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During [[World War II]], he served in the [[United States Army]], attached to the Special Services entertainment unit. For several months, he was entertainment director at the since defunct Fort Ord on Monterey Bay in [[California]] before he was sent to the [[Philippines]] and then [[Japan]]. He worked as a producer and announcer for Armed Forces Radio.<ref name=lat/>
During [[World War II]], he served in the [[United States Army]], attached to the Special Services entertainment unit. For several months, he was entertainment director at the since defunct Fort Ord on Monterey Bay in [[California]] before he was sent to the [[Philippines]] and then [[Japan]]. He worked as a producer and announcer for Armed Forces Radio.<ref name=lat/>
==Early roles==
==Early roles==
At first, Conway had uncredited roles in some two dozen motion pictures from 1947 to 1953, beginning as a medic in ''Buck Privates Come Home.'' He played the role of Quintus Seabury in the film, ''Flamingo Road.'' He appeared in ''If I Was a Male War Bride,'' ''Calamity Jane and Sam Bass'' about frontier characters [[Calamity Jane|Martha Jane Cannary]] and the bandit Sam Bass (1851-1878), ''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.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176773/|title=Russ Conway|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref>
At first, Conway had uncredited roles in some two dozen motion pictures from 1947 to 1953, beginning as a medic in ''Buck Privates Come Home.'' He played the role of Quintus Seabury in the film, ''Flamingo Road.'' He appeared in ''If I Was a Male War Bride,'' ''Calamity Jane and Sam Bass'' about frontier characters [[Calamity Jane|Martha Jane Cannary]] and the bandit Sam Bass (1851-1878), ''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.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176773/|title=Russ Conway|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref>