Career Highlights: Make Way for Tomorrow, Out California Way, The Devil Bat's Daughter
First Major Screen Credit: Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Biography
American actor/playwright Nolan Leary made his stage debut in 1911; 60 years later, he was still appearing in small film and TV roles. From 1943 onward, Leary showed up in some 150 movies, mostly in bit roles. One of his juicier screen assignments was as the deaf-mute father of Lon ChaneyJames Cagney in Man of 1000 Faces (1958). In 1974, Nolan Leary showed up briefly as Ted Baxter's prodigal father on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide