I will never forget the memories I had of you, growing up in California. You were a really great parent, and I loved being able to point to the TV/Movie screen and say 'That's My Da!' I know you're watching over me, Mom and Seamus right now. Hope you're having fun up there.

Dear Liam,
I was to happy to see your note to your Da on the message board. Your Dad and I were 18 and 19 year old navy hospital corpsmen stationed together in Puerto Rico. We later got together over dinner in Los Angeles and caught each other up to date.
Please tell your mother (Barbara) I said hello. I remember getting a snowy Christmas card from here with a picture of your, your brother and her from Wisconsin. Have lost the address and I too have moved. Now live outside Jacksonville, FL near Amelia Island. Would love to hear more from you. My kindest regards, in the loving memory of your Da, Patrick Monaghan

Hi Liam,

Just dropping in with a note after surfing in here from the link on the In Memoriam section on my site, Outpost #31. I haven't been in here since my last post a few years back...

To this day, almost 25 years later, it is still debated about your father's infamous character of Norris in the 1982 film THE THING. For countless fans he will always be remembered as the geologist Vance Norris in this film. Please feel free to contact me if you have any info or photos you would like to have added to my site.

NORRIS: ~"That's exactly what it wants - to pit us against each other!"

Best Regards,
Todd
http://www.outpost31.com - The Ultimate THE THING Fan-Site

Charles Hallahan (1943 - 1997) Age: 54
Actor playing character 'Norris', The Thing 
Charles Hallahan Memorial Message Board

Hello to any of Charles Hallahan's family. I've just stumbled across this page; hard to believe it's almost ten years since his death. I met him in 1973, and ran across him a time or two in subsequent years. He was my acting teacher, during a summer training program at ACT in San Francisco. I was 17 at the time. He was one of the best teachers I ever had, a title I don't bestow lightly, as I have subsequently spent much of my life as a teacher (visual art, not acting). I recall him as a smart, insightful, free-spirited guy who was very engaged with his students, his work as an actor, and the pleasures of life. I have a memory of visiting him in the hospital--he had an emergency appendectomy that summer, and he told the story of his trip to the hospital vividly, for all it was worth. He also told us (myself and another of his students) how his girlfriend or wife at the time was smuggling specially fortified cookies into the hospital, to assuage his "existential angst." A wonderful, inspiring, funny guy, who made a large impression, even on those, like me, who crossed paths with him only briefly.

Chuck and I were classmates at Rutgers. He was a gem...always a gentleman in the times when being a gentleman was not cool. We miss him. He was a great man, but he would be the 1st to say he was just an ordinariy person, the mark of a true great man. His departure created a void.