SAD LAST DAYS: Robert Conrad

Doesn't look bad, just drunk in the corner pic.

he was sooooo good looking

Hopefully is isn't still ripping his pants.

shouldnt he still be tied up somewhere?

I don't know who that is.

[quote] don't know who that is.

Then let DL fill you in.

Wild, Wild West

Ballin' the Jack

The closet is a sad, lonely, punishing place....

Aging boxer

He looks like the preacher from Poltergeist 2.

I like diminutive men (I can throw them over my shoulder and carry them to the next room).

He was so beautiful and so handsome on The Wild Wild West. One of the most handsome men to ever grace the TV screen. Awesome!

R13 Yes, SO sexy.

I thought there would be more shots of the Ass That Made You Realize You Were Gay here...

Not bad for 82, and a long-time alcoholic.

That blue-clad ass made me want to be a cowboy. Now, it's probably swathed in protective undergarments and liniment.

Beauty in motion (and in French, so more beautiful)

Ooooo-la-la! R18

R12, if you tried to do that to Bob, he'd kill you.

In a way, it's actually good that he's getting out at his age. But maybe he should with with someone or on something so he behaves himself.

It's amazing he's not a paraplegic, with all the dangerous stunts he did on WWW.

He sings like Elvis!

Love the leisure suit. I guy just past his 70s wearing an icon of the 70s.

R23 He sings like Elvis on a bad day. Stick to looking pretty and sexy.

The leisure suit doesn't even fit him anymore! How sad! How very, very sad!

Oh for fuck's sake. It's yet *another* National Enquirer "the sad last days" of a faded celebrity. I like to think that the assholes who pound out this crap remember when they were the darling of the creative writing department and were going to write the great American novel.

In all of these photos---he looks like a stroke victim.

thats they way jon vicent went. drunk in malibu. god robert conrad was so very hot

William smith . actor was the hottest and had amazing career

He has a son, Christian Conrad, who was very hot on a show called High Mountain Rangers.

ALL of Conrad's photos show him clothes that are way too large for him. Can't he afford new suits anymore?

Robert Conrad is so gorgeous in the picture at R12. Indeed, if there had been any lingering doubt that I was gay, watching him in those skin-tight blue pants in the Wild, Wild West resolved it. And, thanks, R30. William Smith in Laredo was so hot as well.

If you're going to crawl into a bottle, might as well do it on the beach

He's 82 years old, let him drink for god's sakes!

That was one monumental butt. And he was so generous in his presentation of it. Thanks, Jim.

R36 Ditto!

Armir hammer looks like him

Armie

[quote]ROBERT CONRAD spends his sad last days barhopping around Malibu

Malibu doesn't exactly have a booming bar scene, unless he's hopping from one restaurant bar to another.

Uh unh. He's a tall drink of water.

I'd buy him a drink.

Speaking of drunks, what's with the typo-laden idiot posts that dredge up other subjects in a thread?

This is about has-been Robert Conrad, cuntlettes.

He and my dad used to hang out. The guy is like 4' 11". Wears lifts, or did. Nice body, shit personality.

Where? When? Did your dad fuck him, hard?

Studio City in the 80s. They were trying to promote a singer who never made it, Jenny Green although she did write a few hit songs.

My dad is straight, no idea about Robert.

jesus he is really THAT short? well, not 4' 11" but still....that's a big fuck the world complex he has lived with forever.... anyway it said he has dementia.......that goes well with alcohol. it's hard to go from famous and beautiful to old, mostly forgotten and fucked up.

R23, why does the gigantic man in your image have a tiny underpants-clad man sitting on his shoulder?

So why has the Inquisitor torpedoed this has-been nobody thinks about anymore (except the nostalgically-masturbating eldergay)?

Did he say something bad about God-Emperor Trump?

Supposedly he's extremely conservative and homophobic.

He still looked good in R10's photos from 2012. He had a good run (esp for an asshole).

