Lloyd Nolan
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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
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Acted in
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage)
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
2000
as Narrator
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as Evan
Prince Jack
1985
as Joe Kennedy
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Julian Tenley
Remington Steele
1982
as Lloyd Nolan
Galyon
1980
as Willard Morgan
Valentine
1979
as Brother Joe
Sweepstakes
1979
My Boys Are Good Boys
1978
as Dan Montgomery
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977
as Attorney General Harlan Stone
Fire!
1977
as Doc Bennett
Flight to Holocaust
1977
as Wilton Bender
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
The November Plan
1977
as Gen. Smedley Butler
Quincy, M.E.
1976
City of Angels
1976
Ellery Queen
1975
The Abduction of Saint Anne
1975
as Carl Gentry
The Sky's the Limit
1975
as Cornwall
Earthquake
1974
as Dr. James Vance
Police Woman
1974
Lincoln
1974
as William H. Seward
Isn't It Shocking?
1973
as Jesse Chapin
The Magician
1973
as Charles Keegan
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
The Waltons
1972
as Cyrus Guthrie
Airport
1970
as Harry Standish
McCloud
1970
Ice Station Zebra
1968
as Admiral Garvey
Julia
1968
as Dr. Morton Chegley
Sergeant Ryker
1968
as Gen. Amos Bailey
Mannix
1967
as Sam Dubrio
Judd for the Defense
1967
The Double Man
1967
as Edwards
Wings of Fire
1967
as Max Clarity
An American Dream
1966
as Barney Kelly
Never Too Late
1965
as Mayor Crane
The F.B.I.
1965
as Judge Harper
Daniel Boone
1964
as Ben Hanks
The Bing Crosby Show
1964
Circus World
1964
as Cap Carson
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Gen. Amos Bailey
The Great Adventure
1963
as Col. Fraser
The Outer Limits
1963
as Tom Kagan
The Girl Hunters
1963
as Arthur Rickerby
We Joined the Navy
1963
as Vice Admiral Ryan
The Virginian
1962
as Wade Anders
The Virginian
1962
as Abe Clayton
The Virginian
1962
as Tom Foster
Susan Slade
1961
as Roger Slade
Bus Stop
1961
Girl of the Night
1960
as Dr. Mitchell
Outlaws
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as George McShane
Portrait in Black
1960
as Matthew S. Cabot
Laramie
1959
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Peyton Place
1957
as Dr. Matthew Swain
A Hatful of Rain
1957
as John Pope, Sr
Abandon Ship
1957
as Frank Kelly
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Dr. Elisha Pittman
Toward the Unknown
1956
as Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
Santiago
1956
as Clay Pike
The Last Hunt
1956
as Woodfoot
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
Ford Star Jubilee
1955
Climax!
1954
as Jack London
Crazylegs
1953
as Win Brockmeyer
Island in the Sky
1953
as Captain Stutz
General Electric Theater
1953
as Robert Hale
General Electric Theater
1953
as Michael Bowen
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Nat Miller
The Lemon Drop Kid
1951
as Oxford Charley
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Panelist
Easy Living
1949
as Lenahan
Martin Kane, Private Eye
1949
The Sun Comes Up
1949
as Thomas I. Chandler
Bad Boy
1949
as Marshall Brown
The Street with No Name
1948
as Inspector George A. Briggs
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948
as Rob McLaughlin
Wild Harvest
1947
as Kink
Lady in the Lake
1946
as Lieutenant DeGarmot
Somewhere in the Night
1946
as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
Two Smart People
1946
as Bob Simms
The House on 92nd Street
1945
as Agent George A. Briggs
Captain Eddie
1945
as Lt. Jim Whitaker
War Comes to America
1945
as Narrator
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
as Sam Lord
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
as Officer McShane
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
as USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
Attack: The Battle for New Britain
1944
as Narrator (voice)
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
as Sgt. Hook Malone
Don't Be a Sucker!
1943
as Commentator (voice)
Bataan
1943
as Cpl. Barney Todd
Time to Kill
1942
as Michael Shayne
Manila Calling
1942
as Lucky Matthews
Apache Trail
1942
as Trigger Bill Folliard
Just Off Broadway
1942
as Michael Shayne
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
as Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942
as Michael Shayne
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
as Michael Shayne
Steel Against the Sky
1941
as Rocky Evans
Blues in the Night
1941
as Del Davis
Buy Me That Town
1941
as Rickey Deane
Dressed to Kill
1941
as Michael Shayne
Sleepers West
1941
as Michael Shayne
Mr. Dynamite
1941
as Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
Behind the News
1940
as Stuart Woodrow
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940
as Michael Shayne
Charter Pilot
1940
as King Morgan
The Golden Fleecing
1940
as Gus Fender
The Man I Married
1940
as Kenneth Delane
Pier 13
1940
as Danny Dolan
Gangs of Chicago
1940
as Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
Johnny Apollo
1940
as Mickey Dwyer
The House Across the Bay
1940
as Slant Kolma
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
as Joe Monday
The Magnificent Fraud
1939
as Sam Barr
Undercover Doctor
1939
as Robert Anders
We're in the Movies, Now!
1939
as Himself
St. Louis Blues
1939
as Dave Geurney
Ambush
1939
as Tony Andrews
King of Alcatraz
1938
as Raymond Grayson
Prison Farm
1938
as Larry Harrison
Hunted Men
1938
as Joe Albany
Tip-Off Girls
1938
as Bob Anders
Dangerous to Know
1938
as Inspector Brandon
Wells Fargo
1937
as Dal Slade
Every Day's a Holiday
1937
as John Quade
Ebb Tide
1937
as Attwater
Exclusive
1937
as Charles Gillette
King of Gamblers
1937
as Jim Adams
Internes Can't Take Money
1937
as Hanlon
15 Maiden Lane
1936
as Det. Sgt. Walsh
The Texas Rangers
1936
as Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
Counterfeit
1936
as Capper Stevens
Devil's Squadron
1936
as Dana Kirk
Big Brown Eyes
1936
as Russ Cortig
Lady of Secrets
1936
as Michael Harvey
You May Be Next!
1936
as Neil Bennett
One Way Ticket
1935
as Jerry
She Couldn't Take It
1935
as Tex
Atlantic Adventure
1935
as Dan Miller
'G' Men
1935
as Hugh Farrell
Stolen Harmony
1935
as Chesty Burrage