Job Actor, director, producer, voice actor
Years active 1945-1993
Top Roles Narrator, Max, Quinn, Lt. Jacobi, Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors
Top GenresDrama, Film Noir, Action, Crime, Thriller/Suspense, Western
Top TopicsRomance (Drama), Book-Based, Detectives
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Shares birthday with Arthur Penn, Mary McCarty, Westcott Clarke  see more..

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Body and Soul

Fan rating: 7.75
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Sorry, Wrong Number

Fan rating: 7.55
Battle of the Bulge

Battle of the Bulge

Fan rating: 7.25

William Conrad Overview:

Actor, William Conrad, was born John William Cann on Sep 27, 1920 in Louisville, KY. Conrad died at the age of 73 on Feb 11, 1994 in North Hollywood, CA .

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Conrad was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame .

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Perhaps most familiar to modern audiences for his television roles in the popular series Cannon and Jake and the Fatman, possessed talents that stretched far beyond his portrayals of stocky small-screen lawmen. During his 50-year career, he served in such varied capacities as producer... Read full article

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William Conrad Quotes:

Lt. Jacobi: [to Brandon] If you lie down with dogs, Brandon, you gt up with fleas.

Commissioner: Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide... forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it!

Sheriff Chris Hamish: I've never been a success at anything I tried to do. Anything I ever tried to do ever, failed. I've been a failure and that's all, a plain old failure. But I'm not going to be this time. I'm going to make this one. I'm going to do this right!

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William Conrad Facts
There were several 11-1/2"-tall falcon props made for use in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Some were cast of plastic resin, some of lead. Only two 45-lb. lead falcons and two 5-lb., 5.4-oz resin falcons are verified to be in existence. One lead Falcon has been displayed for years at various venues. The second, which was marred at the end of the movie by Sydney Greenstreet, was a gift to Conrad by studio chief Jack L. Warner. It was auctioned in December 1994, nine months after Conrad's death, for $398,500 to Ronald Winston of Harry Winston, Inc. At that time it was the highest price ever paid for a movie prop. It was used to model a 10-lb. gold replica displayed at the 69th Academy Awards. The replica has Burmese ruby eyes, interchangeable claws (one set of gold, one set of coral) and holds a platinum chain in its beak with a 42.98 flawless diamond at the end. It's valued at over $8 million. The lead and resin falcons are valued in excess of $2 million - coincidentally the value placed on the "real" Maltese Falcon by Kasper Gutman, Greenstreet's character in the 1941 classic movie.
Buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills in the Lincoln Terrace Plot # 4448. He is surrounded by his fellow TV detectives at this cemetery who are either in the same section or within very close proximity. They include Telly Savalas and George Savalas from "Kojak" (1973) and William Talman, Wesley Lau, and Ray Collins of "Perry Mason" (1957) fame and "Dragnet" (1951)'s Jack Webb.
His third wife was the widow of newscaster Chet Huntley.
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Radio Hall of Fame

William Conrad


Inducted: 1997
Radio Hall of Fame
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