Robert Conrad, eldergay icon, is DEAD TO ME

Feh.

Damn, I was just on the 2020 Celebrity Deadpool list and he was mentioned several times. Congratulations to all who posted his name.

Gosh, what a handsome man he is on that picture OP. He must've have been a knock out when young.

OMG tragedy weekend. Orson Bean and now hot pants Bobby

Somewhere, Gabe Kaplan is laughing.

Robert Conrad on the Battle of the Network stars hitting the audience with the colorful ethnic "jokes" (1:40 mark).

Stunning. Damaged. The closet kills....

Will he be buried in those blue James West pants?

sorry... not sorry

Cue all the gossip about him!

Closeted and deranged gay man who liked to engage in aggressive S&M with his tricks.

Well he liked pussy enough to father eight kids, have to imagine he hit it more than just the eight times.

The Wild, Wild West kept me in a state of perpetual teenage tumescence.

Damn. This little gayling really enjoyed Friday nights in the late 1960s with the Wild, Wild West thanks to Bobby Conrad, those tight blue pants, and his hot ass and inevitably shirtless torso. 😢

A little on-set wardrobe malfunction.

He was GORGEOUS!! And in that tight James West cool cowboy suit. OMG, What an ass he had. And he was in one of those Warner Bros TV series -- Hawaiian Eye with Connie Stevens. Meow bitches!!

A little on-set wardrobe malfunction.

Never was double knit so sexy.

His nice hairy chest drove me wild when I was an impressionable young boy. He was a shorty, though.

Beautiful body and I enjoyed the Wild, Wild, West a lot.

This gayling was mesmerized by the frequent sado-masochistic scenarios the WWW writers contrived for Bob--giving his best performances when he was trussed up or whipped, shirtless.

Why did he need to have eight fucking kids?

I knew his ex-wife. Lovely lady. No gossip to share, sorry.

Great hair, too.

I’ll never forget seeing him on The Merv Griffin Show with one of his young “proteges,” a blond twink whose name was Jeb, I think. He was the newest cast member of Bob’s new show Baa Baa Black Sheep and even to my 13 year old suburban mind it was clear he was fucking him.

God knocked that battery off his shoulder.

Wasn't he drinking a lot toward the end? Not to gossip.

R24, is there a YouTube clip?

I was looking at some recent pics of him, and it seeing him as old was a little disturbing. He was so virile and athletic and in the pics he had gnarled hands, lots of age spots and senile purpura. Aging must have been difficult for him I would think.

Just checked imdb, the title of the show was Black Sheep Squadron and the twink was Jeb Stuart Adams.

Van or Bob--who would you choose?

R24 OMG, I wish Jeb were here to tell us about it! I would have crawled all over that great compact body. I have to go jerk off now.

[quote]God knocked that battery off his shoulder.

I'm ignorant. I don't get it. Help, please?

R29, Jeb is the son of Nick Adams and Carol Nugent, so if Jeb ever used the casting couch to land a part, he's a chip off the old block.

in speedos

R32, for you...

Handsomest man who ever lived. Amazing body. But so screwed up -- one of my (male) friends had an affair with him. Bobby liked to be fucked, and then liked to beat up his tricks. Or, if he couldn't, have them beat him up, Suffering Catholic guilt. Also was accused of beating one of his wives. So much wrong with him. But so beautiful.

[quote] Handsomest man who ever lived.

Let's not overdo it, Mary.

Didn’t he play Cannon on that detective show?

Oh no wait, he played the father on Diffrent Strokes.

OMG r34 that picture is so dreamy hot😘😘🔥🥰

Remember how competitive he got during Battle of the Network Stars? He and Telly Savalas would get into altercations, once prompting Joanna Pettet to exclaim “What’s all the hullabaloo?”

R14, R16, were you trying to post this?

Bob & Jeb Stuart Adams.

R41, yeah, I do. I thought that was weird. Damn, that must have been 45 years ago!

Thank you, R35! These pictures are driving me crazy. He was the total package for me -- compact, hairy, and sooo handsome. I'm surprised to hear he liked getting fucked. He looks like such a strong top to me.

Another, all hugged up.

As tight as Bob wore his pants I'm surprised he was able to produce enough sperm to make all those kids. He definitely did not provide a hospitable environment for his baby batter.

Another young one called him too soon.

OMG the pictures. My hand hurts!

All this talk of his hot ass yet no ass shot??!! You Queens are slipping

He died four years ago.

You're thinking of Robert Vaughn, R54.

May he R.I.P.

He was a bottom.

Fuck me eyes

Sexy

R59 I see a bit of a young Ed Harris in that face. Yum. Ed Harris.

He’s alive? This is a hoax? I’m confused.

May I have a sip?

R63 Why are you confused? Use Google and see any one of the thousands of obits posted about him.

Do I see slippage?

Too bad they won't use a shirtless pic for the Emmys In Memoriam next fall.

Oh, this hurts.

Good riddance.A nasty repug bi sexual homophobic midget. Conrad and his fellow sleaze ball BF Nick Adams hustled half the closet cases in Phoneywood including Elvis.

For the youngins who just don't know....

I'll bet he was a demon, under the duvet. Probably went at it with all those boys like a rutting stag.

Quite possibly the greatest Datalounge post ever.

P.S. R.I.P. Robert Conrad.

And his ass.

....

that GIF at R75 makes me M O I S T

Hot as fuck and love him to death. . .

But I don't believe for a second he was gay or bi.

Heard the rumors about all those back in the day who actually did turn out to be gay. Rock, Gomer, Roddy, Raymond Burr among others. Even without the internet, people talked and word got around. Not one word about Robert Conrad.

r72 Oh my I'm moist and melting !So dreamy sexy 😘🥰🔥

At r75

Looks like he's saying pull down your pants and take off your underwear.

I'm moister than a snack cake down there!

