Overview
- The Stratford-Upon-Avon Herald reported Saturday that John Nolan died at 87, and no cause of death was disclosed.
- Family tributes followed, with Christopher Nolan calling him "the first artist I knew" and wife Kim Hartman remembering a "free spirit."
- His screen credits with nephew Christopher Nolan included Following, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises, and a brief role in Dunkirk.
- He reached a wide U.S. audience as John Greer, a former MI6 agent who runs Decima Technologies and the rival AI known as Samaritan, across about 27 to 28 episodes of CBS’s Person of Interest.
- A Drama Centre London graduate who spent two years at the Royal Shakespeare Company and led the BBC’s 1970 Daniel Deronda, he is survived by wife Kim Hartman, children Miranda and Tom, and grandchildren Dylan and Kara.