I think those photos at R10 from battle of the network stars long before 2012. He did look good for his age through the 1990s. He was in a serious accident in the early 2000s and that largely ended things for him looks and career wise.

I loved watching him in WWW, but his personality started to shine through in his later parts, and eventually even the characters he played were pretty insufferable. I think there is even a bit of a difference from early WWW episodes to the last season. At the beginning he showed some vulnerability and by the end he was more smug and it took more and more henchmen to bring him down.

I remember seeing him on a Tonight Show interview int he 80's or 90's and he came off pretty horrible. The other guest was an elderly gentleman who was pretty flamboyant. I am guessing the man was pretty much living openly as gay, but it was still not something discussed in interviews. Conrad was saying something along the lines that it was now his son's job (it must have been during that ranger show he did with them) to wear tight pants. He then looked at the other guest and said something like "I bet you like that". It was said with kind of an ugly smile and sneer which came off homophobic.

I don't know if I have ever seen a show objectify and show off its male lead as much as WWW. Long lingering shots Contrad's face, butt, and chest (when you watch it now it is really blatant and had to be discussed behind the scenes). Besides that, it was actually a pretty imaginative show, esp. the first few seasons when it had more of a Jules Verne feel.

His son Shane had a short career - and while not as good looking as his dad - was good looking. Probably best know for his role as Marcia's jock suitor in the Brady Bunch Movie.

Fun thread!

R52 is right. The Wild Wild West show had a Jules Verne feel to it. My favorite villain was the little dwarf who showed up occassionally, remember him?

So sexy as Milo Janis in COLUMBO.

Dr. Loveless. He was obsessed with West and there was a bit of subtext in their scenes. He often talked about Jim West's looks and seemed to prefer to capture him alive so he could lord over him. A lot of it was jealousy, but there was an element that he appreciated his foe was a good looking man. There were a number of well-fleshed out villains played by good actors. They were colorful like that Batman villains, but a number of them had an element to them that made them somewhat tragic and sympathetic.

Unpopular opinion - I thought Artie could be tiresome and did not find his chemistry with Conrad all that great. His man of many disguises grew old and often seemed forced,

Michael Dunn, an Oscar nominee for Ship of Fools (1965), played Dr. Miguelito Loveless on The Wild, Wild West; shown here with Richard Kiel:

Nobody watched Black Sheep Squadron?

Not me. I lived on the wrong side of the mountain and could not get the NBC signal.

That doesn't sound like a bad way to go at all, slobbering around Malibu. It's nice out there!

[quote]Nobody watched Black Sheep Squadron?

It is on Antenna TV (or one of those stations). Classic Happy Days, Mash, etc. where the hair, make-up fit of the clothes are straight late 70's, but I think for its time it was actually considered a decent show. It was his strongest WWW venture and on a superficial level he still was a good looking, now middle-aged man

You saw a few of the supporting cast make it bigger later on, esp. John Laroquette.

I watched it, r61. I asked because no one mentioned it, it was a good show, he was still good looking, and he was surrounded by young, fit men.

Yes, WWW was a little before my time, but I was the right age for Black Sheep Squadron, and all the cute men stirred things in my loins that took awhile to figure out.

Somehow I'm not surprised that he's a broken down old drunk. When he was young, he was vain, sensitive about his height, proud of his physique, lied about his age (shaving off years even back in the 60s) and seemed like an all around asshole.

Didn't he do those stupid Duracell or Eveready battery commercials with a battery on his bicep, goading people to knock it off the bicep.

yep - they were on for a few years. Duracell was around before the Everready launched the Energizer battery and they did last a lot longer than anything else at the time.

A conservative who is closeted. an alcoholic, and obsesses about his height and age.

What a perfect storm.

There are plenty of stories in the earlier DL threads about Conrad regarding his closeted ways.

He posted this picture from the set of the Battle of The Network Stars reboot (in his original NBC jacket) a few weeks ago. Apparently his grand daughter is one of the producers.

"I think those photos at [R10] from battle of the network stars long before 2012"

Yes, dear. We know.

