AS SEEN ON TV: JOHNNY NOLAN

 

 JOHNNY NOLAN

CREATED BY:

Betty Smith

PORTRAYED BY:

Cliff Robertson

AS SEEN IN:

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"

From Wikipedia:

Johnny Nolan is Francie's father. He is a second generation immigrant from Ireland. He has a protective mother and had three brothers, all of whom died young. Johnny marries Katie Rommely at nineteen. He is charismatic, a loving husband and father, loved dearly by his family but especially by Francie. He is, however, an alcoholic. 

When he does hold a job, Johnny works as a singing waiter. He has a beautiful voice, a talent that is greatly admired but that is largely wasted because of his reputation as an alcoholic. After Katie tells him that she is pregnant with their third child, he stops drinking and immediately falls into a deep depression that ends with his death from alcoholism-induced pneumonia. 

He is a dreamer, in sharp contrast to Katie, whose view of the world is realistic.

BCnU!