Kathleen Nolan

Kathleen Nolan
Kathleen Nolan in 2007
Born	Jocelyn Schrum September 27, 1933 (1933-09-27) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1953–present

Kathleen Nolan (born September 27, 1933) is an American actress. She is sometimes confused with actress Jeanette Nolan. From 1957 to 1962, she played the role of Kate McCoy, a housewife in her late twenties, in the Walter Brennan series The Real McCoys.

Life and career

Born as Jocelyn Schrum in St. Louis, Missouri, she achieved fame as the first female President of the Screen Actors Guild (1975–1979, two terms). She won a Women in Film Crystal Award.

She played Wendy in the original Broadway production of Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard, and in the first two live telecasts (1955 and 1956) of the musical, but spent most of her career on television. She has appeared on such television shows as Gunsmoke, Jamie, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Breaking Point, Crossing Jordan, Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, All My Children, Murder, She Wrote (1991) episode "The Prodigal Father", Magnum, P.I. (1981) episode "The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii", The Incredible Hulk, Quincy M.E., The Love Boat, Charlie's Angels, The Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Love, American Style, Bewitched, The Big Valley, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Burke's Law, Meet McGraw, and Ben Casey.

Nolan appeared with fellow guest star Michael Landon in the 1958 episode "Rose of the Rio Bravo" on the ABC western series Tombstone Territory, starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood.

Her most memorable roles were as Kate McCoy, wife of Luke McCoy, played by Richard Crenna, in The Real McCoys, for which she was nominated for an Emmy award, and in the military sitcom Broadside, both on ABC. In the last season of The Real McCoys (1962–63), Nolan left the series. It was renamed The McCoys, switched from ABC to CBS, and moved from Thursday to Sunday evenings opposite Bonanza on NBC. In the revised format, her character of Kate was said to have died.

In 1980, Nolan was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.

External links

• Kathleen Nolan at the Internet Movie Database
• Kathleen Nolan at the Internet Broadway Database
• Kathleen Nolan at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Screen Actors Guild biography