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Lloyd Nolan

1902 - 1985

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Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) 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. Nolan won a Best Actor Emmy Award reprising the part in 1955 TV play based on Wouk's tale of military justice.Starting in the 1950s, Nolan worked extensively in television while appearing in major motion pictures as a character actor. As he got older, he often played doctors, including in the Oscar-nominated movie Peyton Place and in Julia, the first American TV series starring an African American woman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lloyd Nolan has received more than 957,530 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Lloyd Nolan is the 5,984th most popular actor (down from 5,935th in 2019), the 8,781st most popular biography from United States (up from 8,859th in 2019) and the 2,736th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lloyd Nolans by language

Over the past year Lloyd Nolan has had the most page views in the with 117,163 views, followed by Italian (5,728), and Spanish (4,551). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (70.08%), Indonesian (67.24%), and Korean (64.90%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lloyd Nolan ranks 5,984 out of 13,578. Before him are Juliano Mer-Khamis, James McCaffrey, Anna Popplewell, Christopher Jones, Lauren Ridloff, and Aleksandr Domogarov. After him are Denis Ménochet, Adriana Ozores, Alice Eve, Taylor Momsen, Inga Tidblad, and Barton MacLane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Lloyd Nolan ranks 284. Before him are Chill Wills, Koloman Sokol, Myrtle Cook, Ann Harding, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Paul Sturzenegger. After him are Barton MacLane, Hans Pulver, Moe Berg, Maria Polydouri, Walter Slezak, and Guillermo Riveros. Among people deceased in 1985, Lloyd Nolan ranks 233. Before him are Milton H. Greene, Lucien Michard, John Holt, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Aleksandra Khokhlova, and Jee Yong-ju. After him are Dinara Asanova, Horatio Fitch, Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés, Cemal Reşit Rey, Scott Brady, and Nicholas Colasanto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lloyd Nolan ranks 8,781 out of 20,380. Before him are Topher Grace (1978), James McCaffrey (1958), Ralph Abernathy (1926), Bill Belichick (1952), Christopher Jones (1941), and Lauren Ridloff (1978). After him are Curt Hennig (1958), Robert Christgau (1942), Taylor Momsen (1993), Donald Trump Jr. (1977), Roger Mahony (1936), and Max Hardcore (1956).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Lloyd Nolan ranks 2,736. Before him are Ron Livingston (1967), Wayne Allwine (1947), Topher Grace (1978), James McCaffrey (1958), Christopher Jones (1941), and Lauren Ridloff (1978). After him are Taylor Momsen (1993), Barton MacLane (1902), Melora Hardin (1967), Cameron Boyce (1999), Brian Benben (1956), and Daniel von Bargen (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

Lady in the Lake
Lieutenant DeGarmot
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 Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Dec 19o 19466 / 10
Earthquake
Dr. James Vance
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Nov 15o 19746.119 / 10
Hannah and Her Sisters
Evan
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Feb 7o 19867.507 / 10