Sounds fun thats how I want to spend my last days, beats sitting in the old age home watching whatever the station is stuck on.

R52 - I thought son Shane was smoking hot in the BB movie, but you're right. When it comes to beauty, he doesn't come close to his Pa...despite being quite handsome.

"WWW" was a little before my time, my first exposure to Robert Conrad was his aforementioned turn as a killer on an excellent "Columbo" episode. Then later, "Battle of the Network Stars", where he came across as a notorious douchebag. And many colleagues have gone on record as saying they couldn't stand him.

Conrad has one of those nose jobs that look worse the older he gets.

I hope my two nose jobs dont get bad as i age... do they do that? I thought they stopped your nose from growing?

I watched WWW and, through,the mists of time, seem to remember thinking he was sexy. Well, the ass, really. Don't remember Dr. Loveless, and it seems kind of cruel to give that name to a little-person character, then have a hunk (although himself pocket sized) as the foil. Part of Bob's perverse appeal was his rough tradey manner, like he knows you want to fuck him and won't give you what you.want. The smirk of unavailability. Ok for fantasy, but disastrous in real life. Ah, desire!

Thank you Robert Conrad for all the fantasies I had about you, and the realization that quite often the better looking the guy the bigger the asshole personality. I already knew it but you sure can't judge a book by the cover.

get yer shit together bob

I met his wife! I think!

Evening Punctuationist, can I use an exclamation point and a comma?

His birth name was Conrad Robert FALK; I wonder if he and Peter Falk compared ancestry on "Columbo."

Did women back in the 60s rim ass?

The Columbo episode is on tonight on COZI at 7:00 p.m. (Pacific Time).

Well, there are those who did bring the ultimate in male beauty to the screen. His demeanor and politics were repugnant to mine, but again, at least give him credit for being the ultimate in male beauty. Forgive him for not dying young.

i do remember he moved back to florida

..."...if he and Peter Falk compared ancestry..."

I doubt it Bob's father's name was Falkowski, Polish. Peter's was plain Falk, Jewish Polish.

When Bob was born, his father was 16, his mother, 15. When Bob married his first wife, he was almost 17.

82? Think he'll come out?

82? Think he'll come out?

82? Think he'll come out?

Sounds like he's having fun. Let him.

I dare you...

I looked up his bio he fathered 7 children I hope some of then got his looks.

Sad, FINAL Days, damnit!

You beat me to it r89.

He's pretty good in that Colombo episode.

[quote]I remember seeing him on a Tonight Show interview int he 80's or 90's and he came off pretty horrible. The other guest was an elderly gentleman who was pretty flamboyant. I am guessing the man was pretty much living openly as gay, but it was still not something discussed in interviews. Conrad was saying something along the lines that it was now his son's job (it must have been during that ranger show he did with them) to wear tight pants. He then looked at the other guest and said something like "I bet you like that". It was said with kind of an ugly smile and sneer which came off homophobic.

R52, could it have been old DL face Charles Nelson Reilly?

Sorry...DL *fave*

Autocorrect keeps changing it.

R93, Charles Nelson Reilly did have Data lounge face.

He's still alive??

When he had that bad car accident in the '90s, it was revealed that he was actually born in 1929, instead of the mid '30s. Which puts him close to 90.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, BOB!!!

r96, you necro a year old thread for that bon mot?

A year later and he hasn't kicked the bucket. Any Malibu DLers seen Bob boozing at your local watering holes?

My father had some business dealings with him. He was built, but so fucking short even with Cuban heals.

Bobby was the Jake Burton of the 60's.

[quote]Supposedly he's extremely conservative and homophobic.

Has Conrad ever admitted to having sex with Charles Manson in 1968 and 1969?

He was kind of an asshole, but not homophobic (at least to me).

At age 82, or whatever he is, I imagine his once ample buttocks have deflated (or have been deflated??) to resemble balloons from a birthday party held several months prior. I read on another thread that he was a very bossy bottom--is there anyone left alive who lives to tell the tale of the tail?