GetWiki

{{Short description|American actor and film director (1920–1994)}}{{For|the New York politicians|William N. Conrad|William Conrad III}}{{Use American English|date=June 2021}}{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2021}}

factoids

Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.}}1994119|27}}Los Angeles, California, U.S.}}| education = Excelsior Union High SchoolCannon (TV series)>Jake and the FatmanThe Fugitive (1963 TV series)>The FugitiveThe Killers (1946 film)>The Killers}}Actorproducer}}Fullerton College (Associate of Arts>AA)| awards = National Radio Hall of Fame| years_active = 1940–1992

• {{marriage|June Nelson|1943|1957|end=divorced{edih}
• {{marriage|Susan Randall|1957|1979|end=died}}
• {{marriage|Lewis Tipton Stringer Huntley|1980}}

}}| children = 1



factoids



| branch = United States Army Air Forces| serviceyears = 1943–1945Captain (United States O-3)>Captain}}}}William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series Cannon.A radio writer and actor, he moved to Hollywood after serving in World War II as a fighter pilot, and played a series of character roles in films, beginning with the film noir The Killers (1946). He created the role of Marshal Matt Dillon for the radio series Gunsmoke (1952–1961) and narrated the television adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (1959–1964) and The Fugitive (1963–1967).Finding fewer onscreen roles in the 1950s, he changed from actor to producer-director with television work, narration, and a series of Warner Bros. films in the 1960s. Conrad found stardom as a detective in the TV series Cannon (1971–1976) and Nero Wolfe (1981), and as district attorney Jason Lochinvar "J.L., Fatman" McCabe in the legal drama Jake and the Fatman (1987–1992).

Early life

William Conrad (also known as John William Conrad) was born John William Cann Jr., on September 27, 1920, in Louisville, Kentucky.NEWS, Weil, Martin, February 12, 1994, Actor William Conrad Dies, The Washington Post,weblink Ancestry.com, 1930 Federal Census [database online]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2002. Year: 1930; Census Place: Olustee, Jackson, Oklahoma; Roll: 1907; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0027; Image: 1132.0; FHL microfilm: 2341641. Retrieved 2015-07-21. His parents, John William Cann and Ida Mae Upchurch Cann, owned a movie theatre,Ancestry.com. State of California. California Death Index, 1940–1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics and Conrad grew up watching movies. The family moved to Southern California where, as William Cann, he attended Excelsior Union High School in Norwalk. He majored in drama and literature at Fullerton College, in Orange County, California, and began his career as an announcer, writer, and director for Los Angeles radio station KMPC.Kahana, Yoram, "The Wolfe Man in His Lair." The Australian Women's Weekly, January 29, 1982, pp. 95–96. Retrieved from the National Library of Australia, May 27, 2013Conrad served as a fighter pilot in World War II. On the day he was commissioned in 1943 at Luke Field, he married June Nelson (1920–1977) of Los Angeles.Cedar Rapids Tribune, January 13, 1955 He left the United States Army Air Forces with the rank of captain and as a producer-director of the Armed Forces Radio Service.NEWS,weblink The Independent, London, Obituary: William Conrad, Anthony, Hayward, February 14, 1994,

