Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
John Ford Noonan Jr. (October 7, 1941 – December 16, 2018) was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for his Off-Broadway hit two-hander comedy A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking. Noonan's first major production was the 1969 play The Year Boston Won the Pennant;[1] he continued writing throughout the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, completing more than 30 plays in total.[2]
Noonan wrote occasionally for television in the 1980s. He shared the 1984 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series with Tom Fontana and John Masius for an episode of the show St. Elsewhere;[3] he received a second Emmy nomination in 1985 for his TV adaptation of his play Men Need Help.[4][5]
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^Young, Glenn (2001). The Best American Short Plays 1998-1999. Winona, Minnesota: Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-55783-425-6.
JohnFordNoonan Jr. (October 7, 1941 – December 16, 2018) was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for his Off-Broadway hit...
dental surgery. He had an older brother, JohnFordNoonan, a playwright, and two sisters, Barbara and Nancy. Noonan was a very talented basketball player...
Star Is Born (1954). Born in Bellingham, Washington, Noonan was the younger half-brother of actor John Ireland. He was the son of Michael James Noone and...
Laskawy) JohnFordNoonan as John Anthony (as JohnNoonan) Meade Roberts as Old John Yukio Yamamoto as Street Hustler Rudy DeBellis as Toilet John Steve...
Precinct 13, Zimmer appeared on stage in a Los Angeles production of the JohnFordNoonan play, Getting Through The Night, where her performance was reviewed...
college student John Chandler as Bleak, a mob boss Ron Canada as Graydon, Bleak's second in command JohnFordNoonan as "Handsome" John Pruitt Albert Collins...
including Tom Eyen (Women Behind Bars, The Dirtiest Show in Town) and JohnFordNoonan (A Couple White Chicks Sitting Around Talking). Established writers...
– new plays by new writers: Sam Shepard, David Mamet, David Rabe, JohnFordNoonan, Jason Miller." During this period, he segued into television and movies...
probation. She made her off-Broadway debut in 1981 as a replacement in JohnFordNoonan's A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking. She also appeared in...
(1973), The Glass Menagerie (1987) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006) JohnFordNoonan (A.B. 1964) – actor and playwright best known for A Coupla White Chicks...
Bradley Whitford, Calvin Levels, George Newbern, John Davis Chandler, Ron Canada, JohnFordNoonan, Albert Collins, Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio, Southside...
to 1970. Septuagenarian Substitute Ball, his senior film, starring JohnFordNoonan, won third prize at the National Student Film Festival-1970. His teacher...
Saunders, actress October 5 – Stephanie Cole, actress October 7 – JohnFordNoonan, actor (died 2018) October 10 – Peter Coyote, actor October 16 – Tim...
January 12, 1982, with The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart. Its final broadcast, In the Wings: Angels...
Griffins, Örebro, Cardiff Devils), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. JohnFordNoonan, 77, American actor (Adventures in Babysitting) and playwright, heart...
1984 (36th) St. Elsewhere "The Women" Story by : John Masius and Tom Fontana Teleplay by : JohnFordNoonan NBC Hill Street Blues "Doris in Wonderland" Story...
Shadow of the Trees by John Prideaux) ENG Bovingdon Players (A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by JohnFordNoonan) ENG Enniscorthy Theatre...
Plays that included first productions of works by Ishmael Reed, JohnFordNoonan, John Guare, and Christopher Durang. Whyte left The Actors Studio after...
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