patiently take him aside and show him why things might not be going well.”

He frequently employed his offspring in his movies and TV shows.

An example was the 1988 television series “High Mountain Rangers,” which Conrad had proposed, bankrolled with his own money and directed. He hired sons Shane and Christian as co-stars, daughter Joan as producer and daughter Nancy as caterer. His first wife handled financial matters.

The show, about a group of law enforcement officers, was filmed in the High Sierra mountain range near Lake Tahoe.

Conrad’s later film credits included 1996’s “Jingle All The Way” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and 2002’s “Dead Above Ground.”

He was born Konrad Robert Falkowski in Chicago on March 1, 1935. His great-grandfather had emigrated from Germany, and his grandfather founded several meat shops inChris and Kimberly Elliott woke up last Friday morning to a nightmare: the front quarter of their beloved cat Moe, placed conspicuously on their yard, so it would be the first thing they'd see when they opened the front door.

A blood trail was visible from a pool under a streetlight to the remains on the lawn.

"Our yard was a crime scene," Chris told the Houston Press. The Elliotts' cat had just become the latest victim in a string of grisly cat mutilations in the Timbergrove and Lazybrook subdivisions west of the Heights.

"Our cat was sliced in half with what I imagine had to be a machete or...a sword of some kind," Chris said. The cut was too clean to be the result of an animal attack, he said.

Kimberly