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