FrameThrower · Actors · Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan
8 films · 460 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1986–2015
Born 12 April 1951 · Greenwich, Connecticut, USA · died 14 February 2026
Tom Noonan was an American actor, director, and screenwriter, best known for his roles as Francis Dollarhyde in Manhunter (1986), Frankenstein's Monster in The Monster Squad (1987), Cain in RoboCop 2 (1990), The Ripper in Last Action Hero (1993), Kelso the hacker in Heat (1995), Sammy Barnathan in Synecdoche, New York (2008), Mr. Ulman in The House of the Devil (2009), Reverend Nathaniel in Hell on Wheels (2011–2014), the Pallid Man in 12 Monkeys (2015–2018) and as the voice of everyone else in Anomalisa (2015).
Noonan is also a writer and director of theatre and film.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 460 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1986–2015
- Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award1994
- Guggenheim Fellowship
How their films are shot
Measured across 460 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tom takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Tom takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 460 frames from Tom Noonan's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.