# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-naughton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:33:34.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-naughton"
name: "James Naughton"
slug: "james-naughton"
description: "James Naughton 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."
tagline: "American actor and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Planet_of_the_Apes_cast_1974_James_Naughton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1945-12-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.999132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622553/"
    handle:    "nm0622553"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "James Naughton"
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    title: "جیمز ناتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Naughton"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naughton"
    title: "James Naughton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "جیمز ناتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naughton"
    title: "James Naughton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naughton"
    title: "James Naughton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naughton"
    title: "James Naughton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naughton"
    title: "James Naughton"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naughton"
    title: "James Naughton"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%86%D9%88%D9%B9%D9%86"
    title: "جیمز نوٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b82520f2-a098-42c1-9910-65afa667a04f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37421"
    title: "James Naughton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump