Biography

Born in 1911, Jeanette Nolan began her acting career in the Pasadena Community Playhouse. While still a student at Los Angeles City College, she made her radio debut in 1932, aged 20, in "Omar Khayyam", the first transcontinental broadcast from station KHJ. Her film debut was probably also her best part: Lady Macbeth opposite director/actor Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948). Her final film role was as Tom Booker (Robert Redford)'s mother, Ellen Booker, in The Horse Whisperer (1998).

She made more than 300 television appearances including episode roles in Perry Mason (1957), I Spy (1965), MacGyver (1985), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), and as a regular on The Richard Boone Show (1963) and The Virginian (1962). She received four Emmy nominations.

Nolan died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, in 1998, aged 86, following a stroke.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Was cast as a witch numerous times on television, most notably on episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959), Thriller (1960) (twice) and Night Gallery (1969).

During the Golden Age of radio through the 1930s and 1940s, Nolan provided the voices of a variety characters on such programs as "The March of Time", "Cavalcade of America", "The Court of Missing Heirs", "The Adventures of Mister Meek", "Life Begins" and "Manhattan at Midnight". On many of these dramatic performances she collaborated with her then husband, the late actor John McIntire. Nolan has the rather curious distinction of having provided a series of screams for "mother" in Psycho (1960) in which, coincidentally, her husband played Sheriff Chambers. She and McIntire played married couples in episodes of two different television series. The couple had two children, both actors: Holly McIntire and Tim McIntire. Tim McIntire predeceased his parents, dying of congestive heart failure at age 41.

Made her film debut in actor/director Orson Welles' "Macbeth" in 1948 and her final film, exactly fifty years later, 1998's "The Horse Whisperer" opposite actor/director Robert Redford.

Mother-in-law of Charles Wright.