Career

Radio

Conrad estimated that he played more than 7,500 roles during his radio career.William Conrad at the National Radio Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 23, 2022. At KMPC, the 22-year-old Conrad produced and acted in The Hermit's Cave (c. 1940–44), the Los Angeles incarnation of a popular syndicated horror anthology series created at WJR Detroit.Dunning, John, On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1998 {{ISBN|978-0-19-507678-3}} hardcover; revised edition of Tune In Yesterday (1976){{Rp|319|date=May 2013}}He was among the supporting cast for the espionage drama The Man Called X (1944–48); the syndicated dramatic anthology Favorite Story (1946–49); the adventure dramas The Count of Monte Cristo (Mutual 1947–48), The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen (Mutual 1947–48), The Green Lama (CBS 1949), and Night Beat (NBC 1950–52); Romance (1950); Hollywood Star Playhouse (1950–53); Errol Flynn's The Modern Adventures of Casanova (Mutual 1952); and Cathy and Elliott Lewis's On Stage (CBS 1953–54).{{Rp|181, 244, 299, 326, 431, 467, 507, 512, 584, 706|date=May 2013}}Conrad was the voice of Escape (1947–54), a high-adventure radio series.{{Rp|232|date=May 2013}} He played Warchek, a menacing policeman, in (Johnny Modero, Pier 23|Johnny Modero: Pier 23) (Mutual 1947), a detective series starring Jack Webb, and was in the cast of Webb's crime drama Pete Kelly's Blues (NBC 1951). He played newspaper editor Walter Burns opposite Dick Powell's reporter Hildy Johnson in the ABC radio drama The Front Page (1948). He was Dave the Dude in the syndicated drama anthology series The Damon Runyon Theater (1948); Lt. Dundy in the NBC radio series The Adventures of Sam Spade (1949–50); boss to government special agent Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in The Silent Men (NBC 1951); and a New Orleans bartender in the NBC adventure drama Jason and the Golden Fleece (1952–53).{{Rp|12, 189, 273, 368, 374, 541, 615|date=May 2013}}Most prominently, Conrad's deep, resonant voice was heard in the role of Marshal Matt Dillon on CBS Radio's gritty Western series Gunsmoke (1952–1961). The producers originally rejected him for the part because of his ubiquitous presence on so many radio dramas and the familiarity of his voice, but his impressive audition could not be dismissed, and he became the obvious choice for the role. Conrad voiced Dillon for the show's nine-year run, and he wrote the June 1953 episode "Sundown".WEB,weblink Gunsmoke Radio Episodes, comp.uark.edu, October 8, 2017, June 30, 2012,weblink" title="archive.today/20120630210027weblink">weblink dead, When Gunsmoke was adapted for television in 1955, executives at CBS did not cast Conrad or his radio costars despite a campaign to get them to change their minds.WEB,weblink Gunsmoke – the radio cast, www.otrsite.com, October 8, 2017, His other credits include Suspense, Lux Radio Theater, and Fibber McGee and Molly. In "The Wax Works", a 1956 episode of Suspense, Conrad performed every part. Because of his CBS Radio contract, he sometimes appeared on shows on other networks under the pseudonym "Julius Krelboyne".In January 1956, Conrad was the announcer on the debut broadcast of The CBS Radio Workshop, a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which Huxley himself narrated. "On the air, The CBS Radio Workshop was a lightning rod for ideas," wrote radio historian John Dunning, who cites Conrad's tour de force performances in the subsequent broadcasts "The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes" (March 23, 1956) and "A Matter of Logic" (June 1, 1956).{{Rp|144–145|date=May 2013}} Conrad directed and narrated the 1957 episode "Epitaphs", an adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters's poetry volume Spoon River Anthology.The CBS Radio Workshop. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422053114weblink |date=April 22, 2016 }} J. David Goldin, radioGOLDINdex database. Retrieved May 27, 2013."And '1489 Words' (Feb. 10, 1957) remains a favorite of many, a powerful Conrad performance proving that one picture is not necessarily worth a thousand words," Dunning concluded. "A lovely way to end a day, a decade, or an era."{{Rp|145|date=May 2013}}

