William Conrad
Acting
Born: 1920-09-27 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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).
Known For
The Box
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Hudson Hawk
Narrator (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
Anatole Karzof
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Police Squad!
Stabbed Man
The Killers
Max
Battle of the Bulge
Narrator (uncredited)
Battle of the Bulge
Narrator (voice)
The Return of the King
Lord Denethor (voice)
Sorry, Wrong Number
Morano
Chisum
Narrator - Opening Credits (voice) (uncredited)
Matlock
James McShane
The Naked Jungle
Commissioner
Body and Soul
Quinn
Gunsmoke
Narrator (voice)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
Joan of Arc
Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Sergent Cresse
The Carol Burnett Show
Self - Guest / Various Characters
The Carol Burnett Show
Self
The Fugitive
Narrator
The Bullwinkle Show
Narrator (voice)
The Conqueror
Kasar
Countdown
TV Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Cry Danger
Louie Castro
Tension
Lt. Edgar Gonsales
Zero Hour!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Jake and the Fatman
Jason McCabe
The Racket
Turk
Have Gun, Will Travel
Have Gun, Will Travel
Moses Kadish
5 Against the House
Eric Berg
Cannon
Frank Cannon
The Making of Star Wars
Narrator (voice)
Arch of Triumph
Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
Two on a Guillotine
Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors (uncredited)
How the West Was Won
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
Barnaby Jones
Frank Cannon
Chamber of Horrors
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)