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Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 β 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) and then as former Union Army General George Barton in the episode "War Hero" (1962). 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
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Filmography
all 146
Movies 109
TV Shows 37
self 6
Narrator 3
Voice 1
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)
Prince Jack (1985)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Remington Steele (1982)
Galyon (1980)
Valentine (1979)
My Boys Are Good Boys (1978)
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
Fire! (1977)
Flight to Holocaust (1977)
The November Plan (1977)
The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975)
The Sky's the Limit (1975)
Earthquake (1974)
Lincoln (1974)
The Magician (1973)
Isn't It Shocking? (1973)
The Waltons (1972)
Airport (1970)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Julia (1968)
Sergeant Ryker (1968)
Mannix (1967)
The Double Man (1967)
Wings of Fire (1967)
An American Dream (1966)
Never Too Late (1965)
The F.B.I. (1965)
Daniel Boone (1964)
Circus World (1964)
Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)
The Great Adventure (1963)
The Outer Limits (1963)
The Girl Hunters (1963)
The Virginian (1962)
Susan Slade (1961)
The Dick Powell Show (1961)
Girl of the Night (1960)
The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960)
Portrait in Black (1960)
Peyton Place (1957)
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Abandon Ship (1957)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Toward the Unknown (1956)
Santiago (1956)
The Last Hunt (1956)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1955)
Climax! (1954)
Crazylegs (1953)
Island in the Sky (1953)
General Electric Theater (1953)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
What's My Line? (1950)
Easy Living (1949)
The Sun Comes Up (1949)
Bad Boy (1949)
The Street with No Name (1948)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
Lady in the Lake (1946)
Don't Be a Sucker! (1946)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Two Smart People (1946)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Captain Eddie (1945)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Bataan (1943)
Time to Kill (1942)
Manila Calling (1942)
Apache Trail (1942)
Just Off Broadway (1942)
It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)
Blue, White, and Perfect (1942)
Steel Against the Sky (1941)
Blues in the Night (1941)
Buy Me That Town (1941)
Dressed to Kill (1941)
Sleepers West (1941)
Mr. Dynamite (1941)
Behind the News (1940)
Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)
Charter Pilot (1940)
The Golden Fleecing (1940)
The Man I Married (1940)
Pier 13 (1940)
Gangs of Chicago (1940)
Johnny Apollo (1940)
The House Across the Bay (1940)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
Undercover Doctor (1939)
St. Louis Blues (1939)
Ambush (1939)
King of Alcatraz (1938)
Prison Farm (1938)
Hunted Men (1938)
Tip-Off Girls (1938)
Dangerous to Know (1938)
Wells Fargo (1937)
Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
Ebb Tide (1937)
Exclusive (1937)
King of Gamblers (1937)
15 Maiden Lane (1936)
The Texas Rangers (1936)
Counterfeit (1936)
Devil's Squadron (1936)
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Lady of Secrets (1936)
You May Be Next! (1936)
Atlantic Adventure (1935)
'G' Men (1935)
Stolen Harmony (1935)
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GenderMale
Birthday1902-08-11
Deathday1985-09-27 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceSan Francisco, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsLloyd Benedict Nolan
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Donaldson Awards, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
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