William Conrad
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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
Credits
The Box (2009)
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Chisum (1970)
as Narrator - Opening Credits (voice) (uncredited)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
as Morano
Shock-Trauma (1982)
as Dr. R. Adams Cowley
Hudson Hawk (1991)
as Narrator (voice)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
as Narrator (uncredited)
The Naked Jungle (1954)
as Commissioner
The Killers (1946)
as Max
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
The Mikado (1983)
as The Mikado
The Making of Star Wars (1977)
as Narrator (voice)
The Return of the King (1980)
as Lord Denethor (voice)
Moonshine County Express (1977)
as Jack Starkey
Body and Soul (1947)
as Quinn
Joan of Arc (1948)
as Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor
Chamber of Horrors (1966)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Racket (1951)
as Turk
The Conqueror (1956)
as Kasar
Arch of Triumph (1948)
as Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
East Side, West Side (1949)
as Lt. Jacobi
Four Faces West (1948)
as Sheriff Egan
Lone Star (1952)
as Mizette
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
as Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
Blitz (1985)
as Mr. Mahoney
Countdown (1967)
as TV Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Any Number Can Play (1949)
as Frank Sistina
One Way Street (1950)
as Ollie
Cry of the Hunted (1953)
as Goodwin
Johnny Concho (1956)
as Tallman
Two on a Guillotine (1965)
as Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors (uncredited)
-30- (1959)
as Jim Bathgate
Zero Hour! (1957)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (1986)
as Jim Dunn
The Desert Song (1953)
as Lachmed
The Milkman (1950)
as Mike Morrel
The Ride Back (1957)
as Sheriff Chris Hamish
Cry Danger (1951)
as Louie Castro
The Return of Frank Cannon (1980)
as Frank Cannon
Killing Cars (1986)
as Mr. Mahoney
Pillow to Post (1945)
as First Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951)
as Major Nicolet
Tension (1949)
as Lt. Edgar Gonsales
5 Against the House (1955)
as Eric Berg
Brainstorm (1965)
as Mental Patient (uncredited)
Hamburgers (1974)
as self
To the Victor (1948)
as Farnsworth
The Force of Evil (1977)
as Narrator (voice)
Night Cries (1978)
as Dr. Whelan
Dial 1119 (1950)
as Chuckles
Design for Disaster (1962)
as Narrator
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra (1971)
as Keegan
The City (1977)
as Narrator (voice)
The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill (1971)
as Chief Vincent Kovac
The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970)
as Bart Harris
Side Show (1981)
as Ring Announcer (voice)
The Macahans (1976)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974)
as Narrator (voice)
Turnover Smith (1980)
as Thaddeus Smith
In Like Flynn (1985)
as Sgt. Dominic
Cannon (1971)
as Frank Cannon
Daws Butler: Voice Magician (1987)
as Self—Host
Eggs Benedict (1965)
as Narrator
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980)
as William Battles
Catastrophe (1977)
as Narrator (voice)
The Naked Sea (1955)
as Narrator
Keefer (1978)
as Col. Keefer
Voices (1974)
as Narrator (voice)