Acting · Middletown - Connecticut - USA · Born December 6, 1945
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.
MovieSit with Me While I Die
2025
as Father Ethan
MovieSilverSizzle
2024
as Jamie
MovieNot the Same Clarence
2023
as Clarence
TVCommand Z
2023
as Justice Frank Richardson
MoviePast Prologue
2022
as Robert
TVAnd Just Like That…
2021
as Big's Brother
MoviePaul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
2021
as Himself
MovieMooseltoe
2021
as Snowball
MovieBroadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
MovieThe Independents
2021
as Officer Sanders
TVStars in the House
2020
as Self
TVThe Romanoffs
2018
as Dmitri
MovieEquity
2016
as John
MovieChildless
2015
as Harvey
TVThe Affair
2014
as Rodney Callahan
MovieTurks & Caicos
2014
as Frank Church
MovieThe Word
2013
MovieCreepy Carrots
2013
as Narrator
TVGolden Boy
2013
as Marvin Drexler
MovieRobot Zot!
2011
TVBlue Bloods
2010
as Chief Bell
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
2010
as Narrates Program Two
TVWarehouse 13
2009
as Gilbert Radburn
MovieWhat Do You Do With A Tail Like This?
2008
TVGossip Girl
2007
as William van der Bilt
TVDamages
2007
as Sam Arsenault
MovieSuburban Girl
2007
as Robert Eisenberg
MovieFactory Girl
2006
as Fuzzy Sedgwick
MovieHacking Democracy
2006
as Narrator
MovieThe Devil Wears Prada
2006
as Stephen
MovieShining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy
2006
as Narrator
TVOut of Practice
2005
MovieErnest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
2005
as Ernest Hemingway (voice)
MovieFascination
2004
as Patrick Doherty
MovieThe Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree
2004
as Tim Wiggins/Narrator
MovieBroadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
MovieHenry Builds a Cabin
2003
MovieE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2002
as Narrator (voice)
TVLaw & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Roger Buckman
Labor Pains
2000
as Dr. Senior
MovieThe Truth About Jane
2000
as Robert
MovieOxygen
1999
as Clark Hannon
TVLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Charlie Moss
MovieBehind the Planet of the Apes
1998
as Self
TVLiberty!
1997
as Patrick Henry
TVAlly McBeal
1997
as George McBeal
MovieWithout Memory
1996
as Self - Narrator (voice: English version)
MovieThe First Wives Club
1996
as Gill Griffin
MovieThe Proprietor
1996
as Texan
MovieFirst Kid
1996
as President Paul Davenport
MovieMixed Blessings
1995
as Brad Coleman
MovieCagney & Lacey: Together Again
1995
as James Burton
MovieCagney & Lacey: The Return
1994
as James Burton
TVThe Cosby Mysteries
1994
MovieThe Birds II. Land's End
1994
as Frank
MovieSondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
as Self
TVBrooklyn Bridge
1991
MovieMemorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991
as Reader
TVLaw & Order
1990
as Barry Taggert
MovieBlown Away
1990
as Rick LaSalle
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self
Raising Miranda
1988
MovieThe Good Mother
1988
as Brian Dunlop
MovieNecessity
1988
as Rick LaSalle
TVCBS Summer Playhouse
1987
as John Dockery
MovieThe Glass Menagerie
1987
as Jim O'Connor
MovieSin of Innocence
1986
as Andy Colleran
MovieBetween the Darkness and the Dawn
1985
as Jack Parrish
MovieCat's Eye
1985
as Hugh
TVWho's the Boss?
1984
MovieLast of the Great Survivors
1984
as Richard Wylie
TVTrauma Center
1983
as Michael Royce
TVNature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
MovieParole
1982
as Andy Driscoll
MovieMy Body, My Child
1982
as Dr. Dan Berensen
Making the Grade
1982
as Harry Barnes
TVCagney & Lacey
1982
as Michael Bower
MovieA Stranger Is Watching
1982
as Steve Peterson
MovieThe Bunker
1981
as James O'Donnell
MovieFarewell to the Planet of the Apes
1980
as Pete Burke
MovieLife, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes
1980
as Pete Burke
MovieTreachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
1980
as Pete Burke
MovieThe Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
1980
as Peter Burke
MovieBack to the Planet of the Apes
1980
as Pete Burke
MovieSecond Wind
1976
as Roger
MovieDiary of the Dead
1976
as George
TVJoe Forrester
1975
MovieThe First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
1975
as Dr. Baxter
TVPlanet of the Apes
1974
as Pete Burke
MovieAntigone
1974
as Haemon
MovieF. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
1974
as Capt. John Haines
MovieThe Paper Chase
1973
as Kevin Brooks
TVFaraday and Company
1973
as Steve Faraday
Look Homeward, Angel
1972
as Ben Gant
TVGreat Performances
1971
as Haemon
TVMannix
1967
as Dr. Hanson
MovieBroadway: The Next Generation
as Self
