First Roles
His first had uncredited roles in some two dozen motion pictures from 1947–1953, beginning as a medic in Buck Privates Come Home and including Flamingo Road, I Was a Male War Bride, Calamity Jane and Sam Bass about frontier characters Martha Jane Cannary and the bandit Sam Bass, Twelve O'Clock High, Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation, and the 1952 film The Outcasts of Poker Flat, based on a Bret Harte short story of the same name.
Though most of his work after 1953 was on television, Conway also appeared in notable films. He was Elvis Presley's friend Ed Galt in Presley's screen debut Love Me Tender. He also played the police officer who discovered Joan Crawford's body on the beach at the end of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. He played the Reverend Bethany of The War of the Worlds.
Conway became best known for his multiple television appearances, beginning with "Sheep Thieves", the first of four episodes between 1950 and 1954, of the classic western The Lone Ranger. The other episodes featuring Conway are "Sinner by Proxy", "A Son by Adoption" and "The Bounty Hunter". In 1951, Conway appeared on the detective series Boston Blackie. He then guest starred in three 1952-1953 episodes of Jack Webb's original Dragnet crime drama on NBC. Later, he guest starred on Reed Hadley's second CBS series, The Public Defender
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