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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) 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
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Movies 109
TV Shows 37
self 6
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![Los Angeles Plays Itself](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/128593-los-angeles-plays-itself.jpg)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)
![Prince Jack](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/66382-prince-jack.jpg)
Prince Jack (1985)
![Murder, She Wrote](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/70228-murder-she-wrote.jpg)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
![Remington Steele](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/27458-remington-steele.jpg)
Remington Steele (1982)
![Galyon](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/787468-galyon.jpg)
Galyon (1980)
![Valentine](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/42600-valentine.jpg)
Valentine (1979)
![My Boys Are Good Boys](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/145041-my-boys-are-good-boys.jpg)
My Boys Are Good Boys (1978)
![The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/36056-the-private-files-of-j-edgar-hoover.jpg)
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
![Fire!](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/71924-fire.jpg)
Fire! (1977)
![Flight to Holocaust](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/83896-flight-to-holocaust.jpg)
Flight to Holocaust (1977)
![The November Plan](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/81111-the-november-plan.jpg)
The November Plan (1977)
![The Abduction of Saint Anne](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/143979-the-abduction-of-saint-anne.jpg)
The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975)
![The Sky's the Limit](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/518645-the-sky-s-the-limit.jpg)
The Sky's the Limit (1975)
![Earthquake](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/11542-earthquake.jpg)
Earthquake (1974)
![Lincoln](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/58054-sandburg-s-lincoln.jpg)
Lincoln (1974)
![Isn't It Shocking?](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/57482-isn-t-it-shocking.jpg)
Isn't It Shocking? (1973)
![The Magician](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/19428-the-magician.jpg)
The Magician (1973)
![The Waltons](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/23393-the-waltons.jpg)
The Waltons (1972)
![Airport](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/1475-airport.jpg)
Airport (1970)
![Ice Station Zebra](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/18803-ice-station-zebra.jpg)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
![Julia](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/141900-julia.jpg)
Julia (1968)
![Sergeant Ryker](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/59955-sergeant-ryker.jpg)
Sergeant Ryker (1968)
![Mannix](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/27014-mannix.jpg)
Mannix (1967)
![The Double Man](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/68374-the-double-man.jpg)
The Double Man (1967)
![Wings of Fire](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/468462-wings-of-fire.jpg)
Wings of Fire (1967)
![An American Dream](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/50452-an-american-dream.jpg)
An American Dream (1966)
![Never Too Late](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/50600-never-too-late.jpg)
Never Too Late (1965)
![The F.B.I.](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/103403-the-f-b-i.jpg)
The F.B.I. (1965)
![Daniel Boone](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/87898-daniel-boone.jpg)
Daniel Boone (1964)
![Circus World](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/37543-circus-world.jpg)
Circus World (1964)
![Kraft Suspense Theatre](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/291036-kraft-suspense-theatre.jpg)
Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)
![The Great Adventure](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/408959-the-great-adventure.jpg)
The Great Adventure (1963)
![The Outer Limits](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/9073-the-outer-limits.jpg)
The Outer Limits (1963)
![The Girl Hunters](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/78730-the-girl-hunters.jpg)
The Girl Hunters (1963)
![The Virginian](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/71511-the-virginian.jpg)
The Virginian (1962)
![Susan Slade](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/50606-susan-slade.jpg)
Susan Slade (1961)
![The Dick Powell Show](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/215815-the-dick-powell-show.jpg)
The Dick Powell Show (1961)
![Girl of the Night](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/102117-girl-of-the-night.jpg)
Girl of the Night (1960)
![The Barbara Stanwyck Show](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/215521-the-barbara-stanwyck-show.jpg)
The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960)
![Portrait in Black](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/36229-portrait-in-black.jpg)
Portrait in Black (1960)
![Peyton Place](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/66501-peyton-place.jpg)
Peyton Place (1957)
![A Hatful of Rain](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/93153-a-hatful-of-rain.jpg)
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
![Abandon Ship](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/102892-abandon-ship.jpg)
Abandon Ship (1957)
![Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/96943-dick-powell-s-zane-grey-theater.jpg)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
![Toward the Unknown](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/55600-toward-the-unknown.jpg)
Toward the Unknown (1956)
![Santiago](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/74756-santiago.jpg)
Santiago (1956)
![The Last Hunt](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/66498-the-last-hunt.jpg)
The Last Hunt (1956)
![The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/t/o.jpg)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1955)
![Climax!](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/80652-climax.jpg)
Climax! (1954)
![Crazylegs](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/138153-crazylegs.jpg)
Crazylegs (1953)
![Island in the Sky](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/70898-island-in-the-sky.jpg)
Island in the Sky (1953)
![General Electric Theater](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/120272-general-electric-theater.jpg)
General Electric Theater (1953)
![Hallmark Hall of Fame](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/137904-hallmark-hall-of-fame.jpg)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
![The Lemon Drop Kid](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/67265-the-lemon-drop-kid.jpg)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
![What's My Line?](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/389112-what-s-my-line.jpg)
What's My Line? (1950)
![Easy Living](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/68725-easy-living.jpg)
Easy Living (1949)
![The Sun Comes Up](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/3049-the-sun-comes-up.jpg)
The Sun Comes Up (1949)
![Bad Boy](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/90992-bad-boy.jpg)
Bad Boy (1949)
![The Street with No Name](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/66912-the-street-with-no-name.jpg)
The Street with No Name (1948)
![The Ed Sullivan Show](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/77704-the-ed-sullivan-show.jpg)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