Film

{{multiple image| align = right| direction = vertical| width = 240| image1 = The-Killers-1946-McGraw-Conrad.jpg| alt1 =Charles McGraw, William Conrad) in The Killers (1946 film)>The Killers, Conrad's film debut| image2 =| caption2 =}}As an actor in feature films, Conrad was often cast as a threatening figure. His most notable role may be the first for which he was credited, as one of the gunmen sent to eliminate Burt Lancaster in The Killers (1946). Conrad also appeared in Body and Soul (1947), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), Joan of Arc (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954).In 1961, Conrad moved to the production side of the film business, producing and directing for Warner Bros. film studio."Warner Brothers Names Conrad to Head Feature Unit." The New York Times, December 14. 1965. "Mr. Conrad … has been under contract to the studio as a producer-director for the last four years." In 1965 he produced and directed Two on a Guillotine, My Blood Runs Cold and Brainstorm as well as narrating the opening of Battle of the Bulge. Brainstorm was a latter-day film noir that has come to be regarded as "a minor masterpiece of the 1960s"Silver, Alain, and Elizabeth Ward , eds., Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1979, p. 41. and "the final, essential entry in that long line of films noir that begins at the end of the Second World War."Christopher, Nicholas, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997 (revised ed., Emeryville, California: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006, p. 231).Conrad was the executive producer of Countdown (1968), a science-fiction thriller starring James Caan and Robert Duvall that was the major studio feature début of director Robert Altman.Conrad narrated the documentary Design For Disaster, produced by the Los Angeles City Fire Department, about the November 1961 Bel Air wildfire that gutted several neighborhoods, at the time the worst conflagration in Los Angeles history. As a token of appreciation from Jack L. Warner, head of Warner Bros., Conrad received one of the two original lead-metal falcon statues used in the classic film The Maltese Falcon (1941). The falcon sat on a bookshelf in Conrad's house from the 1960s. Standing 11.5 in (29.2 cm) high and weighing 45 lb (20.4 kg), the figurine had been slashed during the making of the film by Sydney Greenstreet's character Kasper Gutman, leaving deep cuts in its bronze patina. After Conrad's death, the statue was consigned by his widow Tippy Conrad to Christie's, which estimated it would bring $30,000 to $50,000 at auction. In December 1994, Christie's sold the falcon for $398,500. The purchaser was Ronald Winston, president of Harry Winston, Inc. jewelers.Berry, Heidi L., "Lights, Camera, Auction! Movie Memorabilia Is This Month's Star, From Mae West's Bed to a Maltese Falcon," The Washington Post, December 1, 1994. "Maltese Falcon, Other Movie Memorabilia, Sold at Auction," Associated Press, December 6, 1994. The purchaser was Ronald Winston, president of Harry Winston, Inc. jewelers. In 1996, Winston resold the prop to an unknown European collector "at an enormous profit"{{snd}}for as much as $1 million.LeDuff, Charles, "Bird Made Him a Sleuth". The New York Times, June 29, 1997Late in life, Conrad narrated the opening and closing scenes of the 1991 Bruce Willis feature film Hudson Hawk.

Television

Voice

As "Bill Conrad", he narrated the animated Rocky and Bullwinkle series from 1959 to 1964. He narrated This Man Dawson, a 33-episode syndicated crime drama starring Keith Andes in the 1959–1960 television season, and then became the familiar voice narrating The Fugitive, starring David Janssen, on ABC television from 1963 to 1967. He could also be heard introducing Count Basie's Orchestra and Frank Sinatra on Sinatra's 1966 Live at the Sands album.Conrad intoned a rhyming narration heard over the credits of the 1970 John Wayne film Western Chisum. His voice is heard in the Clio Award-winning 1971 public-service announcement about pollution featuring Iron Eyes Cody, created for Earth Day by Keep America Beautiful and the Ad Council."Pollution: Keep America Beautiful – Iron Eyes Cody". {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626191511weblink |date=June 26, 2014 }} Ad Council, The Classics. Retrieved May 23, 2013. From 1973 to 1978, Conrad narrated the TV nature program, Wild, Wild World of Animals. Also during the 1970s, he appeared in and narrated a number of episodes for ABC's American Sportsman, and in the CBS documentary The Lost Treasure of the Concepcion. He later narrated The Making of Star Wars (1977), the disaster documentary Catastrophe! (1977), the 1978 World Series U.S.-baseball highlight film, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), and The Rebels (1979). He performed the role of Denethor in the 1980 animated TV version of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Return of the King. His other voice work included narration for The Highwayman and the High Flight sign-off featuring an F-15.WEB,weblink William Conrad, IMDb, August 10, 2020, WEB,weblink YouTube, M.youtube.com, 2022-05-19,

Directing

Conrad directed episodes of NBC's Klondike in the 1960–1961 season. His other credits as a director include episodes of The Rifleman, Bat Masterson, Route 66, Have Gun – Will Travel, 77 Sunset Strip, Temple Houston and Ripcord, as well as ABC's crime drama (Target: The Corruptors!).{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

