Lloyd Nolan
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Film
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and television
Television
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actor
Actor
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Nolan was born in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
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, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer. He began his career on stage and was subsequently lured to Hollywood, where he played mainly doctors, detectives, and police officers in many movie roles.
He was a brother to the Delta Kappa Epsilon
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Delta Kappa Epsilon is a fraternity founded at Yale College in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class who had not been invited to join the two existing societies...
fraternity (Sigma Rho chapter).
The origin of the Commemorative Air Force dates back to 1957, when Lloyd Nolan and four friends purchased a P-51 Mustang, each sharing in the $1,500 cost of the aircraft.[2] With the purchase of the Mustang, known as Red Nose, the group was unofficially founded.
Although Nolan's acting was often praised by critics, he was, for the most part, relegated to B pictures
B pictures
In the field of video compression a video frame is compressed using different algorithms with different advantages and disadvantages, centered mainly around amount of data compression. These different algorithms for video frames are called picture types or frame types. The three major picture...
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