William Conrad
Acting • Born 1920-09-27 – Died 1994-02-11
Biography
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).
Filmography
112 credits
The Return of the King
Movie • 1980
Lord Denethor (voice)
Sorry, Wrong Number
Movie • 1948
Morano
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie • 1982
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Cry Danger
Movie • 1951
Louie Castro
The Racket
Movie • 1951
Turk
Tension
Movie • 1949
Lt. Edgar Gonsales
Cry of the Hunted
Movie • 1953
Goodwin
-30-
Movie • 1959
Jim Bathgate
One Way Street
Movie • 1950
Ollie
Dial 1119
Movie • 1950
Chuckles
The Killers
Movie • 1946
Max
Johnny Concho
Movie • 1956
Tallman
The Naked Jungle
Movie • 1954
Commissioner
The Sword of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1951
Major Nicolet
5 Against the House
Movie • 1955
Eric Berg
Four Faces West
Movie • 1948
Sheriff Egan
Body and Soul
Movie • 1947
Quinn
The Mikado
Movie • 1983
The Mikado
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Movie • 1975
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Arch of Triumph
Movie • 1948
Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
Any Number Can Play
Movie • 1949
Frank Sistina
East Side, West Side
Movie • 1949
Lt. Jacobi
Moonshine County Express
Movie • 1977
Jack Starkey
The Force of Evil
Movie • 1977
Narrator (voice)
The Ride Back
Movie • 1957
Sheriff Chris Hamish
Keefer
Movie • 1978
Col. Keefer
The Milkman
Movie • 1950
Mike Morrel
Night Cries
Movie • 1978
Dr. Whelan
The Return of Frank Cannon
Movie • 1980
Frank Cannon
Killing Cars
Movie • 1986
Mr. Mahoney
The Desert Song
Movie • 1953
Lachmed
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
Movie • 1971
Chief Vincent Kovac
The City
Movie • 1977
Narrator (voice)
Hamburgers
Movie • 1974
self
Catastrophe
Movie • 1977
Narrator (voice)
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Movie • 1980
William Battles
Cannon
Movie • 1971
Frank Cannon
Lone Star
Movie • 1952
Mizette
Shock-Trauma
Movie • 1982
Dr. R. Adams Cowley
Chisum
Movie • 1970
Narrator - Opening Credits (voice) (uncredited)
The Conqueror
Movie • 1956
Kasar
In Like Flynn
Movie • 1985
Sgt. Dominic
Blitz
Movie • 1985
Mr. Mahoney
Brainstorm
Movie • 1965
Mental Patient (uncredited)
To the Victor
Movie • 1948
Farnsworth
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Movie • 1979
Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
Zero Hour!
Movie • 1957
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Eggs Benedict
Movie • 1965
Narrator
Pillow to Post
Movie • 1945
First Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
The Making of Star Wars
Movie • 1977
Narrator (voice)
Side Show
Movie • 1981
Ring Announcer (voice)
Hudson Hawk
Movie • 1991
Narrator (voice)
Chamber of Horrors
Movie • 1966
Narrator
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Movie • 1970
Bart Harris
The Box
Movie • 2009
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
Movie • 1986
Jim Dunn
Joan of Arc
Movie • 1948
Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
Movie • 1971
Keegan
Turnover Smith
Movie • 1980
Thaddeus Smith
The Naked Sea
Movie • 1955
Narrator
Battle of the Bulge
Movie • 1965
Narrator (uncredited)
Countdown
Movie • 1967
TV Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
The Macahans
Movie • 1976
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Movie • 1974
Narrator (voice)
Two on a Guillotine
Movie • 1965
Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors (uncredited)
Design for Disaster
Movie • 1962
Narrator
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Battle of the Bulge
Movie • 1965
Narrator (voice)
Voices
Movie • 1974
Narrator (voice)
F Troop
TV • 1965
The Sonny and Cher Show
TV • 1976
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
TV • 1971
Matlock
TV • 1986
James McShane
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Narrator (voice)
Hotel
TV • 1982
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Jake and the Fatman
TV • 1987
Jason McCabe
Cannon
TV • 1971
Frank Cannon
Target: The Corruptors!
TV • 1961
The Man and the Challenge
TV • 1959
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Narrator
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
China Pierce
The Aquanauts
TV • 1960
Corey
The Dean Martin Show
TV • 1965
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Clark Benson
Nero Wolfe
TV • 1981
Nero Wolfe
General Electric True
TV • 1962
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Bystander (uncredited)
This Man Dawson
TV • 1959
Narrator (voice only)
Tony Orlando and Dawn
TV • 1974
Self
The Dudley Do-Right Show
TV • 1969
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
TV • 1973
Self
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
TV • 1971
Self
Police Squad!
TV • 1982
Stabbed Man
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Arnold Wexler
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Dick MacIntyre
How the West Was Won
TV • 1977
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
The Carol Burnett Show
TV • 1967
Self - Guest / Various Characters
The Carol Burnett Show
TV • 1967
Self
The Bullwinkle Show
TV • 1959
Narrator (voice)
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1977
Narrator
The Highwayman
TV • 1987
Narrator
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Frank Cannon
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Sergent Cresse
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Anatole Karzof
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Moses Kadish
Tombstone Territory
TV • 1957
Frank Banter
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
TV • 1959
Narrator (voice)
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Clapper (uncredited)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self