Lloyd Nolan
Acting • Born 1902-08-11 – Died 1985-09-27
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.
Filmography
154 credits
Lady in the Lake
Movie • 1946
Lieutenant DeGarmot
Airport
Movie • 1970
Harry Standish
Earthquake
Movie • 1974
Dr. James Vance
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Movie • 1945
Officer McShane
Hannah and Her Sisters
Movie • 1986
Evan
The Lemon Drop Kid
Movie • 1951
Oxford Charley
Blues in the Night
Movie • 1941
Del Davis
Island in the Sky
Movie • 1953
Captain Stutz
The House on 92nd Street
Movie • 1945
Agent George A. Briggs
Dressed to Kill
Movie • 1941
Michael Shayne
Circumstantial Evidence
Movie • 1945
Sam Lord
The Street with No Name
Movie • 1948
Inspector George A. Briggs
Circus World
Movie • 1964
Cap Carson
A Hatful of Rain
Movie • 1957
John Pope, Sr
Peyton Place
Movie • 1957
Dr. Matthew Swain
Bataan
Movie • 1943
Cpl. Barney Todd
Guadalcanal Diary
Movie • 1943
Sgt. Hook Malone
The House Across the Bay
Movie • 1940
Slant Kolma
Portrait in Black
Movie • 1960
Matthew S. Cabot
Ice Station Zebra
Movie • 1968
Admiral Garvey
Johnny Apollo
Movie • 1940
Mickey Dwyer
Green Grass of Wyoming
Movie • 1948
Rob McLaughlin
Time to Kill
Movie • 1942
Michael Shayne
The Texas Rangers
Movie • 1936
Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
We Joined the Navy
Movie • 1963
Vice Admiral Ryan
Mr. Dynamite
Movie • 1941
Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Movie • 2004
Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage)
Big Brown Eyes
Movie • 1936
Russ Cortig
Galyon
Movie • 1980
Willard Morgan
Susan Slade
Movie • 1961
Roger Slade
Fire!
Movie • 1977
Doc Bennett
The Girl Hunters
Movie • 1963
Arthur Rickerby
Two Smart People
Movie • 1946
Bob Simms
It Happened in Flatbush
Movie • 1942
Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
Seven Waves Away
Movie • 1957
Frank Kelly
Easy Living
Movie • 1949
Lenahan
King of Alcatraz
Movie • 1938
Raymond Grayson
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Movie • 1942
Michael Shayne
Sleepers West
Movie • 1941
Michael Shayne
Just Off Broadway
Movie • 1942
Michael Shayne
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Movie • 1940
Michael Shayne
The Double Man
Movie • 1967
Edwards
The Last Hunt
Movie • 1956
Woodfoot
Wells Fargo
Movie • 1937
Dal Slade
Pier 13
Movie • 1940
Danny Dolan
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Movie • 1944
USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
The Sun Comes Up
Movie • 1949
Thomas I. Chandler
An American Dream
Movie • 1966
Barney Kelly
The Golden Fleecing
Movie • 1940
Gus Fender
Toward the Unknown
Movie • 1956
Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
Girl of the Night
Movie • 1960
Dr. Mitchell
Blue, White, and Perfect
Movie • 1942
Michael Shayne
The Magnificent Fraud
Movie • 1939
Sam Barr
You May Be Next!
Movie • 1936
Neil Bennett
Santiago
Movie • 1956
Clay Pike
Never Too Late
Movie • 1965
Mayor Crane
The Man I Married
Movie • 1940
Kenneth Delane
My Boys Are Good Boys
Movie • 1978
Dan Montgomery
Behind the News
Movie • 1940
Stuart Woodrow
Isn't It Shocking?