![Green Grass of Wyoming](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/5342-green-grass-of-wyoming.jpg)
Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
![Lady in the Lake](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/122133-lady-in-the-lake.jpg)
Lady in the Lake (1946)
![Somewhere in the Night](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/93294-somewhere-in-the-night.jpg)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
![Two Smart People](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/47892-two-smart-people.jpg)
Two Smart People (1946)
![The House on 92nd Street](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/84111-the-house-on-92nd-street.jpg)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
![Captain Eddie](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/89340-captain-eddie.jpg)
Captain Eddie (1945)
![A Tree Grows in Brooklyn](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/12819-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn.jpg)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
![Resisting Enemy Interrogation](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/25931-resisting-enemy-interrogation.jpg)
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
![Guadalcanal Diary](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/22483-guadalcanal-diary.jpg)
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
![Don't Be a Sucker!](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/68105-don-t-be-a-sucker.jpg)
Don't Be a Sucker! (1943)
![Bataan](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/12990-bataan.jpg)
Bataan (1943)
![Time to Kill](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/99498-time-to-kill.jpg)
Time to Kill (1942)
![Manila Calling](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/121887-manila-calling.jpg)
Manila Calling (1942)
![Apache Trail](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/77217-apache-trail.jpg)
Apache Trail (1942)
![Just Off Broadway](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/120454-just-off-broadway.jpg)
Just Off Broadway (1942)
![It Happened in Flatbush](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/136050-it-happened-in-flatbush.jpg)
It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
![The Man Who Wouldn't Die](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/136086-the-man-who-wouldn-t-die.jpg)
The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)
![Blue, White, and Perfect](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/116669-blue-white-and-perfect.jpg)
Blue, White, and Perfect (1942)
![Steel Against the Sky](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/120982-steel-against-the-sky.jpg)
Steel Against the Sky (1941)
![Blues in the Night](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/87913-blues-in-the-night.jpg)
Blues in the Night (1941)
![Buy Me That Town](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/95099-buy-me-that-town.jpg)
Buy Me That Town (1941)
![Dressed to Kill](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/104622-dressed-to-kill.jpg)
Dressed to Kill (1941)
![Sleepers West](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/116668-sleepers-west.jpg)
Sleepers West (1941)
![Mr. Dynamite](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/48790-mr-dynamite.jpg)
Mr. Dynamite (1941)
![Behind the News](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/491614-behind-the-news.jpg)
Behind the News (1940)
![Michael Shayne: Private Detective](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/97270-michael-shayne-private-detective.jpg)
Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)
![Charter Pilot](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/99113-charter-pilot.jpg)
Charter Pilot (1940)
![The Golden Fleecing](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/83085-the-golden-fleecing.jpg)
The Golden Fleecing (1940)
![The Man I Married](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/90662-the-man-i-married.jpg)
The Man I Married (1940)
![Pier 13](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/64191-pier-13.jpg)
Pier 13 (1940)
![Gangs of Chicago](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/77496-gangs-of-chicago.jpg)
Gangs of Chicago (1940)
![Johnny Apollo](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/103747-johnny-apollo.jpg)
Johnny Apollo (1940)
![The House Across the Bay](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/90644-the-house-across-the-bay.jpg)
The House Across the Bay (1940)
![The Man Who Wouldn't Talk](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/135585-the-man-who-wouldn-t-talk.jpg)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
![Undercover Doctor](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/119033-undercover-doctor.jpg)
Undercover Doctor (1939)
![St. Louis Blues](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/103777-st-louis-blues.jpg)
St. Louis Blues (1939)
![Ambush](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/135230-ambush.jpg)
Ambush (1939)
![King of Alcatraz](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/36249-king-of-alcatraz.jpg)
King of Alcatraz (1938)
![Prison Farm](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/104141-prison-farm.jpg)
Prison Farm (1938)
![Hunted Men](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/36207-hunted-men.jpg)
Hunted Men (1938)
![Tip-Off Girls](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/36273-tip-off-girls.jpg)
Tip-Off Girls (1938)
![Dangerous to Know](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/36270-dangerous-to-know.jpg)
Dangerous to Know (1938)
![Wells Fargo](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/81945-wells-fargo.jpg)
Wells Fargo (1937)
![Every Day's a Holiday](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/84965-every-day-s-a-holiday.jpg)
Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
![Ebb Tide](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/68883-ebb-tide.jpg)
Ebb Tide (1937)
![Exclusive](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/64670-exclusive.jpg)
Exclusive (1937)
![King of Gamblers](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/101239-king-of-gamblers.jpg)
King of Gamblers (1937)
![15 Maiden Lane](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/64099-15-maiden-lane.jpg)
15 Maiden Lane (1936)
![The Texas Rangers](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/13806-the-texas-rangers.jpg)
The Texas Rangers (1936)
![Counterfeit](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/134446-counterfeit.jpg)
Counterfeit (1936)
![Devil's Squadron](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/122726-devil-s-squadron.jpg)
Devil's Squadron (1936)
![Big Brown Eyes](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/64234-big-brown-eyes.jpg)
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
![Lady of Secrets](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/218325-lady-of-secrets.jpg)
Lady of Secrets (1936)
![You May Be Next!](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/108193-you-may-be-next.jpg)
You May Be Next! (1936)
![Atlantic Adventure](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/192585-atlantic-adventure.jpg)
Atlantic Adventure (1935)
!['G' Men](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/84149-g-men.jpg)
'G' Men (1935)
![Stolen Harmony](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/134347-stolen-harmony.jpg)
Stolen Harmony (1935)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1902-08-11
Deathday1985-09-27 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceSan Francisco, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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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