Acting

File:William Conrad Cannon 1972.JPG|thumb|240px|right|William Conrad in Cannon (1972)]]Conrad guest-starred in NBC's science-fiction series The Man and the Challenge and in the syndicated skydiving adventure series Ripcord, with Larry Pennell and Ken Curtis. In 1962, he starred in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and guest-starred in episodes of ABC's crime drama (Target: The Corruptors!). He appeared as Major Anatole Karzof in a 1984 episode of "Murder She Wrote" called "Death Takes a Curtain Call".From 1971 to 1976, he starred in television detective series Cannon, which was broadcast on CBS. While starring in the show, he weighed {{convert|230|lb|kg|0}}, and ballooned to {{convert|260|lb|kg|0}} or more."I heard that Weight Watchers had banned its members from watching the show, but it turned out to be a gag", Conrad said in 1973. "The publicist for Weight Watchers did call and suggest that I have lunch with their president. I said sure – if I could pick the restaurant.""Question: I tried to think of…" TV Guide, August 10, 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2013.From the early 1980s to the early 1990s, he starred in two other TV series, each with a crime detection/courtroom drama theme – Nero Wolfe (1981) and Jake and the Fatman (1987–92) with Joe Penny.

Hosting

Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, Conrad served as the armchair-and-fireside host of the CBS All American Thanksgiving Day Parade morning broadcasts in which he anchored the network's annual holiday telecast of parades from around the U.S. and Canada, including parades from Detroit, Hawaii, New York City, Philadelphia, and Toronto.WEB,weblink Happy Thanksgiving!, Hadley, Mitchell, en, August 30, 2019,

Other appearances

In the 1970s and 1980s, Conrad appeared in a few Pittway First Alert Smoke Alarm commercials as the host, explaining the need for the alarms.{{Citation |title=William Conrad 1978 First Alert Smoke Detector Commercial |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ickVjAmxxSI |language=en |access-date=2022-10-06}}{{Citation |title=First Alert commercial with William Conrad |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pljbwh0Xr1M |language=en |access-date=2022-10-06}}{{Citation |title=Retro smoke alarm-detector commercials (a compilation) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43XP494pzOI |language=en |access-date=2022-10-06}}

Later life

In 1957, Conrad was married to former fashion model Susan Randall (1928–1979), and the couple had one son, Christopher."Man of Substance; William Conrad's Gruff, Oversize Presence Was a Perfect Fit for Cannon and Jake and the Fatman". People, February 28, 1994. Retrieved September 23, 2022. In 1980, Conrad married Tipton "Tippy" Stringer (1930–2010), a TV pioneer and the widow of NBC newscaster Chet Huntley.WEB,weblink General Forum on Genealogy, genforum.genealogy.com, December 26, 2008, "Tippy Stringer Conrad, TV weather girl in 1950s", The Boston Globe, October 27, 2010. "Tipton 'Tippy' Stringer Huntley Conrad" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110325152948weblink |date=March 25, 2011 }}, Lone Peak Lookout (Big Sky, Montana), October 14, 2010 She helped manage his career during their 14-year marriage.Brown, Emma, "Tippy Stringer Huntley Conrad, charming D.C. weather beauty, dies at 80". The Washington Post, October 23, 2010

Hobbies

Conrad was an avid outdoorsman and accomplished fisherman. Having been known for his prowess using light tackle, as documented in the magazine Field & Stream, on May 23, 1972, in the Yucatán Channel of Mexico, Conrad caught a 62 lb, 4 oz sailfish on thread-like 6-lb-test line.Field & Stream Vol. 78, No. 12, April 1974

Death

Conrad died of a heart attack at age 73 in Los Angeles on February 11, 1994.Bourdain, G. S., "William Conrad, 73, TV Actor In 'Fatman' and 'Cannon' Series". The New York Times, February 13, 1994 He was buried in the Lincoln Terrace section of Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery, California.{{Citation needed |date=July 2021}}

Recognition

Conrad was posthumously elected to the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1997, and also to the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame.WEB,weblink William Conrad, www.radiohalloffame.org, September 23, 2022, WEB,weblink List of honorees, Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, 2019, November 4, 2019,

Filmography

Actor{| class"wikitable sortable"

