James Naughton

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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

Blue Bloods

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Devil Wears Prada

Gossip Girl

Mannix

Great Performances

All Movies (67)

• SilverSizzle2024 · as Jamie
• Not the Same Clarence2023 · as Clarence
• Past Prologue2022 · as Robert
• Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes2021 · as Himself
• Mooseltoe2021 · as Snowball
• Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age2021 · as Self
• The Independents2021 · as Officer Sanders
• Equity2016 · as John
• Childless2015 · as Harvey
• Turks & Caicos2014 · as Frank Church
• The Word2013
• Creepy Carrots2013 · as Narrator
• Robot Zot!2011
• Nature Amazing Places Hawaii2010 · as Narrates Program Two
• What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?2008
• Suburban Girl2007 · as Robert Eisenberg
• Factory Girl2006 · as Fuzzy Sedgwick
• Hacking Democracy2006 · as Narrator
• The Devil Wears Prada2006 · as Stephen
• Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy2006 · as Narrator
• Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea2005 · as Ernest Hemingway (voice)
• Fascination2004 · as Patrick Doherty
• The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree2004 · as Tim Wiggins/Narrator
• Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There2003 · as Self
• Henry Builds a Cabin2003
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special2002 · as Narrator (voice)
• Labor Pains2000 · as Dr. Senior
• The Truth About Jane2000 · as Robert
• Oxygen1999 · as Clark Hannon
• Behind the Planet of the Apes1998 · as Self
• Without Memory1996 · as Self - Narrator (voice: English version)
• The First Wives Club1996 · as Gill Griffin
• The Proprietor1996 · as Texan
• First Kid1996 · as President Paul Davenport
• Mixed Blessings1995 · as Brad Coleman
• Cagney & Lacey: Together Again1995 · as James Burton
• Cagney & Lacey: The Return1994 · as James Burton
• The Birds II: Land's End1994 · as Frank
• Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall1992 · as Self
• Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers1991 · as Reader
• Blown Away1990 · as Rick LaSalle
• Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre1989 · as Self
• The Good Mother1988 · as Brian Dunlop
• Necessity1988 · as Rick LaSalle
• The Glass Menagerie1987 · as Jim O'Connor
• Sin of Innocence1986 · as Andy Colleran
• Between the Darkness and the Dawn1985 · as Jack Parrish
• Cat's Eye1985 · as Hugh
• Last of the Great Survivors1984 · as Richard Wylie
• Parole1982 · as Andy Driscoll
• My Body, My Child1982 · as Dr. Dan Berensen
• A Stranger Is Watching1982 · as Steve Peterson
• The Bunker1981 · as James O'Donnell
• Farewell to the Planet of the Apes1980 · as Pete Burke
• Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes1980 · as Pete Burke
• Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes1980 · as Pete Burke
• The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes1980 · as Peter Burke
• Back to the Planet of the Apes1980 · as Pete Burke
• Second Wind1976 · as Roger
• Diary of the Dead1976 · as George
• The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant1975 · as Dr. Baxter
• Antigone1974 · as Haemon
• F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles1974 · as Capt. John Haines
• The Paper Chase1973 · as Kevin Brooks
• Look Homeward, Angel1972 · as Ben Gant
• Broadway: The Next Generation— · as Self
• Sit with Me While I Die— · as Father Ethan

All TV Shows (31)

• Command Z2023 · as Justice Frank Richardson
• And Just Like That…2021 · as Big's Brother
• Stars in the House2020 · as Self
• The Romanoffs2018 · as Dmitri
• The Affair2014 · as Rodney Callahan
• Golden Boy2013 · as Marvin Drexler
• Blue Bloods2010 · as Chief Bell
• Warehouse 132009 · as Gilbert Radburn
• Gossip Girl2007 · as William van der Bilt
• Damages2007 · as Sam Arsenault
• Out of Practice2005
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Roger Buckman
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Charlie Moss
• Liberty!1997 · as Patrick Henry
• Ally McBeal1997 · as George McBeal
• The Cosby Mysteries1994
• Brooklyn Bridge1991
• Law & Order1990 · as Barry Taggert
• Raising Miranda1988
• CBS Summer Playhouse1987 · as John Dockery
• Who's the Boss?1984
• Who's the Boss?1984 · as Michael Bower
• Trauma Center1983 · as Michael Royce
• Nature1982 · as Narrator (voice)
• Making the Grade1982
• Cagney & Lacey1982 · as Michael Bower
• Joe Forrester1975
• Planet of the Apes1974 · as Pete Burke
• Faraday and Company1973 · as Steve Faraday
• Great Performances1971 · as Haemon
• Mannix1967 · as Dr. Hanson