Dramatic Roles
His dramatic guest appearances included the role of 41-year-old Doug Parish in the 1954 episode "Climax" of the NBC crime drama, Mr. and Mrs. North. That same year, he appeared as Clemson in "The Horn That Blew Too Long" of Rod Cameron's first syndicated series, City Detective.
In 1955 and 1956, Conway appeared twice on NBC's anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, first as Joe Davis in "He Always Comes Home" and then as Eddie in "Hapless Holiday".
Other Conway roles were on four episodes of CBS's fantasy drama, The Millionaire aired between 1955 and 1958, but he was never the millionaire himself. He was Commander Loomis in the 1956 episode "A Day for a Stingray" of the ABC military drama Navy Log, formerly on CBS. He appeared twice on Ronald W. Reagan's General Electric Theater in the episodes "The Chess Game" and "Dropout" in 1956 and 1961, respectively,
He guest starred in another CBS crime dramas, The Lineup and Checkmate. He played Detective Ben Cooper in the episode "Killer in Town" of Lee Marvin's M Squad series on NBC.
Conway appeared in all four of the ABC-WB crime dramas: as Barney Harris in the episode "Girl in Trouble" of Bourbon Street Beat starring Andrew Duggan, as Cranston MacDonald on 77 Sunset Strip in the episode "The Bouncing Chip", as Brockton Storr in "Ghost of a Chance" of Surfside 6, and three times on Hawaiian Eye in episodes entitled "Made in Japan", "Moon of Mindanao", and "The Sisters". He also starred three times on ABC's The Untouchables, a 1920s crime drama starring Robert Stack as federal agent Elliot Ness.
From 1958-1961, he appeared eight times on Lloyd Bridges's Sea Hunt syndicated series about a professional diver. Conway guest starred in Edmond O'Brien's 1960 syndicated crime drama, Johnny Midnight. He appeared three times as Lieutenant Pete Kile on David Janssen's NBC series, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, previously broadcast on CBS. He also starred as Sheriff Thornton in Janssen's later series, ABC's The Fugitive, in the 1967 episode "Passage to Helena". In 1971, Conway appeared as Mr. Hansen in the episode "Operation: Crystal Springs" of Janssen's third series, O'Hara, U.S. Treasury on CBS.
Conway appeared as General Devon in six episode of CBS's 1959-1960 drama Men into Space. That same year, he guest starred on Mike Connors's CBS crime drama Tightrope. He appeared in John Bromfield's syndicated U.S. Marshal, Charles Bronson's Man with a Camera on ABC, and Gary Lockwood's NBC military drama The Lieutenant, having appeared as Colonel Curtis Morley in the 1964 episode "In the Highest Tradition".
In 1961 and 1965, he appeared on two CBS dramas, The Aquanauts, starring Keith Larsen, and Slattery's People, featuring Richard Crenna as a state legislator. Conway was cast three times on the network's Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr in a variety of roles, including an ex-convict and a Naval officer. He appeared as a judge in the 1969 episode "The Law and Order Blues" (Part 1) of Carl Betz's ABC legal drama Judd for the Defense.
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