Kathleen Nolan (born Joycelyn Schrum; September 27, 1933) is an American actress and former president of the Screen Actors Guild.

[3] On Broadway, Nolan played Wendy in the original production of the Styne-Comden-Green musical version of Peter Pan (1954–1955),[4] starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard,[5] a role she repeated in both the 1955 and 1956 live NBC-TV broadcasts on Producers' Showcase.

One of the earlier black-and-white versions, with Nolan’s revelatory, irrepressible performance, can be viewed by appointment at New York’s Paley Center.

Nolan made other appearances over the years on such series as Gunsmoke title character in “Call Me Dodie” (1962), The Lloyd Bridges Show, The Millionaire, The Untouchables, Breaking Point, Crossing Jordan, Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, All My Children, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, Murder, She Wrote (1991 episode "The Prodigal Father"), Magnum, P.I.

(episodes "The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii" (1981) and "Double Jeopardy" (1982) (last one in which Larry Pennell guest starred), The Incredible Hulk, Quincy M.E., The Love Boat, Charlie's Angels, The Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Love, American Style, Bewitched, The Big Valley, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Thriller, Burke's Law, Meet McGraw, and Ben Casey.

[citation needed] Nolan appeared on McHale's Navy, which resulted in her own spin-off series Broadside, in which she led a cast that included Edward Andrews, Dick Sargent, Sheila James (in her last regular television series role), Lois Roberts, Joan Staley, George Furth, Arnold Stang, and Jimmy Boyd.

[8] In 1959, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Continuing Character) in a Comedy Series for her work in The Real McCoys.