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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 27, 1920
Died
February 11, 1994
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Also Known As
- John William Cann Jr.
William Conrad
2.0 Popularity
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
5.3
Self (archive footage)
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024
5.6
Self (voice) (uncredited)
The Box
2009
5.7
Narrator (voice)
Hudson Hawk
1991
6.2
Jason McCabe
Jake and the Fatman
1987
7.3
Narrator
The Highwayman
1987
6.0
Jim Dunn
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
1986
7.1
D.A. James L. McShane
Matlock
1986
2.8
Mr. Mahoney
Killing Cars
1986
0.0
Sgt. Dominic
In Like Flynn
1985
🎬
2.0
Mr. Mahoney
Blitz
1985
Credits
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
as Self (archive footage)
2024
5.3
The Box
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
2009
5.6
Hudson Hawk
as Narrator (voice)
1991
5.7
Jake and the Fatman
as Jason McCabe
1987
6.2
The Highwayman
as Narrator
1987
7.3
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
as Jim Dunn
1986
6.0
Matlock
as D.A. James L. McShane
1986
7.1
Killing Cars
as Mr. Mahoney
1986
2.8
In Like Flynn
as Sgt. Dominic
1985
0.0
🎬
Blitz
as Mr. Mahoney
1985
2.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Anatole Karzof
1984
7.5
The Mikado
as The Mikado
1983
3.8
Shock-Trauma
as Dr. R. Adams Cowley
1982
0.0
Hotel
1982
6.8
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
1982
6.6
Police Squad!
as Stabbed Man
1982
7.9
Nero Wolfe
as Nero Wolfe
1981
7.4
Side Show
as Ring Announcer (voice)
1981
7.0
The Return of Frank Cannon
as Frank Cannon
1980
6.2
Turnover Smith
as Thaddeus Smith
1980
0.0
The Return of the King
as Lord Denethor (voice)
1980
6.4
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
as William Battles
1980
2.0
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
1979
6.0
Keefer
as Col. Keefer
1978
0.0
Night Cries
as Dr. Whelan
1978
5.5
The Making of Star Wars
as Narrator (voice)
1977
7.0
Moonshine County Express
as Jack Starkey
1977
4.7
Catastrophe
as Narrator (voice)
1977
8.0
The Force of Evil
as Narrator (voice)
1977
6.0
How the West Was Won
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
6.9
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
as Narrator
1977
6.0
The City
as Narrator (voice)
1977
5.7
The Sonny and Cher Show
1976
6.8
The Macahans
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1976
6.7
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1975
5.0
Tony Orlando and Dawn
as Self
1974
3.5
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
as Narrator (voice)
1974
0.0
Hamburgers
as self
1974
0.0
🎬
Voices
as Narrator (voice)
1974
0.0
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
as Self
1973
5.4
Barnaby Jones
as Frank Cannon
1973
6.9
Cannon
as Frank Cannon
1971
6.6
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
6.5
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
as Self
1971
6.5
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
as Keegan
1971
10.0
Cannon
as Frank Cannon
1971
4.5
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
as Chief Vincent Kovac
1971
0.0
The Brotherhood of the Bell
as Bart Harris
1970
5.5
Chisum
as Narrator - Opening Credits (voice) (uncredited)
1970
6.7
The Dudley Do-Right Show
1969
7.5
The Name of the Game
as Arnold Wexler
1968
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
6.6
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self - Guest / Various Characters
1967
7.7
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self
1967
7.7
The High Chaparral
as China Pierce
1967
6.6
Countdown
as TV Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
1967
5.7
Chamber of Horrors
as Narrator
1966
5.4
Battle of the Bulge
as Narrator (uncredited)
1965
6.9
Battle of the Bulge
as Narrator (voice)
1965
6.9
The Dean Martin Show
1965
7.3
F Troop
1965
6.2
Brainstorm
as Mental Patient (uncredited)
1965
6.0
Two on a Guillotine
as Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors (uncredited)
1965
6.1
Eggs Benedict
as Narrator
1965
0.0
The Fugitive
as Narrator
1963
7.2
General Electric True
1962
0.0
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Sergent Cresse
1962
7.8
Design for Disaster
as Narrator
1962
0.0
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
3.5
The Aquanauts
as Corey
1960
5.5
The Bullwinkle Show
as Narrator (voice)
1959
7.1
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
as Narrator (voice)
1959
8.0
-30-
as Jim Bathgate
1959
5.7
This Man Dawson
as Narrator (voice only)
1959
5.0
The Man and the Challenge
1959
0.0
77 Sunset Strip
as Bystander (uncredited)
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Clapper (uncredited)
1958
6.7
Bat Masterson
as Clark Benson
1958
6.1
Bat Masterson
as Dick MacIntyre
1958
6.1
Zero Hour!
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1957
6.6
Tombstone Territory
as Frank Banter
1957
6.2
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Moses Kadish
1957
7.3
The Ride Back
as Sheriff Chris Hamish
1957
6.3
Johnny Concho
as Tallman
1956
3.7
The Conqueror
as Kasar
1956
3.5
The Naked Sea
as Narrator
1955
0.0
Gunsmoke
as Narrator (voice)
1955
6.6
5 Against the House
as Eric Berg
1955
5.9
The Naked Jungle
as Commissioner
1954
6.4
The Desert Song
as Lachmed
1953
6.5
Cry of the Hunted
as Goodwin
1953
5.7
Lone Star
as Mizette
1952
5.6
The Racket
as Turk
1951
6.3
The Sword of Monte Cristo
as Major Nicolet
1951
4.0
Cry Danger
as Louie Castro
1951
6.6
Dial 1119
as Chuckles
1950
5.4
The Milkman
as Mike Morrel
1950
8.0
One Way Street
as Ollie
1950
5.2
East Side, West Side
as Lt. Jacobi
1949
6.9
Tension
as Lt. Edgar Gonsales
1949
6.8
Any Number Can Play
as Frank Sistina
1949
6.9
Joan of Arc
as Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor
1948
6.1
To the Victor
as Farnsworth
1948
0.0
Sorry, Wrong Number
as Morano
1948
6.7
Four Faces West
as Sheriff Egan
1948
5.6
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Arch of Triumph
as Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
1948
5.8
Bambi
as Self
1948
9.0
Body and Soul
as Quinn
1947
6.7
The Killers
as Max
1946
7.3
Pillow to Post
as First Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
1945
5.3