Jeanette Nolan

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1911-12-30 (87 years old)

Deathday

1998-06-05

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Jeanette Nolan

Biography

Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress. Nominated for four Emmy Awards, she had roles in the television series The Virginian (1962–1971) and Dirty Sally (1974), and in films such as Macbeth (1948). Nolan began her prolific acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, and, while a student at Los Angeles City College, made her radio debut in 1932 in Omar Khayyam, the first transcontinental broadcast from station KHJ. She continued acting into the 1990s. Nolan made more than three hundred television appearances, including the religion anthology series, Crossroads and as Dr. Marion in the 1...

Acting

1998

The Horse Whisperer

as Ellen Booker

1981

The Fox and the Hound

as Widow Tweed (voice)

1980

1977

The Rescuers

as Ellie Mae (voice)

1949

Abandoned

as Major Ross

1957

1948

Macbeth

as Lady Macbeth

1978

The Manitou

as Mrs. Winconis

1951

The Secret of Convict Lake

as Harriet Purcell

1953

The Big Heat

as Bertha Duncan

1967

1955

A Lawless Street

as Mrs. Dingo Brion

1978

1993

24 Hour Psycho

as Norma Bates (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

1952

Hangman's Knot

as Mrs. Margaret Harris

1956

Tribute to a Bad Man

as Mrs. L.A. Peterson

1987

Street Justice

as Mrs. Chandler

1950

Saddle Tramp

as Ma Higgins

1959

The Rabbit Trap

as Mrs. Colt

1973

1978

Avalanche

as Florence Shelby

1975

Babe

as Hannah Marie Didrikson

1965

My Blood Runs Cold

as Sarah Merriday

1952

The Happy Time

as Felice Bonnard

1950

No Sad Songs for Me

as Mona Frene

1973

Hijack!

as Mrs. Briscoe

1975

The Desperate Miles

as Mrs. Larkin

1976

The Winds of Autumn

as Ora Mae Hankins

1971

Longstreet

as Alice Longstreet

1956

Everything But the Truth

as Miss Adelaide Dabney

1957

April Love

as Henrietta Bruce

1948

Words and Music

as Mrs. Hart

1958

Wild Heritage

as Janice Bascomb

1961

Two Rode Together

as Mrs. Mary McCandless

1981

1957

1960

Psycho

as Norma Bates (voice) (uncredited)

1972

1981

True Confessions

as Mrs. Spellacy

1960

The Great Impostor

as Ma Demara

1966

Chamber of Horrors

as Mrs. Ewing Perryman

1967

Sullivan's Empire

as Miss Wingate

1979

Better Late Than Never

as Lavinia Leventhal

1984

Cloak & Dagger

as Eunice MacCready

1956

7th Cavalry

as Charlotte Reynolds

1976

Law and Order

as Margaret O'Malley

1975

1963

Twilight of Honor

as Amy Clinton

1958

The Deep Six

as Mrs. Austen

1977

Disney's Greatest Villains

as Ellie Mae (voice) (archive footage)

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