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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

Credit
68% 55% Wonderstruck Walter (Character) $1.0M 2017
92% 71% Anomalisa Everyone Else (Voice) $3.4M 2015
60% 46% Late Phases Father Roger (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rendezvous Screenwriter - 2010
No Score Yet 48% Follow the Prophet Brother John (Character) - 2009
85% 63% The House of the Devil Mr. Ulman (Character) $100.7K 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stoney Charles Stoney (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Magritte Moment George (Character) - 2008
69% 71% Synecdoche, New York Sammy Barnathan (Character) $3.1M 2008
68% 67% Snow Angels Mr. Chervenick (Character) $402.8K 2007
57% 53% Seraphim Falls Minister/Abraham (Character) $413.9K 2006
52% 38% The Roost The Horror Host (Character) $5.3K 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet They're Made Out of Meat Duncan (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet Madness and Genius Frank Donovan (Character) - 2003
21% 51% Knockaround Guys Sheriff Decker (Character) $11.6M 2001
78% 59% The Pledge Gary Jackson (Character) $19.7M 2001
No Score Yet 57% The Photographer Butler (Character) - 2000
54% 48% The Opportunists Mort Stein (Character) $581.1K 2000
15% 33% The Astronaut's Wife Jackson McLaren (Character) $10.7M 1999
50% 51% Phoenix Chicago (Character) $31.6K 1998
No Score Yet 93% The Wife Jack (Character),
Director,
Writer
- 1995
83% 94% Heat Kelso (Character) $66.2M 1995
92% 76% What Happened Was... Michael (Character),
Director
$324.2K 1994
42% 48% Last Action Hero Ripper/Himself (Character) - 1993
28% 37% RoboCop 2 Cain (Character) $45.4M 1990
89% 87% Mystery Train Man in Arcade Diner (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 33% Collision Course Scully (Character) - 1989
56% 78% The Monster Squad Frankenstein's Monster (Character) $3.8M 1987
94% 77% Manhunter Francis Dollarhyde (Character) $7.0M 1986
47% 40% The Man With One Red Shoe Reese (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 13% Best Defense Frank Holtzman (Character) - 1984
60% 58% Easy Money Paddy (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 20% Eddie Macon's Run Daryl Potts (Character) - 1983
77% 48% Wolfen Ferguson (Character) - 1981
91% 79% Gloria 2nd Man - Gangster (Character) - 1980

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs Unknown (Character) 2019
84% 79% Animals. Unknown (Guest Voice) 2018
80% 65% Dimension 404 Bob (Character),
Unknown (Voice)
2017
88% 79% 12 Monkeys Pallid Man (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2015-2016
73% 90% Hell on Wheels Reverend Nathaniel Cole (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2011-2012 2014
91% 90% The Leftovers Casper (Guest Star) 2014
91% 79% The Blacklist The Stewmaker (Guest Star) 2013
93% 95% Louie Dr. Haveford (Guest Star) 2010
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Jake Berlin (Guest Star) 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jonny Zero Unknown (Guest Star) 2005
No Score Yet 76% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet 80% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Zephyr (Guest Star) 2002
92% No Score Yet The Beat Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
74% 86% The X-Files John Lee Roche (Guest Star) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet North and South Will Fenway (Character) 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Equalizer Brandon Thorton (Guest Star) 1989