Michael Conrad

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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 veteran cop Phil Estherhaus on the series. He died from urethral cancer in November 1983 during the show's fourth season.


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Conrad had a memorable role in the 1974 film, The Longest Yard, playing Nate Scarboro, a retired NFL wide receiver and was 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.

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