John Ford Noonan (b. 1943) is a prolific America actor, and writer for theater, film and television. He wrote his first play, Lazarus was a Lady in 1970 followed by Concerning the Effects of Trimethylchoride in 1971 and other plays such as The Club Champion’s Widow in 1978, Some Men Need Help (1982) and over 30 plays between the 1970’s and the 1990’s. He has frequently performed in films including God Has a Rap Sheet (2003), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Forty Deuce (1982), Next Stop Greenwich Village (1976) and in TV series Bay State (1991) he has written for TV’s Comedy Zone in the early 1980’s and St. Elsewhere for which he won the 1982 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. He is brothers with actor Tom Noonan and most recently acted in the independent film Uncle Freddy (2008).
