Lloyd Nolan

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 fathers 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 NBCs 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 19615 and then as former Union Army General George Barton in the episode War Hero 19626 On December 8 1960 Nolan was cast as Dr Elisha Pittman in Knife of Hate on Dick Powells 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 gueststarred in the episode A Mighty Hunter Before the Lord of NBCs 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 longtime 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia