#1 of VH1's "40 Most Shocking Celebrity Mugshots" - had a Hawaiin shirt and a bed-head.
12 December 2002, he pleaded no contest to charges of driving under the influence. He was given 3-years' probation with orders to undergo alcohol and drug counseling with random testing required.
Attended Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa
Attended Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska.
Born at 7:00pm-CST.
Considered for the lead in The Thing (1982).
Considered for the role of John Rambo in First Blood (1982).
Declined the role of Snake Plissken in Escape From New York (1981). The part eventually went to Kurt Russell.
Director Keith Gordon took a one-day role in I Love Trouble (1994) to personally ask Nick Nolte to read the script for Mother Night (1996), after being initially dismissed by Nolte's agent.
Father of Brawley Nolte.
Father, with girlfriend Clytie Lane, of a girl named Sophie Lane born on October 3, 2007 in Los Angeles. The girl weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces.
He eagerly pursued the role of Cpt. Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979). When Harvey Keitel was fired, Nolte thought he had the part, but Coppola gave it to Martin Sheen.
He, along with Christopher Walken, were both considered for the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
His career started in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Eleanor Moore Agency as a model for print ads.
His father, Frank Nolte, was an irrigation pump salesman. His father was also an All-American candidate at Iowa State in 1934. His mother, Helen Nolte, was a department store buyer. He has an older sister, Nancy, who is the executive for Red Cross.
His paternal grandfather was a German farmer with a farm in Iowa.
In 1962, Nolte was given five years probation for selling fake draft cards.
In 1978 Karen Ecklund, his girlfriend of 5 years, sued him for community property and support.
In 1992, he was chosen as People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.