William Conrad

William Conrad

Рождение : 1920-09-27, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Смерть : 1994-02-11

История

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).

Профиль

William Conrad

Фильмы

Посылка
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Артур и Норма — молодая семья, которая испытывает финансовые затруднения. Неожиданно супруги становятся счастливыми обладателями коробочки с кнопкой.Им объясняют что, если нажать на кнопку, они немедленно получат 1 млн. долларов. Одна тонкость — в этот момент где-то умрет совершенно незнакомый им человек…
Гудзонский ястреб
Narrator (voice)
«Гудзонский Ястреб» — прозвище непревзойденного вора Эдди, который может открыть любой сейф за считанные секунды. Выйдя из тюрьмы, король кражи решает уйти на заслуженный отдых. Но слишком многие на свободе заинтересованы в его криминальном таланте.С помощью шантажа коварные злоумышленники заставляют Эдди совершить ограбление века: он должен похитить три шедевра Леонардо Да Винчи из самых охраняемых музеев мира всего за несколько дней! «Гудзонский Ястреб» снова отправляется на охоту, но на этот раз в бескрайнем небе он не одинок…
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
Jim Dunn
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 judicial system takes too long for the Moon's devoted stepson and he takes matter into his own hands.
Killing Cars
Mr. Mahoney
In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for testing, he is confronted by ominous men, eager to get their hands on his patent. Evil Arab petroleum lords also want to stop this threat to the gasoline market any way they can.
In Like Flynn
Sgt. Dominic
The Mikado
The Mikado
Escaping from a distasteful marriage, Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, arrives in the town of Titipu - disguised as a musician. He has chosen Titipu because a beautiful girl, Yum-Yum, with whom he has fallen in love, lives in the town. A desire to marry Yum-Yum, however, is not enough. Nanki-Poo has to contend with her guardian, Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, who has every intention of marrying Yum-Yum, himself. Problems are compounded when the Mikado, accompanied by Katisha, Nanki-Poo's jilted bride, also arrive in the hitherto peaceful town of Titipu
Shock-Trauma
Dr. R. Adams Cowley
Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights hospital bureaucracy to gain recognition for his center.
Мертвые пледов не носят
(in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Пародия на криминальные фильмы 40-х годов. В картине использованы кадры из старых фильмов с известнейшими актерами тех лет. Джулия Форрест убеждена, что гибель ее отца в автокатастрофе не была несчастным случаем. Чтобы доказать, что это убийство, женщина нанимает частного детектива Ригби Рирдона. В ходе расследования Рирдон выходит на след неонацистской организации, захватившей отца Джулии в плен…
Side Show
Director
A teenage boy who runs off to join the circus as a side show puppeteer stumbles onto the dark secrets of the fellow performers.
Side Show
Ring Announcer (voice)
A teenage boy who runs off to join the circus as a side show puppeteer stumbles onto the dark secrets of the fellow performers.
The Return of Frank Cannon
Frank Cannon
Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate an old friend and Army Intelligence colleague's death, which has been ruled a suicide, but which smells like murder.
Turnover Smith
Executive Producer
A criminology professor uses scientific methods, advanced computer technology, his expertise in chess, and the leg work of several of his students to track down a crazed killer in San Francisco.
Turnover Smith
Thaddeus Smith
A criminology professor uses scientific methods, advanced computer technology, his expertise in chess, and the leg work of several of his students to track down a crazed killer in San Francisco.
Возвращение короля
Lord Denethor (voice)
К стенам Королевского города стекаются несметные войска Повелителя Тьмы. Король-призрак ведет чудовищную армию — тролли и орки, гоблины и назгулы идут на штурм города. Насмерть стоят бесстрашные защитники, все длится и длится кровавый бой… А в горах Мордора Фродо и Сэмми, томясь от жажды и голода, прячась от вездесущих врагов, все ближе и ближе подступают к жерлу Огненной горы… "Возвращение Короля" — полнометражный анимационный фильм режиссеров Артура Рэнкина и Жюля Бэсса. Мультфильм является экранизацией третьей, последней книги трилогии Джона Рональда Руэла Толкина "Властелин колец". Был снят как продолжение мультфильма "Хоббит" тех же режиссёров и выдержан в духе детской сказки с элементами мюзикла.
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
William Battles
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 in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
Бак Роджерс в 25 веке
Opening Narrator / Draconian officer (uncredited) (voice)
Пилот ВВС США из XX века Бак Роджерс попадает в аварию во время полёта на космическом челноке. Его тело оказывается замороженным на пятьсот лет. В 2491 году люди будущего обнаруживают челнок Роджерса и возвращают пилота к жизни. Бак узнаёт, что Земля претерпела мировую войну. Он вступает в ряды Обороны Земли и начинает бороться с её многочисленными врагами в привычной роли пилота истребителя. Ему в этом помогают штурман Уилма Диринг и робот Твики.
