William Conrad

Actor

Born September 27, 1920 in Louisville, 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).

Filmography

The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

Self (archive footage)

The Box

Self (voice) (uncredited)

Hudson Hawk

Narrator (voice)

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

Murder, She Wrote

Anatole Karzof

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

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

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

The Dudley Do-Right Show

The Name of the Game

Arnold Wexler

Assignment to Kill

Chubasco

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Self

The Carol Burnett Show

Self - Guest / Various Characters

The High Chaparral

China Pierce

Countdown

TV Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)

The Cool Ones

First to Fight

Chamber of Horrors

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

An American Dream

Battle of the Bulge

Narrator (uncredited)

The Dean Martin Show

F Troop

Brainstorm

Mental Patient (uncredited)

My Blood Runs Cold

Two on a Guillotine

Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors (uncredited)

Eggs Benedict

Narrator

The Man from Galveston

Temple Houston

The Fugitive

Narrator

General Electric True

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Sergent Cresse

Saints and Sinners

Design for Disaster

Narrator

Target: The Corruptors!

The Case of the Dangerous Robin

Klondike

Route 66

The Aquanauts

Corey

The Bullwinkle Show

Narrator (voice)

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

Narrator (voice)

-30-

Jim Bathgate

This Man Dawson

Narrator (voice only)

Men Into Space

Lock-Up

The Man and the Challenge

Bold Venture

77 Sunset Strip

Bystander (uncredited)

Mackenzie's Raiders

Bat Masterson

Clark Benson

The Rough Riders

Naked City

The Rifleman

Zero Hour!

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Tombstone Territory

Frank Banter

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Ride Back

Sheriff Chris Hamish

Johnny Concho

Tallman

The Conqueror

Kasar

The Naked Sea

Narrator

Highway Patrol

Gunsmoke

Narrator (voice)

5 Against the House

Eric Berg

The Naked Jungle

Commissioner

The Desert Song

Lachmed

Cry of the Hunted

Goodwin

Lone Star

Mizette

The Racket

Turk

The Sword of Monte Cristo

Major Nicolet

Cry Danger

Louie Castro

Dial 1119

Chuckles

The Milkman

Mike Morrel

One Way Street

Ollie

East Side, West Side

Lt. Jacobi

Tension

Lt. Edgar Gonsales

Any Number Can Play

Frank Sistina

Joan of Arc

Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor

To the Victor

Farnsworth

Sorry, Wrong Number

Morano

Four Faces West

Sheriff Egan

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Arch of Triumph

Policeman at Accident (uncredited)

Bambi

Self

Body and Soul

Quinn

The Killers

Max

Pillow to Post

First Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)