[eastforker]

But it was as the fat, balding detective Frank Cannon that Conrad found small-screen fame. Cannon, which started in 1970 with a television movie of the same name, was turned into a series the following year and ran for five years, becoming one of the most successful programmes of its genre.

'For 15 years before Cannon,' said Conrad in the middle of the programme's run, 'I couldn't get much work as an actor because I was too fat and unattractive. I'm 53 years old, 5ft 9in tall, look like an overfed walrus, and I'm bald to boot.'

[Ransomed]

He produced and directed some of the later 77 Sunset Strips too, they were much more hard boiled.

Freegards

[Snickering Hound]

Would always crack up when that fat man would pull out that little .38...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

He was Gunsmoke's originial Marshal Matt Dillon on the radio.
 

[fhayek]

Bullwinkle. I always associate him with Bullwinkle. Bullwinkle, for good or ill, permanently affected the trajectory of my life.

[Larry Lucido]

He definitely had a large screen presence.

[minnesota_bound]

How did he ever fit inside the aircraft?.... : )
No one in showbiz like these 4 from 1972: Peter Falk, Mitzi Gaynor, Julie Andrews and William Conrad

[YogicCowboy]

Before James Earl Jones, there was William Conrad:

Gunsmoke. Rocky and Bullwinkle. The Fugitive.