
Lloyd Nolan
Born August 11, 1902 · 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Hannah and Her Sisters

Earthquake

Airport

Ice Station Zebra

Guadalcanal Diary

Seven Waves Away

Peyton Place

'G' Men

Island in the Sky

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Lady in the Lake

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Santiago

Circus World

The Lemon Drop Kid

The Double Man

The Street with No Name

Dressed to Kill

Blues in the Night

Portrait in Black

Undercover Doctor

We Joined the Navy

Steel Against the Sky

Blue, White and Perfect

Toward the Unknown

A Hatful of Rain

15 Maiden Lane

The Last Hunt

An American Dream

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Dangerous to Know

The House on 92nd Street

Somewhere in the Night

Green Grass of Wyoming

The House Across the Bay

The Girl Hunters

Susan Slade
TV Shows

The Virginian

What's My Line?

The Waltons

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Climax!

Quincy, M.E.

Daniel Boone

The F.B.I.

The Outer Limits

The Ed Sullivan Show

Remington Steele

Police Woman

Laramie

Kraft Suspense Theatre

McCloud

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

MGM Parade

Julia

Outlaws

The Dick Powell Show

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Ellery Queen

Judd, for the Defense

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

The Great Adventure

Startime

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Bus Stop

The Magician

General Electric Theater

Martin Kane, Private Eye

The Bing Crosby Show

City of Angels

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Lincoln

The Ford Theatre Hour
More Movies

The Abduction of Saint Anne

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

Circumstantial Evidence

Tip-Off Girls

The November Plan

Wells Fargo

Time to Kill

The Texas Rangers

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Easy Living

Apache Trail

Fire!

The Golden Fleecing

The Magnificent Fraud

Prison Farm

The Sun Comes Up

The Man I Married

Bataan

Buy Me That Town

Wild Harvest

Flight to Holocaust

King of Alcatraz

She Couldn't Take It

My Boys Are Good Boys

It Happened in Flatbush

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

Sergeant Ryker

Bad Boy

Internes Can't Take Money

Two Smart People

Wings of Fire

Isn't It Shocking?

Prince Jack

Just Off Broadway

Johnny Apollo

Lady of Secrets

Gangs of Chicago

Big Brown Eyes

Natural Vision 3-Dimension

Manila Calling

Galyon

Ambush

Never Too Late

Captain Eddie

Sleepers West

Girl of the Night

Every Day's a Holiday

Charter Pilot

Attack! The Battle for New Britain

War Comes to America

Hunted Men

Ebb Tide

Pier 13

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Don't Be a Sucker!

Crazylegs

Counterfeit

You May Be Next!

St. Louis Blues

Behind the News

Exclusive

Stolen Harmony

Mr. Dynamite

Valentine

The Sky's the Limit

King of Gamblers

One Way Ticket

Atlantic Adventure




