Robert Conrad

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Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk, 1935) is a retired American film and television actor, actor, and stuntman.

He is best known for his appearance in the 1966–69 television series The Wild West, in which he portrays James T. West, the sophisticated Secret Service agent.

In the television series Baa Black Sheep, he portrayed World War II ace Pappy Boyington (later syndicated as the Black Sheep Squadron).

In addition to acting, he was a guitarist and appeared in many pop/rock songs in the late 1950s and early 1960s as Bob Conrad.

Since 2008, he has hosted The PM Show with Robert Conrad on CRN Digital Talk Radio.

Early life

Conrad Robert Falk, a Chicago native, was born Conrad Robert Falk. Leonard Henry Falk, his father, was 17 years old at the time of Conrad's birth and was of German descent. Alice Jacqueline Hartman, Conrad and Hazel Hartman's daughter, was 15 years old when she gave birth and named her son after her father. She became Mercury Records' first publicity director, where she was known as Jackie Smith. She married twice, including once to Chicago radio personality Eddie Hubbard in 1948. According to reports, Eddie Hubbard and Jackie Smith had a baby together (born c. 1949) before splitting in 1958.

Conrad attended South Shore High School, Hyde Park High School, the YMCA Central School, and New Trier High School. He went from school at the age of 15 to work full time, including loading trucks for Confederated Freightways and Eastern Freightways, as well as driving a milk truck for Bowman Dairy in Chicago.

Conrad pursued acting after being active in Chicago for many years and investigating theater arts at Northwestern University. Conrad bore a resemblance to the film's lead actor, actor James Dean, so his mother used her entertainment industry contacts to help him get the role intended as a publicity stunt to raise audience at the theater. Conrad continued to sing; his vocal coach, Dick Marx, was also trained by Conrad; the father of singer Richard Marx.

Personal life and death

Joan Conrad and his first wife Joan were married for 25 years and had five children. In 1977, the two couples divorced amicably. He married LaVelda Ione Fann in the same year. He was 43 when he competed in the Miss National Teenager Pageant, which she won. Before their divorce in 2010, they had three children. Both his families were said to "get along well." Conrad's sons, Shane and Christian, and his daughter, Nancy, were all on television shows. Joanna, Joana's sister, became a television presenter.

Conrad referred to Chicago Outfitter and burglar Michael Spilotro as his "best friend" in a 2008 interview. In the movie Casino, Spilotro's murder was on display. Conrad was honoured as a guest on the Walk of Western Stars in Newhall, California, in 1984 (now a part of Santa Clarita).

Conrad was a member of Bear Valley Search and Rescue, which later became the foundation for High Mountain Rangers in Bear Valley, California.

Conrad drove his Jaguar over the center median and slammed head-on into a Subaru driven by Kevin Burnett, 26, on March 31, 2003, while on Highway 4 in California's Sierra Nevada foothills near his Alpine County home. Both men sustained serious injuries. Conrad, a criminal defendant, pleaded no contest, and he was found guilty of impaired driving.

He was sentenced to six months in house confinement, alcohol education, and five years of probation. Kevin Burnett's civil case against Conrad was settled in the following year for an undisclosed sum. Burnett died of perforated ulcers at the age of 28 in 2005; his family attributed the difficulty in recovering from the loss. Conrad sustained serious nerve damage as a result of the accident, leaving his right side partially paralyzed.

Conrad died of heart disease in Malibu, California, on February 8, 2020, at the age of 84.

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Career

Conrad met actor Nick Adams while visiting James Dean's gravesite in Fairmount, Indiana, in 1957. They became friends, and Adams suggested that Conrad go to California to pursue acting.

In the film Juvenile Jungle (1958), Adams was a bit actor for Conrad. Adams had intended to attend, but he had to cancel so he could be in a different film. Conrad's brief participation in Juvenile Jungle gave him the opportunity to join the Screen Actors Guild. He appeared in the film Thundering Jets, but also in 1958.

Conrad was immediately signed to an acting contract by Warner Bros. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he performed, EPs, and SPs 33-1/3 and 45 rpm records. In 1961, he had a minor Billboard hit song called "Bye Bye Baby," which debuted at No. 58. 113.

He appeared in the second season of James Garner's Maverick film "Yellow River," 1959). He appeared in other television programs, including Highway Patrol, Lawman, Colt.45 (playing Billy the Kid), Sea Hunt, The Man and the Challenge, and Lock Up.

Warner Brothers had a great success with its detective show 77 Sunset Strip, which later became Hawaiian Eye, a follow-up story. Detective Tom Lopaka appeared on Conrad as Conrad. He was born on strip but then spun off into a pattern that went from 1959 to 1963, both in the United States and overseas. Conrad appeared on an episode of Warner Brothers' series The Gallant Men in the series's run. Conrad appeared in Palm Springs Weekend (1963), Warners' attempt to recreate Where the Boys Are (1960) with its young contract actors after Hawaiian Eye was out of service.

Conrad's Mexico debut under the Orfeon brand has been a recording contract. He has two albums with just a few singles sung in Spanish. In 1964, he appeared on an episode of Temple Houston and later appeared in the comedic film La Nueva Cenicienta (also known as The New Cinderella). He appeared in Kraft Suspense Theatre's episode "Four into Zero" and portrayed Pretty Boy Floyd in Young Dillinger alongside his old friend Nick Adams.