Movie • 1973
Jesse Chapin
Atlantic Adventure
Movie • 1935
Dan Miller
Ebb Tide
Movie • 1937
Attwater
Exclusive
Movie • 1937
Charles Gillette
Somewhere in the Night
Movie • 1946
Police Lt. Donald Kendall
She Couldn't Take It
Movie • 1935
Tex
Crazylegs
Movie • 1953
Win Brockmeyer
Bad Boy
Movie • 1949
Marshall Brown
Tip-Off Girls
Movie • 1938
Bob Anders
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Movie • 1955
Stolen Harmony
Movie • 1935
Chesty Burrage
Dangerous to Know
Movie • 1938
Inspector Brandon
Manila Calling
Movie • 1942
Lucky Matthews
Hunted Men
Movie • 1938
Joe Albany
Charter Pilot
Movie • 1940
King Morgan
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Movie • 1977
Attorney General Harlan Stone
Flight to Holocaust
Movie • 1977
Wilton Bender
Apache Trail
Movie • 1942
Trigger Bill Folliard
'G' Men
Movie • 1935
Hugh Farrell
Prison Farm
Movie • 1938
Larry Harrison
Undercover Doctor
Movie • 1939
Robert Anders
Devil's Squadron
Movie • 1936
Dana Kirk
Steel Against the Sky
Movie • 1941
Rocky Evans
Prince Jack
Movie • 1985
Joe Kennedy
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Movie • 1940
Joe Monday
Gangs of Chicago
Movie • 1940
Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
15 Maiden Lane
Movie • 1936
Det. Sgt. Walsh
One Way Ticket
Movie • 1935
Jerry
Counterfeit
Movie • 1936
Capper Stevens
Ambush
Movie • 1939
Tony Andrews
King of Gamblers
Movie • 1937
Jim Adams
Buy Me That Town
Movie • 1941
Rickey Deane
Internes Can't Take Money
Movie • 1937
Hanlon
Captain Eddie
Movie • 1945
Lt. Jim Whitaker
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Movie • 1944
Narrator (voice)
St. Louis Blues
Movie • 1939
Dave Geurney
Don't Be a Sucker!
Movie • 1943
Commentator (voice)
Wild Harvest
Movie • 1947
Kink
Sergeant Ryker
Movie • 1968
Gen. Amos Bailey
We're in the Movies, Now!
Movie • 1939
Himself
War Comes to America
Movie • 1945
Narrator
Every Day's a Holiday
Movie • 1937
John Quade
The November Plan
Movie • 1977
Gen. Smedley Butler
Valentine
Movie • 1979
Brother Joe
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Movie • 2000
Narrator
The Abduction of Saint Anne
Movie • 1975
Carl Gentry
Lady of Secrets
Movie • 1936
Michael Harvey
Wings of Fire
Movie • 1967
Max Clarity
The Sky's the Limit
Movie • 1975
Cornwall
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Movie • 1984
Monsignor Donoghue
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Movie • 1952
Self
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Julian Tenley
Ford Star Jubilee
TV • 1955
The Dick Powell Show
TV • 1961
Vernon Clay
Remington Steele
TV • 1982
Lloyd Nolan
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Col. Fraser
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Gen. Amos Bailey
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Judge Harper
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Mannix
TV • 1967
Sam Dubrio
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
TV • 1977
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Robert Hale
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Nat Miller
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Cyrus Guthrie
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Bus Stop
TV • 1961
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Ben Hanks
Julia
TV • 1968
Dr. Morton Chegley
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Wade Anders
McCloud
TV • 1970
City of Angels
TV • 1976
Martin Kane, Private Eye
TV • 1949
Climax!
TV • 1954
Jack London
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
Laramie
TV • 1959
Ellery Queen
TV • 1975
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Dr. Elisha Pittman
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
The Bing Crosby Show
TV • 1964
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Tom Kagan
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Michael Bowen
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
George McShane
The Magician
TV • 1973
Charles Keegan
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Abe Clayton
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Tom Foster
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
The Ford Theatre Hour
TV • 1948
Nifty Miller
$weepstake$
TV • 1979
Dr. Warnecke
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV • 1969
Dr. Karl Richardson
Lincoln
TV • 1974
William H. Seward
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
Self