Robert Conrad

Robert Conrad was the kind of television star who made the whole thing look effortless — compact, coiled, and radiating a kind of blue-collar Chicago toughness that no acting coach could ever teach. His turn as James West in The Wild Wild West is genuinely underrated; he was basically doing a steampunk James Bond on a network TV budget in the mid-sixties, and he committed to every punch, every stunt, every ridiculous gadget with total sincerity. What set him apart was that he actually did most of his own stunt work — this was not a vanity claim, it was legitimately true, and you could feel it in the physicality of his performances. He never quite became a movie star in the traditional sense, but as a television presence he was magnetic and utterly real. Gone in February 2020, but anyone who grew up watching him knows exactly what that era of TV heroism felt like.

Name (English)

Robert Conrad

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・コンラッド

Reading

ろばーと・こんらっど

Born

March 1, 1935 – February 8, 2020

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Boar

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

actor / singer / television actor / film actor / stunt performer

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%89

Tags

• Illinois
• actor
• singer
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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