Friend of mine had an affair with him years ago. At the time my friend did some part time acting which is how they met. Showed me a gift Conrad had given him. Nothing too spectacular, but a nice thought. He said the affair was short lived, due to my friend not being able to keep up with Conrad’s lifestyle. Said he was a nice guy and very handsome.

Met him a several years ago at a nostalgia convention and, though frail, he still had that rascally spirit and was super nice. Had some hot young woman beside him at his table as his assistant. I fist bumped him after he signed my WWW DVD box set and I picked one of his hot 8x10s for him to autograph. RIP Bobby.

He's older here, but still you get the idea - have a look!

[quote]I’ll never forget seeing him on The Merv Griffin Show with one of his young “proteges,” a blond twink whose name was Jeb, I think. He was the newest cast member of Bob’s new show Baa Baa Black Sheep and even to my 13 year old suburban mind it was clear he was fucking him.

The thought of that is totally hot. Jeb is probably most known as Christopher in the film version of Flowers In The Attic.

He did sort of have a gay lisp.

He made me feel things I was too young to understand at the time. RIP James West.

^^"WHO are you calling Gay, Senor!!??"

I wouldn't call it a lisp 85 more like he spoke with a sibilant S.

What was on his IPOD?

Baby Got Back?

Rump Shaker?

Strut?

Well, there's your three and just about in as many days: Kirk Douglas, Orson Bean, and Robert Conrad

I swear I saw a nude of him in the early 80s, in an "In Touch for Men" salute to celebrities, or one of the other gay skin magazines of the time.

ass...

Here’s Robert Fuller, the only other tv cowboy who could match Conrad ass for ass...

Start this one off at the 03:33 mark and watch through the gray suit - maybe beyond

R93, I'd like to see an ass-to-ass matchup between those two!

Conrad wins hands down! Straight men watched WWW just so they could watch that ASS! I ain't lyin'

^Me too R95!

"Closeted and deranged gay man who liked to engage in aggressive S&M with his tricks."

Who told you that? Scotty Bowers?

Fuller’s ass was rounder and bigger while Conrad’s was tight and muscular. Here’s a still of Fuller from LARAMIE..:

IF SCOTTY SAID BOB HAD SUGAR IN THE TANK YOU CAN TAKE IT TO THE BANK BUSTER,,BLESS,,BILL TAYLOR

[uote] He did sort of have a gay lisp.

That wasn't a gay lisp. That was a pure Chicago accent.

I know a lot of older masculine gay men who talk like that.

R26, nope, no YouTube clip. Man, that segment is burned into my brain forever.

Those trousers they put him in on WWW were little more than leotards. And they always had foot straps to keep them stretched tight.

One bit of gossip I’ll share about Mrs. Conrad, as it doesn’t share a confidence:

When when I first met her and she told me her husband’s name, she first hinted that she married a star. Then there was twenty questions. She resisted telling me but couldn’t not tell me. Finally she told me, and I’m like, “who’s that?” She completely deflated like a balloon. The same thing happened when I met Anne Beattie. That’s on me, not him or her, but funny still.

(Horrible) trailer for “Palm Springs Weekend” (1963) with Conrad, Connie Stevens, Troy Donahue, Stefanie Powers, Ty Hardin, Jerry Van Dyke, Billy Mumy, et al.

"Whatever the word 'Macho' means, I'm it"

IN MY OPINION, his ass looked even better when he got older on "black sheep squadron" almost 10 years later and removed from "the wild wild west" show, he and his ass had gained "heft" and became bigger, beefier, manlier but still shapely! AND HIS CHARACTER wore khaki pants so so tight that you could even see his underwear panty lines! can you imagine how spray painted on his khaki pants made of thicker khaki material had to be to see his underwear panty lines! utterly incredible! how he could even move is beyond me!...

thankfully i have both season 1 and 2 of that show on dvd and i think in memory of conrad, i'll have "fun with myself" watching scenes tonight...

[quote]He did sort of have a gay lisp.

ill fitting dentures

VPL...

wow, that workout post makes me think that the physiques created by that routine are probably the closest one can get to genuine arena gladiators. too bad it wasn't him in Spartacus instead of old Kirk.

I managed to record all but a couple of episodes of Black Sheep Squadron years ago when it came on MeTV, and his ass really was still in top form on that show. I loved it when he'd wear those tight coveralls (somehow his coveralls managed to be a lot tighter than all the other actors' coveralls on the show, lol). He'd have them unzipped just enough to show some of his chest hair. I always imagine that he went commando underneath them.

Wonder how many of his cute, younger co-stars he hooked up with on Black Sheep Squadron?

Here's an interview with Robert and Pappy Boyington, who Bob played in BSS. His thighs are amazing!

How many twinks got to bury their face in those thighs?

Richard Marx posted on social media about his good buddy Robert Conrad today. Robert played the sheriff in his HAZARD video.

Getting old, and I am, is a bitch. Conrad looked a lot older than his age in 2013.

"Conrad was born Conrad Robert Falk in Chicago, Illinois. His father, born Leonard Henry Falk (born November 3, 1918), was then 16 years old; Leonard was of German descent. His mother, Alice Jacqueline Hartman (born May 15, 1919, daughter of Conrad and Hazel Hartman), was 15 years old when she gave birth, and named her son after her own father. She became first publicity director of Mercury Records, where she was known as Jackie Smith. She married twice, including once to Chicago radio personality Eddie Hubbard in 1948. Eddie Hubbard and Jackie Smith reportedly had a child together (born circa 1949) before splitting up in 1958."

Predictions for the next three celeb deaths -Marion Ross

-Pete Davidson

-Eva Marie Saint

r119 I am predicting three female deaths after the run of three male celebrity deaths

Rhonda Fleming Joni Mitchell Barbara Walters

Did someone catch him playing in traffic and lend him a suit, r117?

Robert Conrad had a great short man’s physique and his wardrobe people did wonders with it throughout his career.

As a pocket gay, I’ve stolen the silhouette from a few of his characters. You change the belt line and everything else follows.

R24 They must've been doing the daytime talk show circuit together, because IMDb also shows that they appeared together on Dinah Shore's talk show Dinah! on March 14, 1978.

I wonder if Jeb called him Pappy!

Would it be wrong of me to masturbate tonight using Robert Conrad as sexual fantasy material given he has passed away today? Would it be disrespectful or actually a fantastic compliment to him?

R124, It would be a touching tribute. God knows I was always beating away the chubbies her brought me through my adolescent years.

Richard Marx was also good friends with Luther Vandross.

Thanks r125.😘 So you think he would approve and not be angry or upset if he was watching me pleasure myself because of him tonight?!

God'll get you for that, Angel.

r128 Will he smack my bottom for being naughty r128?!

R127, No, he clearly dressed to impress, and knew the power of his candid blue eyes. Facing his later years in declining health, to be remembered at the height of his beauty would leave him grateful for the adulation. This thread is proof of the power he could still wield. I bow down to my beloved Mr Conrad.

Thanks r130 I'm shortly going to have a guilt free wank dreaming of Robert Conrad!🥰🥰🔥😘😘

It’s okay r131. I still wank off to JFK, Jr.

Lol thanks !!😁😘 One last question please, Would it be wrong of me to incorporate into my fantasy a hope that when I am wanking over Robert Conrad tonight that he is actually watching me as I do it, almost like a one way Skype from heaven and it gives him a thrill?!

Doesn't he look like he's enjoying the attention?

My r133 post meant to tag r132 sorry ^^^

Do you Always have to kill the baby, R133?

R106, "Palm Springs Weekend" was Warner Bros attempt to milk the most out of two cultural phenomenons: 1) the surprise success of the teen sex dramedy "Where the Boys Are" and 2) the inexplicable success of bland teen heartthrob Troy Donahue. PSW was basically WTBA transposed to the Coachella Valley, but unlike its predecessor, it was a bit of a dud at the box office.

Warner Bros, however, made millions out of their talent at bargain basement prices. They signed these poor unsuspecting saps to their television department, then gradually tested them in their movie productions. If they were a hit, they were put in more movies, making the studio beaucoup bucks, but they saw very little increase in their contracted salaries. If they could carry a tune, WB had them record music for their recording dept and made more money putting out singles.

Robert briefly showed his butt in this ‘70s flick called Murph The Surf. Go to the 10:42 mark...

[R34] The sight of Mr. Robert Conrad in speedos on "Battle of the Network Stars", started my desire for men, quite early.

R2, "Must have been"?! Try Google Images if you don't know, you nitwit! He was gorgeous!

R17, That's got to be Photoshopped. I watched WWW back in the day, and I watch it now in reruns. The front of those tight pants was always as smooth and flat as Conrad's abdomen.

RIP, forever one of television's most handsome men.

R36, Alain Delon and Gardner McKay are in contention.

R117, He had been in a very bad car accident.

[141] I don't think it's photoshopped. I think they often tried to avoid showing bulge until the 70's but you do get s glimpse in some shots. This is the photo. Looks untouched to me.

Way before my time, but damn he was hot AF. I have a friend who's in his 60s and said Robert Conrad was the hot man of that time period. I totally get it now.

RIP.

R144 It would make sense if he showed bulge in episodes with Dr. Lovelace in order to distract him, as that would basically be eye level for Miguelito.

I didn't realize what big paws he had! His hands look huge in some of these pictures. Oooh, the better to pet you with....

He resembled no-one else. Sui generis.

I was home sick from school on a Friday when in the afternoon my favorite television show, "Hawaiian Eye," was interrupted. It was November 22, 1963.

one more pic . . .

R112... both seasons of "black sheep squadron" are available on dvd for purchase..

R113.... their weren't any young men on the set of black sheep squadron except for the young blond actor previously mentioned...

i had a lovely whack last night watching on dvd a episode from season 2 of black sheep squadron where conrad's character's khaki pants were so spray painted on that you could easily make out his underwear "panty" lines! can you all fathom how tight those pants must have been for underwear panty lines to be seen as clear as day in the thick material of khaki pants! like airbrushed on! how could he even move! laugh!...

p.s. for those interested in gay erotic fiction on the website gaybondagefiction.com their are a number of wild wild west kinky stories featuring james west on that site, unfortunately it's a paid website, i believe 29.99 for 3 months?... and yes, some stories featured james west captured and "conquered" by the evil midget doctor on that show. among others..

r136 I was consumed by lust ,massively so!Robert Conrad is HOT HOT HOT!!🥰🥰🔥🔥😘

He looked good into his sixties and had a bit of a silver fox thing going on when he stopped coloring his hair. The accident really aged him.

Wild Wild West had some interesting villains. While the Batman villains of the time were colorful and fun, some of the WWW villains - while still being over the top - had some layers and complexities. Agnes Moorehead did not win her Emmy for Bewitched by as a WWW guest villain. Not surprisingly, a few of them were a bit obsessed with Jim West's good looks and swagger. The show was a strange mixture of western, Man from Uncle, and Jules Verne, esp. the fist couple of seasons.

R152 Oh yeah Victor Buono? How gay could they go with him as a guest star!! He was great.

R145, he was way before your time but you have a friend in their 60s? Did you meet at The Townhouse?

William Shatner? You in danger, girl.

Shatner is trying to dump his long-suffering wife, hopefully he'll kick off before the divorce is final.

[quote]esp. the fist couple of seasons

I was going to tease you for this but, I mean, we're all thinking it. RIP Robert Conrad, your pants were legendary.

When I first read about Robert Conrad's death this morning, i immediately logged on to The DataLounge to share my grief and wallow in mourning the death of such an icon to our community...

Oh! The Humanity!!!!

No r155 We have had 3 older actors die in quick succession ,I think its likely to be three older females now.

Think Rhonda Fleming, Marsha Hunt, Vera Miles, Baby Peggy.....etc

R159 Isn't it about time for Olivia deHav?

