Loved WWW - RIP Robert
*Born in Chicago on March 1, 1935, Conrad worked as a milkman while pursuing a career as a local nightclub singer before moving to Los Angeles in 1958 and booking his first big recurring role on Hawaiian Eye in 1959.
There are three cycles in showbiz,” Conrad [told PEOPLE]('https://people.com/archive/tough-guy-robert-conrad-with-his-offspring-in-tow-heads-for-the-hills-and-high-mountain-rangers-vol-29-no-12/') in 1988, while he filmed his then-new show High Mountain Rangers. “They don’t know you, then they love you, and then you’ve been around so long they hate you. Now I’m starting all over again.”
A recipient of the Distinguished Service Award in Broadcasting and an inductee of the Stuntman’s Hall of Fame, Conrad was a longtime supporter of amateur boxing, the Wounded Warriors Project, Paralyzed Veterans of America, the United States Marine Corps, and the Jimmie Heuga Endowment, which provides support to those affected with multiple sclerosis.*
A* small private service is scheduled for March 1, which would have been Conrad’s 85th birthday. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the [Wounded Warrior Project]('https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=11585&ovr_acv_id=6794&campaignSource=ONLINE&source=BS19001&gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1264110&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIncqvwO3C5wIVA8NkCh35gw-UEAAYASABEgJ3I_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds') and [The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation]('https://www.mcsf.org/').
Conrad is survived by 18 grandchildren and eight children, whom he shares with ex-wives LaVelda Fann and Joan Kenlay.*
