ACTOR
Conrad Janis
- Known for
- Mork & Mindy (1978)
15 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Conrad Janis is an actor best known for Mork & Mindy.
All facts (15)
- #001
Conrad Janis was a well-known jazz trombonist from the 1950s onward.
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On The Match Game, Janis stated that he never attended high school or college.
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Janis was a longtime champion of traditional jazz. In 1949 he formed a group of aging jazz greats — James P. Johnson (piano), Henry Goodwin (trumpet), Edmond Hall (clarinet), Pops Foster (bass) and Baby Dodds (drums), whom he called "all the men I idolized" — with himself on trombone.
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His father was of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews.
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In the late 1970s he founded the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band, which appeared many times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and played eight sold-out performances at Carnegie Hall.
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He was the son of art dealer and gallery owner Sidney Janis.
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Janis was already experienced in numerous Broadway shows in his youth, and he was only 17 when his first film, "Snafu," was released.
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At the age of 13, Janis successfully auditioned for a road company and consequently spent the next two years with it. During that time he also began doing radio voice work.
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In the late 1980s, the highly talented musician and his brother Carroll Janis inherited the Sidney Janis Gallery from their elderly father and kept the institution going until 1999.
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He had two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Janis made a brief appearance as himself in the jazz bar scene of Nothing in Common.
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Beyond acting and playing music, Conrad was a lifelong advocate of art and music education.
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Janis said he made roughly 700 television appearances, even though many of his first live performances were not recorded and were lost.
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Janis found success as director and producer with the 2012 horror-thriller "Bad Blood: The Hunger," a sequel to "Bad Blood" six years earlier; both were written by his wife, the actress Maria Grimm.
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Though still young, Janis was already a Broadway veteran when he appeared alongside George Montgomery (then the husband of Dinah Shore) in 20th Century Fox's film noir The Brasher Doubloon (1947), a Philip Marlowe film.
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