Possibly r160 but I reckon she will at least reach her 104th birthday in July.

R134 you are correct. I'm thinking that Conrad himself was so taken aback by his own beauty that he eventually accepted what was fact. After seeing all the pictures and videos of him in this thread, I'm certain that he loved what he saw on the mirror. Not necessarily conceit but an acceptance of what is.

The man knew his worth and used it. Not anymore than someone getting compliments for their voice, then getting a career as a singer.

R124, Robert would have not expect any less from you. I hope you released a good one last night.

From 1961, something called "Ballin' The Jack."

The provocative single cover:

R94 God damn! There simply was not a finer ass than Conrad's. No wonder I was so mesmerized the by The Wild Wild West when I was 7 years old.

He had the PERFECT amount of body hair, too. His arms and legs are just hairy enough to be manly-man. And his chest - OMG! Who wouldn't want to cuddle against that? I bet his pubes were beautiful.

Is this his "protegee"?

R167 Yes, that's been acknowledged often in previous posts to this thread.

I bet he loaded up that tight ass every night.

He definitely cock-teased the gays from the moment he hit Hollywood. And I'll bet he was rough trade for a while.

r162 I did thank you very much!🙈🥰😘

Jeb Stuart Adams gave up acting and is a realtor now

Wow he looked like that and tapped the older brother from Flowers in the Attic?

I can't imagine how much his wife must have loved crawling all over that body! And R162, good for you! I'm going for it myself this afternoon.

I won't link here but yes, just Google "jeb adams realtor" and you can see what he looks like now.

That photo at R169 just winds up my crank....Robert is the Everyman, the hot neighborhood daddy I always wanted to get real buddy-buddy with.....

R176 Oh yeah. Bob is the neighborhood dad we all wanted to be close to. I can see him mowing the lawn on a hot day, shirtless in his little shorts. "Hey, Mr. Conrad, can I help you?" We'd be all be cleaning the guys pool or washing his car while our own parents couldn't get us to clean our rooms.

R152, I think he was supposed to be a 19th C. James Bond.

R155, more like. Olivia, you're in danger, girl!

R179, Shatner is one of the few remaining 1950s/1960s hunks left, that’s why I was referring to him. Liv’s just an Aussie pop singer.

R177 Then he teaches us to play pool in his rec room.......him leaning against us, showing us where to point the stick......

George couldn't take his eyes off him.

One of the things that made me realize I was "different" (pre-pubertal, no less) was Conrad in WWW. I couldn't wait for Friday nights.

Bit of trivia: Robert Wagner was asked to play the part of Tom Lopaka on "Hawaiian Eye," but Wagner wanted to concentrate on a movie career. So he recommended his friend Robert Conrad, who got the part and signed a long and productive contract with Warner Bros.

R181 OMG yes! And us feeling his bulge while he's leaning into us, not hearing a word he's saying about the game but feeling his breath on our necks, our teenage cocks ready to explode...

Has Connie Stevens been reached for comment?

Some of his other "Palm Springs Weekend" co-stars are still with us: Stefanie Powers, Billy Mumy, Carole Cook.

R185 then we'd forget about pool and learn about his pants, those ones with that little silver hook we'd need to undo to get inside.....

r186 Isn't she rumoured to be in very poor health herself these days?

That nude scene at R138 from Murph the Surf...WOAH daddy!

I used to lust for Jeb Stuart Adams in Flowers in the Attic. He was definitely a hot piece.

R188 Oh yes! And we'd be all fumbly trying to figure out how to unhook the little metal hook from the little metal bar. Our hands would tremble and Bob would calm us down by helping us. (Oops, I mean Mr. Conrad; we wouldn't call him Bob.)

So you think Robert is gay but Rob lowe isn't? Why do losers like Lance Armstrong get to be straight?

Susan Dey -- we're waiting.

Remember R184 that Bobby C. once bragged about bagging both Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood in the same weekend. No wonder RW recommended RC. Wonder if NW would have, too.

R195 I'm lost. Who is Bobby C.?

Dibs on the corpse

Who wants to be the rope?

Has this been linked yet?

R199 Yes, quite a few threads back. But thank you! We can't see too much of him!

R184, Robert Conrad and Robert Wagner were buddies?! Hmmmmm....

R185 Bobby C can't be Bob Conrad because you refer to him later in your thread as RC. So who is Bobby C? The only one who comes to mind is Bobby Canavale and he's too young...

Were they doubles partners?

And Robert Conrad gets extra DL points for being a killer on “Columbo”!

R53 Sorry, wrong thread!

R180, Miss John was not the Olivia to whom I referred.

His Columbo episode was fun. He wore REALLY tight pants (of course)

1980 Made for TV movie, "Coach of the Year," where he played a paraplegic football coach at a young offenders prison.

Shirtless work out scene a little beyond the 55 minute mark.

Caption this.

r09 I think he is saying I'm going to tan your backside hard when I get over there and then f**k you senseless

Could just be my lipreading skills?

@R209 "If you cum inside of 45 minutes, you'll never see this ass again"

[quote] He had been in a very bad car accident.

Actually, he caused the very bad car accident. Drunk. Alcohol level .22.

The young man in the other car never fully-recovered and died a couple years later at age 28.

Conrad got off easy with house arrest. probation, and counseling.

^ Wow, I didn't know that

He really did have what we call ‘tree trunk thighs’. Hawt.

R192 and then after that metal hook is undone, our shaking hands would grab onto the thick waistband of his underwear.

And he'd look down and wink. "Go ahead, boss."

Ooh stop it r215 I'm getting aroused!!🥰🙈

Youd make a brilliant writer of erotic fiction!

R216 thanks!

And I have written erotica before (and been paid for it)!

He was also a celebrity rethug showing up as a guest at more than one Republican National Convention. (I think he may have even been a speaker at one of Reagan's.) And he participated in the "All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan" television event that was broadcast in1985 after Reagan took office for his second term.

