<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1957--2002 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Joan Kenlay (February 23, 1952--1977; divorced); 5 children LaVelda Ione Fann (March 28, 1983--2010; divorced); 3 children </Td> </Tr> <P> Robert Conrad Falk (born Conrad Robert Falk; March 1, 1935) is an American film and television actor, singer, and stuntman . He may be best known for his role in the 1965--69 television series The Wild Wild West, playing the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West . He portrayed World War II ace Pappy Boyington in the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep (later syndicated as Black Sheep Squadron). He was a recording artist of pop / rock songs in the early 1960s as Bob Conrad before he began his acting career . He has hosted a weekly two - hour national radio show (The PM Show with Robert Conrad) on CRN Digital Talk Radio since 2008 . </P> <P> Conrad was born Conrad Robert Falk in Chicago, Illinois . His father, born Leonard Henry Falkowski (born November 3, 1918), was then 16 years old; Leonard was of Polish ancestry . His mother, Alice Jacqueline Hartman (born May 15, 1919, daughter of Conrad and Hazel Hartman), was 15 years old when she gave birth, and named her son after her own father . She would go on to become first publicity director of Mercury Records, known as Jackie Smith . She would marry several times, including once to Chicago radio personality Eddie Hubbard in 1948 . Eddie Hubbard and Jackie Smith reportedly had a child together (born circa 1949) before splitting up in 1958 . </P>

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