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Lloyd Nolan | |
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 Nolan as Martin Kane, c. 1951 | |
| Born | Lloyd Benedict Nolan August 11, 1902 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | September 27, 1985 (aged 83) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| 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 Herman Wouk's play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial in the mid-1950s. Nolan won a Best Actor Emmy Award reprising the part in 1955 TV play based on Wouk's tale of military justice.[1]
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 in a non-subservient role. 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]
- ^ "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.