Robert Conrad Revolutionized the Action Genre
12 min readFeb 20, 2020
Obituaries for Robert Conrad properly noted the actor’s prowess as a pugilist-stuntman.
However, the press failed to recognize how Conrad essentially invented the modern action genre in the late 1960s as the star of The Wild Wild West.
Other TV Westerns resolved conflicts quickly with pedestrian, perfunctory gunplay, but The Wild Wild West featured action as…