Lloyd Nolan
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Lloyd Nolan | |
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Born | Lloyd Benedict Nolan August 11, 1902 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Died | September 27, 1985 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 83)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1929–1985 |
Notable work | 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters |
Spouses | Mell Efrid
(m. 1933; died 1981)Virginia Dabney (m. 1983) |
Children | 2 |
Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American stage, film and television actor who rose from a supporting player and B-movie lead early in his career to featured player status after creating the role of Captain Queeg in
Starting in the 1950s, Nolan worked extensively in television while appearing in major motion pictures as a character actor. As he got older, he often played doctors, including in the Oscar-nominated movie Peyton Place and in Julia, the first American TV series starring an African American woman. For playing Doctor Morton Chegley to Diahann Carroll's nurse Julia Baker, Nolan was nominated for a 1969 Emmy for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series.
His last role was in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, which was released posthumously in 1986, the year after he died, bringing down the curtain on a career that spanned half a century. It is a measure of the respect in which he was held that his obituary in the Los Angeles Times was entitled "Lloyd Nolan, the Actor’s Actor, Dies."[2]
Biography
Nolan was born in
Nolan served in the
Film career
Nolan's obituary in the
Most of Nolan's films were light entertainment with an emphasis on action. His most famous 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.[3]
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.[3]
One of the last of his many military roles was playing an
Television and other endeavors
Later in Nolan's career, he returned to the stage and appeared on television to great acclaim in
Nolan appeared on Wagon Train in the second season, episode 16, as the title character in “The Hunter Malloy Story”, January 21, 1959.
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) and then as former Union Army General George Barton in the episode "War Hero" (1962). 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
Nolan co-starred from 1968 to 1971 in the pioneering NBC series
One of his last appearances was a guest spot as himself in the 1984 episode "Cast in Steele" on the TV detective series Remington Steele.
On February 8, 1960, Nolan received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the television industry, at 1752 Vine Street.[12][13]
In his later years, Nolan appeared in commercials for
Personal life
Lloyd Nolan was married twice.
Marriage and children
Nolan married Mell Efrid in 1933. They had a daughter Melinda who gave them two grandchildren, and a son Jay. The couple remained married until Efrid's death in 1981.[citation needed]
Their son Jay Nolan had
In 1983, Nolan married Virginia Dabney, with whom he remained until his death.[16][17]
Political activity
Nolan was a lifelong Republican.[17]
In 1964, Nolan spoke at the "Project Prayer"
In 1973, Nolan testified to Congress urging that autism be recognized as a developmental disability. Nolan is credited with having convinced Ronald Reagan to sign California's bill mandating education be provided to children with autism.
Nolan appeared alongside Ronald Reagan during the 1976 New Hampshire presidential primary in which he nearly scored an upset against President Gerald Ford.[citation needed]
Death
A long-time
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1935 | G Men | Hugh Farrell | |
1935 | Stolen Harmony | Chesty Burrage | |
1935 | Atlantic Adventure | Dan Miller | |
1935 | She Couldn't Take It | Tex | |
1935 | One Way Ticket | Jerry | |
1936 | You May Be Next | Neil Bennett | |
1936 | Lady of Secrets | Michael | |
1936 | Big Brown Eyes | Russ Cortig | |
1936 | Devil's Squadron | Dana Kirk | |
1936 | Counterfeit | Capper Stevens | |
1936 | The Texas Rangers | Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee | |
1936 | 15 Maiden Lane | Det. Sgt. Walsh | |
1937 | Internes Can't Take Money | Hanlon | |
1937 | King of Gamblers | Jim Adams | |
