Tom Noonan, the actor known for his Michael Mann collaborations, has died at the age of 74.<\/p>\n
His death was confirmed by Fred Dekker, the director of 80s comedy horror The Monster Squad which saw Noonan play Frankenstein\u2019s Monster.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s with great sadness that I share the passing of Tom Noonan,\u201d he wrote on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cTom\u2019s indelible performance as Frankenstein in The Monster Squad is a highlight of my modest filmography \u2026 he was the proverbial gentleman and scholar, and the world has lost a great talent.\u201d<\/p>\n Karen Sillas, who starred with Noonan in What Happened Was \u2026, a film Noonan wrote, directed and acted in, based on his play, also paid tribute on social media. \u201cWhat a privilege and crazy fun it was working with this man and calling him my friend to the end,\u201d she wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n The film won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance in 1994.<\/p>\n Noonan started his career in off-Broadway theatre, a stretch that saw him star in the original production of Sam Shepard\u2019s Buried Child, before he began working in film in the 1980s. One of his first roles was in Michael Cimino\u2019s Heaven\u2019s Gate and he then appeared in the Tom Hanks comedy The Man with One Red Shoe and action thriller F\/X.<\/p>\n In 1986, he worked with Mann on the Thomas Harris adaptation Manhunter, playing serial killer Francis Dolarhyde.<\/p>\n \u201cI was making a little bit from my acting, but I was really poor and desperate, and this is a real part,\u201d Noonan later said in an interview<\/a>. \u201cI proceeded then to turn it down about five times. I just wanted to get paid more than they were willing to pay me. They wanted to pay me like $35,000 to do this whole movie. That was money back in 1985, but I said: \u2018I\u2019m not doing it for under $100,000.\u2019 My agent said, \u2018You\u2019re crazy.\u2019 Somehow, they ended up giving me that amount of money.\u201d<\/p>\n Noonan would later reunite with Mann for 1995\u2019s Heat.<\/p>\n