! Year! Title! Role! class="unsortable" | Notes| 1945| Pillow to Post| First Motorcycle Cop| Uncredited| 1946The Killers (1946 film)>The Killers| Max|| 1947Body and Soul (1947 film)>Body and Soul| Quinn|| 1948Arch of Triumph (1948 film)>Arch of Triumph| Policeman at Accident| Uncredited| 1948| To the Victor| Farnsworth|| 1948| Four Faces West| Sheriff Egan|| 1948| Sorry, Wrong Number| Morano|| 1948Joan of Arc (1948 film)>Joan of Arc| Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor|| 1949| Any Number Can Play| Frank Sistina|| 1949East Side, West Side (1949 film)>East Side, West Side| Lt. Jacobi|| 1950Tension (film)>Tension| Lt. Edgar Gonsales|| 1950| One Way Street| Ollie|| 1950| The Milkman| Mike Morrel|| 1950| Dial 1119| Chuckles|| 1951| Cry Danger| Castro|| 1951| The Sword of Monte Cristo| Major Nicolet|| 1951The Racket (1951 film)>The Racket| Detective Sergeant Turk|| 1952Lone Star (1952 film)>Lone Star| Mizette|| 1953| Cry of the Hunted| Goodwin|| 1953The Desert Song (1953 film)>The Desert Song| Lachmed|| 1954| The Naked Jungle| Commissioner|| 1954| The Bob Mathias Story| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited| 1955| 5 Against the House| Eric Berg|| 1956The Conqueror (1956 film)>The Conqueror| Kasar|| 1956Johnny Concho (1956 film)>Johnny Concho| Tallman|| 1957| The Ride Back| Sheriff Chris Hamish|| 1957| Zero Hour!| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited| 1958The Rough Riders (TV series)>The Rough Riders| Wade Hacker| Episode: "The Governor"| 1958–1961Bat Masterson (TV series)>Bat Masterson| Clark Benson / Dick MacIntyre| 2 episode| 1959-30- (film)>-30-| Jim Bathgate|| 1959–1960| This Man Dawson| Narrator| 39 episodes| 1959–1961The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show>Rocky and His Friends| Narrator| TV series, Voice, Uncredited| 1961The Aquanauts (TV series)>The Aquanauts| Corey| Episode: "Killers in Paradise"| 1961| Dudley Do-Right| Narrator| Voice, 1 episode, Uncredited| 1961–1965The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show>The Bullwinkle Show| Narrator| TV series, Voice, Uncredited| 1962| Gorath| Narrator| Uncredited| 1962Geronimo (1962 film)>Geronimo| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited| 1962| (Target: The Corruptors!)| Dan| Episode: "Yankee Dollar"| 1962| Have Gun—Will Travel| Moses Kadish / Norge| 2 episodes| 1962| GE True| Dr. James Fallon| Episode: "Circle of Death"| 1963Alfred Hitchcock Presents>The Alfred Hitchcock Hour| Sergeant Cresse| Season 1 Episode 15: "The Thirty-First of February"| 1963–1964| 77 Sunset Strip| Clapper / Bystander / Maestrian| Uncredited, 4 episodes| 1963–1967The Fugitive (1963 TV series)>The Fugitive| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited, 120 episodes| 1965| Two on a Guillotine| The Fat Man in the Hall of Mirrors| Uncredited| 1965| My Blood Runs Cold| Helicopter Pilot| Voice, Uncredited| 1965Brainstorm (1965 film)>Brainstorm| Mental Patient| Uncredited| 1966| Hoppity Hooper| Narrator| Uncredited| 1965| F Troop| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited, Episode: "Scourge of the West"| 1965Battle of the Bulge (1965 film)>Battle of the Bulge| Narrator| Uncredited| 1966Chamber of Horrors (1966 film)>Chamber of Horrors| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited| 1967First to Fight (film)>First to Fight| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited| 1967Countdown (1968 film)>Countdown| TV Newscaster| Voice, Uncredited| 1969The Name of the Game (TV series)>The Name of the Game| Arnold Wexler| Episode: "The Power"| 