Keefer
Keefer
An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
Night Cries
Dr. Whelan
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 conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her.
The Making of Star Wars
Narrador (voz)
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 by C-3PO and R2-D2 which includes interviews with George Lucas and appearances by Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
Экспресс в Лунном округе
Jack Starkey
На ферму бутлегера Хаммера совершенно нападение. В жестокой перестрелке Хаммер и его рабочие погибают. Его дочери обвиняют в нападении на ферму отца местного мафиози Джека Старки, но шериф отказывается проводить расследование. Тогда сестры решают сами отомстить убийцам отца.
Catastrophe
Narrator (voice)
A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.
The City
Narrator (voice)
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, is that Wes punched him in the face when he was a baby. Banks is now intent on getting revenge for this by killing Wes. Only Matt and Scott can stop him. Written by Josh Pasnak
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
Keegan
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'Hara, U.S. Treasury."
Cannon
Frank Cannon
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.
D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
Chief Vincent Kovac
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 convicted. However, when Ryan discovers the pharmacist's double life--he's been running a burglary ring out of the pharmacy, and the dead man may have been a member of said ring, he vacates the manslaughter conviction and sets out to nail him for murder instead.
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Bart Harris
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 the society has a job for him.
Assignment to Kill
Executive Producer
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Countdown
Executive Producer
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 shelter for a year.
Countdown
TV Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
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 shelter for a year.
Chubasco
Producer
A wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.
The Cool Ones
Executive Producer
A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?
Первый в бою
Executive Producer
Джек - единственный выживший после японской атаки на его отряд на Гуадалканале. Благодаря его героизму и тому, что он остался жив он удостаивается Медали почета. Он тренирует новобранцев для морской пехоты и влюбляется в девушку по имени Пегги. Когда работа и брак наскучили ему, он решает вернуться на передовую. Но вскоре он понимает, что брак и жизнь изменили его взгляд на войну.
Chamber of Horrors
Narrator
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 have wronged him.
An American Dream
Producer
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the authorities that she killed herself, then reignites an old affair with singer Cherry McMahon -- which doesn't sit well with her jealous mobster boyfriend, Nicky.
Битва в Арденнах
Narrator (uncredited)
Бельгия, последние месяцы Второй мировой войны. Немецкое командование готовит план контрнаступления. Вся надежда на секретную танковую дивизию, о которой союзнические войска пока еще ничего не знают. Руководить операцией назначен блестящий немецкий офицер — полковник Хесслер. Он понимает, что операция может быть провалена из-за банальной нехватки топлива, и принимает решение для начала захватить горючее у небольшого подразделения союзников.
Brainstorm
Mental Patient (uncredited)
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
Brainstorm
Producer
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
Brainstorm
Director
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
My Blood Runs Cold
Producer
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
My Blood Runs Cold
Director
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
Two on a Guillotine
Producer
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 order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?
Two on a Guillotine
Director
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 order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?
The Man from Galveston
Director
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.
-30-
Jim Bathgate
A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.
Zero Hour!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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 the airliner in heavy fog.
Обратный путь
Producer
Шериф (William Conrad) ловит преступника (Anthony Quinn) и должен путешествовать с ним через прерии и индейскую территорию, чтобы отдать подозреваемого убийцу под суд.
Обратный путь
Sheriff Chris Hamish
Шериф (William Conrad) ловит преступника (Anthony Quinn) и должен путешествовать с ним через прерии и индейскую территорию, чтобы отдать подозреваемого убийцу под суд.
Johnny Concho
Tallman
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
Завоеватель
Kasar
