Michael Conrad (October 16 1925 - November 22 1983) was an American television actor who was born in New York. Conrad won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in Hill Street Blues in 1981 and 1982. Conrad had a long acting career in television from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was perhaps best known for his portryal of Phil Estherhaus on the series. He died from urethral cancer in November 1983 during the show's fourth season. His other television credits include The Incredible Hulk, CHiPs, Barney Miller, Vega$, Soap, The Waltons, Charlie's Angels, Hawaii Five-O, Little House on the Prairie, Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Rockford Files, S.W.A.T., Emergency!, Planet of the Apes, Lucas Tanner, The Bob Newhart Show, The F.B.I., Mannix, Love, American Style, All in the Family, Alias Smith and Jones, Mission: Impossible, Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Lost in Space, Felony Squad, The Fugitive, That Girl, Gunsmoke, I Spy, Bonanza, My Favorite Martian, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Dick Van Dyke Show, Daniel Boone, Rawhide, Flipper, The Twilight Zone, Wagon Train and Perry Mason. Conrad had a memorable role in the 1974 film, The Longest Yard, playing Nate Scarboro, a veteran fullback who is also an assistant coach for the Mean Machine, the team of prisoners put together by Burt Reynolds' character Paul Crewe to play the team of guards.
