1902-08-11 ( 122 years old ) in San Francisco, California, USA
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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 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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Hannah and Her Sisters
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Prince Jack
1985-12-01
Galyon
1980-09-18
Valentine
1979-12-07
My Boys Are Good Boys
1978-01-01
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977-12-01
Fire!
1977-05-08
Flight to Holocaust
1977-03-26
The November Plan
1977-01-01
The Abduction of Saint Anne
1975-01-21
The Sky's the Limit
1975-01-19
Earthquake
1974-11-15
Isn't It Shocking?
1973-10-02
Airport
1970-03-25
Ice Station Zebra
1968-10-23
Sergeant Ryker
1968-02-01
The Double Man
1967-04-25
Wings of Fire
1967-02-14
An American Dream
1966-08-31
Never Too Late
1965-11-04
Circus World
1964-06-25
The Girl Hunters
1963-06-01
We Joined the Navy
1963-05-17
Susan Slade
1961-11-08
Girl of the Night
1960-11-11
Portrait in Black
1960-07-27
Peyton Place
1957-12-13
A Hatful of Rain
1957-07-17
Abandon Ship
1957-03-12
Toward the Unknown
1956-09-27
Santiago
1956-07-13
The Last Hunt
1956-04-30
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1955-10-01
Crazylegs
1953-11-15
Island in the Sky
1953-09-05
The Lemon Drop Kid
1951-04-02
Easy Living
1949-10-08
The Sun Comes Up
1949-05-12
Bad Boy
1949-02-22
The Street with No Name
1948-07-14
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948-06-03
Wild Harvest
1947-09-26
Lady in the Lake
1946-12-19
Somewhere in the Night
1946-06-12
Two Smart People
1946-06-04
The House on 92nd Street
1945-09-10
Captain Eddie
1945-06-18
War Comes to America
1945-06-14
Circumstantial Evidence
1945-04-20
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945-02-28
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1944-08-01
Attack: The Battle for New Britain
1944-06-20
Guadalcanal Diary
1943-10-27
Don't Be a Sucker!
1943-07-04
Bataan
1943-06-03
Time to Kill
1942-12-24
Manila Calling
1942-10-16
Apache Trail
1942-09-01
Just Off Broadway
1942-08-28
It Happened in Flatbush
1942-05-28
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942-04-27
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942-01-06
Steel Against the Sky
1941-12-13
Blues in the Night
1941-11-15
Buy Me That Town
1941-10-03
Dressed to Kill
1941-08-08
Sleepers West
1941-03-14
Mr. Dynamite
1941-03-01
Behind the News
1940-12-20
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940-12-19
Charter Pilot
1940-12-06
The Golden Fleecing
1940-08-16
The Man I Married
1940-08-09
Pier 13
1940-08-08
Gangs of Chicago
1940-05-18
Johnny Apollo
1940-04-19
The House Across the Bay
1940-03-01
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940-01-11
The Magnificent Fraud
1939-07-19
Undercover Doctor
1939-06-09
We're in the Movies, Now!
1939-03-18
St. Louis Blues
1939-02-03
Ambush
1939-01-20
King of Alcatraz
1938-09-30
Prison Farm
1938-06-17
Hunted Men
1938-05-27
Tip-Off Girls
1938-04-01
Dangerous to Know
1938-03-11
Wells Fargo
1937-12-31
Every Day's a Holiday
1937-12-18
Ebb Tide
1937-11-17
Exclusive
1937-08-06
King of Gamblers
1937-04-22
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1937-04-16
15 Maiden Lane
1936-10-16
The Texas Rangers
1936-08-28
Counterfeit
1936-05-25
Devil's Squadron
1936-04-30
Big Brown Eyes
1936-04-03
Lady of Secrets
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You May Be Next!
1936-02-05
One Way Ticket
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She Couldn't Take It
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Atlantic Adventure
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'G' Men
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