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Back in the late sixties Nicholas King Nolte was a Nebraska boy done good. Booted out of numerous high schools and colleges due to poor grades and the odd shenanigan – he was expelled from his native Benson High for fighting and stashing beer – Nolte was able to put the Midwest behind him at an early age and embark on a burgeoning modelling career.
One successful Clairol ad later and his face was one that people were starting to recognise – smooth, handsome and seemingly etched from stone. But it was his dabbling in theatre productions and stage schools that set him onto his true calling, where he first found key roles in television – his role in miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man was a Brando esque calling card – a before answering Hollywood’s call for a new tough yet sincere leading man.
What transpired was a career littered with good,...
Back in the late sixties Nicholas King Nolte was a Nebraska boy done good. Booted out of numerous high schools and colleges due to poor grades and the odd shenanigan – he was expelled from his native Benson High for fighting and stashing beer – Nolte was able to put the Midwest behind him at an early age and embark on a burgeoning modelling career.
One successful Clairol ad later and his face was one that people were starting to recognise – smooth, handsome and seemingly etched from stone. But it was his dabbling in theatre productions and stage schools that set him onto his true calling, where he first found key roles in television – his role in miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man was a Brando esque calling card – a before answering Hollywood’s call for a new tough yet sincere leading man.
What transpired was a career littered with good,...
- 9/18/2015
- by Shaun Davis
- Obsessed with Film
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