Lloyd Nolan
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1902-08-11
Locus Natus: San Francisco, California, USA
Et ut: Lloyd Benedict Nolan
Lady in the Lake
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne...
release : 1946.12.19popularis : 9.852
Airport
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
release : 1970.03.25popularis : 13.93
Earthquake
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
release : 1974.11.15popularis : 12.17
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well...
release : 1945.02.28popularis : 7.37
Hannah and Her Sisters
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her...
release : 1986.02.07popularis : 11.366
The Lemon Drop Kid
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas....
release : 1951.04.02popularis : 6.738
Blues in the Night
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find...
release : 1941.11.15popularis : 2.6
Island in the Sky
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must...
release : 1953.09.05popularis : 7.334
The House on 92nd Street
The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
release : 1945.09.10popularis : 3.224
Dressed to Kill
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
release : 1941.08.08popularis : 1.973
Circumstantial Evidence
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
release : 1945.04.20popularis : 2.377
The Street with No Name
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the...
release : 1948.07.14popularis : 6.133
Circus World
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind...
release : 1964.06.25popularis : 6.329
A Hatful of Rain
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
release : 1957.07.17popularis : 4.297
Peyton Place
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which...
release : 1957.12.13popularis : 5.495
Bataan
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to...
release : 1943.06.03popularis : 4.277
Guadalcanal Diary
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on...
release : 1943.10.27popularis : 5.447
The House Across the Bay
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be...
release : 1940.03.01popularis : 4.176
Portrait in Black
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
release : 1960.07.27popularis : 3.357
Ice Station Zebra
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated...
release : 1968.10.23popularis : 22.47
Johnny Apollo
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...
release : 1940.04.19popularis : 1.633
Green Grass of Wyoming
The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
release : 1948.06.03popularis : 1.43
Time to Kill
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
release : 1942.12.24popularis : 1.235
The Texas Rangers
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
release : 1936.08.28popularis : 3.129
We Joined the Navy
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the...
release : 1963.05.17popularis : 3.641
Mr. Dynamite
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
release : 1941.03.01popularis : 2.615
Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...
release : 2004.07.28popularis : 6.155
Big Brown Eyes
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring...
release : 1936.04.03popularis : 4.121
Galyon
An oil tycoon hires Galyon, a jungle survival expert and soldier of fortune, to rescue his daughter and her husband from South American terrorists.
release : 1980.09.18popularis : 1.167
Susan Slade
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.
release : 1961.11.08popularis : 2.47
Fire!
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name...
release : 1977.05.08popularis : 4.687
The Girl Hunters
Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the...
release : 1963.06.01popularis : 4.147
Two Smart People
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
release : 1946.06.04popularis : 1.838
It Happened in Flatbush
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
release : 1942.05.28popularis : 1.515
Abandon Ship
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over...
release : 1957.03.12popularis : 3.655
Easy Living
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
release : 1949.10.08popularis : 5.131
King of Alcatraz
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the...
release : 1938.09.30popularis : 2.721
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
release : 1942.04.27popularis : 4.78
Just Off Broadway
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out...
release : 1942.08.28popularis : 5.974
Sleepers West
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
release : 1941.03.14popularis : 2.996
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and...
release : 1940.12.19popularis : 4.546
The Double Man
In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its...
release : 1967.04.25popularis : 6.531
The Last Hunt
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
release : 1956.04.30popularis : 10.077
Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 9.496
Pier 13
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
release : 1940.08.08popularis : 3.456
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
release : 1944.08.01popularis : 7.284
The Sun Comes Up
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan...
release : 1949.05.12popularis : 2.814
An American Dream
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife,...
release : 1966.08.31popularis : 5.339
The Golden Fleecing
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
release : 1940.08.16popularis : 6.382
Toward the Unknown
Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name,...
release : 1956.09.27popularis : 5.288
Girl of the Night
Bobbie is a sensitive, lonely call girl who is manipulated and ultimately used by her madam.
release : 1960.11.11popularis : 3.262
Blue, White, and Perfect
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly...
release : 1942.01.06popularis : 5.727
The Magnificent Fraud
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
release : 1939.07.19popularis : 5.631
You May Be Next!
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
release : 1936.02.05popularis : 2.223
Santiago
Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba....
release : 1956.07.13popularis : 2.043
Never Too Late
A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with...
release : 1965.11.04popularis : 4.325
The Man I Married
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
release : 1940.08.09popularis : 1.814
My Boys Are Good Boys
Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.
release : 1978.01.01popularis : 1.261
Behind the News
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...
release : 1940.12.20popularis : 1.428
Isn't It Shocking?
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
release : 1973.10.02popularis : 2.325
Atlantic Adventure
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him....
release : 1935.08.25popularis : 1.312
Ebb Tide
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The...
release : 1937.11.17popularis : 1.863
Exclusive
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government...
release : 1937.08.06popularis : 2.971
Somewhere in the Night
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder...
release : 1946.06.12popularis : 7.118
She Couldn't Take It
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His...
release : 1935.10.08popularis : 2.465
Crazylegs
The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
release : 1953.11.15popularis : 0.954
Bad Boy
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
release : 1949.02.22popularis : 1.63
Tip-Off Girls
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
release : 1938.04.01popularis : 1.825
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court...
release : 1955.10.01popularis : 1.268
Stolen Harmony
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray...
release : 1935.04.20popularis : 2.545
Dangerous to Know
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress),...
release : 1938.03.11popularis : 1.989
Manila Calling
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
release : 1942.10.16popularis : 2.053
Hunted Men
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails...
release : 1938.05.27popularis : 1.407
Charter Pilot
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too...
release : 1940.12.06popularis : 2.876
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign...
release : 1977.12.01popularis : 7.162
Flight to Holocaust
A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.
release : 1977.03.26popularis : 1.071
Apache Trail
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the...
release : 1942.09.01popularis : 1.327
'G' Men
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld....
release : 1935.05.04popularis : 7.202
Prison Farm
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence...
release : 1938.06.17popularis : 3.491
Undercover Doctor
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his...
release : 1939.06.09popularis : 1.805
Devil's Squadron
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies,...
release : 1936.04.30popularis : 4.343
Steel Against the Sky
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
release : 1941.12.13popularis : 2.524
Prince Jack
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
release : 1985.12.01popularis : 1.206
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family....
release : 1940.01.11popularis : 2.661
Gangs of Chicago
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
release : 1940.05.18popularis : 2.382
15 Maiden Lane
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
release : 1936.10.16popularis : 0.584
One Way Ticket
A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
release : 1935.11.25popularis : 1.597
Counterfeit
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
release : 1936.05.25popularis : 0.658
King of Gamblers
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her...
release : 1937.04.22popularis : 1.791
Ambush
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary,...
release : 1939.01.20popularis : 1.358
Buy Me That Town
A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout....
release : 1941.10.03popularis : 1.417
Internes Can't Take Money
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up...
release : 1937.04.16popularis : 1.207
Captain Eddie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the...
release : 1945.06.18popularis : 5.298
Attack: The Battle for New Britain
War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the...
release : 1944.06.20popularis : 2.194
St. Louis Blues
A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they...
release : 1939.02.03popularis : 2.169
Don't Be a Sucker!
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made...
release : 1943.06.04popularis : 1.166
Wild Harvest
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup...
release : 1947.09.26popularis : 1.241
Sergeant Ryker
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed...
release : 1968.02.01popularis : 3.216
We're in the Movies, Now!
Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.
release : 1939.03.18popularis : 0.886
War Comes to America
The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up...
release : 1945.06.14popularis : 1.916
Every Day's a Holiday
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and...
release : 1937.12.18popularis : 3.223
The November Plan
A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 1.433
Valentine
A feisty widow falls in love with a zestful widower in a retirement community, much to the disapproval of her married daughter.
release : 1979.12.07popularis : 0.635
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Part of Frank Capra's World War II propaganda series made for the U.S. Armed Forces, this program presents newsreel footage addressing the Battle of...
release : 2000.01.01popularis : 3.071
The Abduction of Saint Anne
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the...
release : 1975.01.21popularis : 1.273
Lady of Secrets
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
release : 1936.02.21popularis : 1.259
Wings of Fire
A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned...
release : 1967.02.14popularis : 1.705
The Sky's the Limit
A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.
release : 1975.01.19popularis : 2.429