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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 10, 2020 21:42:32 GMT
Lloyd Nolan was born August 11, 1902 in San Francisco, California.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 10, 2020 21:45:24 GMT
First role in a feature film: G-Men: 1935  Final role in a feature film: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 10, 2020 21:51:58 GMT
Also did a few radio things.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 11, 2020 5:13:41 GMT
A tremendous performance life boat bound, as the stoic engineer Frank Kelly, in the gripping survival at sea thriller Seven Waves Away aka Abandon Ship (1957) Dir. Richard Sale   |
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 11, 2020 5:54:02 GMT
Between 1940 and 1942, Fox produced seven second-features about private detective Michael Shayne. Shayne was already a known commodity, being adapted from an already popular mystery book series. All seven of the films starred Lloyd Nolan as Shayne. (After Twentieth Century dropped the series, it was taken up by Gower Gulch studio PRC. PRC issued five Michael Shayne mysteries, all in 1946. Hugh Beaumont played Shayne in these cheapies.) I have seen Nolan in #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. #7 A Time To Kill / Herbert I. Leeds. Twentieth Century Fox. Cinematography by Charles G. Clarke. The earlier entries were mainly comic mystery romps differing only in the amount of humorous material. This title, however, based on a Raymond Chandler novel with Lloyd Nolan’s Shayne subbing for Philip Marlowe, follows both the story and the feel of an authentic American Private Eye novel. “Time To Kill” is adapted from what was at the time Chandler’s latest book, The High Window. Shayne/Marlowe is hired by the tyrannical rich woman Mrs. Murdock (Ethel Griffies), because a valuable rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, has gone missing from her coin collection. Mrs. Murdock believes that her gold-digging daughter-in-law, Linda Conquest (Doris Merrick), took it when she left her husband and the Murdock household. In the Murdock office, Shayne has to comfort the old lady’s brow beaten secretary, Myrle (Heather Angel), who has burst into tears. As Shayne investigates (and the bodies start falling) he runs through a gamut of shady characters: a crooked rare coin dealer, a sketchy night club owner and his wife, and the wife’s “bodyguard.” Lloyd Nolan makes a good case for a shot at Marlowe himself while the script hues closely to Chandler’s plot. The brief runtime of 61 minutes, however, means that a lot of detail is lost and some revelations, especially at the end, seem to come out of nowhere. Still, for Chandler/Marlowe completists, watching this will be an easy, entertaining hour. NOTE: “Time To Kill” was the second movie adapted from a Chandler novel. The first, from 1941, taken from “Farewell My Lovely,” was also written to accommodate a series character, namely, George Sanders in “The Falcon Takes Over.”  |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 11, 2020 7:04:18 GMT
One of the great unsung actors, who with very little could go from a tough crime movie like The Street with No Name 1948 to a wholesome Lassie movie like The Sun Comes Up 1949 without any problem:   He even made a British Navy comedy, We Joined the Navy 1962:  If I remember correct, he got the final line in Earthquake 1974 (this looks like a between the takes pic):  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 11, 2020 7:35:16 GMT
A tremendous performance life boat bound, as the stoic engineer Frank Kelly, in the gripping survival at sea thriller Seven Waves Away aka Abandon Ship (1957) Dir. Richard Sale Oh yeah! Great part in a memorable movie. Stephen Boyd has a good part in that too.
Also was the luggage checker in AIRPORT 1970 who suspects Van Heflin is acting too nervous.
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 13, 2020 15:13:05 GMT
A few other well-remembered roles:
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Nolan is the plain-spoken but compassionate New Hampshire doctor (with a Brooklyn accent) in PEYTON PLACE -- who forces child rapist Arthur Kennedy out of town.
Also the crooked cop who faces Robert Montgomery's 'Philip Marlowe' (always having to look directly into the camera) in LADY IN THE LAKE.
And .. the oldest looking Marine in GUADALCANAL DIARY.
Later he was the cruel husband of Lana Turner as she gets Doc Anthony Quinn to bump him off in PORTRAIT IN BLACK.
Another good earlier role: as one of the three saddle pals (with Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie) who turns baddie in the 1936 King Vidor Western THE TEXAS RANGERS.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 27, 2023 1:26:01 GMT
Just saw him in 'DRESSED TO KILL' (1941) as detective Michael Shayne. But here's Lloyd Nolan as a mercenary-for-hire opposite Alan Ladd and Rossana Podesta in Santiago (1956).
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 27, 2023 1:46:12 GMT
He often looked at least a tad worried  |
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Post by Old Aussie on Jan 27, 2023 2:35:10 GMT
Had the authority to be a convincing Admiral in Ice Station Zebra.
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Post by jervistetch on Jan 27, 2023 3:08:41 GMT
I first think of him as Dr. Chegley opposite Diahann Carroll in the groundbreaking TV series “Julia”.  |
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Post by timshelboy on Jan 27, 2023 11:11:56 GMT
particularly enjoy his early B movies   |
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