Jeanette Nolan

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Jeanette Nolan
Born	December 30, 1911(1911-12-30) Los Angeles, California
Died	June 5, 1998 (aged 86) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Film, television actress
Spouse(s)	John McIntire

Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress, born in Los Angeles, California.

Miss Nolan was a graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles.^[1] She began her acting career at the Pasadena Community Playhouse 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, and continued acting until the 1990s. She made her film debut as Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's 1948 film Macbeth, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. Despite the fact that she and the film received withering reviews at the time,^[1][2] Nolan's film career flourished in largely supporting roles. Viewers of film noir may know her best as the corrupt wife of a dead (and equally corrupt) police officer in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat. Her final film appearance was in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer as Robert Redford's mother.

Nolan made over three hundred television appearances, including Brian Keith's first series, Crusader, in the role of Dr. Marion in "The Healer" (1956). She also appeared on Rod Cameron's syndicated State Trooper, and on the April 27, 1962, episode "A Book of Faces" on ABC's crime drama Target: The Corruptors!. She guest starred as Claire Farnham in the episode "To Love Is to Live" on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. She appeared three times on Wagon Train, the western series in which her husband John McIntire starred as wagonmaster Chris Hale from 1961-1965. She guest starred three times in 1963-1964 on NBC's Dr. Kildare and in a 1964 episode of Richard Crenna's short-lived Slattery's People political drama on CBS. Nolan was nominated for four Emmy Awards. In 1967 she joined the cast of The Virginian alongside husband John McIntire.

She appeared regularly in several radio series: Young Dr. Malone, 1939-40; Cavalcade of America, 1940-41; Nicolette Moore in One Man's Family, 1947-50; and The Great Gildersleeve, 1949-52. She appeared episodically in many more.^[3]

In 1974, she starred briefly with Dack Rambo in CBS's Dirty Sally, a spinoff of the Gunsmoke western series where she had played a recurring guest role for eight episodes. She also played the titular role in the award-winning short film Peege (1972) thanks to her Gunsmoke connection.^[4]

She appeared with Judd Hirsch in Dear John, and Harry Anderson in Night Court.^[5]

She played the role of Mrs Peck in the Columbo episode Double Shock. She played Alma, Rose Nylund's adoptive mother, in the hit series The Golden Girls.

She married actor John McIntire, of the 1960s TV series Wagon Train, in 1935. Unlike typical short-lived Hollywood marriages, they remained married for fifty-six years until his death in 1991. The couple even guest starred together in an episode of The Incredible Hulk in 1980. She was the mother of two children, one of whom was the actor Tim McIntire, who was best-known for his turn as the legendary DJ Alan Freed in the 1978 film American Hot Wax.

She died on June 5, 1998, in Los Angeles, California following a stroke at the age of 86.^[6]

References

External links

• Jeanette Nolan at the Internet Movie Database
• Jeanette Nolan at Find a Grave