Lloyd Nolan

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-08-11 (83 years old)

Deathday

1985-09-27

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Lloyd Nolan

Biography

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,...

Acting

1946

Lady in the Lake

as Lieutenant DeGarmot

1970

Airport

as Harry Standish

1974

Earthquake

as Dr. James Vance

1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as Officer McShane

1951

The Lemon Drop Kid

as Oxford Charley

1941

Blues in the Night

as Del Davis

1953

Island in the Sky

as Captain Stutz

1945

The House on 92nd Street

as Agent George A. Briggs

1941

Dressed to Kill

as Michael Shayne

1948

The Street with No Name

as Inspector George A. Briggs

1964

Circus World

as Cap Carson

1957

A Hatful of Rain

as John Pope, Sr

1957

Peyton Place

as Dr. Matthew Swain

1943

Bataan

as Cpl. Barney Todd

1943

Guadalcanal Diary

as Sgt. Hook Malone

1940

1960

Portrait in Black

as Matthew S. Cabot

1968

Ice Station Zebra

as Admiral Garvey

1940

Johnny Apollo

as Mickey Dwyer

1948

Green Grass of Wyoming

as Rob McLaughlin

1942

Time to Kill

as Michael Shayne

1936

The Texas Rangers

as Sam 'Polka Dot' McGee

1963

We Joined the Navy

as Vice Admiral Ryan

1941

Mr. Dynamite

as Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Dr. Vance in Earthquake (archive footage)

1936

Big Brown Eyes

as Russ Cortig

1980

Galyon

as Willard Morgan

1961

Susan Slade

as Roger Slade

1977

Fire!

as Doc Bennett

1963

The Girl Hunters

as Arthur Rickerby

1946

Two Smart People

as Bob Simms

1942

It Happened in Flatbush

as Frank 'Butterfingers' Maguire

1957

Abandon Ship

as Frank Kelly

1949

Easy Living

as Lenahan

1938

King of Alcatraz

as Raymond Grayson

1942

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

as Michael Shayne

1942

Just Off Broadway

as Michael Shayne

1941

Sleepers West

as Michael Shayne

1967

The Double Man

as Edwards

1956

The Last Hunt

as Woodfoot

1937

Wells Fargo

as Dal Slade

1940

Pier 13

as Danny Dolan

1944

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

as USAF Debriefing Officer / Narrator

1949

The Sun Comes Up

as Thomas I. Chandler

1966

An American Dream

as Barney Kelly

1940

The Golden Fleecing

as Gus Fender

1956

Toward the Unknown

as Brig. Gen. Bill Banner

1960

Girl of the Night

as Dr. Mitchell

1942

Blue, White, and Perfect

as Michael Shayne

1939

1936

You May Be Next!

as Neil Bennett

1956

Santiago

as Clay Pike

1965

Never Too Late

as Mayor Crane

1940

The Man I Married

as Kenneth Delane

1978

My Boys Are Good Boys

as Dan Montgomery

1940

Behind the News

as Stuart Woodrow

1973

Isn't It Shocking?

as Jesse Chapin

1935

Atlantic Adventure

as Dan Miller

1937

Ebb Tide

as Attwater

1937

Exclusive

as Charles Gillette

1946

Somewhere in the Night

as Police Lt. Donald Kendall

1953

Crazylegs

as Win Brockmeyer

1949

Bad Boy

as Marshall Brown

1938

Tip-Off Girls

as Bob Anders

1935

Stolen Harmony

as Chesty Burrage

1938

Dangerous to Know

as Inspector Brandon

1942

Manila Calling

as Lucky Matthews

1938

Hunted Men

as Joe Albany

1940

Charter Pilot

as King Morgan

1977

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

as Attorney General Harlan Stone

1977

Flight to Holocaust

as Wilton Bender

1942

Apache Trail

as Trigger Bill Folliard

1935

'G' Men

as Hugh Farrell

1938

Prison Farm

as Larry Harrison

1939

Undercover Doctor

as Robert Anders

1936

Devil's Squadron

as Dana Kirk

1941

Steel Against the Sky

as Rocky Evans

1985

Prince Jack

as Joe Kennedy

1940

1940

Gangs of Chicago

as Matthew J. 'Matty' Burns

1936

15 Maiden Lane

as Det. Sgt. Walsh

1935

1936

Counterfeit

as Capper Stevens

1937

King of Gamblers

as Jim Adams

1939

Ambush

as Tony Andrews

1941

Buy Me That Town

as Rickey Deane

1945

Captain Eddie

as Lt. Jim Whitaker

1944

1939

St. Louis Blues

as Dave Geurney

1943

Don't Be a Sucker!

as Commentator (voice)

1947

1968

Sergeant Ryker

as Gen. Amos Bailey

1945

1937

1977

The November Plan

as Gen. Smedley Butler

1979

Valentine

as Brother Joe

1975

1936

Lady of Secrets

as Michael Harvey

1967

Wings of Fire

as Max Clarity

1975

1984

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

as Monsignor Donoghue

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