1970It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series)>It Takes a Thief| Strategy Room Announcer| Voice, Uncredited, Episode: "Situation Red"| 1970| Chisum| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited| 1970| The Brotherhood of the Bell| Bart Harris| TV movie| 1970| The High Chaparral| China Pierce| Episode: "Spokes"| 1970| Men at Law| Kornedi| Episode: "Survivors Will Be Prosecuted"| 1970| D. A.: Conspiracy to Kill| Chief Vincent Kovac| TV movie| 1971| O'Hara, U. S. Treasury| Keegan| TV movie| 1971–1976Cannon (TV series)>Cannon| Frank Cannon| 120 episodes| 1973| Gunsmoke| Narrator| Episode: "Women for Sale"| 1973, 76| The Carol Burnett Show| Himself| 2 episodes| 1973–1975| Barnaby Jones| Frank Cannon| 2 episodes| 1973–1976| Wild, Wild World of Animals| Narrator| TV series| 1974| The FBI Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis,Public Enemy Number One| Narrator| TV movie, Voice, Uncredited| 1975| (Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan)| Narrator| TV movie, Voice, Uncredited| 1976| The Macahans| Narrator| TV movie| 1977The City (1977)>The City| Narrator| TV movie, Voice| 1977| The Force of Evil| Narrator| TV movie| 1977| Moonshine County Express| Jack Starkey|| 1977| The Making of Star Wars| Narrator|| 1977| Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected| Host / Narrator| Voice, Uncredited, 8 episodes| 1977Catastrophe (film)>Catastrophe| Host / Narrator|| 1977–1978How the West Was Won (TV series)>How the West Was Won| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited, 7 episodes| 1978| Night Cries| Dr. Whelan| TV movie| 1978| Keefer| Keefer| TV movie| 1979| Buck Rogers in the 25th Century| Narrator| TV movie, Voice, Uncredited| 1979| The Rebels| Narrator| TV movie, Voice| 1979–1981Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)>Buck Rogers in the 25th Century| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited| 1980| Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die| William Battles| TV movie| 1980The Return of the King (1980 film)>The Return of the King| Lord Denethor| TV movie, Voice| 1980| Turnover Smith| Thaddeus Smith| TV movie| 1980| The Return of Frank Cannon| Frank Cannon| TV movie| 1980| Jockey| Host (Himself)| TV documentary movie, Directed by Martin Pitts Written by John Underwood| 1980| The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour| The Lone Ranger| TV series, Voice, as J. Darnoc| 1981Nero Wolfe (1981 TV series)>Nero Wolfe| Nero Wolfe| 14 episodes| 1981| Side Show| Ring Announcer| TV movie, Voice| 1982| Police Squad!| Stabbed ManTestimony of Evil (Dead Men Don't Laugh)>Testimony of Evil"| 1982| Shocktrauma| Dr. R. Adams Cowley| TV movie| 1982| The Cremation of Sam McGee:A Poem by Robert W. Service| Narrator| Short, Voice| 1983| The Mikado| The Mikado| TV movie| 1983| Trauma Center| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited, 2 episodes| 1983| Manimal| Narrator| Voice, Uncredited, 7 episodes| 1984| Murder, She Wrote| Major Anatole Karzof| Episode: "Death Takes a Curtain Call"| 1985| In Like Flynn| Sergeant Dominic| TV movie| 1986Hotel (U.S. TV series)>Hotel| Art Patterson| 2 episodes| 1986Killing Cars (1986 film)3=Killing Cars|lt=Killing Cars}}''| Mr. Mahoney|| 1986| Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo| Jim Dunn| TV movie| 1986Matlock (TV series)>Matlock| D. A. James L. McShane| 2 episodes| 1987The Highwayman (TV series)>The Highwayman| Narrator| Uncredited, Episode: "The Highwayman"| 1987–1992| Jake and the Fatman| Jason Lochinvar "Fatman" McCabe| 103 episodes, (final appearance)| 1991| Hudson Hawk| Narrator| Voice">

