William Conrad Filmography

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Weather Lady

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Pottsylvania Creeper

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Painting Theft

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Banana Formula

Hudson Hawk

Actors: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, Sandra Bernhard, Richard E. Grant, James Coburn

Synopsis: Michael Lehmann directed this post-modernist hash of To Catch a Thief and The Naked Gun starring Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk, a cat burglar who wants to go straight, but the circumstances won't allow it. The story begins in a pre-credit sequence that takes place in the renaissance. Leonardo Da Read More

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Blue Moose

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Birth of Bullwinkle

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Vincent Van Moose

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Mona Moose

Rocky & Bullwinkle: La Grande Moose

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Canadian Gothic

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a bereaved bricklayer vows to avenge the brutal murder of his parents. The killer is brought in, but is not given the death penalty. The young man then decides to take matters into his own hands. He oversteps the law and eventually begins to question his actions. Read More

Jockey

Jake and the Fatman: Season 01

Actors: William Conrad, Joe Penny, Lu Leonard

Jake and the Fatman

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Joe Penny, William Conrad

Blitz

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Senta Berger, Agnes Soral, Daniel Gélin, Stefan Meinke

Synopsis: 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 (Jurgen Prochnow) has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for Read More

In Like Flynn

Actors: Jenny Seagrove

Synopsis: In Like Flynn is Remington Steele cross-pollinated with Romancing the Stone. The title "character," Jason Flynn, is a fictional James Bond-like adventurer created by reclusive author Daryl E. Raymond. Raymond's bestselling books are seemingly the sole source of income for the publishing firm where Jenny Seagrove Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Takes a Curtain Call

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury is reunited with her onetime The Picture of Dorian Gray costar Hurd Hatfield in this episode, in which Jessica Fletcher (Lansbury) attends a special performance by a Soviet ballet troupe. Just as two of the dancers decide to defect, the KGB official assigned to the troupe is Read More

Side Show

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a teenage boy runs away from home and joins a circus, discovering that his new life is not exactly what he thought it would be. When the boy is the witness to a murder, he must struggle to keep himself out of the killer's way. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mikado

Synopsis: This video presents a 1982 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operatic farce The Mikado. Although the setting and characters come from Japan, the play is a satire of English Victorian society. Its foibles are exposed in this comedy starring William Conrad, Clive Revill, and Stafford Dean. The London Symphony Orchestra Read More

Shocktrauma

Synopsis: This drama is based on Dr. R. Adams Cowley's true story of how he and his colleagues developed the very first medical shock trauma unit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

Actors: Lane Caudell, Tommy Aguilar

Synopsis: Originally intended as the pilot for a never-sold cop series titled Battles, this made-for-TV meller stars William Conrad as William Battles, a retired Los Angeles police detective spending his golden years in Hawaii. Somewhat bored by inactivity, Battles takes a job at a local college as Read More

Turnover Smith

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this drama, a famous criminologist draws from his amazing bag of scientific and technical tricks to locate a psycho-killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Return of the King

Actors: Orson Bean

Synopsis: The second of Rankin/Bass' animated TV specials based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King plots the quest to defeat the evil wizard Sauron. Frodo, nephew of The Hobbit protagonist Bilbo Baggins, vows to destroy the Ring, even if it costs him his own life. He carries the Ring to the Read More

The Return of Frank Cannon

Actors: William Conrad

Synopsis: As made obvious by its title, this TV movie was an attempt to revive the once-popular private eye series Cannon, which ran from 1971 to 1976. Emerging from self-imposed retirement, corpulent gumshoe Frank Cannon (William Conrad) investigates the death of an old friend who formely worked for the Read More

The Rebels

Synopsis: The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the first was The Bastard). The saga of Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens), illegitimate son of a British blueblood, picks up with Kent fighting in the Continental Army during the Read More

MLB: 1978 World Series - New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Dodgers

Synopsis: The 1978 season was one for the record books for the New York Yankees. First they came back from 14 games behind the Boston Red Sox at the end of July. Then, after a home run by shortstop Bucky Dent led them to the World Series against the L.A. Dodgers, the Yankees came from two games behind to Read More

