Lloyd Nolan
107 movies · 37 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 11, 1902
- Died
- Sep 27, 1985 (age 83)
- Place of birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Also known as
- Lloyd Benedict Nolan
Biography
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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.
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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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Lloyd Nolan: movies and TV shows
Acting (144)
- 2000
- 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
as Evan
- 1985 Prince Jack
as Joe Kennedy
- 1984 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Monsignor Donoghue
- 1984
- 1982
- 1980 Galyon
as Willard Morgan
- 1979 Valentine
as Brother Joe
- 1979
- 1978 My Boys Are Good Boys
as Dan Montgomery
- 1977 The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
as Attorney General Harlan Stone
- 1977 Fire!
as Doc Bennett
- 1977 Flight to Holocaust
as Wilton Bender
- 1977
- 1977 The November Plan
as Gen. Smedley Butler
- 1976
- 1976
- 1975
- 1975 The Abduction of Saint Anne
as Carl Gentry
- 1975 The Sky's the Limit
as Cornwall
- 1974 Earthquake
as Dr. James Vance
- 1974
- 1974
- 1973 Isn't It Shocking?
as Jesse Chapin
- 1973
- 1972
- 1970 Airport
as Harry Standish
- 1970
- 1969
- 1968
- 1968 Ice Station Zebra
as Admiral Garvey
- 1968 Sergeant Ryker
as Gen. Amos Bailey
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967 The Double Man
as Edwards
- 1967 Wings of Fire
as Max Clarity
- 1966 An American Dream
as Barney Kelly
- 1965 Never Too Late
as Mayor Crane
- 1965
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964 Circus World
as Cap Carson
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963 The Girl Hunters
as Arthur Rickerby
- 1963 We Joined the Navy
as Vice Admiral Ryan
- 1962
- 1961 Susan Slade
as Roger Slade
- 1961
- 1960 Girl of the Night
as Dr. Mitchell
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Portrait in Black
as Matthew S. Cabot
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958
- 1957 Peyton Place
as Dr. Matthew Swain
- 1957 A Hatful of Rain
as John Pope, Sr
- 1957 Seven Waves Away
as Frank Kelly
- 1956
- 1956 Toward the Unknown
as Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
- 1956 Santiago
as Clay Pike
- 1956 The Last Hunt
as Woodfoot
- 1955
- 1955
- 1954
- 1953 Crazylegs
as Win Brockmeyer
- 1953 Island in the Sky
as Captain Stutz
- 1953
- 1951
- 1951 The Lemon Drop Kid
as Oxford Charley
- 1949 Easy Living
as Lenahan
- 1949
- 1949 The Sun Comes Up
as Thomas I. Chandler
- 1949 Bad Boy
as Marshall Brown
- 1948
- 1948 The Street with No Name
as Inspector George A. Briggs
- 1948 Green Grass of Wyoming
as Rob McLaughlin
- 1947 Wild Harvest
as Kink
- 1946 Lady in the Lake
as Lieutenant DeGarmot
- 1946 Somewhere in the Night
as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
- 1946 Two Smart People
as Bob Simms
- 1945 The House on 92nd Street
as Agent George A. Briggs
- 1945 Captain Eddie
as Lt. Jim Whitaker
- 1945 War Comes to America
as Narrator
- 1945 Circumstantial Evidence
as Sam Lord
- 1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Officer McShane
- 1944 Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
- 1944 Attack! The Battle for New Britain
as Narrator (voice)
- 1943 Guadalcanal Diary
as Sgt. Hook Malone
- 1943 Don't Be a Sucker!
as Commentator (voice)
- 1943 Bataan
as Cpl. Barney Todd
- 1942 Time to Kill
as Michael Shayne
- 1942 Manila Calling
as Lucky Matthews
- 1942 Apache Trail
as Trigger Bill Folliard
- 1942 Just Off Broadway
as Michael Shayne
- 1942 It Happened in Flatbush
as Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
- 1942 The Man Who Wouldn't Die
as Michael Shayne
- 1942 Blue, White and Perfect
as Michael Shayne
- 1941 Steel Against the Sky
as Rocky Evans
- 1941 Blues in the Night
as Del Davis
- 1941 Buy Me That Town
as Rickey Deane
- 1941 Dressed to Kill
as Michael Shayne
- 1941 Sleepers West
as Michael Shayne
- 1941 Mr. Dynamite
as Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
- 1940 Behind the News
as Stuart Woodrow
- 1940 Michael Shayne: Private Detective
as Michael Shayne
- 1940 Charter Pilot
as King Morgan
- 1940 The Golden Fleecing
as Gus Fender
- 1940 The Man I Married
as Kenneth Delane
- 1940 Pier 13
as Danny Dolan
- 1940 Gangs of Chicago
as Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
- 1940 Johnny Apollo
as Mickey Dwyer
- 1940 The House Across the Bay
as Slant Kolma
- 1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Joe Monday
- 1939 The Magnificent Fraud
as Sam Barr
- 1939 Undercover Doctor
as Robert Anders
- 1939 St. Louis Blues
as Dave Geurney
- 1939 Ambush
as Tony Andrews
- 1938 King of Alcatraz
as Raymond Grayson
- 1938 Prison Farm
as Larry Harrison
- 1938 Hunted Men
as Joe Albany
- 1938 Tip-Off Girls
as Bob Anders
- 1938 Dangerous to Know
as Inspector Brandon
- 1937 Wells Fargo
as Dal Slade
- 1937 Every Day's a Holiday
as John Quade
- 1937 Ebb Tide
as Attwater
- 1937 Exclusive
as Charles Gillette
- 1937 King of Gamblers
as Jim Adams
- 1937 Internes Can't Take Money
as Hanlon
- 1936 15 Maiden Lane
as Det. Sgt. Walsh
- 1936 The Texas Rangers
as Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
- 1936 Counterfeit
as Capper Stevens
- 1936 Devil's Squadron
as Dana Kirk
- 1936 Big Brown Eyes
as Russ Cortig
- 1936 Lady of Secrets
as Michael Harvey
- 1936 You May Be Next!
as Neil Bennett
- 1935 One Way Ticket
as Jerry
- 1935 She Couldn't Take It
as Tex
- 1935 Atlantic Adventure
as Dan Miller
- 1935 'G' Men
as Hugh Farrell
- 1935 Stolen Harmony
as Chesty Burrage
Talk shows and appearances (8)
- 1973
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1961 The Dick Powell Show
1 episode
- 1955 MGM Parade
1 episode
- 1952
- 1950 What's My Line?
2 episodes
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
1 episode
- 1939