Michael Tolan
Gender: Male
Born: 27th November 1925
Died: 31st January 2011
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Nurses, The Bold Ones: The Senator, The Nurses
Movies: Solomon Northup's Odyssey, John and Mary, Hour of the Gun, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Journey of the Fifth Horse, All That Jazz, Presumed Innocent, The Enforcer, Night Drive
Michael Tolan (November 27, 1925 – January 31, 2011) was an American actor.
Tolan was born Seymour Tuchow in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit and studied under Stella Adler and at Stanford University. He appeared primarily in stage roles in his early career, with only minor parts in films of the early 1950s. His stage roles include Romanoff and Juliet and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, his Broadway debut. His first film role was in The Enforcer; he also had roles in Fort Worth, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and Presumed Innocent.
He acted mostly on television from the mid-1950s on, including an appearance on the 1960 CBS summer series, Diagnosis: Unknown, a role in The Doctors and the Nurses, and a continuing role as Jordan Boyle on "The Senator" segments of the anthology umbrella TV series The Bold Ones (1970–71). He had a recurring role on three episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and made guest appearances on such television series as Mannix, Kojak, McMillan and Wife, and Law & Order. His last known television appearance was on an episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1994.
Tolan appeared in the Bob Fosse film All That Jazz (1979) as lead
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