1902-08-11 San Francisco, California, USA
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.
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Los Angeles Plays Itself | Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage) | 2004-07-28 |
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Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America | Narrator | 2000-01-01 |
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Hannah and Her Sisters | Evan | 1986-02-07 |
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Prince Jack | Joe Kennedy | 1985-12-01 |
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | Monsignor Donoghue | 1984-12-15 |
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Galyon | Willard Morgan | 1980-09-18 |
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Valentine | Brother Joe | 1979-12-07 |
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My Boys Are Good Boys | Dan Montgomery | 1978-01-01 |
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Attorney General Harlan Stone | 1977-12-01 |
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Fire! | Doc Bennett | 1977-05-08 |
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Flight to Holocaust | Wilton Bender | 1977-03-27 |
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The November Plan | Gen. Smedley Butler | 1977-01-01 |
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The Abduction of Saint Anne | Carl Gentry | 1975-01-21 |
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The Sky's the Limit | Cornwall | 1975-01-19 |
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Earthquake | Dr. James Vance | 1974-11-15 |
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Isn't It Shocking? | Jesse Chapin | 1973-10-02 |
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Airport | Harry Standish | 1970-03-25 |
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Ice Station Zebra | Admiral Garvey | 1968-04-04 |
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Sergeant Ryker | Gen. Amos Bailey | 1968-02-01 |
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Wings of Fire | Max Clarity | 1967-02-14 |
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The Double Man | Edwards | 1967-04-25 |
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An American Dream | Barney Kelly | 1966-08-31 |
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Never Too Late | Mayor Crane | 1965-11-04 |
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Circus World | Cap Carson | 1964-06-25 |
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The Girl Hunters | Arthur Rickerby | 1963-06-01 |
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We Joined the Navy | Vice Admiral Ryan | 1963-05-17 |
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Susan Slade | Roger Slade | 1961-11-08 |
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Girl of the Night | Dr. Mitchell | 1960-11-11 |
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Portrait in Black | Matthew S. Cabot | 1960-07-27 |
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A Hatful of Rain | John Pope, Sr | 1957-07-17 |
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Peyton Place | Dr. Matthew Swain | 1957-12-13 |
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Abandon Ship | Frank Kelly | 1957-03-12 |
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Toward the Unknown | Brig. Gen. Bill Banner | 1956-09-27 |
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The Last Hunt | Woodfoot | 1956-04-30 |
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Santiago | Clay Pike | 1956-07-13 |
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | 1955-10-01 | |
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Crazylegs | Win Brockmeyer | 1953-11-15 |
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Island in the Sky | Captain Stutz | 1953-09-05 |
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The Lemon Drop Kid | Oxford Charley | 1951-04-02 |
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Easy Living | Lenahan | 1949-10-08 |
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Bad Boy | Marshall Brown | 1949-02-22 |
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The Sun Comes Up | Thomas I. Chandler | 1949-05-12 |
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Green Grass of Wyoming | Rob McLaughlin | 1948-06-03 |
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The Street with No Name | Inspector George A. Briggs | 1948-07-14 |
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Wild Harvest | Kink | 1947-09-26 |
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Somewhere in the Night | Police Lt. Donald Kendall | 1946-06-12 |
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Lady in the Lake | Lieutenant DeGarmot | 1946-12-19 |
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Two Smart People | Bob Simms | 1946-06-04 |
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The House on 92nd Street | Agent George A. Briggs | 1945-09-10 |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Officer McShane | 1945-02-28 |
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War Comes to America | Narrator | 1945-06-14 |
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Circumstantial Evidence | Sam Lord | 1945-04-20 |
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Captain Eddie | Lt. Jim Whitaker | 1945-06-18 |
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Attack! The Battle for New Britain | Narrator (voice) | 1944-06-20 |
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation | USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator | 1944-08-01 |
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Bataan | Cpl. Barney Todd | 1943-06-03 |
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Guadalcanal Diary | Sgt. Hook Malone | 1943-10-27 |
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Don't Be a Sucker! | Commentator (voice) | 1943-07-04 |
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Apache Trail | Trigger Bill Folliard | 1942-09-01 |
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Manila Calling | Lucky Matthews | 1942-10-16 |
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Blue, White, and Perfect | Michael Shayne | 1942-01-06 |
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Time to Kill | Michael Shayne | 1942-12-24 |
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Just Off Broadway | Michael Shayne | 1942-08-28 |
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It Happened in Flatbush | Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire | 1942-05-28 |
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die | Michael Shayne | 1942-04-27 |
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Sleepers West | Michael Shayne | 1941-03-14 |
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Mr. Dynamite | Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite') | 1941-03-01 |
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Blues in the Night | Del Davis | 1941-11-15 |
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Dressed to Kill | Michael Shayne | 1941-08-08 |
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Steel Against the Sky | Rocky Evans | 1941-12-13 |
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Buy Me That Town | Rickey Deane | 1941-10-03 |
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | Joe Monday | 1940-01-11 |
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Pier 13 | Danny Dolan | 1940-08-08 |
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective | Michael Shayne | 1940-12-19 |
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The Golden Fleecing | Gus Fender | 1940-08-16 |
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Gangs of Chicago | Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns | 1940-05-18 |
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Charter Pilot | King Morgan | 1940-12-06 |
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Johnny Apollo | Mickey Dwyer | 1940-04-19 |
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The Man I Married | Kenneth Delane | 1940-08-09 |
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The House Across the Bay | Slant Kolma | 1940-03-01 |
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Behind the News | Stuart Woodrow | 1940-12-20 |
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The Magnificent Fraud | Sam Barr | 1939-07-19 |
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St. Louis Blues | Dave Geurney | 1939-02-03 |
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We're in the Movies, Now! | Himself | 1939-03-18 |
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Ambush | Tony Andrews | 1939-01-20 |
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Undercover Doctor | Robert Anders | 1939-06-09 |
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Hunted Men | Joe Albany | 1938-05-27 |
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Tip-Off Girls | Bob Anders | 1938-04-01 |
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King of Alcatraz | Raymond Grayson | 1938-09-30 |
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Dangerous to Know | Inspector Brandon | 1938-03-11 |
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Prison Farm | Larry Harrison | 1938-06-17 |
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Every Day's a Holiday | John Quade | 1937-12-18 |
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Wells Fargo | Dal Slade | 1937-12-31 |
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Exclusive | Charles Gillette | 1937-08-06 |
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Internes Can't Take Money | Hanlon | 1937-04-16 |
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Ebb Tide | Attwater | 1937-10-14 |
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King of Gamblers | Jim Adams | 1937-04-22 |
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Lady of Secrets | Michael Harvey | 1936-02-21 |
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You May Be Next! | Neil Bennett | 1936-02-05 |
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15 Maiden Lane | Det. Sgt. Walsh | 1936-10-16 |
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Devil's Squadron | Dana Kirk | 1936-04-30 |
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Counterfeit | Capper Stevens | 1936-05-25 |
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Big Brown Eyes | Russ Cortig | 1936-04-03 |
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The Texas Rangers | Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee | 1936-08-28 |
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'G' Men | Hugh Farrell | 1935-05-04 |
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She Couldn't Take It | Tex | 1935-10-08 |
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One Way Ticket | Jerry | 1935-11-25 |
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Stolen Harmony | Chesty Burrage | 1935-04-20 |
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Atlantic Adventure | Dan Miller | 1935-08-25 |
