Lloyd Nolan
birthday: 1902-08-11
Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA
deathday: 1985-09-27

Lloyd Nolan

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.

Airport

Airport

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Earthquake

Earthquake

1974 . movie

Circus World

Circus World

1964 . movie

Peyton Place

Peyton Place

1957 . movie

Bataan

Bataan

1943 . movie

Time to Kill

Time to Kill

1942 . movie

Mr. Dynamite

Mr. Dynamite

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Galyon

Galyon

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Susan Slade

Susan Slade

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Fire!

Fire!

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Abandon Ship

Abandon Ship

1957 . movie

Easy Living

Easy Living

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Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

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Pier 13

Pier 13

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Santiago

Santiago

1956 . movie

Ebb Tide

Ebb Tide

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Exclusive

Exclusive

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Crazylegs

Crazylegs

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Bad Boy

Bad Boy

1949 . movie

Hunted Men

Hunted Men

1938 . movie

Apache Trail

Apache Trail

1942 . movie

'G' Men

'G' Men

1935 . movie

Prison Farm

Prison Farm

1938 . movie

Prince Jack

Prince Jack

1985 . movie

Counterfeit

Counterfeit

1936 . movie

Ambush

Ambush

1939 . movie

Wild Harvest

Wild Harvest

1947 . movie

Valentine

Valentine

1979 . movie

The F.B.I.

The F.B.I.

1965 . tv

Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E.

1976 . tv

Mannix

Mannix

1967 . tv

Lincoln

Lincoln

1974 . tv

The Waltons

The Waltons

1972 . tv

Outlaws

Outlaws

1960 . tv

Bus Stop

Bus Stop

1961 . tv

Police Woman

Police Woman

1974 . tv

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

1964 . tv

Julia

Julia

1968 . tv

The Virginian

The Virginian

1962 . tv

McCloud

McCloud

1970 . tv

City of Angels

City of Angels

1976 . tv

Climax!

Climax!

1954 . tv

Laramie

Laramie

1959 . tv

Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen

1975 . tv

Sweepstakes

Sweepstakes

1979 . tv

The Magician

The Magician

1973 . tv

The Virginian

The Virginian

1962 . tv

The Virginian

The Virginian

1962 . tv

What's My Line?

What's My Line?

1950 . tv

What's My Line?

What's My Line?

1950 . tv