But Conrad had underestimated Kaplan, and Kaplan won easily, which made Conrad look pretty foolish. Finally he insisted that he & Kaplan, as team captains, have a race & the winner would win the event for their team. A dispute arose over the winner of an event, and Conrad really lost his temper, pacing & saying he wouldn't accept that the other team had won. Conrad was the NBC Team Captain, Kaplan was ABC Team Captain. When the 1999 movie remake of WILD WILD WEST swept the 20th Annual Razzie Awards, "winning" 5 statuettes (including Worst Picture) Conrad, who played James West in the original 1960s TV series, accepted 3 of the awards in person as his way of expressing his low opinion of what had been done with his source material.ĭuring the Battle of the Network Stars (1976), Conrad and Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back Kotter) had an infamous showdown. Lived with his grandmother when his mother remarried. His wife was six months pregnant with their second child at the time. Got fired from his job at the docks in December of 1954 for handing out a petition to get his union steward fired. They were thrilled because they figured it would be too late for their parents to annul the marriage. They only told their parents where they were in May of 1952 when his wife found out she was having a baby. When he eloped, he and his wife lived under the assumed name "Robert Conrad" so their parents wouldn't find them. He told them he was twenty-one and made $1.87 an hour - $74.40 a week. The only place he could think of where a kid his age could get decent wage was the loading docks in Chicago. He had eloped with a lawyer's daughter,who was attending a religious boarding school. Was a star football and basketball player in middle school and high school. Seriously injured, his recuperation delayed the series' production for nearly three months. During one episode's shooting, he slipped while performing a stunt and fell head first onto a concrete floor 12 feet below. On "Wild, Wild West," did most of his own stuntwork, resulting in several injuries during the course of the show. Lives in Bear Valley, California, a ski resort village in the High Sierra has three young daughters with LaVelda Fann and five other children from a previous marriage.Īttended Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). The Commies Are Coming, the Commies Are Coming (1962) Gordon Liddy)Ĭolumbo: An Exercise in Fatality (1974) (TV) Police Story: Gladiator School (1988) (TV) Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent (1994) (TV)
High Sierra Search and Rescue (1995) TV Series
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