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Classically-trained London-born character actor and stage director, the paternal uncle of film makers Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan. In 1968, he played Clitus in Julius Caesar with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, followed by two years of residency. He subsequently appeared in most of the Bard's plays, including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure. Nolan has also played the lead in the Dostoyevsky Trilogy for the Bristol Old Vic (1980-81) and latterly essayed the alcoholic Doc in Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings at the Arcola Theatre in the East End of London.

Nolan made his screen debut in 1967. His first pivotal role in that medium was as the eponymous hero in a famous BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1970). This led to more regular TV work, including as Geoff Hardcastle, one of the Doomwatch (1970) department, and as the artist Nick Faunt in the miniseries Shabby Tiger (1973), set in 1930s Manchester. In addition to diverse TV guest spots, Nolan portrayed Wayne Enterprise board member Douglas Fredericks on the big screen in Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). As a voice actor, he has narrated documentaries and appeared in ads on TV and radio.

His most high profile screen role to date has been that of ex MI-6 agent John Greer, primary antagonist (from season two) in the compelling sci-fi drama Person of Interest (2011). Greer was the operational head of Decima Technologies, a sinister covert organisation serving Samaritan, an artificially intelligent (but seriously flawed) mass surveillance computer system. The show was created by John's nephew Christopher, according to whom "the best bad guys are always English. That's just kind of a rule. And so my uncle came on board in exactly the same fashion as all of these actors, as a memorable turn that became a longer story arc."

Since 1975, John Nolan has been married to Kim Hartman, best known on TV for her role as the manipulative seductress Helga Geerhart in the popular BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1982).

John Nolan has appeared in several of his nephew&#39;s, acclaimed director Christopher Nolan, works, cast in minor roles - a Cop in Following, or Frederick, a Wayne Enterprises Board Member, in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises.

Uncle-in-law of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0858799/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Emma Thomas</a>.

Spent two years working with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Co-founder, with wife <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0366983/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Kim Hartman</a>, of production company Quinton Arts.

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