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Noonan died Saturday on Valentine\u2019s Day, according to Fred Dekker<\/a>, director of The Monster Squad<\/a> (1987), in which the actor played Frankenstein<\/a>\u2019s monster. No cause of death was immediately available.<\/p>\n Dekker<\/a> wrote on Facebook<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s with great sadness that I share the passing of Tom Noonan \u2026 Tom\u2019s indelible performance as Frankenstein in The Monster Squad<\/a> is a highlight of my modest filmography, doubtless aided by the masterful make-up designed by Stan Winston<\/a>, sculpted by Tom Woodruff Jr.<\/a>, and applied by Zoltan Elek<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving been knocked out by his performance as Francis Dollarhyde in Michael Mann<\/a>\u2019s Manhunter<\/a>,\u201d Dekker continued, \u201cI desperately wanted Tom to read the script and consider the part, but I knew that nabbing him was probably a long shot. Nonetheless, he agreed to meet…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom Noonan, the actor-writer-director best known for roles in Manhunter, The Monster Squad and Heat, has died. He was 74. Noonan died Saturday on Valentine\u2019s Day, according to Fred Dekker, director of The Monster Squad (1987), in which the actor played Frankenstein\u2019s monster. No cause of death was immediately available. Dekker wrote on Facebook: \u201cIt\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2287661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2287660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tom-Noonan-Star-of-Michael-Manns-\u2018Manhunter-and-\u2018Heat-Dies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287662,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287660\/revisions\/2287662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}