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Tom Noonan

Highest Rated: 94% Manhunter (1986)

Lowest Rated: 15% The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

Birthday: Apr 12, 1951

Birthplace: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Tall (6'6"), lanky and balding, Tom Noonan is a veritable one-man movie studio, serving as producer, director, writer, editor, composer and, on occasion, star of a handful of well-received independent features. Born and raised in Connecticut, he dropped out of Yale and moved to Boston before eventually settling in Manhattan where he began his showbiz career as a musician and composer. Switching to acting, Noonan first came to prominence as the star of Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" in 1978. In films, he achieved notoriety as a serial killer in Michael Mann's taut "Manhunter" (1986). Using his towering, eccentric look, at once fragile and terrifying, Noonan went on to create a galaxy of screen villains, most memorably in "F/X" (1986), "RoboCop 2" (1990) and "Last Action Hero" (1993).

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Highest-Rated Movies

94% 77% Manhunter
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92% 71% Anomalisa Watchlist 92% 76% What Happened Was... Watchlist 91% 79% Gloria Watchlist
89% 87% Mystery Train
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85% 63% The House of the Devil Watchlist 83% 94% Heat Watchlist
78% 59% The Pledge
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77% 48% Wolfen
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69% 71% Synecdoche, New York
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Wonderstruck 68% 55% 2017 Walter Actor Anomalisa 92% 71% 2015 Everyone Else Voice Late Phases 60% 46% 2014 Father Roger Actor The Rendezvous 2010 Screenwriter Follow the Prophet 48% 2009 Brother John Actor The House of the Devil 85% 63% 2009 Mr. Ulman Actor Stoney 2009 Charles Stoney Actor Magritte Moment 2008 George Actor Synecdoche, New York 69% 71% 2008 Sammy Barnathan Actor Snow Angels 68% 67% 2007 Mr. Chervenick Actor Seraphim Falls 57% 53% 2006 Minister/Abraham Actor The Roost 52% 38% 2005 The Horror Host Actor They're Made Out of Meat 2005 Duncan Actor Madness and Genius 2003 Frank Donovan Actor Knockaround Guys 21% 51% 2001 Sheriff Decker Actor The Pledge 78% 59% 2001 Gary Jackson Actor The Photographer 57% 2000 Butler Actor The Opportunists 54% 48% 2000 Mort Stein Actor The Astronaut's Wife 15% 33% 1999 Jackson McLaren Actor Phoenix 50% 51% 1998 Chicago Actor The Wife 93% 1995 Jack Actor, Director, Writer Heat 83% 94% 1995 Kelso Actor What Happened Was... 92% 76% 1994 Michael Actor, Director Last Action Hero 42% 48% 1993 Ripper/Himself Actor RoboCop 2 28% 37% 1990 Cain Actor
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