Mentions being listed as one of Hollywood Confidential's "Top Homosexuals."

R218 You're breaking my heart.

[quote]Caption this.

"If you'd like to cum inside of this..."

Wardrobe fitting for "Tom Lopaka"

Can we take that inseam measurement again?

The obituary in the link at OP says he's 84-years old. But when he was arrested and charged with felony drunk driving back in 2003, CBS news noted a discrepancy of six years between his supposed age (68) and what the police/courts were saying (74). So was he actually 91 now?

Intriguing find r223 I'd not spotted that.

Birth name: Konrad Robert Falkowski

I'm curious about the "Chicago cabaret" he sang at to support himself before coming to Hollywood.

Richard Marx's dad was his vocal coach

Your definition of gay icon is sad

Sorry for the interruption but how come I can post on this thread but not on the Oscars thread?

R228 I'm guessing the Oscars thread has been paywalled - or as we like to say, "Murieled."

I'm sick of following this thread. I don't even remember him from his heyday. But his buttocks were tremendous. I probably learned about them on here, years ago.

R223, Robert Conrad's age of 84 is correct.

Per the Cook County records lookup site, Conrad Falk (Robert Conrad's birth name) was born March 1, 1935.

This is also the date given on his imdb biography.

Why sick r230? Surely you should feel delicious and excited given how much you like his arse?

Define icon

He was an icon, R233, because he was THE crush of many a young man who had a sexual awakening at the sight of his fine, tight, hairy body.

I remember that scene from Columbo where he is shirtless. It seemed to go on and on and on. I was in gay heaven.

Ross Martin was also a guest murderer on Columbo. Another duo of same-show villains were Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. Any others?

Are you queens who swear he's gay sure you aren't thinking of an actor from the "olden days" named William Conrad? Because there were rumors about William from the black and white tv days and if I remember correctly William was gay.

So be sure you have your Conrad correct cause it might be William Conrad people were talking about.

Cannon Fat Detective only appeals to fans of "Where the Bears Are."

R236, I knew Bill Conrad and his wife Tippy, and I have a hard time believing that that burly, big lug liked the boys. It is possible, though, but yeesh!

Bob and Bill

R207, He wore SWIMMING TRUNKS!

I just watched the Columbo episode "An Exercise in Fatality" tonight. (It's available to stream via IMDB TV for free.)

Conrad plays the Jack LaLanne-ish head of a chain of gyms. He bumps off one of his franchisees who is threatening to expose his fraud & other financial shenanigans.

It's pretty good. Clever use of an answering machine and shoestrings, and it really plays up the contrast between the schlubby Columbo and the buff Milo Janus (Conrad).

Added bonus: The swimming trunks scene takes up a good 15 minutes or so of the episode.

How did he find time for his gay trysts with all of those marriages and children?

This is Robert Conrad and his first wife, Joan. Married in 1952 and divorced in 1977. A picture says a thousand words. By marrying this woman and fathering children with her, he did what was expected of him like so many other men, especially for the time. The man was far, far too beautiful to have not partaken in the delights of the flesh available to him in Hollywood. Did he play around with other men? Did he compartmentalize his sexual life? I would say that yes, he did.

The reason some of us know he was gay is that he was having gay affairs with people we knew. That's pretty good evidence. My friend who had an affair with him said it lasted three months or so. They'd meet at a hotel on Catalina Island because Bob didn't trust going anyplace in Los Angeles (and most of his tricks didn't have places he trusted either) -- my friend would get there first, Bob would come an hour or so later, and they'd spend the day there, then Bob would leave first... etc...

I know several guys who claimed affairs with Bob -- some of whom may have been lying but this one friend, I knew what was going on since I was there then.

Will he be in next year's Oscar "in memoriam" reel, or was he not a big enough presence in movies?

I'm struggling to think of any A or even B list movies he was in. Maybe some C-listers? Do they have an In Memoriam for the Emmys? That's where he would rule.

"How did he find time for his gay trysts with all of those marriages and children?"

Ted Haggard had 5 kids

[quote] “The character I played was a dandy,” Mr. Conrad said in the oral history. “His clothes were too tight, for one. He rode this champion horse, this class horse. And he spent most of the series engaged in physical confrontations with bad guys.”

The fights, with Mr. Conrad often doing his own stunts, got a lot of attention. So did those tight clothes, especially the distinctive trousers.

“They put me on these elevated boots and shoes, which made me extremely uncomfortable,” Mr. Conrad said in an interview done for a mini-documentary made for a “Best of the Wild Wild West” marathon TNT broadcast in the 1990s, “and then they glued me into my pants, which made me even more uncomfortable, because they wanted the matador look.”

The dark-colored pants split so often, he said, that he took to wearing dark-colored underwear rather than white.

From his obit in "The New York Times" today.

He was the sergeant in MOVING VIOLATIONS

At around the 15 second mark in this clip, Bob exaggeratedly leans over on the couch and snores when the interviewer mentions that he’s known as being a “man’s man.” The way he gets back up and says “Can we change two things...?” and then swipes at his nose with his finger screams gay to me.

conrad and ross martin were great best friends in real life, and conrad was there when ross had his fatal heart attack on the tennis court as they played.... traumatic no doubt for conrad....

in regards to earlier posts, i have to take issue with conrad acting like he was this poor lowly without power actor who the producers and wardrobe people FORCED him to wear spray painted on pants in the wild wild west and he couldn't object! i mean was this the same case with "black sheep squadron"? or the 1 season before cancelled 1980 show "a man called sloane" where conrad continued to wear spray painted on pants if anything even MORE tighter and airbrushed on that what he wore in wild wild west!? me thinks doth protests too much in this regard!..

He showed skin from the time he first came to Hollywood in the 50s and appeared shirtless on a record cover. He knew he was hot/sexy as can be and he delighted in his power to turn on both genders. Like all before him and since, he did what was necessary to advance himself. His ass was his best asset, and you can be sure he used it to full advantage on screen and off.

r252 Praise the Lord that he chose that path!!

