Lloyd Nolan

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

123

Movies

109

Born: August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985
From: San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor. Among his many roles, Nolan is remembered for originating the role of private investigator Michael Shayne in a series of 1940s B movies. Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer of Irish descent. He attended Santa Clara Preparatory School and Stanford University, flunking out of Stanford as a freshman "because I never got around to attending any other class but dramatics." His parents disapproved of his choice of a career in acting, preferring that he join his father's shoe business, "one of the most solvent commercial firms in San Francisco." Nolan served in the United States Merchant Marine before joining the Dennis Players theatrical troupe in Cape Cod. He began his career on stage and was subsequently lured to Hollywood, where he played mainly doctors, private detectives, and policemen in many film roles. Nolan also contributed solid and key character parts in numerous other films. One, The House on 92nd Street, was a startling revelation to audiences in 1945. It was a conflation of several true incidents of attempted sabotage by the Nazi regime (incidents which the FBI was able to thwart during World War II), and many scenes were filmed on location in New York City, unusual at the time. Nolan portrayed FBI Agent Briggs, and actual FBI employees interacted with Nolan throughout the film; he reprised the role in a subsequent 1948 movie, The Street with No Name. Nolan appeared three times on NBC's Laramie Western series, as sheriff Tully Hatch in the episode "The Star Trail (1959), as outlaw Matt Dyer in the episode "Deadly Is the Night" (1961)[5] and then as former Union Army General George Barton in the episode "War Hero" (1962).[6] On December 8, 1960, Nolan was cast as Dr. Elisha Pittman, in "Knife of Hate" on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre. In the story line, Dr. Pittman removed one of the legs of Jack Hoyt (Robert Harland) after Hoyt sustained a gunshot wound from which infection was developing. Hoyt wants to marry Susan Pittman (Susan Oliver), but her father is at first unyielding on the matter. Nolan starred in The Outer Limits episode "Soldier" written by Harlan Ellison. He appeared in the NBC Western Bonanza as LaDuke, a New Orleans detective. In 1967, Strother Martin and he guest-starred in the episode "A Mighty Hunter Before the Lord" of NBC's The Road West series, starring Barry Sullivan. Also in 1967, Nolan was a guest star in the popular Western TV series The Virginian, in the episode "The Masquerade" and in the first episode of Mannix. A long-time cigar and pipe smoker, Nolan died of lung cancer on September 27, 1985, at his home in Brentwood, California; he was 83. He is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. CLR Description above from the Wikipedia article Lloyd Nolan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

109 films

Hannah and Her Sisters

19867.5

Earthquake

19746.1

Airport

19706.5

Ice Station Zebra

19686.4

Guadalcanal Diary

19435.6

Peyton Place

19576.8

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

19845.9

'G' Men

19356.6

The November Plan

19777.0

Circus World

19646.2

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

19457.5

Dressed to Kill

19416.3

Seven Waves Away

19577.5

Somewhere in the Night

19466.7

Santiago

19565.8

The Street with No Name

19486.4

Lady in the Lake

19466.1

The Texas Rangers

19366.6

The Double Man

19676.3

Island in the Sky

19536.2

Undercover Doctor

19396.7

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

19775.1

Time to Kill

19426.1

Dangerous to Know

19386.6

Bataan

19436.4

A Hatful of Rain

19576.8

Just Off Broadway

19425.8

Buy Me That Town

19416.3

Portrait in Black

19605.7

Toward the Unknown

19565.9

Circumstantial Evidence

19455.2

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

19405.3

An American Dream

19665.0

15 Maiden Lane

19368.0

Susan Slade

19615.9

Natural Vision 3-Dimension

1952

The Abduction of Saint Anne

19758.0

The House on 92nd Street

19456.6

Wells Fargo

19375.5

Johnny Apollo

19406.8

The Last Hunt

19566.9

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

19406.6

Gangs of Chicago

19405.8

The Lemon Drop Kid

19516.5

Apache Trail

19426.9

Steel Against the Sky

19415.4

Behind the News

19408.0

She Couldn't Take It

19355.3

Fire!

19777.1

The Girl Hunters

19635.7

The Golden Fleecing

19405.9

Flight to Holocaust

19776.0

Ebb Tide

19377.0

King of Gamblers

19377.5

We Joined the Navy

19636.0

The House Across the Bay

19405.6

Bad Boy

19496.8

Prison Farm

19386.8

Sergeant Ryker

19686.3

Blue, White and Perfect

19426.5

It Happened in Flatbush

19425.4

Don't Be a Sucker!

19436.9

Green Grass of Wyoming

19486.8

Stolen Harmony

19358.0

Blues in the Night

19416.2

Big Brown Eyes

19366.2

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

19446.6

Tip-Off Girls

19387.5

Crazylegs

19535.8

Every Day's a Holiday

19375.8

Girl of the Night

19606.8

Easy Living

19495.7

Attack! The Battle for New Britain

19447.0

Internes Can't Take Money

19376.5

Isn't It Shocking?

19736.3

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1955

Hunted Men

19385.7

Never Too Late

19655.3

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

19426.5

My Boys Are Good Boys

19787.8

Sleepers West

19416.4

Pier 13

19405.7

King of Alcatraz

19386.0

Charter Pilot

19408.0

The Magnificent Fraud

19399.0

Galyon

19806.0

Captain Eddie

19457.2

Prince Jack

19859.0

Wings of Fire

19677.0

St. Louis Blues

19397.3

Manila Calling

19428.0

The Man I Married

19406.3

Two Smart People

19466.6

Wild Harvest

19477.0

You May Be Next!

19364.8

Exclusive

19377.0

Ambush

19396.0

Atlantic Adventure

19356.0

Mr. Dynamite

19419.0

Devil's Squadron

19367.0

Lady of Secrets

19366.7

We're in the Movies, Now!

19394.0

Counterfeit

19366.3

The Sun Comes Up

19496.5

Valentine

1979

War Comes to America

19457.1

Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America

2000

One Way Ticket

19356.0

The Sky's the Limit

197510.0