Robert Conrad
A ruggedly handsome leading man for over three decades on American television, Robert Conrad first gained audiences' attention as detective Tom Lopaka on the light-hearted crime series "Hawaiian Eye" (ABC, 1959-1963). But his true breakout series came as the 19th-century secret agent James T. West in the tongue-in-cheek Western adventure "The Wild, Wild West" (CBS, 1965-69). The series helped to establish Conrad as an actor who enjoyed doing his own stunts - occasionally to his own physical detriment. In the 1970s, Conrad starred as real-life World War II flying ace Gregory "Pappy" Boyington on the action-comedy series "Baa Baa Black Sheep" (NBC, 1976-78), which he helped to rescue from oblivion by directly lobbying TV station managers after the network canceled the series. He broke out of the tough guy mold on several occasions, most notably in the epic miniseries "Centennial" (1979) and in the title role of the TV-movie "Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy" (1981), but audiences preferred him in the masculine vein of his previous screen incarnations. He enjoyed greater small-screen success as the pitchman for Everyready batteries - where he virtually challenged the viewer to knock the battery off his shoulder - than in any series or TV-movie. Still remarkably fit in his fifth and sixth decades, he continued to star as hard-nosed types in TV-movies and short-lived television shows throughout the 1990s before largely retiring at the turn of the millennium after being seriously injured in a car accident. Robert Conrad died February 8, 2020 at the age of 82, leaving behind a legacy of tough guy roles fans could never forget.
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Robert Conrad
Filmography
Movies
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Dead Above Ground | Reed Wilson (Character) | - | 2002 |
20% |
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Jingle All the Way | Officer Hummell (Character) | $60.6M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Justice for the Innocent | Stackhouse (Character) | - | 1994 |
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Samurai Cowboy | Gabe McBride (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Search and Rescue | Tooter (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sworn to Vengeance | Sergeant Stewart (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mario and the Mob | Mario Dante (Character) | - | 1992 |
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Anything to Survive | Eddie Barton (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jesse Hawkes |
Jesse Hawkes (Character), Director |
- | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Glory Days |
Mike Moran (Character), Director |
- | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story: Gladiator School | Officer Charles `'Chick'` Stacy (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Mountain Rangers |
Jesse Hawkes (Character), Director |
- | 1987 |
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Assassin | Henry Stanton (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charley Hannah | Capt. Charley Hannah (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fifth Missile | Cmdr. Mark Van Meer (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Police Plaza | Lt. Daniel B. Malone (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two Fathers' Justice | Bill Stackhouse (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hard Knox | Col. Joe Knox (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Confessions of a Married Man | Unknown (Character) | - | 1983 |
27% |
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Wrong Is Right | Gen. Wombat (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Will: G. Gordon Liddy | George Gordon Battle Liddy (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy | George Gordon Battle Liddy (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | More Wild Wild West | Jim West (Character) | - | 1980 |
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Coach of the Year | Jim Brandon (Character) | - | 1980 |
83% |
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The Lady in Red | John Dillinger (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wild Wild West Revisited | Jim West (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | Frank Scapa (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin | John Dillinger (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Centennial | Unknown (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sudden Death | Duke Smith (Character) | - | 1977 |
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Smash-Up on Interstate 5 | Sergeant Sam Marcum (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flying Misfits | Maj. Greg "Pappy" Boyington (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Sheep Squadron | Maj. Greg "Pappy" Boyington (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Day | Bob Dalton (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live a Little, Steal a Lot | Allan Kuhn (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Can't Steal Love | Allan Kuhn (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Nick Carter | Nick Carter (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Five Desperate Women | Michael Wylie (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill | Deputy D.A. Paul Ryan (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Confessions of the D.A. Man | Deputy D.A. Paul Ryan (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Weekend of Terror | Eddie (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The D.A.: Murder One | Paul Ryan (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bandits |
Chris Barrett (Character), Director |
- | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Los bandidos | Chris Barrett (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Dillinger | `'Pretty Boy'` Floyd (Character) | - | 1965 |
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Palm Springs Weekend | Eric Dean (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Commies Are Coming, the Commies Are Coming | Pete (Character) | - | 1962 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nash Bridges | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just Shoot Me | Himself (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Sierra Search and Rescue | Unknown (Character) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Centennial | Pasquinel (Character) | 1978-1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baa Baa Black Sheep | Maj. Greg 'Pappy' Boyington (Character) | 1976-1978 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Columbo | Milo Janus (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mission: Impossible | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adam-12 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Mitch Cantrell (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Character) | 1965-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hawaiian Eye | Tom Lopaka (Character) | 1959-1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Tom Lopaka (Guest Star) | 1959-1960 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lock Up | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sea Hunt | Hal Peters (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Colt 45 | Billy "the Kid" (Character) | 1959 |