John Noble

Not to be confused with John H. Noble.

For other uses, see John Noble (disambiguation).

John Noble
John Noble at the 2012 WonderCon in March 2012
Born	(1948-08-20) 20 August 1948 Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia^[1]
Years active	1988–present
Spouse(s)	Penny Noble
Children	Samantha Noble, Daniel Noble, Jess Noble

John Noble (born 20 August 1948) is an Australian actor and theatre director of more than 80 plays. He is best known for his roles as Dr. Walter Bishop in the American Fox science fiction television series Fringe, and Henry Parrish in the Fox action-horror series Sleepy Hollow. His most high-profile film role was as Denethor in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He also provided the voice of the DC Comics supervillain Scarecrow in the 2015 video game Batman: Arkham Knight, where his character served as the main antagonist. In 2015, he joined the main cast of the television series Elementary as Sherlock Holmes's father. He was also cast as a doctor in the Australian TV series All Saints.

Personal life

Noble lives in the US with his wife Penny Noble. They have three children: Daniel Noble, Jess Noble and actress Samantha Noble. In 2011, John Noble's hobbies are reported to be "music, painting and narration".^[2] He studies theoretical physics, and requested that the writers of Fringe always keep things grounded in what could be scientifically feasible.^[3]

Career

Noble starred as scientist Walter Bishop in the television series Fringe.

He made occasional appearances on the television series All Saints. He is internationally known for his performance as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He played Russian Consul Anatoly Markov in the sixth season of the American television series 24. In 2011, he appeared as Real Estate tycoon Leland Monroe in Rockstar's video game L.A. Noire.^[4]^[5] He is also the voice of Unicron for the television show Transformers: Prime and its conclusion film.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	The Dreaming	Dr. Richards
1989	A Sting in the Tale	Prime Minister's minder
1990	Call Me Mr. Brown	Sergeant
1993	The Nostradamus Kid	General Booth
2000	The Monkey's Mask	Mr. Norris
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Denethor	Seen only in the Extended Edition
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Denethor	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
2004	Fracture	Howard Peet
2006	One Night with the King	Prince Admantha
2006	Running Scared	Ivan Yugorsky
2006	Voodoo Lagoon	Ben
2010	Risen	Eddie Thomas
2010	The Last Airbender	Dragon Spirit
2013	Superman: Unbound	Brainiac	Voice^[6]
2014	The Mule	Pat Shepherd

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Police Rescue	Sergeant	Episode: "Hostage"
1993	Time Trax	Mr. Michaels	Episode: "One on One"
1997	Big Sky	Graham James	Episode: "Future Past and Present"
1998	Water Rats	Dr. Harry	Episode: "Epiphany"
1998–2004	All Saints	Dr. John Madsen	32 episodes
1999	Airtight	Sorrentino	Television movie
2000	Tales of the South Seas	Christian Ambrose	Episode: "Trent in Love"
2000	Virtual Nightmare	Dad	Television movie
2001	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World	Inspector Robert Anderson	Episode: "The Knife"
2001	The Bill	Commander Warren	Episode: "Beech on the Run"
2001–2006	Home and Away	Dr. Helpman	9 episodes
2002	Young Lions	Adam Gallagher	4 episodes
2002	Stingers	Michael Kranz	Episode: "Disgraceful Conduct"
2002	The Outsider	Fergus Hunter	Television movie
2004	The Mystery of Natalie Wood	Irving Pichel	Television movie
2002	Superfire	Paul Baylis	Television movie
2006	Stargate SG-1	Meurik	Episode: "Camelot"
2007	Journeyman	Wine Connoisseur	Episode: "Winterland"
2007	The Unit	The CEO	Episode: "Pandemonium – Part 2"
2007	24	Anatoly Markov	3 episodes
2007	Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji	Blackheart	13 episodes
2008–2013	Fringe	Walter Bishop/Walternate	100 episodes Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2008–09) Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television (2010, 2012–13)
2011–2012	Dark Matters: Twisted But True	Himself	16 episodes
2011	Transformers: Prime	Unicron	3 episodes
2013	The Good Wife	Matthew Ashbaugh	2 episodes
2013	Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising	Unicron	Television movie
2013–2015	Sleepy Hollow	Henry Parish/Jeremy Crane	20 episodes
2013	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Edward Stanley	Episode: "Murder Under The Mistletoe"
2014	Rake	Clayton Post	2 episodes
2014	Devil's Playground	Bishop McNally	6 episodes
2015	Forever	Aubrey Griffin	Episode: "The Last Death of Henry Morgan"
2015	Elementary	Morland Holmes	13 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2009	The Saboteur	Bishop
2011	L.A. Noire	Leland Monroe
2013	Infinity Blade III	The Worker of Secrets / Galath
2015	Batman: Arkham Knight	Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow

