James Naughton

ActorDirectorDirectingProduction Dec 6 (age 80) Middletown - Connecticut - USA 1967–2024 (57 year career)

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Biography

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

Film

The Devil Wears Prada

Stephen

Film

The First Wives Club

Gill Griffin

Film

Cat's Eye

Hugh

Film

Factory Girl

Fuzzy Sedgwick

Film

Planet of the Apes

Pete Burke

Film

The Paper Chase

Kevin Brooks

Film

Turks & Caicos

Frank Church

Film

First Kid

President Paul Davenport

Filmography

Acting (96)

Movies (66)

SilverSizzle

2024

as Jamie

Not the Same Clarence

2023

as Clarence

Past Prologue

2022

as Robert

Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes

2021

as Himself

8.0

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

as Self

Mooseltoe

2021

as Snowball

The Independents

2021

as Officer Sanders

6.0

Broadway: The Next Generation

2017

as Self

Equity

as John

Childless

as Harvey

Turks & Caicos

as Frank Church

Creepy Carrots

as Narrator

The Word

2013

6.3

Robot Zot!

2011

Nature Amazing Places Hawaii

2010

as Narrates Program Two

What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?

2008

Suburban Girl

2007

as Robert Eisenberg

5.5

The Devil Wears Prada

as Stephen

Factory Girl

as Fuzzy Sedgwick

Hacking Democracy

as Narrator

Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy

2006

as Narrator

10.0

Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea

2005

as Ernest Hemingway (voice)

5.7

Fascination

2004

as Patrick Doherty

3.7

The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree

2004

as Tim Wiggins/Narrator

4.8

Henry Builds a Cabin

2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

as Self

7.0

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special

as Narrator (voice)

Labor Pains

as Dr. Senior

The Truth About Jane

as Robert

Oxygen

as Clark Hannon

Behind the Planet of the Apes

as Self

The First Wives Club

as Gill Griffin

First Kid

as President Paul Davenport

5.7

Without Memory

1996

as Self - Narrator (voice: English version)

The Proprietor

as Texan

Mixed Blessings

as Brad Coleman

Cagney & Lacey: Together Again

1995

as James Burton

7.0

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

1994

as James Burton

6.6

The Birds II: Land's End

1994

as Frank

3.8

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

1992

as Self

9.0

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

1991

as Reader

5.7

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

as Self

Necessity

as Rick LaSalle

The Good Mother

as Brian Dunlop

The Glass Menagerie

as Jim O'Connor

Sin of Innocence

as Andy Colleran

Cat's Eye

as Hugh

Between the Darkness and the Dawn

1985

as Jack Parrish

6.2

Last of the Great Survivors

1984

as Richard Wylie

7.0

A Stranger Is Watching

1982

as Steve Peterson

4.5

Parole

1982

as Andy Driscoll

My Body, My Child

as Dr. Dan Berensen

The Bunker

as James O'Donnell

Back to the Planet of the Apes

1980

as Pete Burke

5.9

Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes

1980

as Pete Burke

7.4

Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes

1980

as Pete Burke

7.6

The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

1980

as Peter Burke

7.5

Farewell to the Planet of the Apes

as Pete Burke

Second Wind

as Roger

Diary of the Dead

as George

The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

1975

as Dr. Baxter

Antigone

1974

as Haemon

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

as Capt. John Haines

The Paper Chase

as Kevin Brooks

Look Homeward, Angel

as Ben Gant

Sit with Me While I Die

as Father Ethan

Television (30)

Command Z

2023

as Justice Frank Richardson

And Just Like That…

as Big's Brother

Stars in the House

as Self

The Romanoffs

as Dmitri

The Affair

as Rodney Callahan

Golden Boy

as Marvin Drexler

Blue Bloods

as Chief Bell

Warehouse 13

as Gilbert Radburn

Gossip Girl

as William van der Bilt

Damages

as Sam Arsenault

Out of Practice

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001

as Roger Buckman

7.6

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Charlie Moss

Ally McBeal

as George McBeal

Liberty!

as Patrick Henry

The Cosby Mysteries

Brooklyn Bridge

Law & Order

as Barry Taggert

Raising Miranda

CBS Summer Playhouse

as John Dockery

Who's the Boss?

Trauma Center

as Michael Royce

Nature

as Narrator (voice)

Cagney & Lacey

as James Burton

Making the Grade

Joe Forrester

Planet of the Apes

as Pete Burke

Faraday and Company

as Steve Faraday

Great Performances

as Haemon

Mannix

as Dr. Hanson

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Our Town

Director

Our Town

Stage Director

Sit with Me While I Die

Executive Co-Producer