Вождь монголов Тимучин, который влюблен в дочь татарского вождя Бортай, крадет ее, тем самым ускоряя начало войны. Бортай отвергает Тимучина. Позже, при налете Тимучин попадает в плен. Но тут Бортай влюбляется в него и помогает ему бежать. Тимучин подозревает, что он был предан и намеревается найти предателя и победить татар.
The Naked Sea
Narrator
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 Portuguese descent and have reenlisted for this trip.
5 Against the House
Eric Berg
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
The Naked Jungle
Commissioner
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
The Desert Song
Lachmed
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.
Cry of the Hunted
Goodwin
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Lone Star
Mizette
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.
The Racket
Det. Sgt. Turk
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.
The Sword of Monte Cristo
Major Nicolet
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 members of a group of rebels. A Masked Cavalier, the niece, Lady Christianne, of the Marquis De Montableau, announces at a secret meeting of the Normandy underground leaders that the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo was willed to her and she will use it to finance their cause. Her uncle, the only one who can decipher the symbols on the sword of Monte Cristo, the key to the treasure, derides her stand against the Emperor. La Roche takes possession of the sword and has the Marquis put into the dungeon. Christianne, as the Masked Cavalier, regains the sword from La Roche, but Captain Renault apprehends her and returns to sword to La Roche.
Cry Danger
Louie Castro
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.
Dial 1119
Chuckles
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
The Milkman
Mike Morrel
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
One Way Street
Ollie
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
Ист-Сайд, Вест-Сайд
Lt. Jacobi
Брэндон и Джесси Бурн были женаты долгие годы. Несколько лет назад у Брэндона был роман с Изабель Лоррисон. Теперь она вернулась в Нью-Йорк, намереваясь возобновить их отношения. В то же время за Джесси начинает ухаживать Марк…
Tension
Lt. Edgar Gonsales
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it. He decides to assume a new identity in order to murder his wife's lover without leaving a trace. Along the way, his plans are complicated by an attractive neighbor, as well as a shocking discovery that opens up a new world of doubts and accusations.
Any Number Can Play
Frank Sistina
When illegal casino owner Charley Enley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
Жанна Д'Арк
Guillaume Erard, a Prosecutor
В Северной Франции, истерзанной постоянными междоусобными войнами с бургундцами и многолетней войной с англичанами, в простой крестьянской семье Жака д`Арка родилась дочь Жанна. В возрасте 12-ти лет Жанна впервые познала божественный свет, и голос промолвил, что Богом на неё возложена миссия спасти Францию и изгнать англичан. Весной 1429 года девушка добралась до крепости на Луаре и добилась встречи с королем. Владыка поверил юной деве и поставил ее во главе отряда рыцарей. Рыцари Жанны Де Арк освобождали одну область Франции за другой…
To the Victor
Farnsworth
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
Извините, ошиблись номером
Morano
Барбара Стэнвик в роли невротичной дочери миллионера, прикованной к постели неизлечимой болезнью. Телефон — её единственная связь с внешним миром. Позвонив мужу на работу, Леона случайно вклинивается в чужой разговор и слышит, как двое мужчин обсуждают убийство женщины, которое произойдёт этой ночью. Попытка предупредить полицию ни к чемуне приводит — слишком мало информации, ничто не указывает на место и объект преступления. Нервничающая Леона вновь пытается найти мужа, но тот как сквозь землю провалился. Его секретарша сообщает, что с утра к нему пришла неизвестная блондинка… а затем его никто не видел. Телефонный диск крутится и крутится, информации становится все больше, мозаика начинает складываться в картину, неумолимо приближающую Леону к осознанию ужасной истины… Напряжение замкнутой в четырёх стенах женщины (да и наше) становится непереносимым. Снова звонит телефон, круг замкнулся.
Four Faces West
Sheriff Egan
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 his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
Тело и душа
Quinn
Чарли Дэвис, несмотря на упреки матери, стал боксером. На своем пути к вершине бокса он встречает все больше сомнительных личностей, среди которых и промоутер Робертс. Теперь Чарли необходимо сделать сложный выбор…
Убийцы
Max
От пуль наемных убийц погибает скромный служащий бензоколонки. Страховой агент Реардон расследует это на первый взгляд случайное преступление. Раскручивая нить жизни погибшего «Шведа», Реардон раскрывает тайну кровавых преступлений и предательств, в центре которых ослепительная женщина-вамп Китти Коллинз. Он слишком близко подходит к давней загадке исчезнувших 250 000 долларов и теперь у него появляется новая задача: выжить!
Pillow to Post
First Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
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. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.