Conrad began his role as government agent James West on CBS' Wednesday program The Wild Wild West, which aired on CBS until its cancellation in 1969. He made $5,000 a week. During the season four episode "The Night of the Fugitives," he did the majority of his own stunts and fight scenes, and rushed to the hospital after he dove from a saloon staircase, collapsed 12 feet, and landed on his head.

Conrad found time to work on other projects in addition to being starring in The Wild West. In 1967, he appeared in Ven a cantar conmigo (Come, sing with me), a musical. He also founded Robert Conrad Productions, and produced, starred in, and produced the Western film The Bandits (also 1967).

Conrad appeared in Mannix and Mission: Impossible episodes. In 1969, he signed a three-picture contract with Bob Hope's Doan Productions. The first two films were supposed to be Keene and No Beer in Heaven, but no one was ever made.

Paul Ryan, a lawyer in 1969, appeared in the television show D.A. Murder One (1969) (2005). In Washington, D.A., he revived the film. Conspiracy to Kill (1971) and the short-lived 1971 film The D.A. He also served as Deputy D.A. in 1971. (Episode: The Radical) Paul Ryan on Adam-12 (Episode: The Radical). He appeared in such made-for-television films as Weekend of Terror (1970) and Five Desperate Women (1971). In Assignment Vienna (1972), Jake Webster, an American spy, appeared in another TV series as a spy, but it lasted only eight episodes. In a fourth season episode of Columbo ("An Exercise in Fatality"), he was a violent fitness franchise promoter. Conrad appeared in the film Murph the Surf (1975) and Sudden Death (1977). In the TV film Confessions of the D.A., he reprised his role as Paul Ryan. A man is the subject of this tale.

Conrad, the legendary world War II soldier ace Pappy Boyington in Baa Baa Black Sheep, has retitled for his second season and into later syndication as the Black Sheep Squadron. He produced three episodes.

Conrad received the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Actor and a Golden Globe nomination for his role. He was a lead actor in Centennial's television miniseries (1978).

Conrad appeared in the short-lived TV series The Duke Ramsey, a boxer turned private eye, in 1978. Any episodes were directed by Conrad. He served as the captain of the NBC team for six iterations of Battle of the Network Stars in the late 1970s. West resurfaced in two made-for-TV films that reunited him with his West co-star, Ross Martin, (1979) and More Wild West (1980).

Conrad was known in the late 1970s with his television commercials for Eveready batteries, particularly his placing of the battery on his shoulder and causing the viewer to question its long-lasting power: "Come on, dare ya." On American television comedies such as Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show and The Carol Burnett Show, the commercial was parodied often.

Conrad did a special feature for Roger Corman's New World Pictures (1979), where he played John Dillinger from a script by John Sayles. In the short-lived film A Man Called Sloane (1979), Conrad played a modern-day version of James West. Some episodes were directed by Conrad.

Conrad spent the majority of the 1980s appearing in television films. He worked as a paraplegic coach in Coach of the Year (1980) and in Will: G. Gordon Liddy's Autobiography (1982). Both were for A Shane Productions, his own business.

The film, Hard Knox, was made by Conrad and his production company in 1984. Joseph Knox, the leading role of U.S. Marine Colonel Joseph Knox, appeared in the role. The tale follows a senior Marine aviator who has come to his pinnacle as a flyer, but he now has to decide whether he's getting a promotion to brigadier general with a new'ground' framed future in the Marines, or going back to a different path in his life. He makes the decision to return to Mount Carroll, Illinois, to visit his alma mater, a local military prep academy, and look up his mentor from more than 30 years ago. It's here that the tale of 'Hard Knox' begins to unfold. The film was shot in Mount Carroll at the former Shimer College.

In the theatrically released comedy film Moving Violations (1985), Conrad played a Police Chief (1985), and in the following TV films; The Fifth Missile (1986), Charley Hannah's War (1986) and Charley Hannah's War (1986).

Conrad served as a special guest referee for the main event of WrestleMania 2 between Hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy in a Steel Cage Match for the WWF Championship in 1986.

Conrad appeared in Richard Marx's "Hazard" music video, where it was a No. No. One in 13 countries, including the United States, was struck by the virus. He appeared in Jingle All the Way (1996) with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Conrad's later credits include an episode of Nash Bridges and the film Dead Above Ground (2002).

In 1994, Conrad appeared in the film Samurai Cowboy. He created the television show Search and Rescue, which he starred in, which resulted in a short-lived TV series that Conrad also created.

He ran for President of the Screen Actors Guild in 2005. Conrad produced audio introductions for every episode of the first season of The Wild West in 2006 for its North American DVD release on June 6. Conrad's Eveready battery commercials were also included in the DVD set; Conrad's introduction revealed that he was shocked to be parodied by Carson. For his work on The Wild West series, he was inducted into the Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame.

On CRN Digital Talk Radio, he hosted a two-hour national radio show (The PM Show with Robert Conrad). He appeared in the documentary film Pappy Boyington Field (released on DVD in July 2010), where he talked about the legendary Marine Corps aviator he portrayed in the television series. Mike Garey, co-host of the radio show, was his last appearance on the show on July 18, 2019.

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