Tom Nolan (writer)
| Tom Nolan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Bernard Girouard January 15, 1948 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Residence | San Fernando Valley, California, USA |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Actor, writer |
| Years active | 1952–2012 |
Tom Nolan (born Bernard Girouard; January 15, 1948) is a Canadian-American actor and journalist whose career dates back to his work as a child star in the 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1960s, he was a writer for Cheetah, the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. Nolan resides in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles.
Nolan was born Bernard Girouard in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to parents of French and Irish descent. His family moved to Beverly in Essex County in northeastern Massachusetts, where he immediately started dance classes. His television debut was as Edward, Prince of Wales, the son of Henry VIII, on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame. The jug-eared lad often portrayed young boys with afflictions, such as a crippled youngster on an episode of CBS's My Friend Flicka or an asthmatic on NBC's Medic, the first television medical series. He appeared in two episodes of the NBC anthology series, Thriller: as a disturbed young boy in "Child's Play" and as a violently protective brother in "Parasite Mansion".
At the age of ten, Nolan was cast as Jody O'Connell in the NBC Western series Buckskin, which ran for thirty-nine episodes from July 3, 1958 to September 14, 1959. It started as a summer replacement series for The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford and was held over after a month's hiatus in October 1958. It was repeated in the summers of 1959 and 1965. The then 12-year-old Nolan summed up his situation accordingly:
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