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James Noble is a Actor American born on 5 march 1922 at Dallas (USA)

James Noble

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Nationality USA
Birth 5 march 1922 at Dallas (USA)
Death 28 march 2016 (at 94 years)

James Wilkes Noble (born March 5, 1922) is an American actor, born in Dallas, Texas, best known for his portrayal of Governor Eugene Gatling on the 1980s sitcom Benson.

Biography

James Noble est le fils de Lois Frances (née Wilkes) et Ralph Byrne Noble.

Il étudie le théâtre et l'ingénierie à l'université méthodiste du Sud, avant de la quitter pour servir dans la marine des États-Unis au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Après son retour de la guerre, Noble étudie le théâtre avec Lee Strasberg et fait des apparitions dans des théâtres de Broadway. Sa carrière de télévision commence dans des feuilletons, comme The Brighter Day , As the World Turns, The Doctors et Un monde à part. Ses rôles grand écran incluent : le révérend John Witherspoon dans la version cinématographique de la comédie musicale de Broadway 1776 (1972), les rôles variés que les médecins dans des films tels que One Summer Love (1976), Elle (1979) et Promises in the Dark (1979), Kaufman, chef d'état-major du président, dans Bienvenue, mister Chance (1979), le père O'Flanagan dans la comédie suite Y a-t-il enfin un pilote dans l'avion ? (1982), Sinclair dans A Tiger's Tale (1987), chef de Wilkins dans la comédie Paramedics (film) (1988) et le Dr Bailey dans Le ciel s'est trompé (1989).

En 2005, il a co-fondé Ouvrir la porte de photos avec l'actrice Colleen Murphy , et produit et joué dans le court-métrage Glacier Bay, qui a remporté plusieurs prix lors de festivals aux États-Unis. Noble a joué la version live action de Archie Comics caractère Hiram Lodge dans le film, Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990).

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George Seaton
George Seaton
(1 films)
Ken Finkleman
Ken Finkleman
(1 films)
Peter Douglas
Peter Douglas
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of James Noble (19 films)

