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Actor Robert Conrad, WILD Wild West, Madpod.com
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Biography:

Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk in Chicago, Illinois) is an
American film and TV actor and director. He is primarily known for the
1965-1969 CBS television series “The Wild Wild West”, in which he played
the title character, James West. The movie remake starring Will Smith
was based on this series, and Conrad was openly critical of the film.
The feature length film was a theatrical bomb in 1999!

Before The Wild Wild West, Conrad played Tom Lopaka in “Hawaiian Eye.”
In the mid-1970s he played World War II fighter ace Pappy Boyington in
“Baa Baa Black Sheep.” His half-brother, Larry Manetti, also appeared
in this series.

In the late 1970s, Conrad served as the captain of the NBC team for six
editions of Battle of the Network Stars. He also played a modern day
variation of James West in the short-lived secret agent series “A Man
Called Sloane” in 1979, around the same time he reprised the role of
West in a pair of made-for-TV films.

Conrad was also widely identified in the late 1970s for his television
commercials for Eveready batteries, particularly his challenge to the
viewer to “knock the battery off my shoulder”. The classic commercial
was frequently parodied on Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show and The
Carol Burnett Show.

In 1988, Conrad starred in a TV series called “High Mountain Rangers”
with two of his sons. He also starred in that show’s one season
spin-off Jesse Hawkes.

Conrad took over hosting The History Channel’s Weapons At War (later
Tech Force) in 2000 following George C. Scott’s 1999 death.

In 2006, Conrad recorded special audio introductions for every episode
of the first season of The Wild Wild West for its North American DVD
release on June 6. The DVD set, now in the “top-5″ catalog sales
category, also included one of Conrad’s Eveready battery commercials; in
his introduction, Conrad stated that he was flattered to be parodied by
Carson. Bob and LaVelda recently moved from their Bear Valley Northern
California mansion back to Southern California. Shadoe Steele’s boyhood
hero, Robert Conrad, the coolest guy on the screen, joins Shadoe from
his home in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Musicologist: Shadoe Steele

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