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