John Ford Noonan

John Ford Noonan ( born October 7, 1943 in New York City, New York ) is an American actor and screenwriter.

Life

Noonan, older brother of actor Tom Noonan, attended Brown University. After a brief spell as a Latin teacher, he turned to the theater and was trained at the American Conservatory Theater. In addition to studying at Carnegie Institute of Technology, he played among others in some smaller Shakespeare productions. He worked in the 1960s as a stagehand to get ends meet. During this time he discovered his talent as a screenwriter. His breakthrough as an author he was first performed in 1969 when his piece The Year Boston Won the Pennant at Lincoln Center in New York. Until the late 1980s, he had already written over 30 stage Stücker, including being financially successful, A Couple White Chicks Sitting Around Talking.

Noonan was seen occasionally as an actor in film and television, including the nominated for two Golden Globes drama A fly in the ointment alongside Shelley Winters and Christopher Walken and the comedy Flirting with Disaster - A disaster of Hazzard on the side of Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette. He had a major supporting role as terrifying car - tow John Pruitt in Chris Columbus' film debut Adventures in Babysitting. Occasionally Noonan wrote for the American television. For his participation in an episode script for the doctor series St. Elsewhere, he was awarded the 1984 Primetime Emmy.

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