Lloyd Nolan
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
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Filmography (151 Appearances)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Hannah and Her Sisters
Prince Jack
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Murder, She Wrote
Remington Steele
Galyon
Valentine
$weepstake$
My Boys Are Good Boys
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Fire!
Flight to Holocaust
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
The November Plan
Quincy, M.E.
City of Angels
Ellery Queen
The Abduction of Saint Anne
The Sky's the Limit
Earthquake
Police Woman
Lincoln
The Magician
Isn't It Shocking?
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The Waltons
Airport
McCloud
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Julia
Ice Station Zebra
Sergeant Ryker
Mannix
Judd for the Defense
The Double Man
Wings of Fire
An American Dream
Never Too Late
The F.B.I.
Daniel Boone
The Bing Crosby Show
Circus World
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Great Adventure
The Outer Limits
The Girl Hunters
We Joined the Navy
The Merv Griffin Show
The Virginian
Susan Slade
Bus Stop
The Dick Powell Show
Girl of the Night
Outlaws
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Portrait in Black
Laramie
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Peyton Place
A Hatful of Rain
Seven Waves Away
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Toward the Unknown
Santiago
The Last Hunt
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Ford Star Jubilee
MGM Parade
Climax!
Crazylegs
Island in the Sky
General Electric Theater
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Lemon Drop Kid
What's My Line?
Easy Living
Martin Kane, Private Eye
The Sun Comes Up
Bad Boy
The Ford Theatre Hour
The Street with No Name
The Ed Sullivan Show
Green Grass of Wyoming
Wild Harvest
Lady in the Lake
Somewhere in the Night
Two Smart People
The House on 92nd Street
Captain Eddie
War Comes to America
Circumstantial Evidence
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Guadalcanal Diary
Don't Be a Sucker!
Bataan
Time to Kill
Manila Calling
Apache Trail
Just Off Broadway
It Happened in Flatbush
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Blue, White and Perfect
Steel Against the Sky
Blues in the Night
Buy Me That Town
Dressed to Kill
Sleepers West
Mr. Dynamite
Behind the News
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Charter Pilot
The Golden Fleecing
The Man I Married
Pier 13
Gangs of Chicago
Johnny Apollo
The House Across the Bay
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
The Magnificent Fraud
Undercover Doctor
We're in the Movies, Now!
St. Louis Blues
Ambush
King of Alcatraz
Prison Farm
Hunted Men
Tip-Off Girls
Dangerous to Know
Wells Fargo
Every Day's a Holiday
Ebb Tide
Exclusive
King of Gamblers
Internes Can't Take Money
15 Maiden Lane
The Texas Rangers
Counterfeit
Devil's Squadron
Big Brown Eyes
Lady of Secrets
You May Be Next!
One Way Ticket
She Couldn't Take It
Atlantic Adventure
'G' Men
Stolen Harmony