Thomas Noguchi, Legendary Hollywood Coroner

Thomas Noguchi in 2013.

Noguchi (second from left) at the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner.

Marilyn Monroe on a visit to Japan in 1954 (© Jiji).

As Los Angeles chief medical examiner at the site of a plane crash (left); recreating a death scene using a dummy (right).

Robert F. Kennedy after being shot at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles (© Aflo).

Noguchi as a professor at the University of Southern California.