Acting

James Naughton

Born 1945-12-06 · 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.

Credits

Newest first

Sit with Me While I Die
as Father Ethan
2025
Sit with Me While I Die
Executive Co-Producer
2025
SilverSizzle
as Jamie
2024
Not the Same Clarence
as Clarence
2023
Command Z
as Justice Frank Richardson
2023
Past Prologue
as Robert
2022
And Just Like That…
as Big's Brother
2021
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
as Himself
2021
Mooseltoe
as Snowball
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
The Independents
as Officer Sanders
2021
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
The Romanoffs
as Dmitri
2018
Equity
as John
2016
Childless
as Harvey
2015
The Affair
as Rodney Callahan
2014
Turks & Caicos
as Frank Church
2014
The Word
2013
Creepy Carrots
as Narrator
2013
Golden Boy
as Marvin Drexler
2013
Robot Zot!
2011
Blue Bloods
as Chief Bell
2010
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
as Narrates Program Two
2010
Warehouse 13
as Gilbert Radburn
2009
What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?
2008
Gossip Girl
as William van der Bilt
2007
Damages
as Sam Arsenault
2007
Suburban Girl
as Robert Eisenberg
2007
Factory Girl
as Fuzzy Sedgwick
2006
Hacking Democracy
as Narrator
2006
The Devil Wears Prada
as Stephen
2006
Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy
as Narrator
2006
Out of Practice
2005
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
as Ernest Hemingway (voice)
2005
Fascination
as Patrick Doherty
2004
The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree
as Tim Wiggins/Narrator
2004
Our Town
Stage Director
2003
Our Town
Director
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
Henry Builds a Cabin
2003
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
as Narrator (voice)
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Roger Buckman
2001
Labor Pains
as Dr. Senior
2000
The Truth About Jane
as Robert
2000
Oxygen
as Clark Hannon
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Charlie Moss
1999
Behind the Planet of the Apes
as Self
1998
Liberty!
as Patrick Henry
1997
Ally McBeal
as George McBeal
1997
Without Memory
as Self - Narrator (voice: English version)
1996
The First Wives Club
as Gill Griffin
1996
The Proprietor
as Texan
1996
First Kid
as President Paul Davenport
1996
Mixed Blessings
as Brad Coleman
1995
Cagney & Lacey: Together Again
as James Burton
1995
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
as James Burton
1994
The Cosby Mysteries
1994
The Birds II: Land's End
as Frank
1994
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
as Self
1992
Brooklyn Bridge
1991
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
as Reader
1991
Law & Order
as Barry Taggert
1990
Blown Away
as Rick LaSalle
1990
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self
1989
Raising Miranda
1988
The Good Mother
as Brian Dunlop
1988
Necessity
as Rick LaSalle
1988
CBS Summer Playhouse
as John Dockery
1987
The Glass Menagerie
as Jim O'Connor
1987
Sin of Innocence
as Andy Colleran
1986
Between the Darkness and the Dawn
as Jack Parrish
1985
Cat's Eye
as Hugh
1985
Who's the Boss?
1984
Who's the Boss?
as Michael Bower
1984
Last of the Great Survivors
as Richard Wylie
1984
Trauma Center
as Michael Royce
1983
Nature
as Narrator (voice)
1982
Parole
as Andy Driscoll
1982
My Body, My Child
as Dr. Dan Berensen
1982
Making the Grade
as Harry Barnes
1982