Lloyd Nolan
Known for Acting · 152 credits
- Born
- 1902-08-11
- Died
- 1985-09-27
- Place of birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Also known as
- Lloyd Benedict Nolan
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.
Known For
TV Shows (43)
Bonanza
1959
as Inspector Charles Leduque
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Julian Tenley
Mannix
1967
as Sam Dubrio
The Waltons
1972
as Cyrus Guthrie
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Virginian
1962
as Wade Anders / Abe Clayton / Tom Foster
Climax!
1954
as Jack London
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Dr. Elisha Pittman
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Police Woman
1974
The F.B.I.
1965
as Judge Harper
What's My Line?
1950
as Self
Daniel Boone
1964
as Ben Hanks
Remington Steele
1982
as Lloyd Nolan
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Outer Limits
1963
as Tom Kagan
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
McCloud
1970
Laramie
1959
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Gen. Amos Bailey
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Ellery Queen
1975
Startime
1959
as Narrator
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as George McShane
Outlaws
1960
MGM Parade
1955
as Self
The Magician
1973
as Charles Keegan
Julia
1968
as Dr. Morton Chegley
The Great Adventure
1963
as Col. Fraser
Bus Stop
1961
The Dick Powell Show
1961
as Vernon Clay
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
as Dr. Karl Richardson
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
City of Angels
1976
$weepstake$
1979
as Dr. Warnecke
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Nat Miller
General Electric Theater
1953
as Robert Hale / Michael Bowen
Martin Kane, Private Eye
1949
The Bing Crosby Show
1964
Ford Star Jubilee
1955
Lincoln
1974
as William H. Seward
The Ford Theatre Hour
1948
as Nifty Miller
Movies (109)
Airport
1970
as Harry Standish
Earthquake
1974
as Dr. James Vance
'G' Men
1935
as Hugh Farrell
Ice Station Zebra
1968
as Admiral Garvey
Undercover Doctor
1939
as Robert Anders
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as Evan
Johnny Apollo
1940
as Mickey Dwyer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
as Officer McShane
Peyton Place
1957
as Dr. Matthew Swain
Valentine
1979
as Brother Joe
Sleepers West
1941
as Michael Shayne
Crazylegs
1953
as Win Brockmeyer
Apache Trail
1942
as Trigger Bill Folliard
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977
as Attorney General Harlan Stone
Easy Living
1949
as Lenahan
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
as Sam Lord
Mr. Dynamite
1941
as Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
Atlantic Adventure
1935
as Dan Miller
Wells Fargo
1937
as Dal Slade
Stolen Harmony
1935
as Chesty Burrage
Bataan
1943
as Cpl. Barney Todd
Circus World
1964
as Cap Carson
Somewhere in the Night
1946
as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
The Double Man
1967
as Edwards
Lady in the Lake
1946
as Lieutenant DeGarmot
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
as Sgt. Hook Malone
Bad Boy
1949
as Marshall Brown
Sergeant Ryker
1968
as Gen. Amos Bailey
Prison Farm
1938
as Larry Harrison
The House Across the Bay
1940
as Slant Kolma
The Lemon Drop Kid
1951
as Oxford Charley
Seven Waves Away
1957
as Frank Kelly
The Street with No Name
1948
as Inspector George A. Briggs
Santiago
1956
as Clay Pike
Dressed to Kill
1941
as Michael Shayne
The Magnificent Fraud
1939
as Sam Barr
The Last Hunt
1956
as Woodfoot
An American Dream
1966
as Barney Kelly
Fire!
1977
as Doc Bennett
Island in the Sky
1953
as Captain Stutz
We Joined the Navy
1963
as Vice Admiral Ryan
The Girl Hunters
1963
as Arthur Rickerby
A Hatful of Rain
1957
as John Pope, Sr
Ambush
1939
as Tony Andrews
Big Brown Eyes
1936
as Russ Cortig
The Abduction of Saint Anne
1975
as Carl Gentry
Toward the Unknown
1956
as Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
Exclusive
1937
as Charles Gillette
Every Day's a Holiday
1937
as John Quade
Portrait in Black
1960
as Matthew S. Cabot
Dangerous to Know
1938
as Inspector Brandon
St. Louis Blues
1939
as Dave Geurney
The Texas Rangers
1936
as Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984
as Monsignor Donoghue
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942
as Michael Shayne
Hunted Men
1938
as Joe Albany
Susan Slade
1961
as Roger Slade
Don't Be a Sucker!
1943
as Commentator (voice)
Captain Eddie
1945
as Lt. Jim Whitaker
The House on 92nd Street
1945
as Agent George A. Briggs
She Couldn't Take It
1935
as Tex
Manila Calling
1942
as Lucky Matthews
15 Maiden Lane
1936
as Det. Sgt. Walsh
Steel Against the Sky
1941
as Rocky Evans
Wings of Fire
1967
as Max Clarity
The November Plan
1977
as Gen. Smedley Butler
Blues in the Night
1941
as Del Davis
Internes Can't Take Money
1937
as Hanlon
We're in the Movies, Now!
1939
as Himself
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948
as Rob McLaughlin
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
as USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
Blue, White and Perfect
1942
as Michael Shayne
Ebb Tide
1937
as Attwater
Isn't It Shocking?
1973
as Jesse Chapin
Flight to Holocaust
1977
as Wilton Bender
Prince Jack
1985
as Joe Kennedy
The Sky's the Limit
1975
as Cornwall
The Man I Married
1940
as Kenneth Delane
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
1944
as Narrator (voice)
Wild Harvest
1947
as Kink
King of Alcatraz
1938
as Raymond Grayson
The Sun Comes Up
1949
as Thomas I. Chandler
Never Too Late
1965
as Mayor Crane
Pier 13
1940
as Danny Dolan
Two Smart People
1946
as Bob Simms
Time to Kill
1942
as Michael Shayne
You May Be Next!
1936
as Neil Bennett
Galyon
1980
as Willard Morgan
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940
as Michael Shayne
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
Behind the News
1940
as Stuart Woodrow
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
as Joe Monday
Gangs of Chicago
1940
as Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
Lady of Secrets
1936
as Michael Harvey
Counterfeit
1936
as Capper Stevens
Just Off Broadway
1942
as Michael Shayne
Charter Pilot
1940
as King Morgan
Girl of the Night
1960
as Dr. Mitchell
The Golden Fleecing
1940
as Gus Fender
Buy Me That Town
1941
as Rickey Deane
King of Gamblers
1937
as Jim Adams
Devil's Squadron
1936
as Dana Kirk
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
as Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
My Boys Are Good Boys
1978
as Dan Montgomery
One Way Ticket
1935
as Jerry
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
2000
as Narrator
War Comes to America
1945
as Narrator
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
1952
as Self
Tip-Off Girls
1938
as Bob Anders
About Lloyd Nolan
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 atte… With 152 credits spanning from 1935 to 2000, Lloyd Nolan has appeared in 109 films and 43 TV shows.
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- Airport (1970) — as Harry Standish
- Earthquake (1974) — as Dr. James Vance
- 'G' Men (1935) — as Hugh Farrell
- Ice Station Zebra (1968) — as Admiral Garvey
- Undercover Doctor (1939) — as Robert Anders
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