James Naughton

James Naughton

Birthday: 1945-12-06

Place of Birth: Middletown - Connecticut - USA

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.

Movies

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill ...

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Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye

Three short stories linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next, in this creepy tript...

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Henry Builds a Cabin
Henry Builds a Cabin

a frugal bear named Henry who sets about building a small cabin in the woods and ends up with a much...

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The Birds II: Land's End
The Birds II: Land's End

Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete...

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A Stranger Is Watching
A Stranger Is Watching

A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station....

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Hacking Democracy
Hacking Democracy

Documentary film investigating allegations of election fraud during the 2004 U.S. presidential elect...

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

A retrospective of "E.T.," featuring a cast reunion and a look at the making of the 20th anniversary...

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Factory Girl
Factory Girl

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous...

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Suburban Girl
Suburban Girl

Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confiden...

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The Bunker
The Bunker

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his undergrou...

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The Paper Chase
The Paper Chase

A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daugh...

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Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy
Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy

SHINING SOUL examines Helen Keller's rich spiritual life and the influence she received from the wri...

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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of h...

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The Truth About Jane
The Truth About Jane

Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developin...

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The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

Human astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are forced to become involved i...

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Mixed Blessings
Mixed Blessings

Three couples are followed as they struggle to have children. Pilar and Brad Coleman are both very ...

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Antigone
Antigone

A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles....

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Between the Darkness and the Dawn
Between the Darkness and the Dawn

A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later....

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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day ...

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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall

This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carne...

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Sin of Innocence
Sin of Innocence

When two single parents remarry, their teenaged son and daughter begin developing an unexpected attr...

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What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?
What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?

A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals...

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Robot Zot!
Robot Zot!

Robot Zot is a fearsome and fearless robot from a planet far away. He comes to earth to crush and co...

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Not the Same Clarence
Not the Same Clarence

A man must come to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. A father and son story, by a father ...

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The Word
The Word

The film follows a single father, Tom Hawkins (Kevin O’Donnell) whose life is destroyed when his son...

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The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree
The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree

Set after the Second World War, Timothy, an eight year old boy, befriends an abandoned, broken light...

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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...

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Past Prologue
Past Prologue

Robert and Claudette have a chance encounter in a coffee shop, their first meeting since they dated ...

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Parole
Parole

High school dropout Jimmy McCusick goes to prison for robbery. After suffering a gang-rape and then ...

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Labor Pains
Labor Pains

A New York City columnist falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- a free-spirited arti...

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First Kid
First Kid

Some say that to be the leader of a country is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. But being the...

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Oxygen
Oxygen

When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in....

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Childless
Childless

Katherine is a typical teenager. Today's her funeral. The four adults in her life have a lot on thei...

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Broadway: The Next Generation
Broadway: The Next Generation

A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way....

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My Body, My Child
My Body, My Child

A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child....

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SilverSizzle
SilverSizzle

A cemetery caretaker embarks on a quest to help two recent widowers find new love among widows visit...

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Fascination
Fascination

Young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) gets suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed O...

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Equity
Equity

Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one ...

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Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes

When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing vi...

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Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes
Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes

When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into...

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Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes

The fugitives Burke, Virdon and Galen try to save the life of a human blacksmith and his son, whom g...

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Necessity
Necessity

A model discovers her wealthy husband is a dangerous drug dealer. She leaves him, taking along two m...

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Turks & Caicos
Turks & Caicos

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last s...

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Second Wind
Second Wind

A successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a lo...

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Last of the Great Survivors
Last of the Great Survivors

A dedicated social worker joins forces with a group of senior citizens fighting City Hall to prevent...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and...

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Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii

Program One KILAUEA: MOUNTAIN OF FIRE Ecosystems on Big Island Face No Small Challenge Kilauea, vi...

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Back to the Planet of the Apes
Back to the Planet of the Apes

Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes...

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The First Wives Club
The First Wives Club

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have ...

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Behind the Planet of the Apes
Behind the Planet of the Apes

Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right ont...

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The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada

Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and w...

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Creepy Carrots
Creepy Carrots

In this hilarious picture book, The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch as a rabbit fears his fa...

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Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea

More than 40 years after his death, Hemingway is one of the most widely read, and widely written abo...

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The Proprietor
The Proprietor

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being pla...

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Diary of the Dead
Diary of the Dead

An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relie...

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

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...

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The Good Mother
The Good Mother

After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by...

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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Cagney & Lacey: The Return

1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache ...

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Cagney & Lacey: Together Again
Cagney & Lacey: Together Again

New York's toughest lady detectives re-team to solve the murder of a homeless transient who had been...

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The Independents
The Independents

Three solo-artists who collide at the same crossroads and discover harmony. Thus is born “RGB” (at ...

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Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel

The life of a young man growing up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina during the ear...

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Without Memory
Without Memory

A father loses his short-term memory as the result of a botched medical procedure which causes him t...

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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...

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Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes

From the very beginning, actor Paul Newman captivated the cinema audience with his exceptional azure...

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Sit with Me While I Die
Sit with Me While I Die

A priest must reconcile his lifelong dogmatic views on suffering with real life pain....

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