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Lloyd Nolan

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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  • BIRTH 11/08/1902
  • DEATH 27/09/1985
  • Country United States
  • SHOWS 10
  • MOVIES 22

Shows (10)

Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Julian Tenley
Remington Steele
Remington Steele
Lloyd Nolan
The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits
Tom Kagan
The F.B.I.
The F.B.I.
Judge Harper
Mannix
Mannix
Sam Dubrio
The Virginian
The Virginian
Abe Clayton / Tom Foster / Wade Anders
Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Nat Miller
The Magician
The Magician
Charles Keegan
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
Michael Bowen / Robert Hale
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
Ben Hanks

Movies (22)

Earthquake
Earthquake
Dr. James Vance
The Girl Hunters
The Girl Hunters
Arthur Rickerby
Airport
Airport
Harry Standish
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters
Evan
Portrait in Black
Portrait in Black
Matthew S. Cabot
The House on 92nd Street
The House on 92nd Street
Agent George A. Briggs
The Lemon Drop Kid
The Lemon Drop Kid
Oxford Charley
Big Brown Eyes
Big Brown Eyes
Russ Cortig
We Joined the Navy
We Joined the Navy
Vice Admiral Ryan
Lady in the Lake
Lady in the Lake
Lieutenant DeGarmot
Circus World
Circus World
Cap Carson
The Double Man
The Double Man
Edwards
The Street with No Name
The Street with No Name
Inspector George A. Briggs
St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues
Dave Geurney
Island in the Sky
Island in the Sky
Captain Stutz
Johnny Apollo
Johnny Apollo
Mickey Dwyer
'G' Men
'G' Men
Hugh Farrell
Stolen Harmony
Stolen Harmony
Chesty Burrage
The Last Hunt
The Last Hunt
Woodfoot
Somewhere in the Night
Somewhere in the Night
Police Lt. Donald Kendall
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Officer McShane
King of Alcatraz
King of Alcatraz
Raymond Grayson