Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress. Nominated for four

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s, she had roles in the television series '' The Virginian'' (1962–1971) and ''

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'' (1974), and in films such as ''

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'' (1948).

Career

Nolan began her prolific acting career at the

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, California, and, while a student at

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, made her radio debut in 1932 in '' Omar Khayyam'', the first transcontinental broadcast from station KHJ. She continued acting into the 1990s. She appeared regularly in several radio series, including ''

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'', 1939–1940; ''

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'', 1940–1941; Nicolette Moore in '' One Man's Family'', 1947–1950; and ''

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'', 1949–1952. She appeared episodically in many more She made her film debut as

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' 1948 film ''

'', based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. Despite the fact that she and the film received withering reviews at the time, Nolan's film career flourished in largely supporting roles. Viewers of

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may know her best as the corrupt wife of a dead (and equally corrupt) police officer in

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's ''

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''. 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

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's CBS Cold War series, ''Crusader''. She appeared on Rod Cameron's syndicated series, ''

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''. In 1957 she played "Ma Grilk" in S3E5's "Potato Road" on the TV Western Series ''

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''. Nolan was cast as Emmy Zecker in the 1959 episode "Johnny Yuma" of the ABC

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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 ''

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'' episode "Love Me to Death" in 1959. She played Sadie Grimes in ''

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'' episode titled "The Right Kind of House" which first aired March 9, 1958, and Mrs. Edith in "Coming Home" June 13, 1961. From 1959 to 1960, she played Annette Deveraux, part-owner of the hotel in the CBS western series, ''

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'', with Earl Holliman. In 1960, she appeared in season 4, episode 7 of

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's '' Have Gun – Will Travel'' as a newly widowed sheriff. Also, in 1962, season 5, episode 24, as the lost mother of an Eastern school girl. She appeared in two other episodes. She was cast in other western films, including '' The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch'' (1982). Nolan made six guest appearances on CBS's '' Perry Mason'', including the role of murderer Mrs. Kirby in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Fugitive Nurse," murderer Emma Benson in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Nine Dolls," Mama Norden in "The Case of the Hateful Hero," Martha Blair in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Counterfeit Crank," title character and murderer Nellie in the 1964 episode, "The Case of the Betrayed Bride," and defendant Emma Ritter in the 1965 episode, "The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein." She guest starred as "Sister Mary Paul", a nun fooled into hiding an injured killer, in the 1961 S3Ep24 episode "The Good & The Bad" in CBS's ''

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''. She then portrayed Janet Picard in the episode "Woman in the River" of the ABC/Warner Brothers detective series '' Bourbon Street Beat'', starring Andrew Duggan. She gave an over-the-top performance as a crazed old woman in the "Parasite Mansion" episode of

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's ''

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''. On April 27, 1962, she appeared in the episode "A Book of Faces" on another ABC crime drama, '' Target: The Corruptors!'', starring Stephen McNally and Robert Harland. She guest starred as Claire Farnham in the episode "To Love Is to Live" on the psychiatric medical drama '' The Eleventh Hour''. She was cast as a fortune teller, Mme. Di Angelo, in the 1963 episode "The Black-Robed Ghost" of the anthology series, '' GE True'', hosted by

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. She was a member of the repertory cast of '' The Richard Boone Show'', appearing in 25 episodes. In 1963, Nolan was cast as Mrs. Mertens in the episode "Reformation of Willie" on the ABC drama series, '' Going My Way'', starring Gene Kelly as a

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priest in New York City. Coincidentally, ''Going My Way'' followed the western series ''

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'' on the ABC schedule. Nolan herself appeared three times on ''Wagon Train'', in which her husband,

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, co-starred as wagon master Chris Hale from 1961 to 1965. In 1963, Nolan also guest starred as Sister Therese in the episode "Infant of Prague" on ABC's World War II series, '' Combat!''. Nolan guest-starred three times from 1963 to 1964 on '' Dr. Kildare'', and in a 1964 episode of Richard Crenna's short-lived '' Slattery's People'', a political drama series on CBS. Earlier, she had appeared with Crenna and Walter Brennan in their sitcom, ''

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''. Nolan played the role of witches in two of Rod Serling's anthology television series: ''

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'', in the episode "

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" with Anne Francis; and the '' Night Gallery'' segment "Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay" opposite James Farentino and Michele Lee. Nolan also appeared in the 1962 Twilight Zone episode "The Hunt," with Arthur Hunnicutt. Nolan was cast in 1964 as a repertory cast member in the acclaimed but short-lived television anthology series " The Richard Boone Show" appearing in 13 episodes. In 1964 she guest starred on ''

'', playing the title character "Aunt Thede" (S10E13). On November 4, 1965, Nolan portrayed the treacherous Ma Burns in "The Golden Trail" episode of NBC's '' Laredo''. Ma Burns is a supposedly refined woman trying to hijack a presumed gold shipment headed to Laredo from St. Louis. In actuality, the cargo consists of thirty-six bottles of Tennessee whisky. She was also cast on ''Laredo'' as Martha Tuforth in "It's the End of the Road, Stanley" (1966) and as Vita Rose in "Like One of the Family" (1967). ''Laredo'' was a two-season spinoff of '' The Virginian'', whose cast Nolan joined in 1967 as Holly Grainger, along with her husband John McIntire who headed the cast as ranch owner Clay Grainger. In 1968, Nolan was cast in the episode "All in a Day's Work" on the NBC police drama '' Ironside'', playing a mother who has lost her only child who was shot after a robbery. That same year, she appeared on '' Hawaii Five-O'' in the role of Aunt Martha. Nolan guest-starred on the short-lived sitcom '' The Mothers-in-Law'' in two separate episodes in the second and final season of the series. She first played Kaye Ballard's grandmother, Gabriela Balotta, who always fainted when she didn't get her way; and then secondly as Annie MacTaggart, a Scottish nanny hired to take care of newborn twins of the younger couple, Jerry and Suzie Buell. In 1974, she starred briefly with Dack Rambo in CBS's ''

