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