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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 11, 1902
Died
September 27, 1985
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
- Lloyd Benedict Nolan
Lloyd Nolan
0.8 Popularity
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
7.6
Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
🎬
0.0
Narrator
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
2000
7.5
Evan
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
0.0
Joe Kennedy
Prince Jack
1985
7.5
Julian Tenley
Murder, She Wrote
1984
7.1
Lloyd Nolan
Remington Steele
1982
4.0
Willard Morgan
Galyon
1980
0.0
Brother Joe
Valentine
1979
🎬
0.0
Sweepstakes
1979
7.2
Dan Montgomery
My Boys Are Good Boys
1978
Credits
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage)
2004
7.6
🎬
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
as Narrator
2000
0.0
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Evan
1986
7.5
Prince Jack
as Joe Kennedy
1985
0.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Julian Tenley
1984
7.5
Remington Steele
as Lloyd Nolan
1982
7.1
Galyon
as Willard Morgan
1980
4.0
Valentine
as Brother Joe
1979
0.0
🎬
Sweepstakes
1979
0.0
My Boys Are Good Boys
as Dan Montgomery
1978
7.2
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
as Attorney General Harlan Stone
1977
5.0
Fire!
as Doc Bennett
1977
6.7
Flight to Holocaust
as Wilton Bender
1977
5.8
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
7.1
The November Plan
as Gen. Smedley Butler
1977
0.0
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
City of Angels
1976
6.0
Ellery Queen
1975
7.4
The Abduction of Saint Anne
as Carl Gentry
1975
6.0
The Sky's the Limit
as Cornwall
1975
0.0
Earthquake
as Dr. James Vance
1974
6.1
Police Woman
1974
6.2
Lincoln
as William H. Seward
1974
8.0
The Magician
as Charles Keegan
1973
6.7
Isn't It Shocking?
as Jesse Chapin
1973
6.1
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
The Waltons
as Cyrus Guthrie
1972
7.1
Airport
as Harry Standish
1970
6.4
McCloud
1970
7.1
Ice Station Zebra
as Admiral Garvey
1968
6.2
Julia
as Dr. Morton Chegley
1968
6.0
Sergeant Ryker
as Gen. Amos Bailey
1968
6.5
Mannix
as Sam Dubrio
1967
6.7
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
The Double Man
as Edwards
1967
6.1
Wings of Fire
as Max Clarity
1967
0.0
An American Dream
as Barney Kelly
1966
4.6
Never Too Late
as Mayor Crane
1965
5.0
The F.B.I.
as Judge Harper
1965
5.5
Daniel Boone
as Ben Hanks
1964
6.9
The Bing Crosby Show
1964
5.0
Circus World
as Cap Carson
1964
6.1
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Gen. Amos Bailey
1963
5.3
The Great Adventure
as Col. Fraser
1963
0.0
The Outer Limits
as Tom Kagan
1963
7.8
The Girl Hunters
as Arthur Rickerby
1963
5.8
We Joined the Navy
as Vice Admiral Ryan
1963
5.4
The Virginian
as Wade Anders
1962
6.5
The Virginian
as Abe Clayton
1962
6.5
The Virginian
as Tom Foster
1962
6.5
Susan Slade
as Roger Slade
1961
5.8
Bus Stop
1961
0.0
The Dick Powell Show
as Vernon Clay
1961
5.5
Girl of the Night
as Dr. Mitchell
1960
5.0
Outlaws
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as George McShane
1960
6.2
Portrait in Black
as Matthew S. Cabot
1960
5.7
Laramie
1959
6.4
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
Peyton Place
as Dr. Matthew Swain
1957
6.7
A Hatful of Rain
as John Pope, Sr
1957
6.7
Abandon Ship
as Frank Kelly
1957
7.4
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Dr. Elisha Pittman
1956
5.5
Toward the Unknown
as Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
1956
5.6
Santiago
as Clay Pike
1956
5.1
The Last Hunt
as Woodfoot
1956
6.7
🎬
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
0.0
🎬
Ford Star Jubilee
1955
7.0
Climax!
