William Conrad
Acting
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).
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
Age 103 (now 73)
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
as Jim Dunn
Age 66 (now 73)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Age 61 (now 73)
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
as William Battles
Age 59 (now 73)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
Age 58 (now 73)
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Age 54 (now 73)
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
as Narrator (voice)
Age 54 (now 73)
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
as Keegan
Age 50 (now 73)
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
as Chief Vincent Kovac
Age 50 (now 73)
Two on a Guillotine
as Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors (uncredited)
Age 44 (now 73)
How the West Was Won
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Age 56 (now 73)
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
as Narrator
Age 56 (now 73)
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self
Age 52 (now 73)
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self - Guest / Various Characters
Age 46 (now 73)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
as Narrator (voice)
Age 39 (now 73)
77 Sunset Strip
as Baseball Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Age 38 (now 73)
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Also Known As
John William Cann Jr.
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