R244, what was your friend like in terms of being attractive? Blond or dark haired? Top or bottom? It would give insight into what Conrad was into.

I did a little digging, 'cause that's just what I do, baby.....

Anyway, Conrad actually married his first wife a few weeks shy of his 17th birthday and it was NOT a shotgun wedding as his firstborn, a daughter, didn't arrive until 12/31/52 - so he married his first wife on his own. I found interesting another factoid - his father was only 16 and his mother was only 15 when he was born - married. Furthermore, Conrad left home at the age of 15, himself, to start his life. Fascinating!

What type of men did he prefer?

Ones with penises.

Perhaps R244 wouldn't mind describing his friend in physical terms to answer the question posed by R256.

R244 Catalina Island? My sides. It takes almost 2 hours to get there and the place is tiny. Everyone would no Bob Conrad was on the island within a hour. You do not go to Catalina for a "secret" tryst unless you are fucking on a private boat and never ever come ashore.

[quote]Everyone would no

Oh, dear.

"The Lady in Red" is free on Tubi. 1979, so about 44. Plays John Dillinger to Dynasty's first Falon. Shows up in second half of film.

You mean Nancy Drew, r261.

Pamela Sue Martin was Nancy Drew, too?

Yes

R259 While I agree, Catalina seems odd, it only takes something like 15 minutes to get there by sea plane or helicopter.

Just the prospect of rimming Conrad’s hole would have been worth the trip.

I can't believe there aren't nudes of Conrad in his youth floating around. Not even a bare ass shot! So wrong.

Bobby C liked young blond men, just like Jeb Adams, actually.

Another odd fact about him R255 -- some credible sources refer to his birth last name as Falk. Others say Falkowski.

ABC: "He was born Konrad Robert Falkowski in Chicago on March 1, 1935. His great-grandfather had emigrated from Germany, and his grandfather founded several meat shops in Chicago called Hartman's."

NY TIMES: "Mr. Conrad was born Conrad Robert Falk on March 1, 1935, on the South Side of Chicago to teenage parents. His father, Leonard Falk, later was superintendent at a New Jersey plant that made chocolate flavoring. His mother, Jacqueline Hartman, later became a publicist under the name Jacqueline Hubbard."

r259: Try Google Search"

"Getting to Catalina Island is fast and easy. It takes only one hour"

No one's mentioned the TV series, "High Mountain Rangers" (1987-88) that he did with his two sons, Christian (l) and Shane (r).

The show got "spun-off" (retooled) and became "Jesse Hawkes."

One of the regulars in "High Mountain Rangers" was our very own Russell Todd (r).

Did Conrad hook up with Russell Todd?

"I can't believe there aren't nudes of Conrad in his youth floating around. Not even a bare ass shot! So wrong."

I mean really! I have a good idea what it would look like, but I want confirmation.

[quote]I can't believe there aren't nudes of Conrad in his youth floating around. Not even a bare ass shot! So wrong.

Did you not see the movie clip posted upthread where he shows his ass?

He was a fan of Peter Frampton?

He also starred in Jack Webb's "The D.A.," which lasted 15 episodes in 1971. And his character's name... PAUL RYAN! (Added bonus: DL fave Diane Baker!)

Oh, and no one's mentioned his turn as trapper Pasquinel in the epic miniseries, "Centennial."

Sorry .. forgot the link!

[quote] Oh, and no one's mentioned his turn as trapper Pasquinel in the epic miniseries, "Centennial."

I was just about to mention that. Didn't most of Pasquinel's story involve his relationship with his partner, McKeag (Richard Chamberlain)?

Remember how competitive he got during Battle of the Network Stars? He and Telly Savalas would get into altercations, once prompting Joanna Pettet to exclaim “What’s all the hullabaloo?”

Yeah .. lol! .. I haven't seen this clip posted.

(It's even got Caitlyn Jenner!)

^^^ That was meant to be citing the comment up at R41, but screwed up typing to indicate it was a quote.

Conrad spent most of the film "Murph the Surf" in red swim trunks, shirtless, and showed a bit of side ass in a pan shot where he's making out with a gal in a cabana. He also (it seems) intentionally showed a bit of butt crack in one quick shot where he gets up from a beach chair. Neither of these shots are screencapped in this linked blog's collection, but it's close.

When I rented it over a holiday while visiting my parents in my college days, I snuck downstairs to watch it an beat off.

I bet he hired porn star/escorts Leo Ford and Kurt Marshall. I wonder if he beat them up after sex.

I heard he was an SM bottom/sub. Also, he and Nick were "roommates" in their younger days and hustled.

Video of 'Murph the Surf' - Vague side ass at 10:40. Near butt-crack at 16:50. Strangely erotic beer bottle stroking parked in his crotch in a bathrobe at 59:20. Shirtlessness in several scenes.

The notorious pants-ripped scene:

The Deadline obituary linked to in the OP says, "Conrad is survived by 18 grandchildren and eight children, shared with ex-wives LaVelda Fann and Joan Kenlay."

But when he was running for SAG president in 2005, TV Week did a sit-down interview with him and within it states, "His career has made him wealthy. He could stay retired in his longtime home in Bear Valley and enjoy life with his wife of 22 years, LaVelda, nine children (from two marriages and an early relationship) and 20 grandchildren."

So when did he father this 9th kid from "an early relationship"? .. Before he even married the first wife at age 16? .. Or some early-on extra-marital affair? .. If the former, then he sure started young!

R275 I saw it , but it was more "side ass," not the full backside. A tease.