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Bang
Bang (1995)
, 1h39
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Greene, Lucy Liu, James Noble
Roles Rooftop Dealer
Rating61% 3.0945353.0945353.0945353.0945353.094535
Bang is a story about an unnamed young woman living in Los Angeles, played by Darling Narita. It explores her transformation from being a victim to being in control, after a series of incidents which cause her to snap.
Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again, 1h36
Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Christopher Rich, Lauren Holly, Raye Birk, Karen Kopins, Cindy Ambuehl, Sam Whipple
Roles Mr. Hyrum Lodge
Rating53% 2.694232.694232.694232.694232.69423
Archie Andrews, fifteen years after graduating from Riverdale High, has become a successful lawyer and is preparing to marry his fiancée, Pam, and move to "the big city." Before doing that, however, he returns home to Riverdale for his high school reunion.
Chances Are, 1h48
Directed by Emile Ardolino
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson, Christopher McDonald, Josef Sommer
Roles Dr. Bailey
Rating65% 3.2505553.2505553.2505553.2505553.250555
Young D.A. Louie Jeffries is hit by a car and dies in 1964, but manages to slip by the pearly gates and is instantly reborn. In 1987, 23 years later, his widow Corinne still misses him, ignoring the frustrated devotion of his best friend Phillip Train, who has pretty much raised his only daughter Miranda as his own. Miranda, while a student at Yale University meets Alex Finch, who works in the library but is about to graduate. After graduation, Alex schemes his way into the office of newspaper editor Ben Bradlee, at which time he meets Phillip, a journalist at Bradlee's newspaper. When Phillip brings Alex to meet the Jeffries family, Alex quickly realizes he is in fact Corinne's dead husband reborn.
A Tiger's Tale, 1h37
Directed by Peter Douglas
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Ann-Margret, C. Thomas Howell, Charles Durning, Kelly Preston, Ann Wedgeworth, William Zabka
Roles Sinclair
Rating53% 2.657142.657142.657142.657142.65714
Bubber Drumm is a Houston high school student. Rose Butts is an alcoholic, more than twice his age, and the mother of his girlfriend, Shirley. Bubber and Rose begin an affair after Bubber fixes Shirley up with his pal, Ransom McKnight.
Paramedics
Paramedics (1988)
, 1h30
Directed by Stuart Margolin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors George Newbern, Christopher McDonald, Lydie Denier, John P. Ryan, James Noble, John Pleshette
Roles Chief Wilkins
Rating41% 2.0821052.0821052.0821052.0821052.082105
When this group of rowdy and raunchy, laid-back medics are transferred from their cushy uptown district to the rough south-end, they find plenty of trouble when they discover the tough guys are playing a "corpses-for-dollars" scam and they want to crack the case.
When the Bough Breaks, 1h40
Directed by Waris Hussein
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Ted Danson, Richard Masur, Rachel Ticotin, James Noble, Kim Miyori, Merritt Butrick
Roles Dr. Warren Towle
Rating67% 3.3953953.3953953.3953953.3953953.395395
Alex Delaware, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows, Milo Sturgis, comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and Sturgis wants the doctor to help: Alex agrees, and the two go on the trail of the real perpetrators.
Dempsey
Dempsey (1983)
, 1h52
Directed by Gus Trikonis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Treat Williams, Sally Kellerman, Victoria Tennant, Sam Waterston, Robert Hardy, Peter Mark Richman
Roles Gavin McNab
Rating62% 3.142993.142993.142993.142993.14299
Jack Dempsey starts out fighting in bars for half the take. He wins his first professional fight. After a later bout, he and his manager are held up at gunpoint and robbed of the purse. He sees the thieves later and beats them up to recover the cash. Jack meets Maxine Cates, but goes to New York to box. After a bout with Jack Johnson is a draw, he breaks with his manager and goes back to Salt Lake City and marries Maxine. After money disputes with her Maxine leaves and Dempsey goes to San Francisco. Kerns becomes his manager. He wins fights goes to New York and divorces Maxine. He beats Jess Willard by a TKO and becomes heavyweight champ. He goes to Hollywood to make films and gets sued for non-support by Maxine. He fights Luis Firpo and is knocked out of the ring, but still wins. He is sick (perhaps poisoned), but still fights Gene Tunney and loses in a TKO. On September 22, 1927 he fights Tunney again. Dempsey knocks Tunney down, but the count doesn't start until Dempsey goes to a neutral corner. This gives Tunney time to recover and get up when the count reaches 9. In this famous "long count" fight Tunney wins by decision.
Airplane II: The Sequel, 1h25
Directed by Ken Finkleman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Sur la Lune, Aviation films, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Dans un avion, Space opera
Actors Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, Rip Torn
Roles Father O'Flanagan
Rating60% 3.049883.049883.049883.049883.04988
In the near future, the Moon has been colonized and supports a station on its surface. A lunar shuttle known as Mayflower One is being rushed to launch from Houston. The head of the ground crew, The Sarge (Chuck Connors), does not like what is occurring, but he defers to the airline's management.
Being There, 2h10
Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about television, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about autism
Actors Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard A. Dysart, Richard Basehart
Roles Kaufman
Rating78% 3.948023.948023.948023.948023.94802
Chance (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged man who lives in the townhouse of an old, wealthy man in Washington, D.C. He is simple-minded and has lived there his whole life, tending the garden. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When his benefactor dies, Chance naively says he has no claim against the estate, and is ordered to move out. Thus he discovers the outside world for the first time.
10
10 (1979)
, 2h2
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, Dee Wallace, Bo Derek, Sam J. Jones
Roles Dr. Miles
Rating60% 3.047533.047533.047533.047533.04753
During a surprise 42nd birthday party for wealthy, well-known composer George Webber (Dudley Moore), thrown by his actress girlfriend Samantha Taylor (Julie Andrews), he finds he's coping badly with incipient middle age. From his car, George glimpses a bride-to-be (Bo Derek) and is instantly obsessed by her beauty, following her to the church, where he crashes into a police cruiser, is stung by a bee and nearly disrupts the wedding ceremony.
Summer of My German Soldier, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Kristy McNichol, Bruce Davison, Esther Elizabeth Rolle, Barbara Barrie, Michael Constantine, Robyn Lively
Roles Pierce
Rating77% 3.8691253.8691253.8691253.8691253.869125
Twelve-year-old Patty Bergen lives in Jenkinsville, Arkansas, during World War II. Patty's family owns the local clothing and general supplies store, in which Patty occasionally works. Patty's abusive father and uncaring mother have little time for her, instead favoring her younger sister Sharon. However, Patty does have a friend in the family's black, middle-aged housekeeper, Ruth.