Lloyd Nolan
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Julian Tenley
1984
Series
Bonanza
Inspector Charles Leduque
1959
Series
Mannix
Sam Dubrio
1967
Series
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Series
Climax!
Jack London
1954
Series
The Waltons
Cyrus Guthrie
1972
Series
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
The Virginian
Wade Anders
1962
Series
The Virginian
Abe Clayton
1962
Series
The Virginian
Tom Foster
1962
Series
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Dr. Elisha Pittman
1956
Series
Daniel Boone
Ben Hanks
1964
Series
Police Woman
1974
Series
The F.B.I.
Judge Harper
1965
Series
Remington Steele
Lloyd Nolan
1982
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
The Outer Limits
Tom Kagan
1963
Series
McCloud
1970
Series
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Gen. Amos Bailey
1963
Series
Laramie
1959
Series
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Series
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Series
Ellery Queen
1975
Series
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Series
Startime
Narrator
1959
Series
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
George McShane
1960
Series
Outlaws
1960
Series
MGM Parade
Self
1955
Series
The Great Adventure
Col. Fraser
1963
Series
The Magician
Charles Keegan
1973
Series
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Dr. Karl Richardson
1969
Series
Bus Stop
1961
Series
Julia
Dr. Morton Chegley
1968
Series
The Dick Powell Show
Vernon Clay
1961
Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Series
City of Angels
1976
Film
Earthquake
Dr. James Vance
1974
$weepstake$
Dr. Warnecke
1979
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Nat Miller
1951
Series
General Electric Theater
Robert Hale
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
Michael Bowen
1953
Film
Airport
Harry Standish
1970
Film
Hannah and Her Sisters
Evan
1986
Series
Martin Kane, Private Eye
1949
Series
Lincoln
William H. Seward
1974
Film
'G' Men
Hugh Farrell
1935
Series
The Bing Crosby Show
1964
Series
The Ford Theatre Hour
Nifty Miller
1948
Ford Star Jubilee
1955
Film
Ice Station Zebra
Admiral Garvey
1968
Film
Stolen Harmony
Chesty Burrage
1935
Film
Johnny Apollo
Mickey Dwyer
1940
Film
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Officer McShane
1945
Film
Undercover Doctor
Robert Anders
1939
Film
Somewhere in the Night
Police Lt. Donald Kendall
1946
Film
Wells Fargo
Dal Slade
1937
Film
Guadalcanal Diary
Sgt. Hook Malone
1943
Film
Peyton Place
Dr. Matthew Swain
1957
Film
Sleepers West
Michael Shayne
1941
Film
Crazylegs
Win Brockmeyer
1953
Film
Dressed to Kill
Michael Shayne
1941
Film
Apache Trail
Trigger Bill Folliard
1942
Film
Easy Living
Lenahan
1949
Film
The Double Man
Edwards
1967
Film
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Attorney General Harlan Stone
1977
Film
Circus World
Cap Carson
1964
Film
Prison Farm
Larry Harrison
1938
Film
The House Across the Bay
Slant Kolma
1940
Film
We Joined the Navy
Vice Admiral Ryan
1963
Film
Lady in the Lake
Lieutenant DeGarmot
1946
Film
Island in the Sky
Captain Stutz
1953
Film
Sergeant Ryker
Gen. Amos Bailey
1968
Film
Bataan
Cpl. Barney Todd
1943
Film
The Abduction of Saint Anne
Carl Gentry
1975
Film
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Michael Shayne
1942
Film
Atlantic Adventure
Dan Miller
1935
Film
The Street with No Name
Inspector George A. Briggs
1948
Film
Dangerous to Know
Inspector Brandon
1938
Film
Big Brown Eyes
Russ Cortig
1936
Film
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Monsignor Donoghue
1984
Film
Circumstantial Evidence
Sam Lord
1945
Film
Valentine
Brother Joe
1979
Film
15 Maiden Lane
Det. Sgt. Walsh
1936
Film
Toward the Unknown
Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
1956
Film
Fire!
Doc Bennett
1977
Film
Every Day's a Holiday
John Quade
1937
Film
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
1944
Film
Portrait in Black
Matthew S. Cabot
1960
Film
A Hatful of Rain
John Pope, Sr
1957
Film
Seven Waves Away
Frank Kelly
1957
Film
Santiago
Clay Pike
1956
Film
The House on 92nd Street
Agent George A. Briggs
1945
Film
The Magnificent Fraud
Sam Barr
1939
Film
Exclusive
Charles Gillette
1937
Film
The Last Hunt
Woodfoot
1956
Film
Bad Boy
Marshall Brown
1949
Film
The Lemon Drop Kid
Oxford Charley
1951
Film
The November Plan
Gen. Smedley Butler
1977
Film
The Texas Rangers
Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
1936
Film
She Couldn't Take It
Tex
1935
Film
The Girl Hunters
Arthur Rickerby
1963
Film
Don't Be a Sucker!
Commentator (voice)
1943
Film
The Golden Fleecing
Gus Fender
1940
Film
Steel Against the Sky
Rocky Evans
1941
Film
Flight to Holocaust
Wilton Bender
1977
Film
Wild Harvest
Kink
1947
Film
Green Grass of Wyoming
Rob McLaughlin
1948
Film
Susan Slade
Roger Slade
1961
Film
Lady of Secrets
Michael Harvey
1936
Film
Manila Calling
Lucky Matthews
1942
Film
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Joe Monday
1940
Film
Blue, White and Perfect
Michael Shayne
1942
Film
An American Dream
Barney Kelly
1966
Film
Mr. Dynamite
Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
1941
Film
Isn't It Shocking?
Jesse Chapin
1973
Film
King of Alcatraz
Raymond Grayson
1938
Film
Prince Jack
Joe Kennedy
1985
Film
Ebb Tide
Attwater
1937
We're in the Movies, Now!
Himself
1939
Film
Two Smart People
Bob Simms
1946
Film
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Narrator (voice)
1944
Film
Just Off Broadway
Michael Shayne
1942
Film
Counterfeit
Capper Stevens
1936
Film
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Michael Shayne
1940
Film
King of Gamblers
Jim Adams
1937
Film
Internes Can't Take Money
Hanlon
1937
Film
St. Louis Blues
Dave Geurney
1939
Film
Blues in the Night
Del Davis
1941
Film
Never Too Late
Mayor Crane
1965
Film
The Sun Comes Up
Thomas I. Chandler
1949
Film
Ambush
Tony Andrews
1939
Film
It Happened in Flatbush
Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
1942
Film
Pier 13
Danny Dolan
1940
Film
Hunted Men
Joe Albany
1938
Film
The Man I Married
Kenneth Delane
1940
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
Film
You May Be Next!
Neil Bennett
1936
Film
Gangs of Chicago
Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
1940
Film
Charter Pilot
King Morgan
1940
Film
Time to Kill
Michael Shayne
1942
Film
The Sky's the Limit
Cornwall
1975
Film
Girl of the Night
Dr. Mitchell
1960
Film
Devil's Squadron
Dana Kirk
1936
Film
Buy Me That Town
Rickey Deane
1941
Film
Captain Eddie
Lt. Jim Whitaker
1945
Film
Behind the News
Stuart Woodrow
1940
Film
My Boys Are Good Boys
Dan Montgomery
1978
Film
Wings of Fire
Max Clarity
1967
Film
One Way Ticket
Jerry
1935
Film
Galyon
Willard Morgan
1980
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Narrator
2000
Film
War Comes to America
Narrator
1945
Film
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Self
1952
Film
Tip-Off Girls
Bob Anders
1938