James Noble
Acting
Born 1922-03-05
Died 2016-03-28
Dallas, Texas, USA
55 credits
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The son of a Dallas wholesale coal dealer, Noble spent much of his youth attending pool halls and movie houses. He retained his expertise with a pool cue throughout his life, while his stronger interest in acting (fueled by movies) manifested itself in local stage productions and drama studies at Southern Methodist University. Following Navy service in World War II, Noble went to New York to study at the Actors Studio, then went on to a stage revival of Pygmalion wherein he met his future wife, actress Carolyn Coates. The actor appeared on such TV soap operas as As the World Turns (1956), A World Apart (1970) and such Broadway productions as "1776" (a role he took to the movie 1776 (1972)), spending much of his spare time in psychotherapy to handle his ongoing feelings of self-doubt. In films from the mid '70s, Noble principally played small roles as authority figures and politicians (Being There (1979), The Nude Bomb (1980)), with occasional larger roles. such as Bo Derek's father in 10 (1979). In 1979, Noble was cast as the genially absent-minded "Governor Gene Gatling" on the sitcom, Benson (1979), a role in which he remained until the series' 1986 cancellation. Two years later, he resurfaced on TV in the role of a Nebraska-based recording engineer on the very short-lived sitcom, First Impressions (1988).
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Filmography
Law & Order
The Love Boat
Murder, She Wrote
Peak Practice
Starsky & Hutch
The Defenders
The Bill
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
ABC Afterschool Special
Faerie Tale Theatre
Benson
McCloud
Perfect Strangers
Airplane II: The Sequel
Father Dowling Mysteries
The Doctors
Being There
10
Chances Are
The Adams Chronicles
Fake
1776
The Andros Targets
A World Apart
Night of 100 Stars II
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Cinderella
First Impressions
Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again
Beech is Back
The Sporting Club
Summer of My German Soldier
Death Play
Breaking Up
A Tiger's Tale
Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
Hart to Hart
Paramedics
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
When the Bough Breaks
Dragonfly
Bang
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
Dempsey
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
You Talkin' to Me?
Baby Comes Home
Who?
Promises in the Dark
Deadly Deception
They Bite
The Day My Kid Went Punk
Born Kicking
The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places
This Is Kate Bennett...
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