William Conrad Net Worth is
$200,000

Mini Biography

William Conrad became a tv star relatively past due in his profession. Actually, the former Military Air Corps Globe Battle II fighter pilot started his screen profession playing heavies. He was Maximum, among the Killers (1946) employed to complete off Burt Lancaster in his dingy lodgings. He was the corrupt condition inspector Turck doing work for the syndicate in The Racquet (1951). He was a mobster in Sorry, Incorrect Amount (1948), the murderous gunslinger Tallman in Johnny Concho (1956) and sleazy nightclub owner Louie Castro who stated to become 60% reputable in Cry Risk (1951). You should definitely essaying outright villainy Costs played characters just like the tough combat promoter Quinn in Body and Soul (1947) or the doom-laden province commissioner in The Naked Jungle (1954). The portly, balding, crumple-faced, self-confessed gourmand acquired an ever-present fat problem (at onetime 118 kg) which became an all natural obstacle to progressing to bigger leading film assignments. That, nevertheless, didn’t hinder an extremely successful profession in radio. Actually, Bill himself approximated that he previously played more than 7,000 radio parts. Also if that was an exaggeration, his gravelly, resonant tone of voice was certainly noticed on countless broadcasts from “Buck Rogers” to “The Bullwinkle Display”, from impersonating Marshall Matt Dillon on “Gunsmoke” (before Adam Arness got the component on display screen) to narrating the travels of Richard Kimball in the tv screen plan The Fugitive (1963). In a single bout of the anthology series Suspense (1949) in 1956, he voiced every single component. Since his corpulence effectively precluded playing strapping characters like Matt Dillon, Bill begun to focus on directing and making by the first 1960’s. This, ironically, included shows of “Gunsmoke”. In 1963 he added to conserving 77 Sunset Remove (1958) for just one more period. Afterwards in the 10 years he created and directed many movies for Warner Brothers, like the thriller Brainstorm (1965) with Jeffrey Hunter and Anne Francis. In 1971 he came back to performing and became the improbable star from the Quinn Martin creation Cannon (1971), that he’s chiefly remembered. Expenses imbued the tough-talking, no-nonsense personality of Frank Cannon with plenty of mankind and wit to help make the series convincing but, regardless of the show’s recognition, he produced his views very clear inside a 1976 Instances interview that he discovered himself poorly offered from the scripts he previously been given. A well planned sequel, The Come back of Frank Cannon (1980) didn’t obtain beyond the movie-length pilot, however the actor’s recognition led to another starring part in Jake as well as the Fatman (1987) as Area Lawyer McCabe, co-starring with Joe Cent) and a short operate as eccentric detective Nero Wolfe (1981). A self-effacing guy with an excellent love of life and never scared to speak his brain, Bill Conrad passed away of heart failing in Feb 1994. He was elected towards the Broadcasting and Wire Hall of Popularity and (posthumously) to the air Hall of Popularity in 1997.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	William Conrad
Died	February 11, 1994, Los Angeles, California, United States
Height	1.72 m
Profession	Voice Actor, Film director, Film producer, Television Director, Television producer
Nationality	American
Spouse	Tippy Stringer Huntley, Susan Randall Conrad, June Nelson
Children	Christopher Conrad
Parents	Ida Mae Upchurch Cann, John William Cann
Nominations	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series
Movies	The Naked Jungle, Sorry, Wrong Number, Cry Danger, The Racket, Two on a Guillotine, Body and Soul, My Blood Runs Cold, The Ride Back, Johnny Concho, Four Faces West, East Side, West Side, The Desert Song, Tension, Hudson Hawk, The Return of the King, Cry of the Hunted, Any Number Can Play, 5 Against the House, Dial 1119, Joan of Arc, Assignment to Kill, Killing Cars, Moonshine County Express, The Sword of Monte Cristo, Shocktrauma, The Making of Star Wars, An American Dream, Brainstorm, Chubasco, Countdown, Lone Star, -30-, The Bob Mathias Story, Man From Galveston, The Return of Frank Cannon, Opera Australia: The Mikado
TV Shows	Jake and the Fatman, Cannon, The Fugitive, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Nero Wolfe, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Manimal, How the West Was Won, The Highwayman, Automan, This Man Dawson, The Dudley Do-Right Show, Trauma Center, The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger