Movies by James Naughton
As part of the cast:
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Bear Snores On (2009)
Cast: Karma Wilson, James Naughton, Joyce Ebert …
Children will find much to cherish in this collection of six classic stories that includes the title tale in which Bear sleeps all winter long in his cozy lair; surprise guests stop by to…
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Nature: Amazing Places: Hawaii (2009)
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, James Naughton
Get up close and personal with Hawaii's continually erupting volcanoes -- a source of both incredible beauty and devastating destruction -- in this pair of "Nature" episodes that pays…
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Building Alaska (2005)
Cast: James Naughton, Sarah Palin
Directed by: Philip Boag
How did the United States' 49th state become habitable? This insightful documentary explores Alaska's late 19th- and early 20th-century highways, railroads, bridges and trestles and…
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Broadway: The Golden Age (2004)
Cast: Bea Arthur, Alec Baldwin, Marlon Brando …
Directed by: Rick McKay
When director Rick McKay travels the world researching the golden age of stage, he realizes that while masterpieces in film and literature can live on through restoration and reprints, the…
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Fascination (2004)
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Adam Garcia, Alice Evans …
Directed by: Klaus Menzel
Suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed Oliver Vance (Stuart Wilson) soon after her husband's untimely death, young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) investigates with…
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The Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree (2004)
Cast: Jane Seymour, James Naughton
Directed by: Anthony Gentile, John Gentile
Jane Seymour and James Naughton lend their voices to this fanciful animated fable about an 8-year-old boy who develops an unlikely friendship with a cast-off Christmas tree light. When a…
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The Truth About Jane (2001)
Cast: Stockard Channing, Ellen Muth, Kelly Rowan …
Directed by: Lee Rose
Janice and her 15-year-old daughter Jane have a typical mother-child relationship and get along well, until Jane falls in love with the new girl at school. Janice has trouble accepting that…
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Oxygen (1998)
Cast: Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, James Naughton …
Directed by: Richard Shepard
Madeline Foster (Maura Tierney) is an NYPD detective with a drinking problem and a penchant for rough sex in this police thriller that has her investigating the kidnapping of a…
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Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998)
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Mort Abrahams, James Brolin …
Directed by: Kevin Burns, David Comtois
Roddy McDowall hosts this documentary that takes an exclusive in-depth look at the five Planet of the Apes films, along with the television series and the animated cartoon inspired by the…
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First Kid (1996)
Cast: Sinbad, Brock Pierce, Blake Boyd …
Directed by: David M. Evans
Sinbad stars as wild and amusing Secret Service agent Sam Simms, who is assigned to guard Luke (Brock Pierce), the bratty 13-year-old son of the president of the United States (James…
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Danielle Steel's Mixed Blessings (1995)
Cast: Gabrielle Carteris, Scott Baio, Bruce Greenwood …
Directed by: Bethany Rooney
In this made for-TV drama based on Danielle Steel's novel, the prospect of becoming parents proves daunting for three newly married couples, including Diana (Gabrielle Carteris) and Andy…
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Cagney & Lacey: Together Again (1995)
Cast: Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, James Naughton …
Directed by: Reza Badiyi
This 1995 movie-length "Cagney & Lacey" special reunites Emmy winners Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly in the roles that reserved their respective places in television history -- Christine Cagney…
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Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994)
Cast: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, James Naughton …
Directed by: James Frawley
Emmy winners Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly return to prime time as Christine Cagney-Burton and Mary Beth Lacey, respectively, in this made-for-television special that finds the former partners…
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The Good Mother (1988)
Cast: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards …
Directed by: Leonard Nimoy
Anna (Diane Keaton) is a divorced mother who nurtures and adores her 6-year-old daughter. After Anna finds new love with artist Leo (Liam Neeson), she's hit with a nasty custody battle…
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Necessity (1988)
Cast: Loni Anderson, James Naughton, John Heard …
Directed by: Michael Miller
Believing her husband, Rick (James Naughton), to be an ordinary businessman, Lauren LaSalle (Loni Anderson) is shocked to discover he's actually a dangerous drug lord. Fearing for her…
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Stephen King's Cat's Eye (1985)
Cast: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Robert Hays …
Directed by: Lewis Teague
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…
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A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Rip Torn, James Naughton …
Directed by: Sean S. Cunningham
A demented kidnapper terrorizes New York City in this adaptation of Mary Higgins Clark's suspense novel. Hiding in New York's maze of underground tunnels, a psychopath (Rip Torn)…
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The Bunker (1981)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman …
Directed by: George Schaefer
Anthony Hopkins won an Emmy for his searing portrayal of the hateful and tragically flawed Adolf Hitler in this made-for-TV dramatization that imagines the murderous leader's last days…
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The Last of the Belles (1974)
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Blythe Danner, Susan Sarandon …
Directed by: George Schaefer
The life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is combined with the fiction he's so famous for in this film that stars Richard Chamberlain as Fitzgerald and Blythe Danner as his fiancée,…
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The Paper Chase (1973)
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman …
Directed by: James Bridges
A hardworking first-year student at Harvard Law School struggles to win the respect of a brilliant but ruthless professor, but he finds himself under the microscope when he learns that the…
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Antigone (1972)
Cast: James Naughton, Fritz Weaver, Louis Zorich …
Directed by: Gerald Freedman
In this filmed stage production of Sophocles' play, Geneviève Bujold gives a riveting performance as the title character, a woman who defies King Creon (Fritz Weaver) -- her uncle…
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Our Town (2003)
Cast: Paul Newman, Maggie Lacey, Ben Fox …
Directed by: James Naughton
The illustrious Paul Newman plays the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's classic 1938 play about the passage of time and the ties that bind, first conceived at the Westport Country…