Question: Who played james west in the wild wild west?

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context: Robert Conrad starred as James West. Before "The Wild Wild West", Conrad played private eye Tom Lopaka in ABC's "Hawaiian Eye" for four seasons, 1959-63. Conrad claimed to be the 17th actor to test for the role of James West. (Rory Calhoun was initially announced for the part. Others tested included Robert Horton, Ray Danton and James "Skip" Ward.) Conrad performed nearly all of his own stunts in the series. "For the first few episodes we tried stuntmen," Conrad explained, "but the setup time slowed production down, so I volunteered. Things started moving quicker when I took the jumps and the spills. We started meeting the budget." Early on he was doubled by Louie Elias or Chuck O'Brien.
question: Who played James West in the 1960s TV series, The Wild Wild West?
short_answers: Robert Conrad
wikipage: The Wild Wild West
context: Warner Bros. optioned the film rights to "The Wild Wild West" in 1992, and hired Richard Donner to direct from a screenplay by Shane Black that would have starred Mel Gibson as James West (Donner coincidentally directed three episodes of the original series). Finally in 1999, a theatrical feature-length film loosely based on the series was released as "Wild Wild West" (without the definite article used in the series title). Co-produced and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, the film made substantial changes to the characters of the series, such as re-imagining James West as a black man (played by Will Smith) and Artemus Gordon (played by Kevin Kline) as egotistical and bitterly competitive with West. Additionally, significant changes were made to Dr. Loveless (played by Kenneth Branagh). No longer a dwarf, he was portrayed as a double amputee with no legs and confined in a steam-powered wheelchair (similar to that employed by the villain in the episode "The Night of the Brain"). Loveless' first name was changed from Miguelito to Arliss and was given the motive of a bitter Southerner who sought revenge on the North after the American Civil War.
question: Who played James West in the 1999 film Wild Wild West?
short_answers: Will Smith
wikipage: The Wild Wild West

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knowledge: content: The Wild Wild West is an American Western, espionage and science fiction television series[1][2] that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17, 1965, to April 11, 1969. Two satirical comedy television film sequels were made with the original cast in 1979 and 1980[3][4] and the series was adapted for a theatrical film in 1999.
wikipage: The Wild Wild West
content: Wild Wild West is a 1999 American steampunk Western comedy film
wikipage: Wild Wild West
content: The film stars Will Smith (who previously collaborated with Sonnenfeld on Men in Black two years earlier) and Kevin Kline as two U.S. Secret Service agents who work together to protect U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant (Kline again, in a dual role) and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats during the American Old West. 
wikipage: Wild Wild West
long_answer: Robert Conrad starred as James West in The Wild Wild West, an American Western, espionage and science fiction television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 11, 1969. Two satirical comedy television film sequels were made with the original cast in 1979 and 1980. This series was then adapted for a theatrical film in 1999. In this 1999 steampunk Western comedy adaptation, Will Smith stars as James West, a Secret Service agent who works to protect President Ulysses S. Grant and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats in the American Old West.