of Star Wars
1977

The Return of Frank Cannon
1980

Dial 1119
1950

One Way Street
1950

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
1986

Four Faces West
1948

The City
1977

Keefer
1978

The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980

Pillow to Post
1945

Johnny Concho
1956

East Side, West Side
1949

Killing Cars
1986

The Sword of Monte Cristo
1951

Cry Danger
1951

Night Cries
1978

Side Show
1981

5 Against the House
1955

The Force of Evil
1977

To the Victor
1948

Two on a Guillotine
1965

This Man Dawson
1959

In Like Flynn
1985

Turnover Smith
1980

-30-
1959

Cry of the Hunted
1953

The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1971
Blitz
1985

Hamburgers
1974

Catastrophe
1977

Shock-Trauma
1982

The Mikado
1983
Voices
1974

The Naked Sea
1955

Design for Disaster
1962
Daws Butler: Voice Magician
1987
Directing · 27

The Rifleman
1958

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

Naked City
1958

Route 66
1960

The Name of the Game
1968

77 Sunset Strip
1958

Gunsmoke
1955

Bat Masterson
1958

Highway Patrol
1955

Lock-Up
1959

Tombstone Territory
1957

Target: The Corruptors!
1961

The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960

Men Into Space
1959

General Electric True
1962

Saints and Sinners
1962

Temple Houston
1963

Klondike
1960

The Rough Riders
1958
Bold Venture
1959

Brainstorm
1965

Mackenzie's Raiders
1958

The Man from Galveston
1963

Side Show
1981

Two on a Guillotine
1965

This Man Dawson
1959

My Blood Runs Cold
1965