Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
151
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-08-11 (122 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Acting

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself as Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage)

1985

Prince Jack as Joe Kennedy

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Julian Tenley

1984

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear as Monsignor Donoghue

1982

Remington Steele as Lloyd Nolan

1980

Galyon as Willard Morgan

1979

Sweepstakes as Not available

1979

Valentine as Brother Joe

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

The November Plan as Gen. Smedley Butler

1977

Flight to Holocaust as Wilton Bender

1976

Quincy, M.E. as Not available

1976

City of Angels as Not available

1975

Ellery Queen as Not available

1975

The Abduction of Saint Anne as Carl Gentry

1975

The Sky's the Limit as Cornwall

1974

Police Woman as Not available

1974

Lincoln as William H. Seward

1974

Earthquake as Dr. James Vance

1973

The Magician as Charles Keegan

1973

Isn't It Shocking? as Jesse Chapin

1972

The Waltons as Cyrus Guthrie

1970

McCloud as Not available

1970

Airport as Harry Standish

1968

Julia as Dr. Morton Chegley

1968

Ice Station Zebra as Admiral Garvey

1968

Sergeant Ryker as Gen. Amos Bailey

1967

Mannix as Sam Dubrio

1967

Judd for the Defense as Not available

1967

The Double Man as Edwards

1967

Wings of Fire as Max Clarity

1966

An American Dream as Barney Kelly

1965

The F.B.I. as Judge Harper

1965

Never Too Late as Mayor Crane

1964

Daniel Boone as Ben Hanks

1964

The Bing Crosby Show as Not available

1964

Circus World as Cap Carson

1963

The Outer Limits as Tom Kagan

1963

The Great Adventure as Col. Fraser

1963

Kraft Suspense Theatre as Gen. Amos Bailey

1963

The Girl Hunters as Arthur Rickerby

1963

We Joined the Navy as Vice Admiral Ryan

1962

The Virginian as Wade Anders

1962

The Virginian as Abe Clayton

1962

The Virginian as Tom Foster

1961

The Dick Powell Show as Vernon Clay

1961

Bus Stop as Not available

1961

Susan Slade as Roger Slade

1960

Outlaws as Not available

1960

The Barbara Stanwyck Show as George McShane

1960

Portrait in Black as Matthew S. Cabot

1960

Girl of the Night as Dr. Mitchell

1959

Laramie as Not available

1958

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Not available

1957

Peyton Place as Dr. Matthew Swain

1957

A Hatful of Rain as John Pope, Sr

1957

Abandon Ship as Frank Kelly

1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Dr. Elisha Pittman

1956

The Last Hunt as Woodfoot

1956

Toward the Unknown as Brig. Gen. Bill Banner

1956

Santiago as Clay Pike

1955

Ford Star Jubilee as Not available

1955

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial as Not available

1954

Climax! as Jack London

1953

General Electric Theater as Robert Hale

1953

General Electric Theater as Michael Bowen

1953

Island in the Sky as Captain Stutz

1953

Crazylegs as Win Brockmeyer

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Nat Miller

1951

The Lemon Drop Kid as Oxford Charley

1950

What's My Line? as Self

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Panelist

1949

Martin Kane, Private Eye as Not available

1949

Easy Living as Lenahan

1949

Bad Boy as Marshall Brown

1949

The Sun Comes Up as Thomas I. Chandler

1948

The Ford Theatre Hour as Nifty Miller

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

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as Officer McShane

1945

The House on 92nd Street as Agent George A. Briggs

1945

War Comes to America as Narrator

1945

Circumstantial Evidence as Sam Lord

1945

Captain Eddie as Lt. Jim Whitaker

1944

Resisting Enemy Interrogation as USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator

1944

Attack! The Battle for New Britain as Narrator (voice)

1943

Bataan as Cpl. Barney Todd

1943

Guadalcanal Diary as Sgt. Hook Malone

1943

Don't Be a Sucker! as Commentator (voice)

1942

The Man Who Wouldn't Die as Michael Shayne

1942

Just Off Broadway as Michael Shayne

1942

Blue, White, and Perfect as Michael Shayne

1942

Time to Kill as Michael Shayne

1942

Apache Trail as Trigger Bill Folliard

1942

It Happened in Flatbush as Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire

1942

Manila Calling as Lucky Matthews

1941

Sleepers West as Michael Shayne

1941

Dressed to Kill as Michael Shayne

1941

Buy Me That Town as Rickey Deane

1941

Blues in the Night as Del Davis

1941

Steel Against the Sky as Rocky Evans

1941

Mr. Dynamite as Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')

1940

Gangs of Chicago as Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns

1940

Michael Shayne: Private Detective as Michael Shayne

1940

The House Across the Bay as Slant Kolma

1940

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Joe Monday

1940

Johnny Apollo as Mickey Dwyer

1940

Behind the News as Stuart Woodrow

1940

The Golden Fleecing as Gus Fender

1940

Pier 13 as Danny Dolan

1940

The Man I Married as Kenneth Delane

1940

Charter Pilot as King Morgan

1939

Ambush as Tony Andrews

1939

The Magnificent Fraud as Sam Barr

1939

Undercover Doctor as Robert Anders

1939

St. Louis Blues as Dave Geurney

1938

Dangerous to Know as Inspector Brandon

1938

Hunted Men as Joe Albany

1938

Prison Farm as Larry Harrison

1938

King of Alcatraz as Raymond Grayson

1938

Tip-Off Girls as Bob Anders

1937

Wells Fargo as Dal Slade

1937

Exclusive as Charles Gillette

1937

King of Gamblers as Jim Adams

1937

Ebb Tide as Attwater

1937

Every Day's a Holiday as John Quade

1936

The Texas Rangers as Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee

1936

Big Brown Eyes as Russ Cortig

1936

Devil's Squadron as Dana Kirk

1936

You May Be Next! as Neil Bennett

1936

15 Maiden Lane as Det. Sgt. Walsh

1936

Counterfeit as Capper Stevens

1936

Lady of Secrets as Michael Harvey

1935

'G' Men as Hugh Farrell

1935

Stolen Harmony as Chesty Burrage

1935

Atlantic Adventure as Dan Miller

1935

One Way Ticket as Jerry