Jeanette Nolan

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 19621971 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 Keiths CBS Cold War series Crusader She appeared on Rod Camerons 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 Janssens 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 MrsEdith 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 Corwins 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas with McIntire as the Devil and Nolan as Lucrezia Borgia In 1977 they appeared in Disneys twentythird 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 illtempered 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 offscreen hunter They gueststarred on screen together often portraying a married couple as in an episode of The Love Boat in 1978 Charlies Angels in 1979 The Incredible Hulk in 1980 Goliath Awaits in 1981 Quincy ME in 1983 and Night Court in 1985 playing Dan Fieldings hick Louisianan parents Nolan died of a stroke in CedarsSinai Medical Center on June 5 1998 She was buried in Eureka Montanas Tobacco Valley Cemetery From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia CLR