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William Conrad
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Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Actor Born: September 27, 1920 in Louisville, KY Death: February 11, 1994 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Actor/director/producer "William Conrad" started his professional career as a musician. After World War II service, he began building his reputation in films and on Hollywood-based radio programs. Due to his bulk and shifty-eyed appearance, he was cast in films as nasty heavies, notably in "The Killers" (1946) (his first film), "Sorry Wrong Number" (1948) and "The Long Wait" (1954). On radio, the versatile Conrad was a fixture on such moody anthologies as "Escape" and "Suspense"; he also worked frequently with Jack "Dragnet" "Webb" during this period, and as late as 1959 was ingesting the scenery in the "Webb"-directed film "30". Conrads most celebrated radio role was as Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke", which he played from 1952 through 1961 (the TV "Gunsmoke", of course, went to "James Arness", who physically matched the character that the portly Conrad had shaped aurally). In the late 1950s,... Full Biography
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