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Lloyd Nolan

Lloyd Nolan

Birthday: 1902-08-11 | Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1986
Hannah and Her Sisters

as    Evan

1978
My Boys Are Good Boys

as    Dan Montgomery

1977
Fire!

as    Doc Bennett

1974
Earthquake

as    Dr. James Vance

1973
Isn't It Shocking?

as    Jesse Chapin

1968
Julia

as    Dr. Morton Chegley

1968
The Double Man

as    Edwards

1968
Sergeant Ryker

as    Gen. Amos Bailey

1964
Circus World

as    Cap Carson

1963
The Girl Hunters

as    Arthur Rickerby

1960
Portrait in Black

as    Matthew S. Cabot

1957
Peyton Place

as    Dr. Matthew Swain

1957
Abandon Ship

as    Frank Kelly

1957
A Hatful of Rain

as    John Pope, Sr

1956
Toward the Unknown

as    Brig. Gen. Bill Banner

1956
Santiago

as    Clay Pike

1956
The Last Hunt

as    Woodfoot

1953
Island in the Sky

as    Captain Stutz

1951
The Lemon Drop Kid

as    Oxford Charley

1949
The Sun Comes Up

as    Thomas I. Chandler

1948
The Street with No Name

as    Inspector George A. Briggs

1948
Green Grass of Wyoming

as    Rob McLaughlin

1947
Lady in the Lake

as    Lieutenant DeGarmot

1946
Two Smart People

as    Bob Simms

1946
Somewhere in the Night

as    Police Lt. Donald Kendall

1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as    Officer McShane

1945
Circumstantial Evidence

as    Sam Lord

1944
Resisting Enemy Interrogation

as    USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator

1943
Bataan

as    Cpl. Barney Todd