Lloyd Nolan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 11, 1902
- Died
- September 27, 1985 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Movie · as Narrator
Hannah and Her Sisters
Movie · as Evan
Prince Jack
Movie · as Joe Kennedy
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Movie · as Monsignor Donoghue
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Julian Tenley · 1 ep
Remington Steele
TV · as Lloyd Nolan · 1 ep
Galyon
Movie · as Willard Morgan
Valentine
Movie · as Brother Joe
$weepstake$
TV · as Dr. Warnecke · 1 ep
My Boys Are Good Boys
Movie · as Dan Montgomery
Fire!
Movie · as Doc Bennett
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Movie · as Attorney General Harlan Stone
Flight to Holocaust
Movie · as Wilton Bender
The November Plan
Movie · as Gen. Smedley Butler
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
TV · 1 ep
Quincy, M.E.
TV · 1 ep
City of Angels
TV · 3 eps
The Abduction of Saint Anne
Movie · as Carl Gentry
The Sky's the Limit
Movie · as Cornwall
Ellery Queen
TV · 1 ep
Earthquake
Movie · as Dr. James Vance
Police Woman
TV · 1 ep
Lincoln
TV · as William H. Seward · 1 ep
Isn't It Shocking?
Movie · as Jesse Chapin
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Magician
TV · as Charles Keegan · 2 eps
The Waltons
TV · as Cyrus Guthrie · 1 ep
Airport
Movie · as Harry Standish
McCloud
TV · 1 ep
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV · as Dr. Karl Richardson · 1 ep
Ice Station Zebra
Movie · as Admiral Garvey
Sergeant Ryker
Movie · as Gen. Amos Bailey
Julia
TV · as Dr. Morton Chegley · 86 eps
The Double Man
Movie · as Edwards
Wings of Fire
Movie · as Max Clarity
Mannix
TV · as Sam Dubrio · 1 ep
Judd, for the Defense
TV · 1 ep
An American Dream
Movie · as Barney Kelly
Never Too Late
Movie · as Mayor Crane
The F.B.I.
TV · as Judge Harper · 1 ep
Circus World
Movie · as Cap Carson
Daniel Boone
TV · as Ben Hanks · 1 ep
The Bing Crosby Show
TV · 1 ep
We Joined the Navy
Movie · as Vice Admiral Ryan
The Girl Hunters
Movie · as Arthur Rickerby
The Great Adventure
TV · as Col. Fraser · 2 eps
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Gen. Amos Bailey · 2 eps
The Outer Limits
TV · as Tom Kagan · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Wade Anders, Abe Clayton, Tom Foster · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Susan Slade
Movie · as Roger Slade
The Dick Powell Show
TV · as Vernon Clay · 1 ep
Bus Stop
TV · 1 ep
Portrait in Black
Movie · as Matthew S. Cabot
Girl of the Night
Movie · as Dr. Mitchell
Outlaws
TV · 1 ep
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV · as George McShane · 1 ep
Laramie
TV · 2 eps
Bonanza
TV · as Inspector Charles Leduque · 1 ep
Startime
TV · as Narrator · 1 ep
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
A Hatful of Rain
Movie · as John Pope, Sr
Peyton Place
Movie · as Dr. Matthew Swain
Seven Waves Away
Movie · as Frank Kelly
The Last Hunt
Movie · as Woodfoot
Toward the Unknown
Movie · as Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
Santiago
Movie · as Clay Pike
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Dr. Elisha Pittman · 1 ep
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Movie
Ford Star Jubilee
TV · 1 ep
MGM Parade
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Climax!
TV · as Jack London · 1 ep
Island in the Sky
Movie · as Captain Stutz
Crazylegs
Movie · as Win Brockmeyer
General Electric Theater
TV · as Robert Hale, Michael Bowen · 1 ep
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Movie · as Self
The Lemon Drop Kid
Movie · as Oxford Charley
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Nat Miller · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Easy Living
Movie · as Lenahan
The Sun Comes Up
Movie · as Thomas I. Chandler
Bad Boy
Movie · as Marshall Brown
Martin Kane, Private Eye
TV · 4 eps
The Street with No Name
Movie · as Inspector George A. Briggs
Green Grass of Wyoming
Movie · as Rob McLaughlin
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Ford Theatre Hour
TV · as Nifty Miller · 1 ep
Wild Harvest
Movie · as Kink
Lady in the Lake
Movie · as Lieutenant DeGarmot
Two Smart People
Movie · as Bob Simms
Somewhere in the Night
Movie · as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Movie · as Officer McShane
The House on 92nd Street
Movie · as Agent George A. Briggs
Circumstantial Evidence
Movie · as Sam Lord
Captain Eddie
Movie · as Lt. Jim Whitaker
War Comes to America
Movie · as Narrator
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Movie · as USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Bataan
Movie · as Cpl. Barney Todd
Guadalcanal Diary
Movie · as Sgt. Hook Malone
Don't Be a Sucker!
Movie · as Commentator (voice)
Time to Kill
Movie · as Michael Shayne
It Happened in Flatbush
Movie · as Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Movie · as Michael Shayne
Just Off Broadway
Movie · as Michael Shayne
Blue, White and Perfect
Movie · as Michael Shayne
Manila Calling
Movie · as Lucky Matthews
Apache Trail
Movie · as Trigger Bill Folliard
Blues in the Night
Movie · as Del Davis
Dressed to Kill
Movie · as Michael Shayne
Mr. Dynamite
Movie · as Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
Sleepers West
Movie · as Michael Shayne
Steel Against the Sky
Movie · as Rocky Evans
Buy Me That Town
Movie · as Rickey Deane
The House Across the Bay
Movie · as Slant Kolma
Johnny Apollo
Movie · as Mickey Dwyer
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Movie · as Michael Shayne
Pier 13
Movie · as Danny Dolan
The Golden Fleecing
Movie · as Gus Fender
The Man I Married
Movie · as Kenneth Delane
Behind the News
Movie · as Stuart Woodrow
Charter Pilot
Movie · as King Morgan
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Movie · as Joe Monday
Gangs of Chicago
Movie · as Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
The Magnificent Fraud
Movie · as Sam Barr
Undercover Doctor
Movie · as Robert Anders
Ambush
Movie · as Tony Andrews
St. Louis Blues
Movie · as Dave Geurney
We're in the Movies, Now!
Movie · as Himself
King of Alcatraz
Movie · as Raymond Grayson
Tip-Off Girls
Movie · as Bob Anders
Dangerous to Know
Movie · as Inspector Brandon
Hunted Men
Movie · as Joe Albany
Prison Farm
Movie · as Larry Harrison
Wells Fargo
Movie · as Dal Slade
Ebb Tide
Movie · as Attwater
Exclusive
Movie · as Charles Gillette
King of Gamblers
Movie · as Jim Adams
Internes Can't Take Money
Movie · as Hanlon
Every Day's a Holiday
Movie · as John Quade
The Texas Rangers
Movie · as Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
Big Brown Eyes
Movie · as Russ Cortig
You May Be Next!
Movie · as Neil Bennett
Devil's Squadron
Movie · as Dana Kirk
15 Maiden Lane
Movie · as Det. Sgt. Walsh
Counterfeit
Movie · as Capper Stevens
Lady of Secrets
Movie · as Michael Harvey
Atlantic Adventure
Movie · as Dan Miller
She Couldn't Take It
Movie · as Tex
Stolen Harmony
Movie · as Chesty Burrage
'G' Men
Movie · as Hugh Farrell
One Way Ticket
Movie · as Jerry