{"id":223691,"date":"2026-02-19T01:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/tom-noonan-manhunter-villain-and-robocop-2-star-dies-at-74\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:27:39","slug":"tom-noonan-manhunter-villain-and-robocop-2-star-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/tom-noonan-manhunter-villain-and-robocop-2-star-dies-at-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Noonan, \u2018Manhunter\u2019 Villain and \u2018RoboCop 2\u2019 Star, Dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tom Noonan, the villain in \u201cManhunter\u201d and \u201cRoboCop 2,\u201d has died. He was 74.<\/p>\n<p>Often described by fans and filmmakers as the \u201cperfect bad guy,\u201d Noonan carved out a singular career playing outsiders, monsters and deeply unsettling antagonists.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eWiH55LKD6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/eWiH55LKD6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M7HnFz2YtV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/M7HnFz2YtV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2024164285015085416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tom Noonan, star of films such as Manhunter, RoboCop 2 and The Monster Squad, has passed away at the age of 74.<\/p>\n<p>His r\u00e9sum\u00e9 also included \u201cHeat,\u201d \u201cThe House of the Devil\u201d and \u201c12 Monkeys,\u201d along with television appearances on \u201cThe X-Files\u201d and \u201cCSI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/>Manhunter director Michael Mann wrote the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Terribly sad about Tom Noonan passing. In casting\u00a0Manhunter\u00a0I auditioned about 10-15 actors in New York when Tom walked in the door and said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk. I just want to read.\u201d He read and it was magical. We worked closely. I based Dollarhyde less on the novel\u2019s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xxT5Rd9HWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xxT5Rd9HWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Mann (@michaelmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelmann\/status\/2024231114504912982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"\/><p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2024164285015085416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/michaelmann\/status\/2024231114504912982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131943097.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Noonan, the villain in \u201cManhunter\u201d and \u201cRoboCop 2,\u201d has died. He was 74. Often described by fans and filmmakers as the \u201cperfect bad guy,\u201d Noonan carved out a singular career playing outsiders, monsters and deeply unsettling antagonists.https:\/\/t.co\/eWiH55LKD6 pic.twitter.com\/M7HnFz2YtV \u2014 Variety (@Variety) February 18, 2026 Tom Noonan, star of films such as Manhunter, RoboCop 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-223691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}