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.

Filmography

• 2025Sit with Me While I Die — Father Ethan, Executive Co-Producer
• 2024SilverSizzle — Jamie
• Command Z — Justice Frank Richardson
• 2023Not the Same Clarence — Clarence
• 2022Past Prologue — Robert
• And Just Like That… — Big's Brother
• 2021Mooseltoe — Snowball
• 2021The Independents — Officer Sanders
• The Romanoffs — Dmitri
• 2016Equity — John
• 2015Childless — Harvey
• The Affair — Rodney Callahan
• 2014Turks & Caicos — Frank Church
• 2013Creepy Carrots — Narrator
• Golden Boy — Marvin Drexler
• 2013The Word
• 2011Robot Zot!
• Blue Bloods — Chief Bell
• 2010Nature Amazing Places Hawaii — Narrates Program Two
• Warehouse 13 — Gilbert Radburn
• 2008What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?
• Damages — Sam Arsenault
• Gossip Girl — William van der Bilt
• 2007Suburban Girl — Robert Eisenberg
• 2006Factory Girl — Fuzzy Sedgwick
• 2006Hacking Democracy — Narrator
• 2006Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy — Narrator
• 2006The Devil Wears Prada — Stephen
• 2005Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea — Ernest Hemingway (voice)
• Out of Practice
• 2004Fascination — Patrick Doherty
• 2004The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree — Tim Wiggins/Narrator
• 2003Henry Builds a Cabin
• 2003Our Town — Stage Director
• 2002E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special — Narrator (voice)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Roger Buckman
• 2000Labor Pains — Dr. Senior
• 2000The Truth About Jane — Robert
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Charlie Moss
• 1999Oxygen — Clark Hannon
• Ally McBeal — George McBeal
• Liberty! — Patrick Henry
• 1996First Kid — President Paul Davenport
• 1996The First Wives Club — Gill Griffin
• 1996The Proprietor — Texan
• 1995Cagney & Lacey: Together Again — James Burton
• 1995Mixed Blessings — Brad Coleman
• 1994Cagney & Lacey: The Return — James Burton
• 1994The Birds II: Land's End — Frank
• The Cosby Mysteries
• Brooklyn Bridge
• 1991Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers — Reader
• 1990Blown Away — Rick LaSalle
• Law & Order — Barry Taggert
• 1988Necessity — Rick LaSalle
• Raising Miranda
• 1988The Good Mother — Brian Dunlop
• CBS Summer Playhouse — John Dockery
• 1987The Glass Menagerie — Jim O'Connor
• 1986Sin of Innocence — Andy Colleran
• 1985Between the Darkness and the Dawn — Jack Parrish
• 1985Cat's Eye — Hugh
• 1984Last of the Great Survivors — Richard Wylie
• Who's the Boss? — Michael Bower
• Trauma Center — Michael Royce
• 1982A Stranger Is Watching — Steve Peterson
• Cagney & Lacey — Michael Bower
• Making the Grade — Harry Barnes
• 1982My Body, My Child — Dr. Dan Berensen
• Nature — Narrator (voice)
• 1982Parole — Andy Driscoll
• 1981The Bunker — James O'Donnell
• 1980Back to the Planet of the Apes — Pete Burke
• 1980Farewell to the Planet of the Apes — Pete Burke
• 1980Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes — Pete Burke
• 1980The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes — Peter Burke
• 1980Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes — Pete Burke
• 1976Diary of the Dead — George
• 1976Second Wind — Roger
• Joe Forrester
• 1975The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant — Dr. Baxter
• 1974Antigone — Haemon
• 1974F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles — Capt. John Haines
• Planet of the Apes — Pete Burke
• Faraday and Company — Steve Faraday
• 1973The Paper Chase — Kevin Brooks
• 1972Look Homeward, Angel — Ben Gant
• Great Performances — Haemon
• Mannix — Dr. Hanson
• Beer and Hot Chocolate — Len

Appearances as themselves (9)

• 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
• 2021Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes — Himself
• Stars in the House — Self
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• 1998Behind the Planet of the Apes — Self
• 1996Without Memory — Self - Narrator (voice: English version)
• 1992Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall — Self
• 1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre — Self
• Broadway: The Next Generation — Self