Robert Nolan
Biography
Robert Nolan is stage, screen and television actor. He is the narrator of History TV's 'The Real Inglorious Bastards' directed by Gemini-winner Min Sook Lee which won the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards' "Best History or Biography Documentary Program or Series' award.
Robert Nolan's adaptability on-screen stems from a richly varied life. Born in Dublin, Ireland and raised in Canada's wild Alberta west, Nolan has the experience of the new immigrant. He has worked white-collar and blue, then came to acting when completing his B.A. in English. He has since embarked on a career seeking out challenging varieties of roles in quality stories in every medium.
Nolan works on stage and screen, appearing in dramas and comedies including 'Jim Jones' in 'Jonestown', the evil doctor of 'Twisted Pieces', a doctor reforming willful women in 'Silent Retreat' and as the husband whose grief is subsumed by rage in the comedy 'Mourning Has Broken'. In other film roles, he is a no-nonsense FBI agent taking control of an alien crash on an isolated farm in 'The Picco Incident', a reluctant and humane zombie hunter in 'Sick', a husband whose thoughts may not be his own in the critically-acclaimed award-winning 'Familiar', a desperate lab scientist in 'Canswer' and an uncertain bank robber in 'Battleground'.
Nolan appears as a father whose world has fallen away with the death of his daughter by a drunk driver in 'MADD Shattered' which played to high school students across Canada. He is cast in the lead
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in the upcoming 'Tales From Hell' in four distinct roles as a man whose many lives return him to the bonds of the fiery underworld.
Theatre roles include the lead in 'The Trial of Ken Gass', 'Bethune' and principal roles in 'The Great Gatsby', 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'Macbeth'.
In the role of actor
Beyond The Chamber of Terror (11/10/2024)
This is an extended rewrite of our original review published as part of our coverage of the 2021 Blood in the Snow Film Festival A foul-mouthed vigilante targets the people who killed his family in Beyond The Chamber of Terror. Nash Caruthers (Timothy Paul McCarthy) is out for revenge against the Ackerman crime family, headed […]
The Chamber of Terror – Blood in the Snow 2021 (21/11/2021)
A foul-mouthed vigilante targets the people who killed his family in The Chamber of Terror. Nash Caruthers (Timothy Paul McCarthy) is out for revenge against the Ackerman crime family, headed by sadistic patriarch Russell (Robert Nolan), and he quickly dispatches his first target in the form of Russell’s son Tyler (Seth O’Shea). As retribution, Caruthers […]
The Lockpicker (22/06/2018)
A troubled teen struggles to maintain his equilibrium in the wake of his friend’s death in The Lockpicker. Hashi (Keigian Umi Tang) is a teenage thief, who is haunted by the recent suicide of his friend Tess (Melissa McCann), who he still sees in visions. Sleepwalking through life in school, work, and parties, Hashi acts out […]
Once Upon a Time at Christmas – Blood in the Snow 2017 (27/11/2017)
A small town is tormented by a pair of crazed killers in the twelve days leading up to Christmas in Once Upon a Time at Christmas. In the small town of Woodridge, a pair of killers dressed up as Santa (Simon Phillips) and Mrs Claus (Sayla Vee) have started killing people each night in increasing […]
Sixty Minutes to Midnight – Toronto After Dark 2017 (13/10/2017)
A war veteran tries to survive a deadly game show in Sixty Minutes to Midnight. Jack Darcy (Robert Nolan) just wants to spend New Year’s Eve 1999 alone at his house with a bottle of Jack Daniels. However, Jack finds himself an unwitting contestant on the game show “Race the Clock” with Bud Carson (Terry McDonald), where […]
Pre-Feature Shorts – Blood in the Snow 2014 (02/12/2014)
Here is my rundown of the eight shorts that preceded the features at this year’s Blood in the Snow Film Festival. Serpent’s LullabyA woman in a century’s old mansion makes a decision that will change the course of her story. Serpent’s Lullaby is a short that focuses on a certain mythological figure. While it’s a […]
Shorts in Review (20/03/2014)
Tonight is the beginning of the 2014 edition of the Canadian Film Fest, which will be taking place from tonight through Saturday at the Royal Cinema. I am planning on attending five of the festival’s screenings, including both the opening and closing film, and I will be posting reviews for those as weekend goes on. […]