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Jeanette Nolan

Jeanette Nolan

Actor · 1911 – 1998 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress. Nominated for four Emmy Awards, she had roles in the television series The Virginian (1962–1971) and Dirty Sally (1974), and in films such as Macbeth (1948). 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. She continued acting into the 1990s. 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. She appeared on Rod Cameron's syndicated series, State Trooper. Nolan was cast as Emmy Zecker in the 1959 episode "Johnny Yuma" of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. She appeared in two episodes of David Janssen's crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. She starred as Maggie Bowers in the Peter Gunn episode "Love Me to Death" in 1959. She 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. Nolan graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in her native Los Angeles, California. In 1935, Nolan married actor John McIntire; the couple remained together until his death in 1991. Nolan and McIntire had two children together, actors Holly and Tim. Nolan and McIntire worked together several times from the late 1960s on, sometimes as voice actors. They appeared in a 1969 KCET television reading of Norman Corwin's 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, with McIntire as the Devil and Nolan as Lucrezia Borgia. In 1977, they appeared in Disney's twenty-third animated film The Rescuers, in which McIntire voiced the cat Rufus and Nolan the muskrat Ellie Mae. Four years later, the couple worked on the 24th Disney film, The Fox and the Hound, with McIntire as the voice of Mr. Digger, an ill-tempered badger, and Nolan as the original voice of Widow Tweed, the old kindly widow who takes in Tod after his mother was killed by an off-screen hunter. They guest-starred on screen together, often portraying a married couple, as in an episode of The Love Boat in 1978, Charlie's Angels in 1979, The Incredible Hulk in 1980, Goliath Awaits in 1981, Quincy, M.E. in 1983, and Night Court in 1985, playing Dan Fielding's hick Louisianan parents. Nolan died of a stroke in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on June 5, 1998. She was buried in Eureka, Montana's Tobacco Valley Cemetery. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. CLR

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  • Movie8.4

    Psycho

    1960 · 11K votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Rescuers

    1977 · 2.7K votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Fox and the Hound

    1981 · 3.6K votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Horse Whisperer

    1998 · 1.2K votes

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie7.7

    The Big Heat

    1953 · 575 votes

  • Movie6.1

    True Confessions

    1981 · 193 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Macbeth

    1948 · 188 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Cloak & Dagger

    1984 · 167 votes

  • Movie5.4

    The Manitou

    1978 · 70 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Two Rode Together

    1961 · 159 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Tribute to a Bad Man

    1956 · 31 votes

  • Movie5.4
  • Movie3.6

    Avalanche

    1978 · 77 votes

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  • Movie6.1

    7th Cavalry

    1956 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.6

    A Lawless Street

    1955 · 36 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Hangman's Knot

    1952 · 35 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Words and Music

    1948 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.6
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  • Movie7.0

    Street Justice

    1987 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Chamber of Horrors

    1966 · 30 votes

  • Movie3.0

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  • TV8.1

    Columbo

    1971 · 857 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.7

    MacGyver

    1985 · 963 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.5

    Quincy, M.E.

    1976 · 123 votes

  • TV6.2

    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.3

    Night Court

    1984 · 149 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Waltons

    1972 · 106 votes

  • TV7.9

    Combat!

    1962 · 119 votes

  • TV5.7

    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV7.1

    Hunter

    1984 · 102 votes

  • TV6.5

    T. J. Hooker

    1982 · 98 votes

  • TV6.3

    Lassie

    1954 · 74 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes