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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.
Movie | Hannah and Her Sisters | Evan | 1986-02-07 |
Movie | Prince Jack | Joe Kennedy | 1985-12-01 |
Series | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown | 1984-09-30 |
Series | Remington Steele | Unknown | 1982-10-01 |
Movie | Galyon | Willard Morgan | 1980-09-18 |
Series | Sweepstakes | Unknown | 1979-01-26 |
Movie | Valentine | Brother Joe | 1979-12-07 |
Movie | My Boys Are Good Boys | Dan Montgomery | 1978-01-01 |
Movie | The November Plan | Gen. Smedley Butler | 1977-01-01 |
Movie | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Attorney General Harlan Stone | 1977-12-01 |
Series | The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown | 1977-01-30 |
Movie | Flight to Holocaust | Wilton Bender | 1977-03-26 |
Movie | Fire! | Doc Bennett | 1977-05-08 |
Series | City of Angels | Unknown | 1976-02-03 |
Series | Quincy, M.E. | Unknown | 1976-10-03 |
Series | Ellery Queen | Unknown | 1975-09-11 |
Movie | Earthquake | Dr. James Vance | 1974-11-15 |
Series | Lincoln | William H. Seward | 1974-09-06 |
Series | Police Woman | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
Series | The American Film Institute Salute to ... | Unknown | 1973-04-02 |
Movie | Isn't It Shocking? | Jesse Chapin | 1973-10-02 |
Series | The Waltons | Unknown | 1972-09-14 |
Series | McCloud | Unknown | 1970-02-17 |
Movie | Airport | Harry Standish | 1970-03-25 |
Series | Julia | Dr. Morton Chegley | 1968-09-17 |
Movie | Sergeant Ryker | Gen. Amos Bailey | 1968-02-01 |
Movie | Ice Station Zebra | Admiral Garvey | 1968-10-23 |
Movie | The Double Man | Edwards | 1967-04-25 |
Series | Judd for the Defense | Unknown | 1967-09-08 |
Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1967-09-16 |
Movie | An American Dream | Barney Kelly | 1966-08-31 |
Series | The F.B.I. | Unknown | 1965-09-19 |
Movie | Never Too Late | Mayor Crane | 1965-11-04 |
Movie | Circus World | Cap Carson | 1964-06-25 |
Series | The Bing Crosby Show | Unknown | 1964-09-14 |
Series | Daniel Boone | Unknown | 1964-09-24 |
Movie | We Joined the Navy | Vice Admiral Ryan | 1963-05-17 |
Series | The Outer Limits | Unknown | 1963-09-16 |
Movie | The Girl Hunters | Arthur Rickerby | 1963-06-01 |
Series | The Great Adventure | Unknown | 1963-09-27 |
Series | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-10 |
Series | The Virginian | Unknown | 1962-09-19 |
Series | The Dick Powell Show | Unknown | 1961-09-26 |
Series | Bus Stop | Unknown | 1961-10-01 |
Movie | Susan Slade | Roger Slade | 1961-11-08 |
Movie | Portrait in Black | Matthew S. Cabot | 1960-07-27 |
Movie | Girl of the Night | Dr. Mitchell | 1960-11-11 |
Series | Outlaws | Unknown | 1960-09-26 |
Series | Laramie | Unknown | 1959-09-15 |
Series | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Unknown | 1958-10-06 |
Movie | Abandon Ship | Frank Kelly | 1957-03-12 |
Movie | A Hatful of Rain | John Pope, Sr | 1957-07-17 |
Movie | Peyton Place | Dr. Matthew Swain | 1957-12-13 |
Movie | Santiago | Clay Pike | 1956-07-13 |
Movie | The Last Hunt | Woodfoot | 1956-04-30 |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Movie | Toward the Unknown | Brig. Gen. Bill Banner | 1956-09-27 |
Series | Ford Star Jubilee | Unknown | 1955-09-24 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Crazylegs | Win Brockmeyer | 1953-11-15 |
Movie | Island in the Sky | Captain Stutz | 1953-09-05 |
Movie | The Lemon Drop Kid | Oxford Charley | 1951-04-02 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
Movie | The Sun Comes Up | Thomas I. Chandler | 1949-05-12 |
Movie | Bad Boy | Marshall Brown | 1949-02-22 |
Series | Martin Kane, Private Eye | 1949-09-01 | |
Movie | Easy Living | Lenahan | 1949-10-08 |
Movie | Green Grass of Wyoming | Rob McLaughlin | 1948-06-03 |
Movie | The Street with No Name | Inspector George A. Briggs | 1948-07-14 |