Night Cries

Synopsis: Expectant mother Susan Saint James goes into labor and is carted off to a somewhat forbidding hospital. When she awakens, she is told that her baby has died. The grieving Saint James reluctantly resumes her life as a schoolteacher. But not long afterward, she is haunted by bizarre dreams Read More

Keefer

Synopsis: Also known as Behind the Lines, Keefer was a bargain-counter Casablanca geared to fans of TV's Cannon. William Conrad stars in this busted pilot as the proprietor of a Lisbon bar during World War II. As we've all learned from Hollywood movies, Lisbon is a veritable hotbed of wartime intrigue Read More

Shine

The Making of Star Wars

Synopsis: Discover the technical magic that makes the technology of Star Wars and the workings of the Force seem real. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Alcatraz: America's Toughest Prison

Synopsis: Alcatraz: America's Toughest Prison unfolds the fascinating history of this legendary federal prison established to house the nation's most notorious criminals. Situated on an island surrounded by the shark-infested waters of the San Francisco Bay, the facility incarcerated 1,545 men from 1934 to Read More

Moonshine County Express

Actors: John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad, Morgan Woodward, Claudia Jennings

Synopsis: Banking on his renewed "leading man" status vis-a-vis Enter the Dragon, John Saxon plays J. B. Johnson in Moonshine County Express. The villain is racketeer Starkey (William Conrad), who has bumped off likeable moonshiner Pap Hammer (Fred Foresman). Now Starkey must do away with Hammer's toothsome Read More

Catastrophe

The City

Synopsis: Originally made for television, a psychotic with a grudge is gunning for a country singer, and two Los Angeles detectives must stop the killer before he strikes. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Macahans

Actors: James Arness, Richard Kiley, Eva Marie Saint, William Conrad

Synopsis: The Macahans is a two-hour TV movie utilizing characters originally created for the 1962 Cinerama extravaganza How the West Was Won. In his first post-Gunsmoke project, Zeb Macahan stars as frontiersman Zeb Macahan, who in the early 1860s returns to Virginia to visit his family. It takes only the Read More

Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. vs. The Ku Klux Klan

Actors: Ned Beatty, John Beck, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Attack on Terror: The FBI Versus the Ku Klux Klan is a fact-based, two-part TV movie. The film is a dramatization of the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The FBI, personified herein by southern operative Wayne Rogers, is brought in to investigate the trio's Read More

He Who Digs a Grave

Synopsis: When the blame of murder is placed on his friend, a private detective attempts to clear his reputation in a small cattle community. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

O'Hara, U.S. Treasury

Actors: David Janssen

Cannon

Synopsis: William Conrad stars as corpulent private eye Frank Cannon in this 2-hour pilot for the subsequent Cannon series. He responds to a plea for assistance from ex-flame Vera Miles (an actress who was in practically every pilot film made between 1965 and 1975). She is the prime suspect in the murder of Read More

Conspiracy to Kill

Synopsis: Conspiracy to Kill was one of two pilot films for the Jack Webb-produced TV series The D.A. Robert Conrad stars as LA deputy district attorney Paul Ryan. This time around, Ryan reopens a case that he's already won. New evidence indicates that a supposedly victimized drugstore owner (William Read More

The Brotherhood of the Bell

Synopsis: Glenn Ford plays a man who joins a mysterious fraternity, "The Brotherhood of the Bell", while in college. Upon attaining wealth and prominence, Ford discovers that the Brotherhood has been keeping tabs on him, and expects certain favors from him in the private sector. It dawns on Ford that the Read More

The Power

Synopsis: Power originated as an episode of the weekly, 90-minute TV adventure series Name of the Game. Robert Stack, in his usual role of Crime magazine senior editor Dan Farrell, sets about to investigate corruption on the waterfront. Farrell finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between Read More

Chubasco

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Producer, Songwriter

Actors: Richard Egan, Christopher Jones, Susan Strasberg, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Chubasco (Christopher Jones) is a wayward youth who is given a choice by the presiding judge. His choices are go to jail or take an honest job on a fishing boat. He chooses to set sail, leaving behind his girl Bunny (Susan Strasberg) and her father Sebastian (Richard Egan), who obviously has it Read More

Countdown

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: James Caan, Joanna Moore, Robert Duvall, Barbara Baxley, Charles Aidman