1937 | Exclusive | Charles Gillette | |
1937 | Ebb Tide | Attwater | |
1937 | Every Day's a Holiday | John Quade | |
1937 | Wells Fargo | Dal Slade | |
1938 | Dangerous to Know | Inspector Brandon | |
1938 | Tip-Off Girls | Bob Anders | |
1938 | Hunted Men | Joe Albany | |
1938 | Prison Farm | Larry Harrison | |
1938 | King of Alcatraz | Raymond Grayson | |
1939 | Ambush | Tony Andrews | |
1939 | St. Louis Blues | Dave Geurney | |
1939 | Undercover Doctor | Robert Anders | |
1939 | The Magnificent Fraud | Sam Barr | |
1940 | The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | Joe Monday | |
1940 | The House Across the Bay | Slant Kolma | |
1940 | Johnny Apollo | Mickey Dwyer | |
1940 | Gangs of Chicago | Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns | |
1940 | The Man I Married | Kenneth Delane | |
1940 | The Golden Fleecing | Gus Fender | |
1940 | Pier 13 | Danny Dolan | |
1940 | Charter Pilot | King Morgan | |
1940 | Michael Shayne, Private Detective | Michael Shayne | |
1940 | Behind the News | Stuart Woodrow | |
1941 | Mr. Dynamite | Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite') | |
1941 | Sleepers West | Michael Shayne | |
1941 | Dressed to Kill | Michael Shayne | |
1941 | Buy Me That Town | Rickey Deane | |
1941 | Blues in the Night | Del Davis | |
1941 | Steel Against the Sky | Rocky Evans | |
1942 | Blue, White and Perfect | Michael Shayne | |
1942 | The Man Who Wouldn't Die | Michael Shayne | |
1942 | It Happened in Flatbush | Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire | |
1942 | Just Off Broadway | Michael Shayne | |
1942 | Apache Trail | Trigger Bill Folliard | |
1942 | Manila Calling | Lucky Matthews | |
1942 | Time to Kill | Michael Shayne | |
1943 | Bataan | Corp. Barney Todd | |
1943 | Don't Be a Sucker | Commentator | Short film |
1943 | Guadalcanal Diary | Sgt. Hook Malone | |
1944 | Attack! The Battle of New Britain | Narrator (voice) | Documentary |
1944 | Resisting Enemy Interrogation | USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator | Uncredited |
1945 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Officer McShane | |
1945 | Circumstantial Evidence | Sam Lord | |
1945 | War Comes to America | Narrator (voice) | Documentary |
1945 | Captain Eddie | Lt. Jim Whittaker | |
1945 | The House on 92nd Street | Inspector George A. Briggs | |
1946 | Somewhere in the Night | Police Lt. Donald Kendall | |
1946 | Two Smart People | Bob Simms | |
1947 | Lady in the Lake | Lt. DeGarmot | |
1947 | Wild Harvest | Kink | |
1948 | Green Grass of Wyoming | Rob McLaughlin | |
1948 | The Street with No Name | Inspector George A. Briggs | |
1949 | The Sun Comes Up | Thomas I. Chandler | |
1949 | Bad Boy | Marshall Brown | |
1949 | Easy Living | Lenahan | |
1951 | The Lemon Drop Kid | Oxford Charlie | |
1953 | Island in the Sky | Captain Stutz | |
1953 | Crazylegs | Win Brockmeyer | |
1956 | The Last Hunt | Woodfoot | |
1956 | Santiago | Clay Pike | Alternative title: The Gun Runner |
1956 | Toward the Unknown | Brig. Gen. Bill Banner | Alternative title: Brink of Hell |
1957 | Seven Waves Away | Frank Kelly | Alternative titles: Abandon Ship Seven Days From Now |
1957 | A Hatful of Rain | John Pope Sr. | |
1957 | Peyton Place | Dr. Swain | |
1960 | Portrait in Black | Matthew S. Cabot | |
1960 | Girl of the Night | Dr. Mitchell | |
1961 | Susan Slade | Roger Slade | |
1962 | We Joined the Navy | Vice Admiral Ryan | |
1963 | The Girl Hunters | Federal Agent Arthur Rickerby | |
1964 | Circus World | Cap Carson | Alternative title: The Magnificent Showman |
1965 | Never Too Late | Mayor Crane | |
1966 | An American Dream | Barney Kelly | Alternative title: See You in Hell, Darling |
1967 | The Double Man | Edwards | |
1968 | Sergeant Ryker | Gen. Amos Bailey | |
1968 | Ice Station Zebra | Admiral Garvey | |
1970 | Airport | Harry Standish | |
1974 | Earthquake | Dr. James Vance | |
1975 | The Sky's the Limit | Cornwall | |
1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Attorney General Harlan Stone | |
1978 | My Boys Are Good Boys | Security Officer Dan Mountgomery | |
1980 | Galyon | Willard Morgan | |
1985 | Prince Jack | Joe Kennedy | |
1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Evan |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1950 | The Ford Theatre Hour | Nifty Miller | Episode: "The Barker" |
