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Tom Noonan passed away. Bogus…
Noonan was born in 1951 and developed an interest in acting via basketball. He was 6’5 and playing basketball taught him how to perform in front of a crowd. The acting bug bit, and Noonan appeared in Off-Broadway productions before transitioning to movies in the 1980s.
Noonan!
Noonan’s filmography is compact but filled with many favorites: Heaven’s Gate, Wolfen, Eddie Macon’s Run, Easy Money, F/X, Manhunter, Robocop 2, Last Action Hero, Heat, Eight-Legged Freaks and more.
Noonan is perhaps best known for playing Frankenstein’s monster in The Monster Squad.
The director of The Monster Squad, Fred Dekker, sought Noonan out to star in the film after seeing his chilling portrayal of Dollarhyde in Manhunter.
Dekker said, “In the end, he [Noonan] found the make-up arduous and annoying (he was fond of tearing it off after we wrapped, and one night didn’t even bother to take it off; just drove home in his Frankenstein appliance). But all in all, he was the proverbial gentleman and scholar, and the world has lost a great talent. R.I.P. Tom. Thanks for the great work.”
I agree with Dekker. Noonan was great in Manhunter. My personal favorite role of his is probably Robocop 2, though. Love that Tippet stop-motion.
Noonan appeared on many familiar TV shows, as well: The X-Files, Law & Order, Tales From The Darkside and CSI. He even starred in an early Stephen King adaption, The Moving Finger, from the little-remembered horror anthology show Monsters (1991). Noonan felt this way about performing in movies and TV:
“I don’t think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away…”
Vaya con Dios, Tom Noonan…
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