Synopsis: Improvisational director Robert Altman hadn't yet found his cinematic "voice" when he helmed the conformist, stick-to-the-script Countdown. James Caan is top-billed as a scientist who is chosen over astronaut Robert Duvall for the upcoming NASA moon shot. In their haste to beat the Russians to the Read More

Assignment to Kill

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud, Herbert Lom, Eric Portman

Synopsis: Insurance investigator Richard Cutting (Patrick O'Neal) is summoned to look into the sinking of some ships owned by wealthy shipping-magnate Curt Valayan (John Gielgud). Traveling to Switzerland, he interviews the owner and finds that his henchmen Matt (Herbert Lom) and the Big Man (Leon Greene) Read More

First to Fight

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chad Everett, Marilyn Devin, Claude Akins, Dean Jagger, Bobby Troup

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, a tough-as-steel Medal of Honor-winning Marine finds himself training recruits on a stateside base and waiting for his wife to bear their first child. Unfortunately, he feels bad about being home when so many other soldiers are dying in the Pacific Theater and so asks to be Read More

The Cool Ones

Crew: Producer

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Debbie Watson, Gil Peterson, Phil Harris, Robert Coote

Synopsis: This musical comedy pokes fun at the music industry as it tells of the romantic travails of two popular singers thrust together by an ingenious promoter/matchmaker as a publicity stunt. The young male needs to revive his flagging career while the female singer is trying to get her big break; so Read More

The March of Time: The Search for Vengence

A Covenant with Death

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of killing his wife. The film is set during the 1920s in the Southwest. The murderer is convicted and sentenced to hang, but on execution day, he has a fight and kills the Read More

The March of Time: The Class Of

The Fugitive: Season 04

Actors: David Janssen, Barry Morse, William Conrad

Synopsis: Switching from black and white to color for its fourth and final season, The Fugitive otherwise follows the patten established during its first three years on the air. Wrongly condemned to death for the murder of his wife, Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) has managed to escape custody, and is Read More

An American Dream

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis: An American Dream is adapted from the Norman Mailer novel of the same name. Stuart Whitman plays an acerbic TV talk show host who kills his wife Eleanor Parker during an argument. Whitman exerts his influence to cover up his crime, and the official verdict is suicide. But Whitman has not reckoned Read More

Brainstorm

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Viveca Lindfors, Stacy Harris

Synopsis: Brainstorm is a somewhat contrived but still well done and frightening thriller written and well-directed by actor William Conrad. Jim Grayam (Jeffrey Hunter) is a young scientist who saves Lorrie Benson (Anne Francis) from committing suicide. They fall in love, but Lorrie's husband Cort Benson (Dana Andrews Read More

The Fugitive: Season 03

Actors: David Janssen, Barry Morse, William Conrad

Synopsis: Season Three of The Fugitive finds the title character, Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen), still at large and on the run with a death sentence hanging over his head. Innocent of the murder of his wife, Kimble hopscotches from one community to another, assuming a vast array of identities and Read More

Two on a Guillotine

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg

Synopsis: A scary old haunted house provides the setting of this spooky thriller that centers on a psycho-magician who cut off his wife's head during a performance. Twenty years pass and he finally dies. His daughter is to inherit his estate, but before she can claim it, she must spend seven nights in his Read More

The March of Time: Seven Days In the Life Of the President

The March of Time: Frontiers Of the Mind

Time-Life Specials: The March of Time [TV Series]

The March of Time: The Enterprise In Action

The March of Time: The Epic of Flight

Battle of the Bulge

Actors: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, Telly Savalas, George Montgomery

Synopsis: In December of 1944, the Allied high command is convinced that German forces in Belgium are in a low state of readiness, and perhaps even about to withdraw. Only one officer on the front lines, intelligence specialist Lt. Col. Kiley (Henry Fonda), believes otherwise -- that the Germans are Read More

My Blood Runs Cold

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton, Barry Sullivan, Nicolas Coster, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: My Blood Runs Cold was a typically lurid horror chiller produced and directed by William Conrad during his 1960s tenure on the Warner Bros. staff. Heiress Joey Heatherton falls prey to the charms of a handsome young man (Troy Donahue) who claims to be the reincarnation of a legendary lothario. Read More

