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James Naughton · PopcornQueue

James Naughton

Actor

Born: December 6, 1945 (age 80) · Middletown - Connecticut - USA

James Naughton (born December 6, 1945) is an American actor and director. On television he is best known as astronaut Pete Burke in the 1974 single-season television series Planet of the Apes. He won Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical in 1990 for City of Angels, and again in 1997 for the role of lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running revival of the musical Chicago.

Known for

The Devil Wears Prada
June 29, 2006
The First Wives Club
September 20, 1996
Cat's Eye
April 12, 1985
Factory Girl
December 29, 2006
First Kid
August 30, 1996
Suburban Girl
April 27, 2007
Turks & Caicos
March 20, 2014
The Paper Chase
October 16, 1973
Equity
July 29, 2016
Oxygen
November 12, 1999
The Bunker
April 15, 1981
The Truth About Jane
August 7, 2000

Acting68

2025Sit with Me While I Die as Father Ethan
2024SilverSizzle as Jamie
2023Not the Same Clarence as Clarence
2022Past Prologue as Robert
2021Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes as Himself
2021Mooseltoe as Snowball
2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2021The Independents as Officer Sanders
2016Equity as John
2015Childless

as Harvey

2014Turks & Caicos as Frank Church

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2013Creepy Carrots as Narrator
2011Robot Zot!
2010Nature Amazing Places Hawaii as Narrates Program Two
2008What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?
2007Suburban Girl as Robert Eisenberg
2006Factory Girl as Fuzzy Sedgwick
2006Hacking Democracy as Narrator
2006The Devil Wears Prada as Stephen
2006Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy as Narrator
2005Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea as Ernest Hemingway (voice)
2004Fascination as Patrick Doherty
2004The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree as Tim Wiggins/Narrator
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2003Henry Builds a Cabin
2002E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special as Narrator (voice)
2000Labor Pains as Dr. Senior
2000The Truth About Jane as Robert
1999Oxygen as Clark Hannon
1998Behind the Planet of the Apes as Self
1996Without Memory as Self - Narrator (voice: English version)
1996The First Wives Club as Gill Griffin
1996The Proprietor as Texan
1996First Kid as President Paul Davenport
1995Mixed Blessings as Brad Coleman
1995Cagney & Lacey: Together Again as James Burton
1994Cagney & Lacey: The Return as James Burton
1994The Birds II: Land's End as Frank
1992Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall as Self
1991Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers as Reader
1990Blown Away as Rick LaSalle
1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self
1988The Good Mother as Brian Dunlop
1988Necessity as Rick LaSalle
1987The Glass Menagerie as Jim O'Connor
1986Sin of Innocence as Andy Colleran
1985Between the Darkness and the Dawn as Jack Parrish
1985Cat's Eye as Hugh
1984Last of the Great Survivors as Richard Wylie
1982Parole as Andy Driscoll
1982My Body, My Child as Dr. Dan Berensen
1982A Stranger Is Watching as Steve Peterson
1981The Bunker as James O'Donnell
1980Farewell to the Planet of the Apes as Pete Burke
1980Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes as Pete Burke
1980Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes as Pete Burke
1980The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes as Peter Burke
1980Back to the Planet of the Apes as Pete Burke
1976Second Wind as Roger
1976Diary of the Dead as George
1975The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant as Dr. Baxter
1974Antigone as Haemon
1974F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles as Capt. John Haines
1973The Paper Chase as Kevin Brooks
1972Look Homeward, Angel as Ben Gant
TBABroadway: The Next Generation as Self
TBABeer and Hot Chocolate as Len

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2025Sit with Me While I Die Executive Co-Producer
2003Our Town Stage Director, Director