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American actor Robert Conrad was a graduate of Northwestern University, spending his first few years out of school supporting himself and his family by driving a milk truck and singing in a Chicago cabaret. Conrad befriended up-and-coming actor Nick Adams during this period, and it was Adams who helped Conrad get his first Hollywood work in 1957.
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Born Conrad Robert Falk (some sources cite his name as Konrad Robert Falkowski) in Chicago in March 1935, Robert Conrad majored in theater at Northwestern University. As a teenager he married his first wife, Joan; the couple eventually had five children together. In order to support his family, he was employed as a dock worker and a milkman for a period. In addition to acting, Conrad ... had a great interest in music, appearing on several local Chicago programs as a singer in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, Conrad released a few singles, and Warner Bros. released a soundtrack album from his TV series Hawaiian Eye that featured songs by Connie Stevens, Robert Conrad, and Poncie Ponce.
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Robert James Conrad, Jr. (born 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is a United States federal district court judge in North Carolina. In 2007, President George W. Bush nominated Conrad for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit[1] to take the place of the retired James Dickson Phillips, Jr. [2] [3]
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Conrad graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1983 and entered private practice. In 1989 he became an Assistant United States Attorney in Charlotte. President Bush appointed Conrad to serve as United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina in 2001. In 2003, he was nominated by the President for his current job as a federal district court judge. Mr. Conrad has twice been unanimously confirmed by the Senate.
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Looking back on his years in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Conrad took great pride in his successful prosecution of the first capital case after North Carolina reestablished its death penalty: he won a sentence of death. In addition, while Conrad was U.S. Attorney, he vigorously pursued immigration violations, as well as robbery and weapons cases, according to data published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Conrad was a theater student at Northwestern University who moved into off-Broadway roles before finding work in Hollywood. His breakthrough came in "Hawaiian Eye" but he's probably best known for his role as a secret agent working for the Grant administration in the Gilded Age. "The Wild, Wild West," was a mixture of James Bond-gadgetry, Wild West punch-ups and even some science fiction during its run on network TV from 1965 to 1970.
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