Conrad's brief non-speaking role in Juvenile Jungle enabled him to join the Screen Actors Guild. Adams was supposed to appear in it, but withdrew so he could take a part in a different movie. Īdams got a bit part for Conrad in the film Juvenile Jungle (1958). They became friends and Adams suggested that Conrad move to California to pursue acting. In 1957, Conrad met actor Nick Adams while visiting James Dean's gravesite in Fairmount, Indiana. Conrad also studied singing his vocal coach was Dick Marx, the father of singer Richard Marx. One of his first paying roles was a week-long job posing outside a Chicago theater where the film Giant (1956) was screened Conrad bore a resemblance to the film's lead, actor James Dean, so his mother used her entertainment industry contacts to help him get the part intended as a publicity stunt to boost attendance at the theater.
Īfter working in Chicago for several years and studying theater arts at Northwestern University, Conrad pursued an acting career. He dropped out of school at age 15 to work full-time, including loading trucks for Consolidated Freightways and Eastern Freightways, and driving a milk truck for Chicago's Bowman Dairy.
Ĭonrad attended Chicago schools including South Shore High School, Hyde Park High School, the YMCA Central School, and New Trier High School. Eddie Hubbard and Jackie Smith reportedly had a child together (born c. She married twice, including once to Chicago radio personality Eddie Hubbard in 1948. She became the first publicity director of Mercury Records, where she was known as Jackie Smith. His mother, Alice Jacqueline Hartman (daughter of Conrad and Hazel Hartman), was 15 years old when she gave birth, and named her son after her father. His father, Leonard Henry Falk, was 17 years old at the time of Conrad's birth and was of German descent.
Conrad was born Conrad Robert Falk in Chicago.
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