![]() “I had to get shot by the good guys and fall off a horse, which I did successfully, and that established me as having enough talent to do stunts,” he recalled in an oral history recorded in 2006 for the Archive of American Television, “so when there was a speaking role and a stunt associated with that speaking role, they’d hire me, because you got two for the price of one.” In one of his earliest roles, he had a bit part as an Indian. He was also well served early on by his ability - at least by the not very rigorous standards of the late 1950s - to affect an ethnically ambiguous character. Conrad’s fearlessness and good looks served him well in “Wild Wild West” and many other shows, though he found the most satisfaction in some later, meatier roles, like the fur trader he played in the mini-series “Centennial” in the late 1970s. ![]() His death was confirmed by Jeff Ballard, a family spokesman, who said Mr. Robert Conrad, a television tough guy best known for his lead role in the mid-1960s series “The Wild Wild West,” died on Saturday at his home in Malibu, Calif. Conrad, known for tough guy roles, played a secret agent in a mid-1960s television series that transplanted James Bond-style plots into an Old West setting. Robert Conrad, Two-Fisted TV Star of ‘Wild Wild West,’ Dies at 84 ![]() ![]() Robert Conrad, Two-Fisted TV Star of Wild Wild. THE WILD WILD WEST - Robert Conrad, Two-Fisted TV Star of Wild Wild.
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