As per our current Database, Tommy Noonan has been died on 24 April, 1968 at Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
When Tommy Noonan die, Tommy Noonan was 47 years old.
| Popular As | Tommy Noonan |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 47 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 29, 1921 (Bellingham, Washington, USA) |
| Birthday | April 29 |
| Town/City | Bellingham, Washington, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Tommy Noonan’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Tommy Noonan was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Slim, often bespectacled comedy performer Tommy Noonan (ne' Thomas Patrick Noone) started off in experimental theater alongside his half-brother, actor John Ireland, who went on to have an enviable career of his own.
The Delaware-born actor then launched his own repertory theatre back in his home state in the early 1940s. His career was interrupted by a stint in the Navy during WWII, but he returned to it following his discharge.
Tommy wound up in New York and briefly displayed his budding talents on Broadway before RKO signed him up for post-war films and he relocated out West. By this time, brother John, who was already a well-known film commodity, had met and married movie actress Joanne Dru, whose brother was a singer-actor named Peter Marshall.
With a solid background in comedy and burlesque, Noonan hooked up with straight-man Marshall to form the 1950s comedy duo of Noonan and Marshall. They appeared with a modicum of success in clubs and on TV, including The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) (aka "Toast of the Town").
Their teaming, however, did not prevent them from boosting their own individual careers. Appearing in a few B-grade comedy film vehicles together, Tommy actually did much better on the large screen in solo performances as a sort of wry, nerdy Tony Randall type in higher-grade films.
He not only held his own as Marilyn Monroe's smitten schmuck of a boyfriend in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) but went dramatic as Judy Garland's blunt, piano-playing pal in A Star Is Born (1954) and received some of the best film reviews of his career.
With Marshall, Tommy produced and wrote a couple of meager film vehicles to showcase the comedy team as a second-string Martin and Lewis, but the films, The Rookie (1959) and Swingin' Along (1961), were flat and were barely noticed upon their release.
These failures broke the duo up for good. (Peter Marshall successfully went on to host the TV game show The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965) as Peter Marshall).The pickings were slim for Tommy in the 1960s, and he resorted to producing and co-starring in a couple of exploitative soft-core "comedy" vehicles.
Promises..... Promises! (1963), which showcased a fading Jayne Mansfield, and 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964), which starred an equally unmemorable Mamie Van Doren, were unmitigated disasters. His last producing effort was the thoroughly irredeemable Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers (1967).
The talented actor died five days before his 47th birthday in 1968 of a brain tumor and was survived by his wife, Pokie, and four children. He is not related to actor-writer-director-composer Tom Noonan (born in 1951).