'', a spinoff of ''

'', on which she had played a recurring guest role for three episodes. She also played the titular role in the award-winning short film ''

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'' (1972) because of her ''Gunsmoke'' connection. Nolan appeared as a guest star in television's ''

'' more than any other female. Nolan portrayed Mrs. Peck in the 1973 episode " Double Shock" of

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's '' Columbo'' series. She was also in a second ''Columbo'' episode, as Kate O'Connell in "The Conspirators" (1978). In 1985, she played Alma Lindstrom, Rose Nylund's adoptive mother, in the ninth episode of the first season of the hit NBC sitcom ''

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''. Her final film appearance was in

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's '' The Horse Whisperer'' of 1998 as Tom Booker's mother, Ellen.

Personal life and death

Nolan graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in her native

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. In 1935, Nolan married actor

; the couple remained together until his death in 1991. Nolan and McIntire had two children together:

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, a photographer, and Tim, an actor. Nolan and McIntire worked together several times from the late 1960s on, sometimes as voice actors. They appeared in a 1969

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television reading of

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's 1938 radio play ''

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'', with McIntire as

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and Nolan as

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. 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, ''

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'', with McIntire as the voice of Mr. Digger, an ill-tempered

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, and Nolan as the 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, ''

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'' in 1979, ''

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'' in 1980, ''

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'' in 1981, '' Quincy, M.E.'' in 1983, and ''

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'' 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.

Selected filmography

*''

'' (1948) – Lady Macbeth *'' Words and Music'' (1948) – Mrs. Hart *'' Abandoned'' (1949) – Major Ellen Ross *'' No Sad Songs for Me'' (1950) – Mona Frene *'' Saddle Tramp'' (1950) – Ma Higgins *''

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'' (1950) – Foster Mother (uncredited) *'' The Secret of Convict Lake'' (1951) – Harriet Purcell *'' The Happy Time'' (1952) – Felice Bonnard *'' Hangman's Knot'' (1952) – Mrs. Margaret Harris *''

'' (1953) – Bertha Duncan *'' A Lawless Street'' (1955) – Mrs. Dingo Brion *''

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'' (1956) – Mrs. L.A. Peterson *'' Everything but the Truth'' (1956) – Miss Adelaide Dabney *'' 7th Cavalry'' (1956) – Charlotte Reynolds *'' The Halliday Brand'' (1957) – Nante *'' The Guns of Fort Petticoat'' (1957) – Cora Melavan *'' April Love'' (1957) – Henrietta Bruce *''

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'' (TV series, 1958) – Grand Duchess Maria (Episode: "Command Performance") *'' The Deep Six'' (1958) – Mrs. Austen *'' Wild Heritage'' (1958) – Ma (Janet) Bascomb *''

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'' (1958) Episode "The Right Kind of House" *'' The Rabbit Trap'' (1959) – Mrs. Colt *'' The Restless Gun'' (1959) Episode "The Sweet Sisters" *''

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'' (1960) – Norma Bates (voice, uncredited) *''

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'' (1961) – Ma Demara *'' Two Rode Together'' (1961) – Mrs. Mary McCandles *''

'' (1962) "The Janet Hale Story"-Janet Hale *'' The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' (1962) – Nora Ericson *'' Have Gun-Will Travel'' (1962) – Various (4 episodes) *''

'' (1962) – Rachel Simpson (Episode: "The Hunt") *'' Twilight of Honor'' (1963) – Amy Clinton *'' The Richard Boone Show'' (1964) – Repertory Cast Member (25 episodes) *''

'' (1964) – Aunt Thede *''

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'' (1964)Aunt Kate *'' My Blood Runs Cold'' (1965) – Aunt Sarah *''

'' Episode: The Chottsie Gubenheimer Story (1965)Chottsie Gubenheimer *'' Chamber of Horrors'' (1966) – Mrs. Ewing Perryman *'' The Reluctant Astronaut'' (1967) – Mrs. Fleming *''

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'' (1968) – Ma Webb *''

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'' (1971) – Holly Grainger (27 episodes) *''

'' (1972) – Various (8 episodes) *''

'' (1973) – Peege *'' The Sky's the Limit'' (1975) – Gertie *'' The Winds of Autumn'' (1976) – Ora Mae Hankins *'' The Rescuers'' (1977) – Ellie Mae (voice) *'' The Manitou'' (1978) – Mrs. Winconis *''

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'' (1978) – Florence Shelby *'' Columbo'' (1978) - Kate O’Connell *''

'' (1980) – Lucy Cash (Episode: "A Rock and a Hard Place") *''

'' (1981) – Widow Tweed (voice) *'' True Confessions'' (1981) – Mrs. Spellacy *''

'' (1981) – Mrs. Bartholomew *'' Cloak and Dagger'' (1984) – Eunice MacCready *''

'' (1985) – Alma Nylund *''

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'' (1987) – Mrs. Chandler *'' The Horse Whisperer'' (1998) – Grandma Ellen Booker (final film role)

References

External links

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