R270.. i remember that tv show "high mountain rangers' he did with his son.. i remember the tall blond son who was hot, like father, like son, would wear extremely snug pants! awesome!

as i stated earlier he also did that 1 season of "a man called sloane" where he also wore his spray painted on pants as a super agent.. one episode in one scene i remember his character needed help from a obvious "flamboyant" man on a computer and his character tells the computer guy something along the lines of "if you get this information, i'll kiss you" and the flamboyant (okay gay) computer character grins widely and gets to work on the computer!!...

another episode had conrad's character at the private lair of a evil villainess played by actress edie adams, surrounded by a bevy of muscle men strutting around, pumping iron, a couple of them wrestling each other as she lounged around her pool waiting for conrad's agent character to show up. anyway conrad's character sloane shows up, starts taking them all on, until he is "sucker punched" by one of the handsome muscle goons and knocked out with this 1 punch, in particular the one who sucker punched him being the one and only MARTIN KOVE! (love him in his prime!)... later, his character is tied up on a bed, shirtless (of course!) arms over head tied to the bedposts and a poisonous spider crawling on him... great episode!...

"Video of 'Murph the Surf' - Vague side ass at 10:40. Near butt-crack at 16:50. "

It's pathetic I actually to went 16:50 , tried to pause it, (Blurry, but his pants were low) and watched it three times.

And yet, I'm not ashamed.

R288, nice post but please make capitalizing letters your friend.

Conrad must have screamed with pleasure when Nick Adams’ son first shot inside his ass.

It looks like Mr Conrad had upper and lower eye work. His eyes look all scooped out and wide open.

Why to men do this shit to their faces?

And that photo of him above, my god- that was depressing. So elderly with that ill fitted suit..

I guess aging ain't for pussies!

He seemed like he had anger issues.

r289 And rightly so!Don't feel ashamed embrace the sexual naughtiness!😘

[quote]Video of 'Murph the Surf' - Vague side ass at 10:40.

Are you blind? It was posted all the way up at R138.

......

From the 1988 People Magazine article/interview when he was out promoting High Mountain Rangers ... describing how he met his second wife.

[quote] (They) met in 1978, when she was a 17-year-old Miss National Teenager and he had flown to Atlanta to emcee the pageant at which she was passing on her crown. “I asked her on the air when she would be 18,” says Conrad, who was 43 at the time and still married. “She said in a week, and I said, ‘Call me in a week.’ She didn’t, but I called her. That wasn’t robbing the cradle, it was grand theft.”

R215 Give it up! How sad taking credit for the long line of threads that made up that erotic story. There were at least 2 other DLers contributing! Good luck going it alone...

Decades will be running a marathon of Wild Wild West this weekend.

Thank you! I'm setting the DVR.

Thank you, r299!

I hope to see Dr. Miguelito Loveless, too!

P.S. Reading about the show a while back, I learned that many times the villain's subordinates were the same actors who played good guys.

Because the stunts were so difficult, and RC was so difficult, the show ended up using the same group of stunt men over and over, both as the bad guys and the good guys, whenever they were needed. Dick Cangey wrote a book about working with Bob. It's terribly written but kind of interesting as a source of WWW gossip.

Interesting gossip r302 thanks

R292 Well, keep in mind that Conrad had had a stroke and had paralysis on one side of his body, so that makes the suit look ill fitting.

I think I shall pull out my signed WWW DVD box set and enjoy this beautiful man in his prime.

On his knees

I bet he was a VERY bossy bottom.

“C’mon, man, what the fuck are you doin’? I said ‘SHORT and FAST strokes.’ Jesus Christ, don’t make me have to say it more than once.”

Yass!!

R268 so you’re saying he was Jewish?

The only other place I ever read about him being a closet gay, I guess, was the A list. But a lot of stuff on DL comes from there as it happens. Who knows.

she gave me my first orgasm on wild wild west...….he seemed queer as a 3 dolla bill

I remember watching this when it was originally on -/ it was right before 9/11. He was kind of a pistol. If anyone cares to watch it’s pretty entertaining.

^ And he's sitting next to Rufus Wainwright. LOL.

Rufus probably had withhold a request to borrow his old chaps.

IMHO He'd have made a damn good James Bond

pocket gay

r314 he certainly has the right kind of masculinity to have been a contender for the role.

James Bond can't wear flamenco boots to make him appear taller.

re James Bond/Conrad - all he needed was a good affected British accent, and a bunch of fellow film actors around his same height - he would have been excellent at this most physically attractive self

I think Contad would have made a better "Derek Flint" in the American "Flint" films. .. Personally, I found James Coburn kinda homely and didn't see the attraction. .. But I guess that would have been impossible, as Conrad was already doing WWW when the first one, "Our Man Flint", was produced.

r318 100% agree.Great photo 🥰🔥

He would have made a great Honey Ryder too.

Compare

I wonder if he ever tried for the role

Too bad they never did a gay Bond, he would have been a great Honey Rider or Mussy Galore!

They did a gay Bond; it was James T. West!

Was he strict with his children?

Conrad was too short to play Bond, a role that should only go to British actors anyway. Also, while he was manly, sexy and cocky, he did not have the smooth sophistication that Bond has.

Not every hot actor is suitable to play Bond.

R326 . In the People magazine article at R297 (when Conrad was out promoting "High Mountain Rangers,") they talk about his kids, saying:

[quote] Their father has always been enlightened about sexual equality, his kids say. Well, sort of. “The boys were taught how to iron and sew, and I remember Dad taking me to work out at Gold’s Gym,” says Joan. But, probably because they came first, only the girls were spanked. “We’d run to the bathroom and look at the handprints on our bottoms,” remembers Nancy. “Maybe Joan and I wore him down.”

[quote] Himself the product of a working-class Chicago home, Conrad was a strict parent. He sent the girls to Catholic schools, allowed them no dating before the age of 16 and expected spotless rooms. But he was delighted when his children showed an interest in show business. Although neither Joan, the practical one, nor Nancy, the sweet-natured free spirit, were inclined toward acting, Shane and Christian loved it from the start. “I was raised on the set of Wild, Wild West,” says Chris. “I got to play all these fantasies on the backlots of studios.” Shane’s fantasyland was the Black Sheep Squadron set, a short-lived series Bob starred in from 1976-78.

I'm enlightened. I taught my boys how to bottom from an early age

LOL! R329 I think that's actually hinted at in the "People" article.

[quote] Conrad thinks his offspring have turned out well—so well, in fact, that he likes to have them around when he works. Last year, when he pitched his idea about a series featuring mountain search-and-rescue workers to CBS, he pitched his kids too. “I wanted a family-oriented show with shmaltz,” he says. “I’d used my children in other films. It’s fun to work with family.”

[quote] The network wasn’t so sure. Christian had done only two TV movies with his father, and incipient teen heartthrob Shane’s previous acting experience was just as limited. Joan had already produced six TV movies, however, and Conrad ultimately got his way. High Mountain Rangers, starring Bob as a reclusive mountain man and Shane and Chris as his strapping, spandex-clad sons (“Tight pants worked for me, why not for my kids?” reasons Bob), debuted in January. It has been holding its own in the ratings—though just barely—since.

Later, the writer notes that TV critics have generally "scorned scorned the show, calling it 'Chippendales on Ice,' or worse."

You have a very naughty mind r330!! 😁😁😯😘

He was up for the role of Maj. Anthony Nelson in "I Dream of Jeannie." On that, he once said:

[quote] I turned that down because I would take second billing to her. She was going to get star billing and I thought, "I think I’m at a time in my career where I OUGHT TO BE ON TOP. So I passed on that."

It's amazing how many gays who watched WWW as kids count the show as "the moment they knew". Conrad just made you feel something "different". A few other actors did too (Tony Dow, Brian "Flipper" Kelly), but nothing like RC.

On top? Gurl, please, you were always a bottom.

Apologies if this has already been linked to but Youtube has episodes of the Wild Wild West.

I am one of those whose sexual awakening is linked to RC thanks to those tight blue pants.

One of his daughters (Nancy, if I recall) appeared on an episode of BSS.

He’s the “Blanche” in my all-male reimagining of The Golden Girls. I have it totally fleshed out.

R336 This promotional photo for "Baa Baa Black Sheep" features daughter, Nancy. I think he got at least four of the older kids involved in the biz somehow. Sons, Christian and Shane, are mentioned up above. The other daughter, Joan, was a director for "High Mountain Rangers" and was listed as an executive producer for his follow-up series, "Jesse Hawkes."

Caption:

BLACK SHEEP -- Season 2 -- Pictured: (Clockwise from top left) Kathy McCullen as Nurse Ellie, Nancy Conrad as Nurse Nancy Gilmore, Brianne Leary as Nurse Susan Webster, Denise DuBarry as Nurse Samantha Green, (center) Robert Conrad as Maj. Greg 'Pappy' Boyington

^That’s the one.

Speaking of his kids ... Remember when one his younger daughters from his second marriage had a custody battle with her ex-boyfriend over their dog?

In her court document, she sai the ex- was doing it retaliation for him not being able to perform in the bedroom, saying he “was unable to achieve and maintain an erection, so they "were only intimate about four times per year for three years.” .. She also said that he refused to engage “in alternative forms of intimacy, such as deep kissing or oral sex.”

And a few months later the judge ruled in her favor.

Shane Conrad played the stud in the first Brady Bunch movie. He seemed to have the possibility of his own career but either didn't want it, or just never got a break beyond what his father carved out for him. He was the better looking of the Conrad boys.

R342 Gorgeous. But he's no Bob Conrad...

Thank you r328. Sounds like he was harder on his daughters.

R344 No pun intended?

I want very much to believe the bisexuality claims, but no one on-the-record has come forth with details about la homosex with this once-hot-assed man.

In other words, R346, you can't be bothered to read this thread.

Sex on legs but not Gay.

Awe I wouldn't be so sure r348

The fantasy is aching deservedly so to be real 😘😘🔥

Awe I wouldn't be so sure r348

The fantasy is aching deservedly so to be real 😘😘🔥

In other words, R347, you're a gullible tool who takes DataLounge scribblings as fact.

Too bad some TV and movies "Western" actors turn out to be Right-Wingers.

Okay, he's been dead a week. Whoever has had the hidden nude photos of him all these years - the mourning period is over! Share! (There must be some somewhere, right?)

Keeping your eye on the top prize r353!!😁😘

There could be photos tucked away in the attic of the unnamed guy who gifted him with first class airfare to Hollywood after he'd been walking the streets of NYC and couldn't land an agent or find work there.

Speechless:

There was a LOT of sado-masochistic torture in this show. Here is a great segment.

I blame my fascination with armpits on him.

How many times was he strung up presenting?

The WWW episode titles always began with "The Night of ... " Why couldn't one of them have been "The Night of Surprise Anal"?

Well, hello there.

with Don Stroud . . .

Some of these recent pictures in the last 5-6 posts are divine!I'm dwelt under the hotness😘🔥

R363 With that hot ass standing next to him, one can only imagine why Stroud's wearing a pair of latex gloves.

Connie, Valentines Day 2019.

I suppose this is the closest we'll ever get to seeing his "getting good head" face...

Nice, R368!

Sigh.......

It's really criminal that someone could be that goodlooking.

Bump the dead.

[quote] He did sort of have a gay lisp.

That wasn't a lisp. That was his Chicago accent.

Lisping as a ChicAAAAHHgo accent are two different things.

^Lisping *and* a

He didn't have a lisp. He actually had a pretty nice voice and Warners tried to turn him into a singer. But despite his being able to carry a tune, his singing had zero emotional content. It was almost robotic -- pleasant, but empty.

[quote]He didn’t have a lisp

Maybe not a lisp, but he did have that sibilant thing going on.

Robert Conrad and Don Stroud were very good friends. When Stroud posed for Playgirl, there were rumors Conrad would soon follow.

Conny and Stroudy in MURPH THE SURF