Trivia: Actor/director/producer William Conrad started his professional career as a musician. After World War II service, he began building his reputation in films and on Hollywood-based radio programs. Due to his bulk and shifty-eyed appearance, he was cast in films as nasty heavies, notably in The Killers (1946) (his first film), Sorry Wrong Number (1948) and The Long Wait (1954). On radio, the versatile Conrad was a fixture on such moody anthologies as Escape and Suspense; he also worked frequently with Jack "Dragnet" Webb during this period, and as late as 1959 was ingesting the scenery in the Webb-directed film 30. Conrads most celebrated radio role was as Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, which he played from 1952 through 1961 (the TV Gunsmoke, of course, went to James Arness, who physically matched the character that the portly Conrad had shaped aurally). In the late 1950s, Conrad went into the production end of the business at Warner Bros., keeping his hand in as a performer by providing the hilariously strident narration of the cartoon series Rocky and His Friends and its sequel The Bullwinkle Show. During the early 1960s, Conrad also directed such films as Two on a Guillotine (1964) and Brainstorm (1965). Easing back into acting in the early 1970s, Conrad enjoyed a lengthy run as the title character in the detective series Cannon (1971-76), then all too briefly starred as a more famous corpulent crime solver on the weekly Nero Wolfe. Conrad's final TV series was as one-half of Jake and the Fatman (Joe Penny was Jake), a crime show which ran from 1987 through 1991.

Trivia: Actor Dack Rambo specialized in low-budget action features and television. Born Norman Rambo and the twin brother of actor Dirk Rambo, he started out playing Dack Massey on The New Loretta Young Show (1962-1963). He next appeared as Grant Harrison on the daytime soap Another World and in the early '80s as Steve Jacoby on All My Children. Between 1985 and 1988, Rambo played Jack Ewing on the nighttime serial Dallas. He has also appeared regularly on series such as The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967-1969). Rambo made his feature-film debut in Which Way to the Front (1970). He made his last film appearance in the 1992 film Ultra Warrior.

Trivia: Stage actor Lou Antonio was billed seventh as "Abdul" in his first film, Elia Kazan's America America (1963). Antonio's sandpaper features resurfaced in such subsequent films as Hawaii (1966) and Cool Hand Luke (1967); thereafter, he worked almost exclusively in television. He co-starred in the weekly series The Snoop Sisters and Dog and Cat, and was top-billed as Det. Sgt. Jack Ramsey in Dog and Cat (1977). By the late 1980s, Antonio had virtually abandoned acting in favor of directing: he helmed such TV movies as Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story (1979), The Star Maker (1981), Agatha Christie's 13 at Dinner (1985) and Mayflower Madam (1987), as well as the 1978 theatrical feature Gypsy Warriors. Lou Antonio is the brother of actor Jim Antonio.

Trivia: Following his screen debut in 1949's Twelve O'Clock High, Richard Anderson was groomed for stardom at MGM. His stature in Hollywood seemed assured when he married the daughter of former MGM luminary Norma Shearer. But Anderson was -- by his own admission -- a less-than-noble figure in his younger days, losing both prestige and several plum film roles through his arrogance, his explosive temper, and his after-hours carousing. A kinder, mellower Richard Anderson resurfaced on television in the 1970s, gaining a modest but loyal fan following thanks to his weekly appearances as Oscar Goldman in The Six Million Dollar Man. Anderson also played Goldman on the spin-off series The Bionic Woman -- the result being that, for several years in the mid-1970s, he was simultaneously co-starring on two different TV series in the same role. Richard Anderson's additional TV-series stints included Mama Rosa (1950), Bus Stop (1961), Dan August (1970), Cover-Up (1984) and Dynasty (1986-87 season).