1. Lloyd Benedict Nolan 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.
For playing Doctor Morton Chegley to Diahann Carroll's nurse Julia Baker, Lloyd Nolan was nominated for a 1969 Emmy for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series.
Lloyd Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the youngest of three children of Margaret, who was of Irish descent, and James Lloyd Nolan, an Irish immigrant who was a shoe manufacturer.
Lloyd Nolan served in the United States Merchant Marine before joining the Dennis Players theatrical troupe in Cape Cod.
Lloyd Nolan began his career on stage and was lured to Hollywood, where he played mainly doctors, private detectives, and policemen in many film roles.
Lloyd Nolan contributed solid and key character parts in numerous other films.
Lloyd Nolan reprised his role as FBI Agent Briggs in the 1948 movie, The Street with No Name.
Lloyd Nolan made guest appearances on television shows, including NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Bing Crosby Show, a sitcom on ABC and the Emmy-winning NBC anthology series The Barbara Stanwyck Show.
Lloyd Nolan starred in The Outer Limits episode "Soldier" written by Harlan Ellison.
Lloyd Nolan appeared in the NBC Western Bonanza as LaDuke, a New Orleans detective.
Also in 1967, Lloyd Nolan was a guest star in the popular Western TV series The Virginian, in the episode "The Masquerade", and in the pilot episode of Mannix.
Lloyd Nolan co-starred from 1968 to 1971 in the pioneering NBC series Julia, with Diahann Carroll, who was the first African American woman to star in a non-servant role in her own television series.
On February 8,1960, Lloyd Nolan received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the television industry, at 1752 Vine Street.
Lloyd Nolan died at age 26 from choking while eating.
When Lloyd Nolan went public in 1972 about his son's autism, it was revealed that Jay was one of the first children in the United States to be diagnosed with the condition.
In 1983, Lloyd Nolan married Virginia Dabney, with whom he remained until his death.
In 1964, Lloyd Nolan spoke at the "Project Prayer" rally attended by 2,500 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
In 1973, Lloyd Nolan testified to Congress urging that autism be recognized as a developmental disability.
Lloyd Nolan is credited with having convinced Ronald Reagan to sign California's bill mandating education be provided to children with autism.
Lloyd Nolan founded the Jay Lloyd Nolan Autistic Center in honor of his son, Jay, and was chairman of the annual Save Autistic Children Telethon.
Lloyd Nolan appeared alongside Ronald Reagan during the 1976 New Hampshire presidential primary in which he nearly scored an upset against President Gerald Ford.
Lloyd Nolan is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.