Lloyd Nolan

Infobox actor
name = Lloyd Nolan


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birthname = Lloyd Benedict Nolan
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birthplace = San Francisco, California, USA
deathdate = death date and age|1985|9|27|1902|8|11|df=y
deathplace = Los Angeles, California, USA
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spouse= Mell Efrid
Virginia Dabney (1983-1985)

Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor.

Biography

Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer. [cite web |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/64542014.html?dids=64542014:64542014&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+28%2C+1985&author=BURT+A.+FOLKART&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Lloyd+Nolan%2C+the+Actor's+Actor%2C+Dies&pqatl=google |title=Lloyd Nolan, the Actor's Actor, Dies |publisher="Los Angeles Times" |author=Burt A. Folkart |date=September 28 1985] He began his career on stage and was subsequently lured to Hollywood, where he played mainly doctors, detectives, and police officers in many movie roles.

Although many critics hailed his acting ability and it was generally acknowledged that he never gave a bad performance, Nolan was relegated to B movies for the most part. Yet even so, he costarred with such actresses as Mae West, Dorothy McGuire, and the former Metropolitan Opera soprano, Gladys Swarthout. Under contract to Paramount and 20th Century Fox studios, he assayed starring roles in the late 30s and early-to-mid 40s and appeared as the lead character of the "Michael Shayne" detective series.

The majority of his films comprised light entertainment with an emphasis on action. His most famous films include: "Atlantic Adventure", costarring Nancy Carroll; "Ebb Tide"; "Wells Fargo"; "Every Day's A Holiday", starring Mae West; "Bataan"; and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", with Dorothy McGuire and James Dunn. He also gave a strong performance in the 1957 film "Peyton Place" with Lana Turner.

Nolan subsequently contributed many solid and key character parts in numerous other films. And later in his career, he returned to the stage and appeared on TV to great acclaim in "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial", for which he received an Emmy award for portraying Captain Queeg, the role made famous by Humphrey Bogart. He also appeared in the pioneering TV series, "Julia", starring Diahann Carroll.

Nolan died of lung cancer in Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-three.

Filmography

*"G Men" (1935)
*"Stolen Harmony" (1935)
*"Atlantic Adventure" (1935)
*"She Couldn't Take It" (1935)
*"15 Maiden Lane" (1936)
*"Internes Can't Take Money" (1937)
*"Ebb Tide" (1937)
*"Every Day's a Holiday" (1937)
*"Wells Fargo" (1937)
*"King of Alcatraz" (1938)
*"Dangerous to Know" (1938)
*"St. Louis Blues" (1939)
*"The House Across the Bay" (1940)
*"Johnny Apollo" (1940)
*"The Man I Married" (1940)
*"Blues In The Night" (1941)
*"Dressed to Kill" (1941)
*"The Man Who Wouldn't Die" (1942)
*"Bataan" (1943)
*"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945)
*"The House on 92nd Street" (1945) as Agent George A. Briggs
*"Two Smart People" (1946)
*"Somewhere in the Night" (1946)
*"Lady in the Lake" (1947)
*"Green Grass of Wyoming" (1948)
*"The Street with No Name" (1948) as Insp. George A. Briggs
*"The Sun Comes Up" (1949)
*"Easy Living" (1949)
*"The Lemon Drop Kid" (1951)
*"Crazylegs" (1953)
*"Island in the Sky" (1953)
*"The Last Hunt" (1956)
*"Toward the Unknown" (1956)
*"A Hatful of Rain" (1957)
*"Seven Waves Away" (1957)
*"Peyton Place" (1957) as Dr. Swain
*"Portrait in Black" (1960)
*"The Girl Hunters" (1962)
*"We Joined The Navy" (1962)
*"Circus World" (1964)
*"Ice Station Zebra" (1968)
*"Airport" (1970)
*"Earthquake" (1974)
*"Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986)

References

External links

*imdb|0634313
*findagrave|1179

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NAME= Nolan, Lloyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= 1902-8-11
PLACE OF BIRTH= San Francisco, California, USA
DATE OF DEATH= 1985-9-27
PLACE OF DEATH= Los Angeles, California, USA