The son of Morris Tuchow, Tolan was born in Detroit, Michigan.
12 Facts About Michael Tolan
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Michael Tolan graduated from Central High School and Wayne State University in Detroit and studied under Stella Adler and at Stanford University.
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Michael Tolan's early acting experience came on radio station WXYZ in Detroit, where he was heard on The Green Hornet and The Lone Ranger.
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Michael Tolan appeared primarily in stage roles in his early career, with only minor parts in films of the early 1950s.
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Michael Tolan acted mostly on television from the mid-1950s on, including an appearance on the 1960 CBS summer series, Diagnosis: Unknown, a role in The Doctors and the Nurses, and a continuing role as Jordan Boyle on "The Senator" segments of the anthology umbrella TV series The Bold Ones.
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Michael Tolan appeared in a 1967 episode of The Rat Patrol, "The Fifth Wheel Raid", where he is credited as Michael Tolin.
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Michael Tolan's last known television appearance was on an episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1994.
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Michael Tolan appeared in the Bob Fosse film All That Jazz as lead character Joe Gideon's cardiologist, Dr Ballinger.
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Michael Tolan helped found the American Place Theatre, of which he wrote:.
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Michael Tolan had two marriages, both of which ended in divorce; at the time of his death, he was partnered with Donna Peck, with whom he lived in Ancram, New York.
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Michael Tolan had previously married actress Rosemary Forsyth on June 28,1966.
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Michael Tolan died January 31,2011, at a Hudson, New York, hospital from kidney failure.