Conrad Brooks was born as Conrad Biedrzycki on January 3 1931 in Baltimore Maryland He was the son of Polish immigrants with a baker father and had seven brothers and sisters At seventeen along with his brothers Henry and Ted he went to Hollywood California Brooks first encountered legendary GradeZ filmmaker Ed Wood in a donut shop Conrad first collaborated with Wood on the fifteen minute short movie Range Revenge Brooks had three roles in Woods Glen or Glenda He achieved his greatest enduring cult popularity as Patrolman Jamie in Plan 9 from Outer Space Conrad briefly popped up in the uproariously awful cheapie clunker The Beast of Yucca Flats