James Naughton
Actor | Director
Actor | Director
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James Naughton (born December 6, 1945) is an American director, theater, film and television actor.
As: John
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 the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself entangled in a web of politics and deception.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Meera Menon
Stars: Anna Gunn | James Purefoy | Alysia Reiner | Sarah Megan Thomas | Sophie von Haselberg
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. With a frankness that's strikingly disarming as well as frequently self-serving, the grown-ups struggle with being... well... grown-up.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Charlie Levi
Stars: Joe Mantegna | Barbara Hershey | James Naughton | Diane Venora | Natalie Dreyfuss
As: Frank Church
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 life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: David Hare
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Ralph Fiennes | Bill Nighy | Christopher Walken | Winona Ryder
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 FBI, led by agent Mike Sheehy (Naughton), that the homicide appears to be part of a string of crimes carried out by an enigmatic, religious sect, Tom decides to take matters into his own hands. Ultimately he is faced ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Gregory W. Friedle
Stars: Kelly AuCoin | James Naughton | Kevin O'Donnell | Maggie Lacey
As: Robert Eisenberg
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, overbearing boss. Brett soon enters into a relationship with Archie, an older man who has plenty of his own issues, including alcoholism, diabetes and a difficult relationship with his daughter. Intent on helping Archie get past his problems, she turns to her dying ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Marc Klein
Stars: Maggie Grace | James Naughton | Alec Baldwin | Chris Carmack | Sarah Michelle Gellar
As: Fuzzy Sedgwick
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 to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: George Hickenlooper
Stars: Hayden Christensen | Guy Pearce | Jimmy Fallon | Sienna Miller | Mena Suvari
As: Stephen
The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss however is extremely demanding and cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine when all she really wants to be a good journalist.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: David Frankel
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Anne Hathaway | Simon Baker | Emily Blunt | Meryl Streep
As: Narration
Documentary film investigating allegations of election fraud during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Electronic voting machines count approximately 90% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections. The technology is also increasingly being used across the world, including in Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Latin America. The film uncovers incendiary evidence from the trash cans of ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Simon Ardizzone | Russell Michaels
Stars: James Naughton | Bev Harris | Harri Hursti
As: Patrick Doherty
Young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) gets suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed Oliver Vance (Stuart Wilson) soon after her husband's untimely death. Scott investigates with Oliver's pretty daughter, Kelly (Alice Evans), who shared Scott's doubts about the upcoming nuptials. Along the way, he falls in love with Kelly, but a fatal explosion turns Scott's life upside down - and the ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Klaus Menzel
Stars: Stuart Wilson | James Naughton | Jacqueline Bisset | Alice Evans | Adam Garcia
As: Dr. Senior
Sarah (Kyra Sedgwick) is a New York City columnist who falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- Ryan (Rob Morrow), a free-spirited artist who promptly vanishes for eight months. Ryan, of course, has no idea he's going to be a father, and neither do her protective parents (Mary Tyler Moore and Robert Klein). The pregnancy is hidden until her zany best friend Lulu (Lela Rochon) ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Tracy Alexson
Stars: Mary Tyler Moore | Lela Rochon | Rob Morrow | Kyra Sedgwick | Kurt Deutsch
As: Robert
Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's unaccepting mother, Janice, struggles with her surprising revelation of brought forth by her only daughter.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Lee Rose
Stars: Stockard Channing | RuPaul | Jenny O'Hara | Kelly Rowan | Ellen Muth
As: Clark Hannon
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Richard Shepard
Stars: Laila Robins | Adrien Brody | James Naughton | Terry Kinney | Maura Tierney
As: Himself
This documentary was shown as part of the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable TV channel's celebration of the 30th anniversary of the release of Planet of the Apes (1968). We learn how the original French novel was transformed into the first film.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Kevin Burns | David Comtois
Stars: John Chambers | Roddy McDowall | Charlton Heston | Kim Hunter | Richard D. Zanuck
As: Gill Griffin
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 trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Diane Keaton | Maggie Smith | Dan Hedaya | Bette Midler | Goldie Hawn
As: President Paul Davenport
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. Constantly surrounded by security officers, restricted in movements and having almost every waking moment carefully monitored makes normalcy an impossibility. No one knows this better than young Luke Davenport, the son of U.S. President Davenport. He vents his ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: David M. Evans
Stars: Art LaFleur | Brock Pierce | Timothy Busfield | Sinbad | Blake Boyd
As: Brad Coleman
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 Pilar wants to have a baby of her own. Diana and Andy Douglas are a newlywed couple with great careers. It would be difficult for Diana to conceive, so they explore other options, like surrogacy and adoption. Charlie Winwood is an orphan who, like Diana, ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Bethany Rooney
Stars: Bruce Greenwood | James Naughton | Bess Armstrong | Gabrielle Carteris | Scott Baio
As: Frank
Birds go berserk and turn against mankind.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Rick Rosenthal
Stars: Brad Johnson | James Naughton | Chelsea Field | Jan Rubeš | Tippi Hedren
As: Jim O'Connor (the gentleman caller)
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Paul Newman
Stars: John Malkovich | Karen Allen | James Naughton | Joanne Woodward
As: Andy Colleran
When two single parents remarry, their teenaged son and daughter begin developing an unexpected attraction to each other.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Stars: Dee Wallace | James Naughton | Dermot Mulroney | Bill Bixby | Megan Follows
As: Jack Parrish
A 17-year-old girl lapses into a coma and wakes up 20 years later.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Peter Levin
Stars: Robin Gammell | James Naughton | Michael Goodwin | Karen Grassle | Elizabeth Montgomery
As: Hugh
Three short stories by shock-meister Stephen King are linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick (James Woods) tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, Amanda is threatened by an evil gnome who throws suspicion on the family ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Lewis Teague
Stars: James Woods | Drew Barrymore | Robert Hays | Kenneth McMillan | Alan King
As: Steve Peterson
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below Grand Central Station, he throws the police into a race against time to save the girls and catch the killer.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Sean S. Cunningham
Stars: Kate Mulgrew | Rip Torn | James Naughton | Barbara Baxley | Shawn von Schreiber
As: Andy Driscoll
A paroled young criminal tries to stay away of trouble.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Michael Tuchner
Stars: Ellen Barkin | James Naughton | Patricia Wettig | Jay Acovone | Mark Soper
As: James O'Donnell
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: George Schaefer
Stars: Anthony Hopkins | James Naughton | Richard Jordan | Cliff Gorman | Martin Jarvis
As: Dr. Baxter
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.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Alexander Singer
Stars: Katherine Helmond | Lawrence Pressman | Scott Hylands | Karen Carlson | Renne Jarrett
As: Kevin Brooks
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: James Bridges
Stars: Graham Beckel | Timothy Bottoms | James Naughton | John Houseman | Lindsay Wagner