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