Cast: William Conrad

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring William Conrad. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Killers

1946 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Albert Dekker

Synopsis Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede", who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede's...

7.9

8K votes

7.9

8K votes

Body and Soul

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Robert Rossen

Cast John Garfield · Lilli Palmer · Hazel Brooks · Anne Revere

Synopsis Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Sorry, Wrong Number

1948 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Burt Lancaster · Ann Richards · Wendell Corey

Synopsis Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for he husband to return home, she picks up the phone and accidentally overhears a conversation between two men planning a murder. She becomes increasingly desperate as...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Police Squad! (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction David Zucker · Jim Abrahams · Jerry Zucker · Joe Dante

Cast Leslie Nielsen · Alan North · Rex Hamilton · Ed Williams

Synopsis Sight-gags and non-sequiturs dominate this spoof of police dramas. The six episodes formed the basis for later very successful "Naked Gun" movies.

7.2

595 votes

7.2

595 votes

The Fugitive (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Roy Huggins · Jerry Hopper · Walter Grauman · Alexander Singer

Cast David Janssen · Barry Morse · William Conrad · Paul Birch

Synopsis TV Series (1963-1967). 4 Seasons. 120 Episodes. Dr. Richard Kimble, an Indiana pediatrician, is accused, arrested, tried and convicted of the murder of his wife. Kimble claims he was on his way home from a drive when the murder occurred,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Tension

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Richard Basehart · Audrey Totter · Cyd Charisse · Barry Sullivan

Synopsis Warren Quimby, mad about his beautiful but unfaithful wife, Claire, plans to murder her lover, Barney Deager. He creates another identity so that when he commits the murder he will not be suspected. He is painstakingly precise in every detail...

6.9

159 votes

6.9

159 votes

East Side, West Side

1949 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

6.8

324 votes

6.8

324 votes

Four Faces West

1948 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Joel McCrea · Frances Dee · Charles Bickford · Joseph Calleia

Synopsis 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...

6.6

213 votes

6.6

213 votes

Cry Danger

1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Dick Powell · Rhonda Fleming · Richard Erdman · William Conrad

Synopsis An innocent man just released from prison searches for the people who framed him and for the stashed $100,000 bankroll. Along the way he meets the wife of a fellow con still on the inside who was framed for the...

6.6

303 votes

6.6

303 votes

The Naked Jungle

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Charlton Heston · Eleanor Parker · William Conrad · Abraham Sofaer

Synopsis A plantation owner, living in a South American jungle, sends off to New Orleans for a mail-order-bride. When the woman finally arrives, she finds life difficult in the steamy, uncivilized landscape. In addition to bearing the pain of a loveless...

6.5

8K votes

6.5

8K votes

The Racket

1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Robert Mitchum · Lizabeth Scott · Robert Ryan · William Talman

Synopsis The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. There are only two problems: First, Nick is the violent type, preferring to do things the old-fashioned way instead of using the syndicate's...

6.5

573 votes

6.5

573 votes

Dial 1119

1950 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Gerald Mayer

Cast Marshall Thompson · Virginia Field · Andrea King · Sam Levene

Synopsis A former mental patient murders a bus driver, then takes refuge in a bar, where he holds the patrons hostage.

6.4

58 votes

6.4

58 votes

The Ride Back (The Way Back)

1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Allen H. Miner · Oscar Rudolph

Cast Anthony Quinn · William Conrad · Lita Milan · Victor Millan

Synopsis A Sheriff goes into Mexico in search of a man wanted back in the States. Finding him, he starts back. But it's a long way back, he has a reluctant captive, and there are unfriendly Indians along the way. The...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

Cry of the Hunted

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Barry Sullivan · Polly Bergen · William Conrad

Synopsis A fugitive is pursued by a lawman who is obsessed with his capture.

6.2

36 votes

6.2

36 votes

One Way Street

1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast James Mason · Märta Torén · Dan Duryea · Basil Ruysdael

Synopsis After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.

6.2

48 votes

6.2

48 votes

The Brotherhood of the Bell (TV)

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Glenn Ford · Rosemary Forsyth · Dean Jagger · Maurice Evans

Synopsis 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.

6.2

38 votes

6.2

38 votes

Any Number Can Play

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Clark Gable · Alexis Smith · Wendell Corey · Audrey Totter

Synopsis Charlie King (Gable) runs a casino, but, in a business that thrives among the unscrupulous, Charlie takes pride in running an honest game and treating his customers with fairness and respect. However, Charlie's wife Lon (Alexis Smith) doesn't care if...

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

Direction Glen A. Larson · Leslie Stevens · Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · David G. Phinney

Cast Gil Gerard · Erin Gray · Felix Silla · Mel Blanc

Synopsis 20th century astronaut is caught in a freak accident in deep space, causing his craft Ranger 3 to be blown into a trajectory that returns him to earth almost 5 centuries later. Earth is recovering from nuclear war and is...

6.1

213 votes

6.1

213 votes

Lone Star

1952 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Clark Gable · Ava Gardner · Broderick Crawford · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis 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...

6.0

235 votes

6.0

235 votes

Cannon (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jimmy Sangster · E. Arthur Kean · George McCowan · Lawrence Dobkin

Cast William Conrad · Patrick Culliton · Tom Pittman · Charles Bateman

Synopsis The weekly adventures of Frank Cannon, an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures, who becomes a high-priced private investigator. Since Cannon's girth didn't allow for many fist-fights and gun battles (although there were...

5.9

135 votes

5.9

135 votes