American actor, best remembered for roles in The Wild Wild West, Flying Misfits, Sudden Death, Jingle All the Way and The Lady in Red.
Robert Conrad is my dear friend. Y'know Bob is not six foot one. I'm a foot taller than Bob. I'm not saying what size he is, but a lot of guys his size won't use big guys like me in their movies. Like when I did WALKER, TEXAS RANGER. Chuck Norris is a little guy.- Don Stroud, Psychotronic interview
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I have never stood on a box while dealing with 'the lustful advances of actresses who tower over' me. While acting or in real life. I stand on my own two feet.
I was complaining because they had me wearing elevator shoes and they were very uncomfortable. They were actually Alan Ladd's and his feet were smaller than mine.
I'm 5 feet 8 and 170 pounds and I'm not self-conscious. Nobody didn't work my shows because they were taller. In 'Centenial,' Sally Kellerman was four inches taller than I was. But don't ever refer to me as runty or short. I was never called short until I got to Hollywood, where the insecurity generates an unseemly hostility. It's when you're 5 feet 8 and can knock a guy on his butt, they call you short.
-- April 1979
I don't trust anyone. For years my official biography stated that I was 5 foot 10. Finally my mother asked me 'How did you manage to become 5 foot 10 when you've always been 5 foot 8?'
His biography says he is five feet 10 inches tall. He wears cowboy boots now that add a few inches to his height. But he admits he used to wear lifts at one time to be taller than Alan Ladd.
"Five feet ten?" Conrad chuckles. "I'm five feet ten only when I raise my arms."
-- Edmonton Journal, 1982
Conrad is a really short guy, and I'm six-foot-two. There were boxes [for him to stand on] and all kinds of things, like Alan Ladd had. If Bob didn't have that box, he would have come up to my shoulder.
-- Elliott Reid
