Overview
- Director Fred Dekker and actor Karen Sillas shared the news on social media, confirming Noonan died on Valentine’s Day.
- Noonan’s breakout as Francis Dollarhyde in Michael Mann’s Manhunter led to memorable turns as Cain in RoboCop 2, Frankenstein’s monster in The Monster Squad and Kelso in Heat.
- He wrote, directed and starred in What Happened Was…, which won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in 1994.
- Tributes highlighted his singular screen presence, with Dekker calling him “the proverbial gentleman and scholar” and Mann praising his transformative Manhunter performance.
- Across four decades, he worked in acclaimed films and TV series including Synecdoche, New York, Anomalisa, The X-Files, Hell on Wheels and 12 Monkeys.