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
Lieutenant DeGarmot
Lady in the Lake
Harry Standish
Airport
Dr. James Vance
Earthquake
Officer McShane
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Evan
Hannah and Her Sisters
Oxford Charley
The Lemon Drop Kid
Del Davis
Blues in the Night
Captain Stutz
Island in the Sky
Agent George A. Briggs
The House on 92nd Street
Michael Shayne
Dressed to Kill
Sam Lord
Circumstantial Evidence
Inspector George A. Briggs
The Street with No Name
Cap Carson
Circus World
John Pope, Sr
A Hatful of Rain
Dr. Matthew Swain
Peyton Place
Cpl. Barney Todd
Bataan
Sgt. Hook Malone
Guadalcanal Diary
Slant Kolma
The House Across the Bay
Matthew S. Cabot
Portrait in Black
Admiral Garvey
Ice Station Zebra
Mickey Dwyer
Johnny Apollo
Rob McLaughlin
Green Grass of Wyoming
Michael Shayne
Time to Kill
Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
The Texas Rangers
Vice Admiral Ryan
We Joined the Navy
Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
Mr. Dynamite
Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Russ Cortig
Big Brown Eyes
Willard Morgan
Galyon
Roger Slade
Susan Slade
Doc Bennett
Fire!
Arthur Rickerby
The Girl Hunters
Bob Simms
Two Smart People
Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
It Happened in Flatbush
Frank Kelly
Abandon Ship
Lenahan
Easy Living
Raymond Grayson
King of Alcatraz
Michael Shayne
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Michael Shayne
Just Off Broadway
Michael Shayne
Sleepers West
Michael Shayne
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Edwards
The Double Man
Woodfoot
The Last Hunt
Dal Slade
Wells Fargo
Danny Dolan
Pier 13
USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Thomas I. Chandler
The Sun Comes Up
Barney Kelly
An American Dream
Gus Fender
The Golden Fleecing
Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
Toward the Unknown
Dr. Mitchell
Girl of the Night
Michael Shayne
Blue, White, and Perfect
Sam Barr
The Magnificent Fraud
Neil Bennett
You May Be Next!
Clay Pike
Santiago
Mayor Crane
Never Too Late
Kenneth Delane
The Man I Married
Dan Montgomery
My Boys Are Good Boys
Stuart Woodrow
Behind the News
Jesse Chapin
Isn't It Shocking?
Dan Miller
Atlantic Adventure
Attwater
Ebb Tide
Charles Gillette
Exclusive
Police Lt. Donald Kendall
Somewhere in the Night
Tex
She Couldn't Take It
Win Brockmeyer
Crazylegs
Marshall Brown
Bad Boy
Bob Anders
Tip-Off Girls
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Chesty Burrage
Stolen Harmony
Inspector Brandon
Dangerous to Know
Lucky Matthews
Manila Calling
Joe Albany
Hunted Men
King Morgan
Charter Pilot
Attorney General Harlan Stone
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Wilton Bender
Flight to Holocaust
Trigger Bill Folliard
Apache Trail
Hugh Farrell
'G' Men
Larry Harrison
Prison Farm
Robert Anders
Undercover Doctor
Dana Kirk
Devil's Squadron
Rocky Evans
Steel Against the Sky
Joe Kennedy
Prince Jack
Joe Monday
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
Gangs of Chicago
Det. Sgt. Walsh
15 Maiden Lane
Jerry
One Way Ticket
Capper Stevens
Counterfeit
Jim Adams
King of Gamblers
Tony Andrews
Ambush
Rickey Deane
Buy Me That Town
Hanlon
Internes Can't Take Money
Lt. Jim Whitaker
Captain Eddie
Narrator (voice)
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Dave Geurney
St. Louis Blues
Commentator (voice)
Don't Be a Sucker!
Kink
Wild Harvest
Gen. Amos Bailey
Sergeant Ryker
Himself
We're in the Movies, Now!
Narrator
War Comes to America
John Quade
Every Day's a Holiday
Gen. Smedley Butler
The November Plan
Brother Joe
Valentine
Narrator
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Carl Gentry
The Abduction of Saint Anne
Michael Harvey
Lady of Secrets
Max Clarity
Wings of Fire
Cornwall
The Sky's the Limit
Monsignor Donoghue
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
109
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-08-11
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
Lloyd Benedict Nolan