7.5
7.5
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
as Officer McShane
Lloyd Nolan
Acting
Born:August 11, 1902
Died:September 27, 1985(aged 83)
Birthplace:San Francisco, California, USA
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (106 movies)
7.5
7.5
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
as Evan
7.4
7.4
Abandon Ship
1957
as Frank Kelly
7.2
7.2
My Boys Are Good Boys
1978
as Dan Montgomery
7.0
7.0
Manila Calling
1942
as Lucky Matthews
7.0
7.0
King of Gamblers
1937
as Jim Adams
7.0
7.0
Behind the News
1940
as Stuart Woodrow
7.0
7.0
War Comes to America
1945
as Narrator
6.9
6.9
Fire!
1977
as Doc Bennett
6.8
6.8
Don't Be a Sucker!
1943
as Commentator (voice)
6.8
6.8
Johnny Apollo
1940
as Mickey Dwyer
6.8
6.8
Bad Boy
1949
as Marshall Brown
6.8
6.8
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948
as Rob McLaughlin
6.8
6.8
Peyton Place
1957
as Dr. Matthew Swain
6.8
6.8
A Hatful of Rain
1957
as John Pope, Sr
6.7
6.7
The Last Hunt
1956
as Woodfoot
6.7
6.7
Somewhere in the Night
1946
as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
6.6
6.6
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
as USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
6.6
6.6
'G' Men
1935
as Hugh Farrell
6.5
6.5
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940
as Michael Shayne
6.5
6.5
The Lemon Drop Kid
1951
as Oxford Charley
6.5
6.5
The House on 92nd Street
1945
as Agent George A. Briggs
6.4
6.4
Apache Trail
1942
as Trigger Bill Folliard
6.4
6.4
Two Smart People
1946
as Bob Simms
6.4
6.4
Bataan
1943
as Cpl. Barney Todd
6.4
6.4
The Sun Comes Up
1949
as Thomas I. Chandler
6.4
6.4
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942
as Michael Shayne
6.3
6.3
Dressed to Kill
1941
as Michael Shayne
6.3
6.3
Sleepers West
1941
as Michael Shayne
6.3
6.3
The Street with No Name
1948
as Inspector George A. Briggs
6.3
6.3
Island in the Sky
1953
as Captain Stutz
6.3
6.3
Big Brown Eyes
1936
as Russ Cortig
6.3
6.3
The Texas Rangers
1936
as Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
6.3
6.3
Internes Can't Take Money
1937
as Hanlon
6.3
6.3
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
as Michael Shayne
6.2
6.2
Circus World
1964
as Cap Carson
6.2
6.2
Blues in the Night
1941
as Del Davis
6.1
6.1
Dangerous to Know
1938
as Inspector Brandon
6.1
6.1
Isn't It Shocking?
1973
as Jesse Chapin
6.1
6.1
The Double Man
1967
as Edwards
6.1
6.1
Earthquake
1974
as Dr. James Vance
6.0
6.0
Exclusive
1937
as Charles Gillette
6.0
6.0
15 Maiden Lane
1936
as Det. Sgt. Walsh
6.0
6.0
Lady of Secrets
1936
as Michael Harvey
6.0
6.0
Buy Me That Town
1941
as Rickey Deane
6.0
6.0
Counterfeit
1936
as Capper Stevens
6.0
6.0
Devil's Squadron
1936
as Dana Kirk
6.0
6.0
Sergeant Ryker
1968
as Gen. Amos Bailey
6.0
6.0
Captain Eddie
1945
as Lt. Jim Whitaker
6.0
6.0
St. Louis Blues
1939
as Dave Geurney
6.0
6.0
Charter Pilot
1940
as King Morgan
6.0
6.0
Hunted Men
1938
as Joe Albany
6.0
6.0
Stolen Harmony
1935
as Chesty Burrage
6.0
6.0
Tip-Off Girls
1938
as Bob Anders
6.0
6.0
The Abduction of Saint Anne
1975
as Carl Gentry
6.0
6.0
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
1944
as Narrator (voice)
6.0
6.0
Ebb Tide
1937
as Attwater
6.0
6.0
The Man I Married
1940
as Kenneth Delane
6.0
6.0
Lady in the Lake
1946
as Lieutenant DeGarmot
5.8
5.8
Susan Slade
1961
as Roger Slade
5.8
5.8
Flight to Holocaust
1977
as Wilton Bender
5.7
5.7
King of Alcatraz
1938
as Raymond Grayson
5.7
5.7
Prison Farm
1938
as Larry Harrison
5.6
5.6
Toward the Unknown
1956
as Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
5.6
5.6
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984
as Monsignor Donoghue
5.6
5.6
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
as Sgt. Hook Malone
5.6
5.6
Easy Living
1949
as Lenahan
5.6
5.6
We Joined the Navy
1963
as Vice Admiral Ryan
5.5
5.5
Portrait in Black
1960
as Matthew S. Cabot
5.5
5.5
Atlantic Adventure
1935
as Dan Miller
5.5
5.5
Every Day's a Holiday
1937
as John Quade
5.5
5.5
The House Across the Bay
1940
as Slant Kolma
5.5
5.5
Time to Kill
1942
as Michael Shayne
5.5
5.5
The Girl Hunters
1963
as Arthur Rickerby
5.5
5.5
Undercover Doctor
1939
as Robert Anders
5.3
5.3
The Golden Fleecing
1940
as Gus Fender
5.3
5.3
Gangs of Chicago
1940
as Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
5.2
5.2
Santiago
1956
as Clay Pike
5.2
5.2
Wells Fargo
1937
as Dal Slade
5.0
5.0
Crazylegs
1953
as Win Brockmeyer
5.0
5.0
Never Too Late
1965
as Mayor Crane
5.0
5.0
Pier 13
1940
as Danny Dolan
5.0
5.0
Steel Against the Sky
1941
as Rocky Evans
5.0
5.0
Girl of the Night
1960
as Dr. Mitchell
5.0
5.0
Just Off Broadway
1942
as Michael Shayne
5.0
5.0
One Way Ticket
1935
as Jerry
5.0
5.0
Ambush
1939
as Tony Andrews
4.9
4.9
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977
as Attorney General Harlan Stone
4.8
4.8
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
as Sam Lord
4.8
4.8
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
as Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
4.7
4.7
An American Dream
1966
as Barney Kelly
4.5
4.5
She Couldn't Take It
1935
as Tex
4.0
4.0
Galyon
1980
as Willard Morgan
4.0
4.0
We're in the Movies, Now!
1939
as Himself
4.0
4.0
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
as Joe Monday
2.5
2.5
You May Be Next!
1936
as Neil Bennett
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
2000
as Narrator
The Sky's the Limit
1975
as Cornwall
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955
Wild Harvest
1947
as Kink
Prince Jack
1985
as Joe Kennedy
Valentine
1979
as Brother Joe
The November Plan
1977
as Gen. Smedley Butler
Wings of Fire
1967
as Max Clarity
Mr. Dynamite
1941
as Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
The Magnificent Fraud
1939
as Sam Barr
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