1. Jeanette Nolan began her prolific acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, and, while a student at Los Angeles City College, made her radio debut in 1932 in Omar Khayyam, the first transcontinental broadcast from station KHJ.
Jeanette Nolan made her film debut as Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles' 1948 film Macbeth, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name.
Jeanette Nolan made more than three hundred television appearances, including the religion anthology series Crossroads and as Dr Marion in the 1956 episode "The Healer" in Brian Keith's CBS Cold War series, Crusader.
Jeanette Nolan appeared on Rod Cameron's syndicated series State Trooper.
Jeanette Nolan was cast as Emmy Zecker in the 1959 episode "Johnny Yuma" of the ABC western series The Rebel, starring Nick Adams.
Jeanette Nolan appeared in two episodes of David Janssen's crime drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
Jeanette Nolan starred as Maggie Bowers in the Peter Gunn episode "Love Me to Death" in 1959.
Jeanette Nolan played Sadie Grimes in Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode titled "The Right Kind of House," which first aired March 9,1958, and Mrs Edith in "Coming Home" June 13,1961.
Jeanette Nolan was cast in other western films, including The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch.
Jeanette Nolan gave an over-the-top performance as a crazed old woman in the "Parasite Mansion" episode of NBC's Thriller.
Jeanette Nolan guest starred as Claire Farnham in the episode "To Love Is to Live" on the psychiatric medical drama The Eleventh Hour.
Jeanette Nolan was a member of the repertory cast of The Richard Boone Show, appearing in 25 episodes.
In 1963, Jeanette Nolan was cast as Mrs Mertens in the episode "Reformation of Willie" of the ABC drama series, Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly as a Roman Catholic priest in New York City.
Jeanette Nolan appeared three times on Wagon Train, in which her husband, John McIntire, co-starred as wagon master Chris Hale from 1961 to 1965.
Jeanette Nolan guest-starred three times from 1963 to 1964 on Dr Kildare, and in a 1964 episode of Richard Crenna's short-lived Slattery's People, a political drama series on CBS.
Jeanette Nolan played the role of witches in two of Rod Serling's anthology television series: The Twilight Zone, in the episode "Jess-Belle" with Anne Francis; and the Night Gallery segment "Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay" opposite James Farentino and Michele Lee.
Jeanette Nolan appeared in the 1962 Twilight Zone episode "The Hunt," with Arthur Hunnicutt.
On November 4,1965, Jeanette Nolan portrayed the treacherous Ma Burns in "The Golden Trail" episode of NBC's Laredo.
Jeanette Nolan was cast on Laredo as Martha Tuforth in "It's the End of the Road, Stanley" and as Vita Rose in "Like One of the Family".
Laredo was a two-season spinoff of The Virginian, whose cast Jeanette Nolan joined in 1967 as Holly Grainger, along with her husband John McIntire who headed the cast as ranch owner Clay Grainger.
In 1968, Jeanette Nolan was cast in the episode "All in a Day's Work" on the NBC police drama Ironside, playing a mother who has lost her only child who was shot after a robbery.
Jeanette Nolan guest-starred on the short-lived sitcom The Mothers-in-Law in two separate episodes in the second and final season of the series.
Jeanette Nolan first played Kaye Ballard's grandmother Gabriela Balotta, who always fainted when she didn't get her way; and then secondly as Annie MacTaggart, a Scottish nanny hired to take care of newborn twins of the younger couple, Jerry and Suzie Buell.
Jeanette Nolan played the titular role in the award-winning short film Peege because of her Gunsmoke connection.
Jeanette Nolan appeared as a guest star in television's Gunsmoke more than any other female.
Jeanette Nolan portrayed Mrs Peck in the 1973 episode "Double Shock" of Peter Falk's Columbo series.
Jeanette Nolan was in a second Columbo episode, as Kate O'Connell in "The Conspirators".
Jeanette Nolan was born in Los Angeles and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School there.
In 1935, Jeanette Nolan married actor John McIntire; the couple remained together until his death in 1991.
Jeanette Nolan died of a stroke in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on June 5,1998.
Jeanette Nolan was buried in Eureka, Montana's Tobacco Valley Cemetery.