as Jack London
1954
3.3
Crazylegs
as Win Brockmeyer
1953
5.0
Island in the Sky
as Captain Stutz
1953
6.2
General Electric Theater
as Robert Hale
1953
6.3
General Electric Theater
as Michael Bowen
1953
6.3
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Nat Miller
1951
8.6
The Lemon Drop Kid
as Oxford Charley
1951
6.5
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
1950
6.9
Easy Living
as Lenahan
1949
5.9
Martin Kane, Private Eye
1949
6.0
The Sun Comes Up
as Thomas I. Chandler
1949
6.4
Bad Boy
as Marshall Brown
1949
7.4
The Ford Theatre Hour
as Nifty Miller
1948
0.0
The Street with No Name
as Inspector George A. Briggs
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Green Grass of Wyoming
as Rob McLaughlin
1948
6.6
Wild Harvest
as Kink
1947
0.0
Lady in the Lake
as Lieutenant DeGarmot
1946
6.0
Somewhere in the Night
as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
1946
6.7
Two Smart People
as Bob Simms
1946
6.4
The House on 92nd Street
as Agent George A. Briggs
1945
6.5
Captain Eddie
as Lt. Jim Whitaker
1945
6.0
War Comes to America
as Narrator
1945
7.0
Circumstantial Evidence
as Sam Lord
1945
4.8
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Officer McShane
1945
7.6
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
1944
6.6
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
as Narrator (voice)
1944
6.0
Guadalcanal Diary
as Sgt. Hook Malone
1943
5.6
Don't Be a Sucker!
as Commentator (voice)
1943
6.8
Bataan
as Cpl. Barney Todd
1943
6.4
Time to Kill
as Michael Shayne
1942
5.5
Manila Calling
as Lucky Matthews
1942
7.0
Apache Trail
as Trigger Bill Folliard
1942
6.4
Just Off Broadway
as Michael Shayne
1942
5.0
It Happened in Flatbush
as Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
1942
4.8
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
as Michael Shayne
1942
6.4
Blue, White, and Perfect
as Michael Shayne
1942
6.3
Steel Against the Sky
as Rocky Evans
1941
5.0
Blues in the Night
as Del Davis
1941
6.3
Buy Me That Town
as Rickey Deane
1941
6.0
Dressed to Kill
as Michael Shayne
1941
6.3
Sleepers West
as Michael Shayne
1941
6.3
Mr. Dynamite
as Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
1941
0.0
Behind the News
as Stuart Woodrow
1940
7.0
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
as Michael Shayne
1940
6.5
Charter Pilot
as King Morgan
1940
6.0
The Golden Fleecing
as Gus Fender
1940
5.3
The Man I Married
as Kenneth Delane
1940
6.3
Pier 13
as Danny Dolan
1940
5.0
Gangs of Chicago
as Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
1940
5.3
Johnny Apollo
as Mickey Dwyer
1940
6.8
The House Across the Bay
as Slant Kolma
1940
5.3
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Joe Monday
1940
4.0
The Magnificent Fraud
as Sam Barr
1939
0.0
Undercover Doctor
as Robert Anders
1939
5.5
🎬
We're in the Movies, Now!
as Himself
1939
4.0
St. Louis Blues
as Dave Geurney
1939
0.0
Ambush
as Tony Andrews
1939
5.0
King of Alcatraz
as Raymond Grayson
1938
5.7
Prison Farm
as Larry Harrison
1938
5.7
Hunted Men
as Joe Albany
1938
6.0
Tip-Off Girls
as Bob Anders
1938
6.0
Dangerous to Know
as Inspector Brandon
1938
6.2
Wells Fargo
as Dal Slade
1937
5.2
Every Day's a Holiday
as John Quade
1937
5.4
Ebb Tide
as Attwater
1937
6.0
Exclusive
as Charles Gillette
1937
6.0
King of Gamblers
as Jim Adams
1937
7.0
Internes Can't Take Money
as Hanlon
1937
6.3
15 Maiden Lane
as Det. Sgt. Walsh
1936
6.0
The Texas Rangers
as Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
1936
6.4
Counterfeit
as Capper Stevens
1936
6.0
Devil's Squadron
as Dana Kirk
1936
6.0
Big Brown Eyes
as Russ Cortig
1936
6.3
Lady of Secrets
as Michael Harvey
1936
6.0
You May Be Next!
as Neil Bennett
1936
2.5
One Way Ticket
as Jerry
1935
5.0
She Couldn't Take It
as Tex
1935
4.5
Atlantic Adventure
as Dan Miller
1935
5.5
'G' Men
as Hugh Farrell
1935
6.5
Stolen Harmony
as Chesty Burrage
1935
6.0