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Acting

Michael Tolan

Career: Active from 1951 to 1990, with a break from 1952 to 1961, busiest in 1951 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 4
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: The Enforcer
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 45 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Michael Tolan Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Absurdist Humor
0.7, average 2.0
Physical Comedy
1.0, average 2.4
Cringe Humor
1.0, average 2.2
Uncanny
1.4, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Dialogue-Heavy 2
Political Drama 2
Character-Driven 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

69

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title · average score 37

Perfect Stranger

37

as Judge

1990s

4 titles · average score 73

Solomon Northup's Odyssey

70

as Henry Northup

Law & Order

74

TV show · as Norman Ackerman

Presumed Innocent

74

as Mr. Polhemus

When Will I Be Loved?

as Eric Patterson

1980s

5 titles · average score 73

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Ralph Whitman / Lt. Alan Terwilliger

Talk to Me

as Dr. Howard

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as Henry Northup

Four Friends

74

Executive Producer

Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet: Tribute to Nijinsky

as Narrator

1970s

18 titles · average score 71

All That Jazz

80

as Dr. Ballinger

Night Terror

49

as Walter Turney

Kojak

72

TV show · as Dr. Peter Allender

Barnaby Jones

70

TV show · as Reed Calder

Ghost Story

75

TV show · as Keith Newton

Cannon

67

TV show

The 300-Year Weekend

as Dr. Marshall

McMillan & Wife

70

TV show · as Dr. Alec Janetta

Nichols

70

TV show · as Flying Fox

The Bold Ones: The Senator

TV show · as Jordan Boyle

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

85

TV show · as Dan Whitfield

Dan August

71

TV show · as John Eberson

1960s

27 titles · average score 62

John and Mary

48

as James

The Lost Man

52

as Insp. Carl Hamilton

Medical Center

67

TV show · as Julius

Hour of the Gun

63

as Pete Spence

Mannix

71

TV show · as Dr. Norman Forrest

The Invaders

49

TV show · as Dr. Ted Willard

Mission: Impossible

79

TV show · as Santos Cardoza / Vitol Enzor

The F.B.I.

65

TV show · as Alan Graves / Neal Kriton

The Outer Limits

78

TV show · as Prof. Stephen Grave

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

66

TV show · as Lt. Murrow

The Nurses

TV show · as Dr. Alex Tazinski "Ski"

Route 66

48

TV show

1950s

12 titles · average score 70

Naked City

69

TV show · as Det. Alan Keller / Ricardo Gardio

Decoy

70

TV show · as Mike Bergen

Inner Sanctum

TV show

Julius Caesar

85

as Officer to Octavius

Omnibus

75

TV show · as Abraham Lincoln

The Savage

64

as Long Mane

Hiawatha

as Ajawac

The Enforcer

80

as James 'Duke' Malloy

Fort Worth

63

as Mort Springer

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

53

as Leo Daly

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Lt. Col. Tench

The People Against O'Hara

54

as Vincent Korvac (as Lawrence Tolan) (uncredited)

1940s

2 titles · average score 71

Studio One

65

TV show · as Octavius Caesar / Plenty Own

Kraft Television Theatre

78

TV show