Director{| class"wikitable sortable"

! Year! Title! class="unsortable" | Notes| 1955Highway Patrol (U.S. TV series)>Highway Patrol (TV series)| "The Trap"| 1958| Target (TV series)| "The Unknown"| 1959| Mackenzie's Raiders (TV series)| "The Pen and the Sword"| 1959Bold Venture (TV series)>Bold Venture (TV series)| "Go Fight Sidney Hall""Dial M for Mother""Oh Kaplan, My Kaplan""The Last Hungry Man""One of Our Friedkins Is Missing … Fine""The Glittering Skull of Irving Tezcula"| 1959| The Rifleman (TV series)| "Three Legged Terror"| 1959The Rough Riders (TV series)>The Rough Riders (TV series)| "Deadfall"| 1959–1960| This Man Dawson (TV series)|| 1959–1960| Tombstone Territory (TV series)| "Marked for Murder""The Black Diamond""Silver Killers""Memory""The Governor"| 1959–1961Bat Masterson (TV series)>Bat Masterson (TV series)| "Wanted: Dead""The Reluctant Witness""The Good and the Bad""Ledger of Guilt"| 1960Lock-Up (TV series)>Lock-Up (TV series)| "Poker Club""So Shall Ye Reap"| 1960| Men into Space (TV series)| "Mission to Mars""Mystery Satellite"| 1960Klondike (TV series)>Klondike (TV series)| "Klondike Fever""Saints and Stickups"| 1960–1961| The Case of the Dangerous Robin (TV series)| "The Nightmare""The Caper""Java"| 1961The Aquanauts (TV series)>The Aquanauts (TV series)| "The Stakeout Adventure"| 1961Route 66 (TV series)>Route 66 (TV series)| "First Class Mouliak"| 1961Naked City (TV series)>Naked City (TV series)| "A Kettle of Precious Fish""The Day the Island Almost Sank""Bridge Party"| 1961–1962| (Target: The Corruptors!) (TV series)| "Prison Empire""Play It Blue""Babes in Wall Street""My Native Land""A Man's Castle""Journey into Mourning""A Book of Faces""Yankee Dollar"| 1962Saints and Sinners (TV series)>Saints and Sinners (TV series)| "A Night of Horns and Bells"| 1962–1963| Have Gun–Will Travel (TV series)| "One, Two, Three""Don't Shoot the Piano Player""Darwin's Man""Genesis""A Miracle for St. Francis""The Black Bull"| 1962–1963| GE True (TV series)| "Harris vs. Castro""The Handmade Private""The Last Day""Man with a Suitcase""Mile-Long Shot to Kill""The Wrong Nickel""The Amateurs""Open Season""Defendant Clarence Darrow""O.S.I.""Firebug""Escape""The Moonshiners""Security Risk""The Black-Robed Ghost""Ordeal""Pattern for Espionage""The Tenth Mona Lisa""Commando"| 1963| 77 Sunset Strip (TV series)| six episodes| 1963| The Man from Galveston|| 1963–1964Temple Houston (TV series)>Temple Houston (TV series)| "Billy Hart""Thy Name Is Woman""A Slight Case of Larceny""The Gun That Swept the West""The Town That Trespassed"| 1963–1971| Gunsmoke (TV series)| "Panacea Sykes""Captain Sligo"| 1965| Two on a Guillotine|| 1965| My Blood Runs Cold|| 1965Brainstorm (1965 film)>Brainstorm|| 1981| Side Show (TV movie)|">

Producer{| class"wikitable sortable"

! Year! Title! class="unsortable" | Notes| 1957| The Way Back|| 1959–1960| This Man Dawson (TV series)|| 1963| 77 Sunset Strip (TV series)| "88 Bars"| 1965| Two on a Guillotine|| 1965| My Blood Runs Cold|| 1965Brainstorm (1965 film)>Brainstorm|| 1966An American Dream (film)>An American Dream|| 1967First to Fight (film)>First to Fight|| 1967| A Covenant with Death|| 1967| The Cool Ones| executive producer| 1968Chubasco (film)>Chubasco|| 1968Countdown (1968 film)>Countdown| executive producer| 1968| Assignment to Kill| executive producer| 1980| Turnover Smith (TV movie)| executive producer

References

{{reflist|2}}

External links

• {{IMDb name|id=0002016}}
• William Conrad at Turner Classic Movies
• William Conrad at the National Radio Hall of Fame
• {{Allmovie name|85717|William Conrad}}
• {{find a Grave|4517}}

{{Authority control}}