Other work

Artistic Director of Stage Company of South Australia 1977–1987
Head of Drama, Brent St. School of Arts (Sydney) 1997–2000

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
2003	National Board of Review	Best Cast	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Won
2004	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Cast		Won
	Critics' Choice Awards	Best Cast		Won
	Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards	Best Cast		Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture		Won
2008	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Fringe	Nominated
2009	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
2010	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor on Television		Nominated
2011	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Won
2011	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor on Television		Won
2012	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series		Nominated
2012	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor on Television		Nominated
2013	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor on Television		Nominated

References

↑ "John Noble Biography". Starpulse.com. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
↑ Bill Keveney (29 April 2011). "Universes collide in Bishops' world". USA Today. McLean, Virginia: Gannett. p. 8D. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ "The Soapbox Office Podcast: Episode 9: Running Crank". www.soapboxoffice.com. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
↑ Nick Broughall. "How L.A. Noire Conquered The Uncanny Valley with a Tech Called MotionScan". Gizmondo.
↑ Real Estate Agent: http://www.gamefocus.ca/news/13352
↑ Sands, Rich (7 January 2013). "First Look: Matt Bomer Gets Animated for Superman: Unbound". TV Guide. Retrieved 7 January 2013.

External links

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Awards for John Noble

Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

John Noble (2011) Giancarlo Esposito (2012) Michael Cudlitz (2013) Aaron Paul (2014) Jonathan Banks (2015) Christian Slater (2016) John Lithgow (2016)

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble

(2001–2009)	Gosford Park (2001): Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Tom Hollander, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Geraldine Somerville, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sophie Thompson, Emily Watson, James Wilby Chicago (2002): Christine Baranski, Ekaterina Shchelkanova, Taye Diggs, Denise Faye, Colm Feore, Richard Gere, Deidre Goodwin, Queen Latifah, Lucy Liu, Susan Misner, Mýa, John C. Reilly, Dominic West, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Bernard Hill, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Noble, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Elijah Wood Sideways (2004): Thomas Haden Church, Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh Crash (2005): Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate Little Miss Sunshine (2006): Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Greg Kinnear Hairspray (2007): Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Paul Dooley, Zac Efron, Allison Janney, Elijah Kelley, Queen Latifah, James Marsden, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brittany Snow, Jerry Stiller, John Travolta, Christopher Walken Milk (2008): Josh Brolin, Joseph Cross, James Franco, Victor Garber, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna, Denis O'Hare, Sean Penn, Alison Pill Inglourious Basterds (2009): Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Julie Dreyfus, Michael Fassbender, Sylvester Groth, Jacky Ido, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Denis Ménochet, Mike Myers, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger, Rod Taylor, Christoph Waltz, Martin Wuttke

(2010–present)	The Fighter (2010): Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, Jack McGee, Mark Wahlberg The Help (2011): Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Sissy Spacek, Octavia Spencer, Mary Steenburgen, Emma Stone, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel Silver Linings Playbook (2012): Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Anupam Kher, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Tucker, Jacki Weaver American Hustle (2013): Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Louis C.K., Bradley Cooper, Jack Huston, Jennifer Lawrence, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Peña, Jeremy Renner, Elisabeth Röhm, Shea Whigham Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014): Zach Galifianakis, Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts Spotlight (2015): Billy Crudup, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci

Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television

Dennis Haysbert (1999) James Marsters (2000) Michael Rosenbaum (2001) Victor Garber (2002) James Marsters (2003) Terry O'Quinn (2004) James Callis (2005) Masi Oka (2006) Michael Emerson (2007) Adrian Pasdar (2008) Aaron Paul (2009) John Noble (2010) Aaron Paul (2011) Jonathan Banks (2012) Aaron Paul (2013) Laurence Fishburne (2014) Richard Armitage (2015)

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (2001–2010)

Gosford Park (2001): Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Tom Hollander, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Geraldine Somerville, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sophie Thompson, Emily Watson, James Wilby Chicago (2002): Christine Baranski, Ekaterina Shchelkanova, Taye Diggs, Denise Faye, Colm Feore, Richard Gere, Deidre Goodwin, Queen Latifah, Lucy Liu, Susan Misner, Mýa, John C. Reilly, Dominic West, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Bernard Hill, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Noble, Miranda Otto, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Elijah Wood Sideways (2004): Thomas Haden Church, Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh Crash (2005): Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate Little Miss Sunshine (2006): Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Greg Kinnear No Country for Old Men (2007): Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Kelly Macdonald Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Rubina Ali, Tanay Chheda, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Madhur Mittal, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto Inglourious Basterds (2009): Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Julie Dreyfus, Michael Fassbender, Sylvester Groth, Jacky Ido, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Denis Ménochet, Mike Myers, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger, Rod Taylor, Christoph Waltz, Martin Wuttke The King's Speech (2010): Anthony Andrews, Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush, Timothy Spall

Complete list (1995–2000) (2001–2010) (2011–2020)

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