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Had been a renowned jazz trombone player since the 1950s.

Stated on an appearance on The Match Game that he never attended high school or college.

Janis was a longtime advocate of traditional jazz. He assembled a band of aging jazz greats in 1949 ("all of the guys that I idolized"), consisting of James P. Johnson (piano), Henry Goodwin (trumpet), Edmond Hall (clarinet), Pops Foster (bass), and Baby Dodds (drums), with himself on trombone.

Along with George Segal, played in "The Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band". The band made several appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

His father was of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews.

During the late 1970s, he formed the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band, which appeared multiple times on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and gave eight sold-out performances at Carnegie Hall.

Son of art dealer and gallery owner Sidney Janis.

As a teenager, Janis was already a veteran of several Broadway shows, and was just 17 when his first film, "Snafu," was released.

Janis successfully auditioned for a road company at the age of 13 and consequently spent the next two years with them. He also began doing radio voice work during this time.

In the late 1980s, the multi talented musician and his brother, Carroll Janis, took over the Sidney Janis Gallery from their elderly father and kept the institution going until 1999.

Conrad Janis played a music store owner on the hit TV sitcom Mork and Mindy. Conrad, who became a trombonist as a teenager, played Mindy's father, the owner of a musical instrument store set in Colorado. Between takes, Conrad often jammed with Robin Williams who, according to Conrad, played a mean blues harmonica.

Janis secured a role in the play Dark of the Moon during its pre-Broadway run, in which he was spotted by a Hollywood talent scout. He stayed with the production when it ran in New York City, consequently making his Broadway debut in March 1945. He then made his film debut later that year as Ronald Stevens in the film Snafu.

Has two grandchildren, and two great-grand children.

Janis made a brief appearance as himself in the jazz bar scene from Nothing in Common.

In addition to acting and playing music, Conrad has been a lifelong advocate for the arts and music education.

Janis says he made around 700 TV appearances, although many early live performances were not recorded and are lost.

His father, Sidney, was an art dealer and writer; his mother, Harriet (Grossman), was also a writer.

Janis has enjoyed success as a director and producer with his 2012 horror-thriller, "Bad Blood: The Hunger" a sequel to "Bad Blood" six years earlier, both written by his wife, actress Maria Grimm.

Though just a youngster, Janis already was a Broadway veteran when he appeared in the 20th Century Fox film noir The Brasher Doubloon (1947) opposite George Montgomery (then-husband of Dinah Shore) in the Philip Marlowe movie.

Janis's first marriage was to Vicki Quarles. Together, they had two children: Christopher and Carin. They later divorced. His second marriage to Ronda Copland also ended in divorce. Janis married his third wife, Maria Grimm, in 1987. They remained married until her death in September 2021.