James Naughton
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1153 |
| Birthday | 1945-12-06 |
| Place of Birth | Middletown - Connecticut - USA |
| Also Known As | James J. Naughton , |
1991
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
6.25/4
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill Couturié. It shows footage from World War I, World...
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Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1985
Cat's Eye
6.744/761
Three short stories linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next, in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick tries to quit smoking by a...
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Cat's Eye
2003
Henry Builds a Cabin
0/0
a frugal bear named Henry who sets about building a small cabin in the woods and ends up with a much bigger home than he and his friends ever imagined...
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Henry Builds a Cabin
1994
The Birds II: Land's End
4/56
Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more...
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The Birds II: Land's End
1982
A Stranger Is Watching
4.58/25
A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station.
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A Stranger Is Watching
2006
Hacking Democracy
7.6/24
Documentary film investigating allegations of election fraud during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Electronic voting machines count approximatel...
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Hacking Democracy
2002
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
7.3/3
A retrospective of "E.T.," featuring a cast reunion and a look at the making of the 20th anniversary edition of the film.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2006
Factory Girl
6.002/275
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems...
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Factory Girl
2007
Suburban Girl
5.53/166
Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbe...
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Suburban Girl
1981
The Bunker
6.3/59
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle f...
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The Bunker
1973
The Paper Chase
6.798/122
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
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The Paper Chase
2006
Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy
10/1
SHINING SOUL examines Helen Keller's rich spiritual life and the influence she received from the writings of 18th-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenbo...
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Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy
1987
The Glass Menagerie
6.286/35
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.
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The Glass Menagerie
2000
The Truth About Jane
6.3/58
High schooler Jane struggles with the self-discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl. However, this is...
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The Truth About Jane
1980
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
7.4/16
Human astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are forced to become involved in the strange gladiatorial games of the district r...
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The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
1995
Mixed Blessings
6.125/8
Three couples are followed as they struggle to have children. Pilar and Brad Coleman are both very mature, Brad already has grown up a daughter and P...
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Mixed Blessings
1974
Antigone
0/0
A 1974 PBS production of Jean Anouilh's 1944 play "Antigone" adapted from the original Sophocles.
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Antigone
1985
Between the Darkness and the Dawn
6.6/5
A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later.
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Between the Darkness and the Dawn
1975
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
8/1
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
1992
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
9/5
This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carnegie Hall. An American Musical Theatre writer for o...
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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1986
Sin of Innocence
5.071/7
When two single parents remarry, their teenaged son and daughter begin developing an unexpected attraction to each other.
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Sin of Innocence
2008
What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?
0/0
A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet...
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What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?
2011
Robot Zot!
0/0
Robot Zot is a fearsome and fearless robot from a planet far away. He comes to earth to crush and conquer. He is powerful, relentless, and smaller tha...
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Robot Zot!
2023
Not the Same Clarence
0/0
A man must come to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. A father and son story, by a father and son, starring a father and son. Gideon faithfu...
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Not the Same Clarence
2013
The Word
6.3/3
The film follows a single father, Tom Hawkins (Kevin O’Donnell) whose life is destroyed when his son is kidnapped and murdered. When informed by the...
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The Word
2004
The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree
4.8/4
Set after the Second World War, Timothy, an eight year old boy, befriends an abandoned, broken light bulb. Timothy's belief in the light bulb is so st...
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The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
0/0
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and...
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
2022
Past Prologue
0/0
Robert and Claudette have a chance encounter in a coffee shop, their first meeting since they dated over 60 years ago. A re-connection to memory, and...
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Past Prologue
1982
Parole
7/1
High school dropout Jimmy McCusick goes to prison for robbery. After suffering a gang-rape and then drawing the attention of a hardened life-term conv...
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Parole
2000
Labor Pains
4/5
A New York City columnist falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- a free-spirited artist who promptly vanishes for eight months.
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Labor Pains
1996
First Kid
5.749/209
Some say that to be the leader of a country is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. But being the child of a world leader can be doubly so. Constan...
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First Kid
1999
Oxygen
6.087/98
When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in. With only 24 hours before Frances' oxygen runs ou...
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Oxygen
2015
Childless
4.5/2
Katherine is a typical teenager. Today's her funeral. The four adults in her life have a lot on their mind - and it's not all about Katherine either....
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Childless
Broadway: The Next Generation
0/0
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
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Broadway: The Next Generation
1982
My Body, My Child
9/1
A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child.
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My Body, My Child
2024
SilverSizzle
0/0
A cemetery caretaker embarks on a quest to help two recent widowers find new love among widows visiting their departed spouses.
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SilverSizzle
2004
Fascination
4.091/22
Young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) gets suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed Oliver Vance (Stuart Wilson) soon after her husband...
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Fascination
2016
Equity
5.616/108
Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one she thrives in. When a controversial IPO threatens...
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Equity
1980
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
6.3/17
When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must pr...
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Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
1980
Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes
7.3/13
When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into accepting that a book on human surgery is no hoax...
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Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes
1980
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
7.3/13
The fugitives Burke, Virdon and Galen try to save the life of a human blacksmith and his son, whom gorilla leader Urko has threatened with death shoul...
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Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
1988
Necessity
5.333/3
A model discovers her wealthy husband is a dangerous drug dealer. She leaves him, taking along two million dollars of his money, but what she really w...
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Necessity
2014
Turks & Caicos
6.287/162
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new...
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Turks & Caicos
1976
Second Wind
6.5/2
A successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a long distance runner interferes with his career and...
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Second Wind
1984
Last of the Great Survivors
7.5/2
A dedicated social worker joins forces with a group of senior citizens fighting City Hall to prevent the demolition of their apartment building and fa...
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Last of the Great Survivors
1974
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
5.2/6
A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
2010
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
0/0
Program One KILAUEA: MOUNTAIN OF FIRE Ecosystems on Big Island Face No Small Challenge Kilauea, violent and beautiful, destructive and creative, con...
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Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
1980
Back to the Planet of the Apes
6/28
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps t...
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Back to the Planet of the Apes
1996
The First Wives Club
6.704/845
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the tr...
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The First Wives Club
1998
Behind the Planet of the Apes
7.102/49
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the s...
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Behind the Planet of the Apes
2006
The Devil Wears Prada
7.436/14213
A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyra...
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The Devil Wears Prada
2013
Creepy Carrots
0/0
In this hilarious picture book, The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch as a rabbit fears his favorite treats are out to get him.
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Creepy Carrots
2005
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
6/4
More than 40 years after his death, Hemingway is one of the most widely read, and widely written about, American authors. His distinct style and profo...
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Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
1996
The Proprietor
7/2
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
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The Proprietor
1976
Diary of the Dead
7.125/8
An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relieve himself of the old bat, which tangles him in a...
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Diary of the Dead
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7/7
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
1988
The Good Mother
5.734/32
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influ...
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The Good Mother
1994
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
6.833/6
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
1995
Cagney & Lacey: Together Again
7.75/4
New York's toughest lady detectives re-team to solve the murder of a homeless transient who had been terrorizing the residents of a posh apartment bui...
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Cagney & Lacey: Together Again
2021
The Independents
6/1
Three solo-artists who collide at the same crossroads and discover harmony. Thus is born “RGB” (at least until they come up with a better band name)...
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The Independents
1972
Look Homeward, Angel
9/1
The life of a young man growing up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina during the early part of the 20th century, based on Thomas Wolfe...
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Look Homeward, Angel
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
0/0
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
8/2
From the very beginning, actor Paul Newman captivated the cinema audience with his exceptional azure eyes. The reserved Newman himself finds it trivia...
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Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
2025
Sit with Me While I Die
0/0
A priest must reconcile his lifelong dogmatic views on suffering with real life pain.
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Sit with Me While I Die
2021
Mooseltoe
0/0
Mooseltoe, the Moose with a Dream, and his friends come to life in this colorful, magical and whimsical musical tale. Follow our hero as he pursues hi...
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Mooseltoe
1996
Without Memory
6.5/11
A father loses his short-term memory as a result of a botched medical procedure, which causes him to develop Wernicke's Encephalopathy. Kore-eda chron...
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Without Memory
1990
Blown Away
9/1
A mother must wage war against her gangster husband who took their child away from her.
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