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Born · August 11, 1902
Died · September 27, 1985 (83 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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.
Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage)
7.6
2004
Narrator
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2000
Evan
7.5
1986
Joe Kennedy
0.0
1985
Julian Tenley · (1 episode)
7.5
1984
Lloyd Nolan · (1 episode)
7.1
1982
Willard Morgan
4.0
1980
Brother Joe
0.0
1979
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1979
Dan Montgomery
7.2
1978
Attorney General Harlan Stone
5.0
1977
Doc Bennett
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1977
Wilton Bender
5.8
1977
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1977
Gen. Smedley Butler
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1977
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1976
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1976
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1975
Carl Gentry
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1975
Cornwall
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1975
Dr. James Vance
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1974
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6.2
1974
William H. Seward · (6 episodes)
8.0
1974
Jesse Chapin
6.1
1973
Charles Keegan · (2 episodes)
6.7
1973
Self · (1 episode)
6.3
1973
Cyrus Guthrie · (1 episode)
7.1
1972
Harry Standish
6.4
1970
(1 episode)
7.1
1970
Admiral Garvey
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1968
Dr. Morton Chegley · (86 episodes)
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1968
Gen. Amos Bailey
6.5
1968
Sam Dubrio · (1 episode)
6.7
1967
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7.5
1967
Edwards
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1967
Max Clarity
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1967
Barney Kelly
4.6
1966
Mayor Crane
5.0
1965
Judge Harper · (1 episode)
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1965
Ben Hanks · (1 episode)
6.9
1964
(1 episode)
5.0
1964
Cap Carson
6.1
1964
Gen. Amos Bailey · (2 episodes)
5.3
1963
Col. Fraser · (2 episodes)
0.0
1963
Tom Kagan · (1 episode)
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1963
Arthur Rickerby
5.7
1963
Vice Admiral Ryan
5.4
1963
Wade Anders · (1 episode)
6.4
1962
Abe Clayton · (1 episode)
6.4
1962
Tom Foster · (1 episode)
6.4
1962
Roger Slade
5.8
1961
(1 episode)
0.0
1961
Vernon Clay · (1 episode)
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1961
Dr. Mitchell
5.0
1960
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1960
George McShane · (1 episode)
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1960
Matthew S. Cabot
5.7
1960
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6.4
1959
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5.3
1958
Dr. Matthew Swain
6.7
1957
John Pope, Sr
6.7
1957
Frank Kelly
7.4
1957
Dr. Elisha Pittman · (1 episode)
5.5
1956
Brig. Gen. Bill Banner
5.6
1956
Clay Pike
5.1
1956
Woodfoot
6.7
1956
0.0
1955
(1 episode)
7.0
1955
Jack London · (1 episode)
3.0
1954
Win Brockmeyer
5.0
1953
Captain Stutz
6.2
1953
Robert Hale · (1 episode)
6.0
1953
Michael Bowen · (1 episode)
6.0
1953
Nat Miller · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
Oxford Charley
6.6
1951
Self · (1 episode)
6.8
1950
Self - Panelist · (1 episode)
6.8
1950
Lenahan
5.9
1949
(4 episodes)
5.0
1949
Thomas I. Chandler
6.4
1949
Marshall Brown
7.3
1949
Inspector George A. Briggs
6.3
1948
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
1948
Rob McLaughlin
6.6
1948
Kink
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1947
Lieutenant DeGarmot
6.0
1946
Police Lt. Donald Kendall
6.7
1946
Bob Simms
6.4
1946
Agent George A. Briggs
6.5
1945
Lt. Jim Whitaker
6.0
1945
Narrator
6.9
1945
Sam Lord
4.8
1945
Officer McShane
7.6
1945
USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator
6.6
1944
Narrator (voice)
6.0
1944
Sgt. Hook Malone
5.6
1943
Commentator (voice)
6.8
1943
Cpl. Barney Todd
6.4
1943
Michael Shayne
5.5
1942
Lucky Matthews
7.0
1942
Trigger Bill Folliard
6.4
1942
Michael Shayne
5.0
1942
Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire
4.8
1942
Michael Shayne
6.4
1942
Michael Shayne
6.3
1942
Rocky Evans
5.0
1941
Del Davis
6.2
1941
Rickey Deane
6.0
1941
Michael Shayne
6.3
1941
Michael Shayne
6.3
1941
Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
0.0
1941
Stuart Woodrow
0.0
1940
Michael Shayne
6.5
1940
King Morgan
6.0
1940
Gus Fender
5.3
1940
Kenneth Delane
6.3
1940
Danny Dolan
5.0
1940
Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns
5.3
1940
Mickey Dwyer
6.8
1940
Slant Kolma
5.3
1940
Joe Monday
4.0
1940
Sam Barr
0.0
1939
Robert Anders
5.5
1939
Himself
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1939
Dave Geurney
0.0
1939
Tony Andrews
5.0
1939
Raymond Grayson
5.7
1938
Larry Harrison
5.7
1938
Joe Albany
6.0
1938
Bob Anders
6.0
1938
Inspector Brandon
6.2
1938
Dal Slade
5.1
1937
John Quade
5.4
1937
Attwater
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1937
Charles Gillette
6.0
1937
Jim Adams
7.0
1937
Hanlon
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1937
Det. Sgt. Walsh
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1936
Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee
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1936
Capper Stevens
6.0
1936
Dana Kirk
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1936
Russ Cortig
6.3
1936
Michael Harvey
6.0
1936
Neil Bennett
2.5
1936
Jerry
5.0
1935
Tex
4.5
1935
Dan Miller
5.5
1935
Hugh Farrell
6.5
1935
Chesty Burrage
6.0
1935