James Naughton

Known for: Acting
Born: December 6, 1945, Middletown - Connecticut - USA
Movies: 67

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.

Upcoming James Naughton Movies

Broadway: The Next Generation

Release date TBA

Beer and Hot Chocolate

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

7.4

The Devil Wears Prada

2006

6.7

The First Wives Club

1996

6.7

Cat's Eye

1985

6.0

Factory Girl

2006

5.8

First Kid

1996

5.5

Suburban Girl

2007

6.3

Turks & Caicos

2014

6.8

The Paper Chase

1973

5.6

Equity

2016

6.1

Oxygen

1999

Filmography

2025	Sit with Me While I Die	Father Ethan
2024	SilverSizzle	Jamie
2023	Not the Same Clarence	Clarence
2022	Past Prologue	Robert
2021	Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes	Himself
2021	Mooseltoe	Snowball
2021	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age	Self
2021	The Independents	Officer Sanders
2016	Equity	John
2015	Childless	Harvey
2014	Turks & Caicos	Frank Church
2013	The Word
2013	Creepy Carrots	Narrator
2011	Robot Zot!
2010	Nature Amazing Places Hawaii	Narrates Program Two
2008	What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?
2007	Suburban Girl	Robert Eisenberg
2006	Factory Girl	Fuzzy Sedgwick
2006	Hacking Democracy	Narrator
2006	The Devil Wears Prada	Stephen
2006	Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy	Narrator
2005	Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea	Ernest Hemingway (voice)
2004	Fascination	Patrick Doherty
2004	The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree	Tim Wiggins/Narrator
2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Self
2003	Henry Builds a Cabin
2002	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special	Narrator (voice)
2000	Labor Pains	Dr. Senior
2000	The Truth About Jane	Robert
1999	Oxygen	Clark Hannon
1998	Behind the Planet of the Apes	Self
1996	Without Memory	Self - Narrator (voice: English version)
1996	The First Wives Club	Gill Griffin
1996	The Proprietor	Texan
1996	First Kid	President Paul Davenport
1995	Mixed Blessings	Brad Coleman
1995	Cagney & Lacey: Together Again	James Burton
1994	Cagney & Lacey: The Return	James Burton
1994	The Birds II: Land's End	Frank
1992	Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall	Self
1991	Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers	Reader
1990	Blown Away	Rick LaSalle
1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre	Self
1988	The Good Mother	Brian Dunlop
1988	Necessity	Rick LaSalle
1987	The Glass Menagerie	Jim O'Connor
1986	Sin of Innocence	Andy Colleran
1985	Between the Darkness and the Dawn	Jack Parrish
1985	Cat's Eye	Hugh
1984	Last of the Great Survivors	Richard Wylie
1982	Parole	Andy Driscoll
1982	My Body, My Child	Dr. Dan Berensen
1982	A Stranger Is Watching	Steve Peterson
1981	The Bunker	James O'Donnell
1980	Farewell to the Planet of the Apes	Pete Burke
1980	Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes	Pete Burke
1980	Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes	Pete Burke
1980	The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes	Peter Burke
1980	Back to the Planet of the Apes	Pete Burke
1976	Second Wind	Roger
1976	Diary of the Dead	George
1975	The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant	Dr. Baxter
1974	Antigone	Haemon
1974	F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles	Capt. John Haines
1973	The Paper Chase	Kevin Brooks
1972	Look Homeward, Angel	Ben Gant

Directing, Writing & Producing

2003

Our Town

Director

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