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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 busines…
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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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Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
as Narrator
Hannah and Her Sisters
as Evan
Prince Jack
as Joe Kennedy
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Monsignor Donoghue
Galyon
as Willard Morgan
Valentine
as Brother Joe
My Boys Are Good Boys
as Dan Montgomery
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
as Attorney General Harlan Stone
Fire!
as Doc Bennett
Flight to Holocaust
as Wilton Bender
The November Plan
as Gen. Smedley Butler
The Abduction of Saint Anne
as Carl Gentry
The Sky's the Limit
as Cornwall
Earthquake
as Dr. James Vance
Isn't It Shocking?
as Jesse Chapin
Airport
as Harry Standish
Ice Station Zebra
as Admiral Garvey
Sergeant Ryker
as Gen. Amos Bailey
The Double Man
as Edwards
Wings of Fire
as Max Clarity
An American Dream
as Barney Kelly
Never Too Late
as Mayor Crane
Circus World
as Cap Carson
The Girl Hunters
as Arthur Rickerby
We Joined the Navy
as Vice Admiral Ryan
Susan Slade
as Roger Slade
Girl of the Night
as Dr. Mitchell
Portrait in Black
as Matthew S. Cabot
Peyton Place
as Dr. Matthew Swain
A Hatful of Rain
as John Pope, Sr
Seven Waves Away
as Frank Kelly
Toward the Unknown
as Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
Santiago
as Clay Pike
The Last Hunt
as Woodfoot
No Poster
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Crazylegs
as Win Brockmeyer
Island in the Sky
as Captain Stutz
Natural Vision 3-Dimension
as Self
The Lemon Drop Kid
as Oxford Charley
Easy Living
as Lenahan
The Sun Comes Up
as Thomas I. Chandler
Bad Boy
as Marshall Brown
The Street with No Name
as Inspector George A. Briggs
Green Grass of Wyoming
as Rob McLaughlin
Wild Harvest
as Kink
Lady in the Lake
as Lieutenant DeGarmot
Somewhere in the Night
as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
Two Smart People
as Bob Simms
The House on 92nd Street
as Agent George A. Briggs
Captain Eddie
as Lt. Jim Whitaker
War Comes to America
as Narrator
Circumstantial Evidence
as Sam Lord
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Officer McShane
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
as Narrator (voice)
Guadalcanal Diary
as Sgt. Hook Malone
Don't Be a Sucker!
as Commentator (voice)
Bataan
as Cpl. Barney Todd
Time to Kill
as Michael Shayne
Manila Calling
as Lucky Matthews
Apache Trail
as Trigger Bill Folliard
Just Off Broadway
as Michael Shayne
It Happened in Flatbush
as Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
as Michael Shayne
Blue, White and Perfect
as Michael Shayne
Steel Against the Sky
as Rocky Evans
Blues in the Night
as Del Davis
Buy Me That Town
as Rickey Deane
Dressed to Kill
as Michael Shayne
Sleepers West
as Michael Shayne
Mr. Dynamite
as Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
Behind the News
as Stuart Woodrow
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
as Michael Shayne
Charter Pilot
as King Morgan
The Golden Fleecing
as Gus Fender
The Man I Married
as Kenneth Delane
Pier 13
as Danny Dolan
Gangs of Chicago
as Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
Johnny Apollo
as Mickey Dwyer
The House Across the Bay
as Slant Kolma
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Joe Monday
The Magnificent Fraud
as Sam Barr
Undercover Doctor
as Robert Anders
No Poster
We're in the Movies, Now!
as Himself
St. Louis Blues
as Dave Geurney
Ambush
as Tony Andrews
King of Alcatraz
as Raymond Grayson
Prison Farm
as Larry Harrison
Hunted Men
as Joe Albany
Tip-Off Girls
as Bob Anders
Dangerous to Know
as Inspector Brandon
Wells Fargo
as Dal Slade
Every Day's a Holiday
as John Quade
Ebb Tide
as Attwater
Exclusive
as Charles Gillette
King of Gamblers
as Jim Adams
Internes Can't Take Money
as Hanlon
15 Maiden Lane
as Det. Sgt. Walsh
The Texas Rangers
as Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
Counterfeit
as Capper Stevens
Devil's Squadron
as Dana Kirk
Big Brown Eyes
as Russ Cortig
Lady of Secrets
as Michael Harvey
You May Be Next!
as Neil Bennett
One Way Ticket
as Jerry
She Couldn't Take It
as Tex
Atlantic Adventure
as Dan Miller
'G' Men
as Hugh Farrell
Stolen Harmony
as Chesty Burrage