Movie | Wild Harvest | Kink | 1947-09-26 |
Movie | Somewhere in the Night | Police Lt. Donald Kendall | 1946-06-12 |
Movie | Two Smart People | Bob Simms | 1946-06-04 |
Movie | Lady in the Lake | Lieutenant DeGarmot | 1946-12-19 |
Movie | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Officer McShane | 1945-02-28 |
Movie | War Comes to America | Narrator | 1945-06-14 |
Movie | Circumstantial Evidence | Sam Lord | 1945-04-20 |
Movie | The House on 92nd Street | Agent George A. Briggs | 1945-09-10 |
Movie | Captain Eddie | Lt. Jim Whitaker | 1945-06-18 |
Movie | Attack: The Battle for New Britain | Narrator (voice) | 1944-06-20 |
Movie | Resisting Enemy Interrogation | USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator | 1944-08-01 |
Movie | Don't Be a Sucker! | Commentator (voice) | 1943-06-04 |
Movie | Bataan | Cpl. Barney Todd | 1943-06-03 |
Movie | Guadalcanal Diary | Sgt. Hook Malone | 1943-10-27 |
Movie | The Man Who Wouldn't Die | Michael Shayne | 1942-04-27 |
Movie | Blue, White, and Perfect | Michael Shayne | 1942-01-06 |
Movie | Just Off Broadway | Michael Shayne | 1942-08-28 |
Movie | It Happened in Flatbush | Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire | 1942-05-28 |
Movie | Time to Kill | Michael Shayne | 1942-12-24 |
Movie | Manila Calling | Lucky Matthews | 1942-10-16 |
Movie | Apache Trail | Trigger Bill Folliard | 1942-09-01 |
Movie | Sleepers West | Michael Shayne | 1941-03-14 |
Movie | Mr. Dynamite | Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite') | 1941-03-01 |
Movie | Dressed to Kill | Michael Shayne | 1941-08-08 |
Movie | Blues in the Night | Del Davis | 1941-11-15 |
Movie | Buy Me That Town | Rickey Deane | 1941-10-03 |
Movie | Steel Against the Sky | Rocky Evans | 1941-12-13 |
Movie | Gangs of Chicago | Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns | 1940-05-18 |
Movie | Johnny Apollo | Mickey Dwyer | 1940-04-19 |
Movie | The House Across the Bay | Slant Kolma | 1940-03-01 |
Movie | Pier 13 | Danny Dolan | 1940-08-08 |
Movie | The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | Joe Monday | 1940-01-11 |
Movie | The Golden Fleecing | Gus Fender | 1940-08-16 |
Movie | The Man I Married | Kenneth Delane | 1940-08-09 |
Movie | Behind the News | Stuart Woodrow | 1940-12-20 |
Movie | Michael Shayne: Private Detective | Michael Shayne | 1940-12-19 |
Movie | Charter Pilot | King Morgan | 1940-12-06 |
Movie | St. Louis Blues | Dave Geurney | 1939-02-03 |
Movie | We're in the Movies, Now! | Himself | 1939-03-18 |
Movie | Ambush | Tony Andrews | 1939-01-20 |
Movie | Undercover Doctor | Robert Anders | 1939-06-09 |
Movie | The Magnificent Fraud | Sam Barr | 1939-07-19 |
Movie | Tip-Off Girls | Bob Anders | 1938-04-01 |
Movie | Dangerous to Know | Inspector Brandon | 1938-03-11 |
Movie | Hunted Men | Joe Albany | 1938-05-27 |
Movie | Prison Farm | Larry Harrison | 1938-06-17 |
Movie | King of Alcatraz | Raymond Grayson | 1938-09-30 |
Movie | King of Gamblers | Jim Adams | 1937-04-22 |
Movie | Internes Can't Take Money | Hanlon | 1937-04-16 |
Movie | Exclusive | Charles Gillette | 1937-08-06 |
Movie | Every Day's a Holiday | John Quade | 1937-12-18 |
Movie | Ebb Tide | Attwater | 1937-11-17 |
Movie | Wells Fargo | Dal Slade | 1937-12-31 |
Movie | Lady of Secrets | Michael Harvey | 1936-02-21 |
Movie | You May Be Next! | Neil Bennett | 1936-02-05 |
Movie | Devil's Squadron | Dana Kirk | 1936-04-30 |
Movie | Big Brown Eyes | Russ Cortig | 1936-04-03 |
Movie | Counterfeit | Capper Stevens | 1936-05-25 |
Movie | 15 Maiden Lane | Det. Sgt. Walsh | 1936-10-16 |
Movie | The Texas Rangers | Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee | 1936-08-28 |
Movie | Stolen Harmony | Chesty Burrage | 1935-04-20 |
Movie | 'G' Men | Hugh Farrell | 1935-05-04 |
Movie | One Way Ticket | Jerry | 1935-11-25 |
Movie | She Couldn't Take It | Tex | 1935-10-08 |
Movie | Atlantic Adventure | Dan Miller | 1935-08-25 |