John Ford Noonan
Biography
John Ford Noonan was an American playwright, screenwriter and actor whose Off-Broadway comedy A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking became his best known work. Born in Connecticut, he studied at Brown University and the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and his first major production, The Year Boston Won the Pennant, reached the stage in 1969, winning an Obie Award and drawing Theatre World and Pulitzer Prize nominations. He wrote more than 30 plays, several staged by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater, including Older People, a Drama Desk Award winner, and Rainbows For Sale. For television he shared the 1984 Emmy Award for drama series writing for St. Elsewhere and was nominated again in 1985 for adapting Men Need Help. He also acted, on stage and in films such as Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and Flirting with Disaster (1996).
75years old at death
- Born New York City
- Died
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 20 years1976 to 1996
Every film, newest first
- 1996Flirting with DisasterIMDb rating 6.7
- 1987Adventures in BabysittingIMDb rating 7.0
- 1976Next Stop, Greenwich VillageIMDb rating 7.0
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Behind the award
Noonan, Tom Fontana and John Masius together won the 1984 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for a St. Elsewhere episode. In 1985 he was nominated again, this time for adapting his play Men Need Help for TV.
Behind the award
Noonan's The Year Boston Won the Pennant, staged at Lincoln Center Theater in 1969, took an Obie Award and also drew a Theatre World Award nomination plus a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Beyond film
Noonan's comedy A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, starring Susan Sarandon and Eileen Brennan, ran for more than 800 performances at the Astor Place Theatre in New York.
Beyond film
Noonan also acted, and in 1990 he was on stage at the Actors' Playhouse in New York in a play he wrote, Talking Things Over with Chekhov, as a playwright who finds Anton Chekhov in his rocking chair at home.
Early training
Noonan earned a Bachelor of Arts at Brown University in 1964, then a Master of Arts in theater arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1966. After that, he taught Latin, English and history for a short time at a Long Island high school.
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