William Conrad
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 27, 1920
- Died
- Feb 11, 1994 (aged 73)
- Place of birth
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Credits
- 107
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
The Box
2009Movie
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Hudson Hawk
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Anatole Karzof
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982Movie
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Police Squad!
1982TV
Stabbed Man
The Killers
1946Movie
Max
Filmography
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Box
2009Movie
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Hudson Hawk
1991Movie
Narrator (voice)
Daws Butler: Voice Magician
1987Movie
Self—Host
Jake and the Fatman
1987TV
Jason McCabe
The Highwayman
1987TV
Narrator
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
1986Movie
Jim Dunn
Matlock
1986TV
James McShane
Killing Cars
1986Movie
Mr. Mahoney
In Like Flynn
1985Movie
Sgt. Dominic
Blitz
1985Movie
Mr. Mahoney
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Anatole Karzof
The Mikado
1983Movie
The Mikado
Shock-Trauma
1982Movie
Dr. R. Adams Cowley
Hotel
1982TV
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982Movie
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Police Squad!
1982TV
Stabbed Man
The Cremation of Sam McGee: A Poem by Robert W. Service
1982Movie
Narrator
Nero Wolfe
1981TV
Nero Wolfe
Side Show
1981Movie
Ring Announcer (voice)
The Return of Frank Cannon
1980Movie
Frank Cannon
Turnover Smith
1980Movie
Thaddeus Smith
The Return of the King
1980Movie
Lord Denethor (voice)
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980Movie
William Battles
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979Movie
Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
Keefer
1978Movie
Col. Keefer
Night Cries
1978Movie
Dr. Whelan
The Making of Star Wars
1977Movie
Narrator (voice)
Moonshine County Express
1977Movie
Jack Starkey
Catastrophe
1977Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Force of Evil
1977Movie
Narrator (voice)
How the West Was Won
1977TV
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977TV
Narrator
The City
1977Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Sonny and Cher Show
1976TV
Self
The Macahans
1976Movie
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974TV
Self
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974Movie
Narrator (voice)
Hamburgers
1974Movie
Self
Voices
1974Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973TV
Self
Barnaby Jones
1973TV
Frank Cannon
Cannon
1971TV
Frank Cannon
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971TV
Self
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
1971Movie
Keegan
Cannon
1971Movie
Frank Cannon
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1971Movie
Chief Vincent Kovac
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970Movie
Bart Harris
Chisum
1970Movie
Narrator - Opening Credits (voice) (uncredited)
The Dudley Do-Right Show
1969TV
The Name of the Game
1968TV
Arnold Wexler
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968TV
Self
The Carol Burnett Show
1967TV
Self - Guest / Various Characters, Self
The High Chaparral
1967TV
China Pierce
Countdown
1967Movie
TV Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Chamber of Horrors
1966Movie
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Battle of the Bulge
1965Movie
Narrator (uncredited), Narrator (voice)
The Dean Martin Show
1965TV
F Troop
1965TV
Brainstorm
1965Movie
Mental Patient (uncredited)
Two on a Guillotine
1965Movie
Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors (uncredited)
Eggs Benedict
1965Movie
Narrator
The Fugitive
1963TV
Narrator
General Electric True
1962TV
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962TV
Sergent Cresse
Design for Disaster
1962Movie
Narrator
Target: The Corruptors!
1961TV
The Aquanauts
1960TV
Corey
The Bullwinkle Show
1959TV
Narrator (voice)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
1959TV
Narrator (voice)
-30-
1959Movie
Jim Bathgate
This Man Dawson
1959TV
Narrator (voice only)
The Man and the Challenge
1959TV
77 Sunset Strip
1958TV
Bystander (uncredited), Clapper (uncredited), Baseball Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Bat Masterson
1958TV
Clark Benson, Dick MacIntyre
Zero Hour!
1957Movie
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tombstone Territory
1957TV
Frank Banter
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957TV
Moses Kadish
The Ride Back
1957Movie
Sheriff Chris Hamish
Johnny Concho
1956Movie
Tallman
The Conqueror
1956Movie
Kasar
The Naked Sea
1955Movie
Narrator
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Narrator (voice)
5 Against the House
1955Movie
Eric Berg
The Naked Jungle
1954Movie
Commissioner
The Desert Song
1953Movie
Lachmed
Cry of the Hunted
1953Movie
Goodwin
Lone Star
1952Movie
Mizette
The Racket
1951Movie
Turk
The Sword of Monte Cristo
1951Movie
Major Nicolet
Cry Danger
1951Movie
Louie Castro
Dial 1119
1950Movie
Chuckles
The Milkman
1950Movie
Mike Morrel
One Way Street
1950Movie
Ollie
East Side, West Side
1949Movie
Lt. Jacobi
Tension
1949Movie
Lt. Edgar Gonsales
Any Number Can Play
1949Movie
Frank Sistina
Joan of Arc
1948Movie
Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor
To the Victor
1948Movie
Farnsworth
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948Movie
Morano
Four Faces West
1948Movie
Sheriff Egan
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948TV
Self
Arch of Triumph
1948Movie
Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
Bambi
1948TV
Self
Body and Soul
1947Movie
Quinn
The Killers
1946Movie
Max
Pillow to Post
1945Movie
First Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)