Russ Conway

Person · Open Library

Works

1

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Known for

• The Space-Watch Murders1978
• Switch — Ship's Captain1975
• Kate McShane1975
• Interval — Fraser1973
• The World's Greatest Athlete — Judge with Stopwatch1973
• Cannon1971
• San Francisco International — Chief Mechanic1970
• San Francisco International Airport — Chief Controller1970
• The Silent Gun — First Sheriff1969
• Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents — Rancher1968

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1933-09-01

Active to

1993-06-05

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

23,666

Total plays

146,870

Conway was born in Bristol, England. He had no formal piano training and spent his early adulthood in the Navy. Conway was talent-spotted while playing in a London club, signed to Columbia Records and spent the mid 1950s providing backing for their artists including Gracie Fields and Joan Regan. However, the commercial potential of Conway's unique percussive piano style (which he attributed to a missing fingertip he had severed many years previously with a bread slicer) was too great for him to

via Last.fm · Russ Conway

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Conway

Gender

male

Citizenship

Canada

Place of birth

Brandon

Place of death

Laguna Hills

Occupation

television actor

Educated at

University of California, Los Angeles

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Conflict

World War II

Military branch

United States Army

Image

Conway in The Screaming Skull (00.44.35).jpg

via Wikidata · CC0