The Fugitive: Season 02

Actors: David Janssen, Barry Morse, William Conrad

Synopsis: Wrongly sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, escaped prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssencontinues to travel all over the country in search of the elusive One-Armed Man who actually committed the crime in Season Two of The Fugitive. Assuming such aliases as "Frank Borden", "Pete Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Thirty-First of February

Actors: David Wayne, William Conrad, Elizabeth Allen, Staats Costworth, William Sargent

Synopsis: The coroner rules that the wife of advertising executive Andrew Anderson (David Wayne) died in an accidental fall. But after receiving an anonymous letter, police detective Sgt. Cresse (William Conrad) becomes convinced that Anderson murdered his wife. Arranging an elaborate hoax, the relentless Read More

The Man from Galveston

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Preston S. Foster, James Coburn, Joanna Moore, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: This western served as the pilot film for Warner Bros.' Temple Houston television series. It is the tale of a young, brash attorney (Jeffrey Hunter) in the Texas circuit court system. His old flame (Joanna Moore) is accused of murder. The case is resolved when Hunter reveals the real killer in Read More

The Fugitive: Season 01

Actors: David Janssen, Barry Morse, William Conrad

Synopsis: Through a bizaree a twist of fate--namely, a spectacular train wreck--Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen, wrongly condemned to death for the murder of his wife, is able to escape his captor, Lt. Philip Gerard (Barry Morse), and to embark upon a nationwide odyssey in search of the One-Armed Man who Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Genesis

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The sixth and final season of Have Gun, Will Travel opens with the series' long-overdue "origins" episode, explaining how soldier-of-fortune Paladin came to be...Paladin (though we still don't learn his real name). Richard Boone plays three roles, as the "contemporary" Paladin, his younger self Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: A Miracle for St. Francis

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The statue of St. Francis, standing in the courtyard of California's San Luis Rey mission, has been stolen. Father Clare (David Garner) prevails upon Paladin (Richard Boone) to retrieve the statue with the least possible amount of gunplay--a task that proves easier said than done, thanks to the Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: One, Two, Three

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Astrologer Samuel H. Keel (Richard Boone) has predicted that someone named Seth Carter is destined to win a $500,000 lottery. In hopes of locating the elusive Carter, Keel hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to help in his search. Unfortunately, the first three people presumed to be linked to Carter are Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Man Who Struck Moonshine

Synopsis: William Conrad, who also directed several episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel, is here cast as Moses Kadish, a man who has isolated himself in order to conquer his alcoholism. After barely avoiding being shot by the taciturn Kadish, Paladin (Richard Boone) tries to help the man overcome his demons. Read More

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Synopsis: It's late Thursday night at the local paper and a savvy city editor, a world-weary but upright writer, and a beleagured copy boy prepare to put the next day's paper to bed. Suddenly two stories come over the wire. In the first, a young girl has gotten lost in the city's storm drains, and her life Read More

The Ride Back!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, George Trevino, Lita Milan, Victor Millan

Synopsis: Produced by former radio star William Conrad, this taut psychological Western features Conrad as Chris Hamish, a lawman assigned to bring back from Mexico accused murderer Robert Kallen (Anthony Quinn). Locating Kallen in a small Mexican pueblo proves easy enough, but bringing him to justice Read More

The Conqueror

Actors: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz, Agnes Moorehead, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: In the historical epic The Conqueror, John Wayne stars as Temujin, better known as Genghis Khan. Red-haired Susan Hayward costars as Bortai, the Tartar princess whom Temujin claims as the spoils of battle. Eventually, Bortai's hatred for her captor metamorphoses into love, while Temujin's hordes Read More

Johnny Concho

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Keenan Wynn, William Conrad, Phyllis Kirk, Wallace Ford, Christopher Dark

Synopsis: Coadapted by David Harmon from his own TV play, the psychological western Johnny Concho stars Frank Sinatra as the title character, a callow young punk who lives off the reputation of his gunslinger brother. Most of the townsfolk consider Johnny to be nothing more than a cowardly bully; only Mary Read More

Five Against the House

Actors: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore, William Conrad

Synopsis: In this film noir, five college students laughingly devise a perfect plan for robbing a casino in Reno. At first they do it just to pass the time, but one of them is deeply in debt and becoming increasingly distraught about it. He successfully cajoles his peers into carrying through with their Read More

The Cowboy

Synopsis: This film traces the history of the American cowboy right up to modern times. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More