William Conrad
Acting
🎂 1920-09-27
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).
Cast credits(112)
Anatole Karzof
1984
1986
1957
Moses Kadish
1957
Narrator
1963
1982
Frank Cannon
1971
Narrator (voice)
1955
China Pierce
1967
Arnold Wexler
1968
Frank Cannon
1973
Sergent Cresse
1962
Bystander (uncredited)
1958
Self - Guest / Various Characters
1967
Self
1967
Jason McCabe
1987
Self
1968
Clark Benson
1958
Dick MacIntyre
1958
Self
1948
Narrator (voice)
1959
Self
1948
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
1965
Frank Banter
1957
1961
Stabbed Man
1982
1965
Self
1973
Nero Wolfe
1981
Narrator - Opening Credits (voice) (uncredited)
1970
Corey
1960
Narrator (voice)
1991
Self (voice) (uncredited)
2009
Narrator (uncredited)
1965
Narrator (voice)
1965
Self
1974
Lt. Edgar Gonsales
1949
Narrator (uncredited)
1983
1971
Self
1971
Jim Bathgate
1959
Max
1946
Commissioner
1954
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
1982
1976
Narrator
1987
Narrator (voice)
1974
Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor
1948
Narrator
1977
Kasar
1956
Jim Dunn
1986
Lt. Jacobi
1949
Chuckles
1950
Det. Sgt. Turk
1951
TV Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
1967
Lord Denethor (voice)
1980
Farnsworth
1948
Narrator
1966
Mental Patient (uncredited)
1965
Mizette
1952
Major Nicolet
1951
Tallman
1956
Sheriff Egan
1948
Morano
1948
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1976
Mr. Mahoney
1986
Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
1979
Narrator (voice)
1977
Dr. Whelan
1978
Self (archive footage)
2024
1962
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1957
self
1974
Ollie
1950
Lachmed
1953
Sgt. Dominic
1985
Thaddeus Smith
1980
Ring Announcer (voice)
1981
Louie Castro
1951
1985
1959
Frank Cannon
1971
Narrator (voice)
1977
William Battles
1980
Quinn
1947
Mike Morrel
1950
Eric Berg
1955
1969
Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors (uncredited)
1965
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1975
Frank Cannon
1980
Keegan
1971
Chief Vincent Kovac
1971
Bart Harris
1970
Dr. R. Adams Cowley
1982
Sheriff Chris Hamish
1957
Goodwin
1953
Narrator (voice)
1959
Jack Starkey
1977
Col. Keefer
1978
First Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
1945
Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
1948
The Mikado
1983
Frank Sistina
1949
Narrator
1965
1959
Narrator (voice)
1977
Narrator (voice)
1977
Narrator
1955
Narrator
Narrator (voice)
1974
Directing (27)
Director
1958
Director
1957
Director
1958
Director
1960
Director
1955
Director
1968
Director
1958
Director
1955
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1958
Director
1959
Director
1957
Director
1961
Director
1960
Director
1959
Director
1963
Director
1962
Director
1963
Director
1965
Director
1965
Director
1962
Director
1958
Director
1959
Director
1981
Director
1965
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1958
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1960
Director
1959