1951–1952 | Martin Kane, Private Eye | Martin Kane | 7 episodes |
1952 | Ford Television Theatre | Episode: "Protect Her Honor" | |
1955 | Climax! | Jack London | Episode: "Sailor on Horseback" |
1955 | Ford Star Jubilee | Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg | Episode: "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
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1957 | Playhouse 90 | Capt. Kuyper | Episode: "Galvanized Yankee" |
1958–1960 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Dr. Elisha Pittman / Adam Larkin | 2 episodes |
1959 | Special Agent 7 | Special Agent Philip Conroy | 25 episodes |
1959 | Wagon Train | Hunter Malloy | Episode: "The Hunter Malloy Story" |
1959 | Ah, Wilderness! | Nat Miller | Television film |
1959 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Sheriff Orville Darrow | Episode: "Six Guns for Donegan" |
1959 | Father Knows Best | Coach Harper | Episode: "Bud Plays It Safe" |
1959 | The Untouchables | George 'Bugs' Moran | Episode: "The George 'Bugs' Moran Story" |
1959–1962 | Laramie | General George Barton / Matt Dyer / Sheriff Tully Hatch | 3 episodes |
1960 | Startime
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Narrator | Episode: "Crime, Inc." |
1960 | Bonanza | Inspector Charles Leduque | Episode: "The Stranger" |
1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show | George McShane | Episode: "The Seventh Miracle" |
1961 | Bus Stop | Stroud | Episode: "The Glass Jungle" |
1961 | General Electric Theater | Robert Hale / Michael Bowen | 2 episodes |
1962 | Outlaws | Buck Breeson | Episode: "Buck Breeson Rides Again" |
1962 | The Dick Powell Show | Vernon Clay | Episode: "Special Assignment" |
1963 | The DuPont Show of the Week | James Feveral | Episode: "Two Faces of Treason" |
1963 | The Great Adventure
|
Col. Fraser | 2 episodes |
1963 | 77 Sunset Strip | Col. David Watkins | 3 episodes |
1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Gen. Amos Bailey | 2 episodes |
1963–1967 | The Virginian | Tom Foster / Abe Clayton / Wade Anders | 3 episodes |
1964 | The Outer Limits | Tom Kagan | Episode: "Soldier" |
1964 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Dan Sinclair | Episode: "Mr. Biddle's Crime Wave" |
1965 | Daniel Boone | Ben Hanks | Episode: "The Price of Friendship" |
1965 | The Bing Crosby Show | Harvey | Episode: "What's a Buddy For?" |
1965 | Slattery's People | Admiral Wallace Blackburtn | Episode: "Rally Round Your Own Flag, Mister" |
1967 | The Road West | Jed Daniell | Episode: "A Mighty Hunter Before the Lord" |
1967 | Wings of Fire | Max Clarity | Television film |
1967 | Mannix | Sam Dubrio | Episode: "The Name Is Mannix" |
1968 | The Danny Thomas Hour | Dr. Richmond | Episode: "The Cage" |
1968 | Judd, for the Defense | D.A. Patrick Bantry | Episode: "The Devil's Surrogate" |
1968 | I Spy | Manion | Episode: "The Name of the Game" |
1968–1971 | Julia | Dr. Morton Chegley / Dr. Norton Chegley | 86 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1969) |
1972 | Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | Episode: "A Question of Degree" | |
1972 | The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | Dr. Karl Richardson | Episode: "A Nation of Human Pincushions" |
1973 | Isn't It Shocking? | Jesse Chapin | Television film |
1973 | McCloud | Elroy Jenkins | Episode: "Butch Cassidy Rides Again" |
1973 | The F.B.I. | Judge Harper | Episode: "The Killing Truth" |
1974 | The Magician | Charles Keegan | 2 episodes |
1975 | The Wonderful World of Disney
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Cornwall | 2 episodes |
1975 | The Abduction of Saint Anne | Carl Gentry | Television film |
1975 | Lincoln | William H. Seward | Episode: "The Unwilling Warrior" |
1976 | Ellery Queen | Doctor Sanford | Episode: "The Adventure of the Sunday Punch" |
1976 | City of Angels | General Butler | Episode: "The November Plan: Part 1" |
1977 | McMillan & Wife | Horace Sherwin | Episode: "Affair of the Heart" |
1977 | Flight to Holocaust | Wilton Bender | Television film |
1977 | Fire! | Doc Bennett | Television film |
1977 | The November Plan | Gen. Smedley Butler | Television film |
1977 | Police Woman | Q. Waldo Mims | Episode: "Merry Christmas Waldo" |
1977 | The Mask of Alexander Cross | Strickland | Television film |
1977 | Gibbsville | Episode: "The Price of Everything" | |
1978 | The Waltons | Cyrus Guthrie | Episode: "The Return" |
1978 | Quincy, M.E. | Dr. Herbert Schumann | Episode: "A Test for Living" |
1978 | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Professor Anton Hendricks | Episode: "Search for Atlantis" |
1979 | $weepstake$ | Dr. Warnecke | "Dewey and Harold and Sarah and Maggie" |
1979 | Valentine | Brother Joe | Television film |
1981 | Archie Bunker's Place | Judge Sean McGuire | 2 episodes |
1982 | Adams House | Frank Gallagher | Television film |
1984 | Remington Steele | Himself | Episode: "Cast in Steele" |
1984 | It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | Monsignor Donoghue | Television film |
1985 | Murder, She Wrote | Julian Tenley | Episode: "Murder in the Afternoon" |
Radio appearances
Year | Program | Episode/source |
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1945 | Suspense | "Murder for Myra"[24] |
1945 | Suspense | "Nineteen Deacon Street"[25] |
1946 | Suspense | "Hunting Trip"[26] |
1947 | Suspense | "Green-Eyed Monster"[27] |
1947 | Suspense | "Double Ugly"[28] |
1952 | Suspense | The Man with Two Faces[29] |
1953 | Suspense | Vial of Death[30] |
References
- ^ "Lloyd Nolan Awards". IMDB.com. Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Folkart, Burt A. (28 September 1985). "Lloyd Nolan, the Actor's Actor, Dies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Folkart, Burt A. (September 28, 1985). "Lloyd Nolan, the Actor's Actor, Dies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
- ^ Blumberg, Joel; Grabman, Sandra (2016). Lloyd Nolan: An Actor's Life With Meaning. BearManor Media. p. 1. "Both of Lloyd's parents were of one hundred percent Irish stock. James, in fact, had been born in Ireland."
- ^
- ^ James, George (September 29, 1985). "LLOYD NOLAN IS DEAD AT 83; FILM, THEATER AND TV ACTOR". The New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ^ Giddins, Gary (April 3, 2007). "The Hard-Boiled Hero". The New York Sun. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (December 21, 1968). "The Screen: 'Ice Station Zebra' at the Cinerama". The New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ^ "The six greatest 'Mannix' episodes, according to a superfan". MeTV. January 27, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ^ "Lloyd Nolan | Hollywood Walk of Fame". www.walkoffame.com. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
- ^ Folkart, Burt A. (September 28, 1985). "Hollywood Star Walk: Lloyd Nolan". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
- ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (September 22, 2013). "Emmys: Who Is Lloyd Nolan? Diahann Carroll Mentions Her 'Julia' Co-Star Onstage". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ^ John Donovan and Caren Zucker. In A Different Key: The Story of Autism (New York: Crown Publishers, 2016) p. 179
- ^ a b Blumberg, Joel; Grabman, Sandra (2016). Lloyd Nolan: An Actor's Life With Meaning. BearManor Media. p. 1.
- ^ "PRAYERS IN SCHOOLS?; House Group Studying 35 Amendments Is Unable To Discern Sympathies of the Public". The New York Times. May 17, 1964. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ^ a b c ""The Washington Merry-Go-Round", Drew Pearson column, May 14, 1964" (PDF). dspace.wrlc.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 16, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
- ^ Donvan and Zucker. In a Different Key p. 179–180
- ^ "Jay Nolan Celebrates 40 Years". Jay Nolan Community Services. February 3, 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ^ Hollywood and the Best of Los Angeles
- ^ "Suspense - Murder for Myra". Escape and Suspense!. July 6, 2008. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
- ^ "Suspense - Nineteen Deacon Street". Escape and Suspense!. October 19, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ^ "Suspense - Hunting Trip". Escape and Suspense!. April 19, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ "Suspense - Green-Eyed Monster". Escape and Suspense!. January 11, 2009. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ^ "Suspense". RadioGOLDINdex. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
Further reading
- Lloyd Nolan: An Actor's Life With Meaning, by Joel Blumberg and Sandra Grabman. BearManor Media, Albany, 2010. ISBN 1-59393-600-1.