William Conrad
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5577 |
| Birthday | 1920-09-27 |
| Place of Birth | Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
| Also Known As | John William Cann Jr., |
1980
The Return of the King
6.41/227
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.
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The Return of the King
1948
Sorry, Wrong Number
6.784/218
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the teleph...
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Sorry, Wrong Number
1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.643/462
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1951
Cry Danger
6.7/57
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
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Cry Danger
1951
The Racket
6.3/42
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the...
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The Racket
1949
Tension
6.8/57
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman,...
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Tension
1953
Cry of the Hunted
6.083/12
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
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Cry of the Hunted
1959
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5.962/13
A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.
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1950
One Way Street
5.3/28
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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One Way Street
1950
Dial 1119
5.517/29
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution. Intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, he holds the patrons...
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Dial 1119
1946
The Killers
7.4/445
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Si...
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The Killers
1956
Johnny Concho
4.5/4
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
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Johnny Concho
1954
The Naked Jungle
6.577/124
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
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The Naked Jungle
1951
The Sword of Monte Cristo
4.571/7
In 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La Roche and Major Nicolet to Normandy in search of the m...
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The Sword of Monte Cristo
1955
5 Against the House
5.943/43
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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5 Against the House
1948
Four Faces West
5.75/24
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him hi...
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Four Faces West
1947
Body and Soul
6.7/121
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, in...
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Body and Soul
1983
The Mikado
4.6/5
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of...
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The Mikado
1948
Arch of Triumph
6/40
In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is...
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Arch of Triumph
1949
Any Number Can Play
6.9/13
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it diff...
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Any Number Can Play
1949
East Side, West Side
7.1/26
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
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East Side, West Side
1977
Moonshine County Express
4.938/16
The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the lo...
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Moonshine County Express
1977
The Force of Evil
6/4
A murderer on parole victimizes a family against whom he holds a grudge.
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The Force of Evil
1957
The Ride Back
6.417/24
A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for mu...
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The Ride Back
1978
Keefer
8/1
An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
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Keefer
1950
The Milkman
7/3
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
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The Milkman
1978
Night Cries
6/3
A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is condu...
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Night Cries
1980
The Return of Frank Cannon
6.5/7
Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate an old friend and Army Intelligence colleague's death, which has been ruled a su...
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The Return of Frank Cannon
1986
Killing Cars
3.714/7
In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car...
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Killing Cars
1953
The Desert Song
6.8/5
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The R...
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The Desert Song
1971
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
8/1
D.A. Paul Ryan doesn't buy self-defense when a pharmacist fatally shoots an armed robber and brings the man up on manslaughter charges, for which he's...
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The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1977
The City
6.1/12
Matt and Scott are two detectives trying to catch a crazy guy who has a beef with a country singer. Banks' problem with country singer, Wes Collins, i...
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The City
1974
Hamburgers
0/0
Comedy special starring Charlie Callas, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bobby Vinton, and many other young comedians.
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Hamburgers
1977
Catastrophe
8.333/3
A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.
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Catastrophe
1980
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
4.333/3
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach...
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1971
Cannon
5/5
In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.
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Cannon
1952
Lone Star
5.7/23
Cattle baron Devereaux Burke is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight st...
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Lone Star
1982
Shock-Trauma
10/1
Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his...
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Shock-Trauma
1970
Chisum
6.655/210
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.
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Chisum
1956
The Conqueror
3.6/60
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
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The Conqueror
1985
In Like Flynn
6.5/2
Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man who joins her in defying death as they investigate...
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In Like Flynn
1985
Blitz
2/1
In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance and international villainy, the inventors of an environmentally friendly car...
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Blitz
1965
Brainstorm
6.123/30
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
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Brainstorm
1948
To the Victor
6.5/2
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
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To the Victor
1979
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
6.1/104
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war followi...
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1957
Zero Hour!
6.575/56
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land...
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Zero Hour!
1965
Eggs Benedict
0/0
Super Chicken fights chicken hater Eggs Benedict
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Eggs Benedict
1945
Pillow to Post
5.464/14
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. S...
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Pillow to Post
1977
The Making of Star Wars
7.061/41
Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted...
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The Making of Star Wars
1981
Side Show
8.5/2
A teenage boy who runs off to join the circus as a side show puppeteer stumbles onto the dark secrets of the fellow performers.
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Side Show
1991
Hudson Hawk
5.73/1177
Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the...
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Hudson Hawk
1966
Chamber of Horrors
5.567/30
A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes...
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Chamber of Horrors
1970
The Brotherhood of the Bell
5.962/13
A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now...
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The Brotherhood of the Bell
2009
The Box
5.639/1939
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A...
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The Box
1986
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
6.311/9
A true story of the lives of a family from South Carolina torn apart after the murder of Bill and Myrtle Moon. Although the killer is caught the judic...
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Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
1948
Joan of Arc
6.163/89
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...
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Joan of Arc
1971
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
9/2
Suddenly widowed by an accident, a deputy sheriff from the Midwest becomes a customs agent and cracks a narcotics ring. Pilot movie for the series "O'...
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O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
1980
Turnover Smith
7/1
A criminology professor uses scientific methods, advanced computer technology, his expertise in chess, and the leg work of several of his students to...
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Turnover Smith
1955
The Naked Sea
10/1
The tuna clipper Star-Kist prepares to leave San Diego on a four-month voyage under skipper Joachim Qualen. Many of the crew of twelve are of Portugue...
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The Naked Sea
1965
Battle of the Bulge
6.903/288
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive...
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Battle of the Bulge
1967
Countdown
5.8/60
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar she...
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Countdown
1976
The Macahans
6.714/7
Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the C...
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The Macahans
1974
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
8/1
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.
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The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1965
Two on a Guillotine
6.1/37
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in...
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Two on a Guillotine
1962
Design for Disaster
0/0
This 1962 documentary tells the story of a fire that started on November 5th, 1961 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, and over the course of three days destroye...
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Design for Disaster
2024
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
5.3/3
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.
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The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
1965
Battle of the Bulge
6.903/288
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive...
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Battle of the Bulge
1974
Voices
0/0
Documents various environmental actions, such as the efforts of Clevelanders who took part in planning a new jetport in Lake Erie, the work of farmers...
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Voices
1987
Daws Butler: Voice Magician
0/0
American comic actor, radio and TV personality, puppeteer and voice artist Daws Butler reminisces about his life and varied career.
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Daws Butler: Voice Magician
1982
The Cremation of Sam McGee: A Poem by Robert W. Service
0/0
A prospector struggles through extreme Arctic cold and promises his dying companion, Sam McGee, that he will cremate his remains. A 12-minute animated...
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