Sad news: Tom Noonan passed away on Valentine's Day, age 74. Tom played Sammy in Synecdoche, New York, and "everyone else" in Anomalisa-- both the animated film and the "sound play." Charlie often cited Noonan's What Happened Was... (1994) as a favourite film.

Deadline:

Tom Noonan, an actor who launched his career on the New York stage in the original 1978 Off Broadway production of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child before pivoting to indelible film performances as menacing villains in Manhunter, Robocop 2, Last Action Hero and The Monster Squad, died Saturday, February 14. He was 74.

His death was confirmed on social media by Karen Sillas, his co-star in the 1992 play What Happened Was… and its 1994 Sundance award-winning film adaptation, and Fred Dekker, director of 1987’s The Monster Squad. Additional details on his passing, including a cause of death, were not immediately available, but Silas noted in her post that Noonan passed away peacefully. (Source)