James Noble
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- Comedy10
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- ComedyChances Are
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- ComedyAirplane II: The Sequel
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- ComedyFirst Impressions
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- AdventureCinderella
- DramaDeadly Deception
- ComedyParamedics
- MysteryWho?
- ComedyThe Sporting Club
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- AdventureThe Day My Kid Went Punk
- AdventureThe Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places
- FamilyThe Woman Who Willed a Miracle
- DramaBeen Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
- ComedyA Tiger's Tale
- ComedyBaby Comes Home
- DramaDempsey
- CrimeBang
- ActionHart to Hart
- CrimePerry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
- DramaBreaking Up
- showA World Apart
- DramaLovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
- ComedyArchie: To Riverdale and Back Again
- movieBorn Kicking
- ComedyNight of 100 Stars II
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James Noble
Actor
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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- Dallas, Texas, USA
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