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Lloyd Nolan
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Actor Born: August 11, 1902 in San Francisco, CA Death: September 27, 1985 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:The son of a San Francisco shoe factory owner, American actor "Lloyd Nolan" made it clear early on that he had no intention of entering the family business. Nolan developed an interest in acting while in college, at the expense of his education -- it took him five years to get through Santa Clara College, and he flunked out of Stanford, all because of time spent in amateur theatricals. Attempting a "joe job" on a freighter, Nolan gave it up when the freighter burned to the waterline. In 1927, he began studying at the Pasadena Playhouse, living on the inheritance left him by his father. Stock company work followed, and in 1933 Nolan scored a Broadway hit as vengeful small-town dentist Biff Grimes in One Sunday Afternoon (a role played in three film versions by "Gary Cooper", "James Cagney", and "Dennis Morgan", respectively -- but never by Nolan). Nolan's first film was "Stolen Harmony" (1935); his... Full Biography
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