Lloyd Nolan

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Lloyd Nolan
Nolan as Martin Kane, c. 1951
Born	Lloyd Benedict Nolan (1902-08-11)August 11, 1902 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	September 27, 1985(1985-09-27) (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. 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]