James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American film, stage and television actor. Woods is known for starring in critically acclaimed films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, Hercules, and in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and has gained two Academy Award nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Woods, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
| Birth Location | Vernal, Utah, USA |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947-04-18 |
Movies
Once Upon a Studio
as Hades (voice)
2023
Dean Martin: King of Cool
as Self
2021
First Contact
as Narrator
2016
Bling
as Victor (voice)
2016
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's “Island of Dr. Moreau”
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Jamesy Boy
as Lt. Falton
2014
Any Given Tuesday
as Self
2013
Jobs
as Jack Dudman
2013
White House Down
as Walker
2013
Mary and Martha
as Mary's Father
2013
Officer Down
as Captain Verona
2013
Straw Dogs
as Tom Heddon
2011
Too Big to Fail
as Dick Fuld
2011
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
as Thomas Wayne Jr. / Owlman (voice)
2010
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
as James Woods as General Veers (voice)
2009
An American Carol
as Todd Grosslight
2008
Surf's Up
as Reggie Belafonte (voice)
2007
End Game
as Vaughn Stevens
2006
2006
Ark
as Jallak (voice)
2005
Buddy
as Narrator
2005
Be Cool
as Tommy Athens
2005
Pretty Persuasion
as Hank Joyce
2005
This Girl's Life
as Pops
2004
The Easter Egg Adventure
as Grab Takit (voice)
2004
2004
2004
Northfork
as Walter O'Brien
2003
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
as Rudy Giuliani
2003
Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
as Gloomius Maximus (voice)
2002
Stuart Little 2
as Falcon (voice)
2002
John Q
as Dr. Raymond Turner
2002
Mickey's House of Villains
as Hades (voice)
2001
Race to Space
as Dr. Wilhelm von Huber
2001
Riding in Cars with Boys
as Leonard Donofrio
2001
America: A Tribute to Heroes
as Self
2001
2001
Scary Movie 2
as Father McFeely
2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as General Hein (voice)
2001
Into the Valley of Death
as Self
2001
2001
Recess: School's Out
as Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)
2001
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
as Self
2001
2000
The American Nightmare
as Self
2000
Dirty Pictures
as Dennis Barrie
2000
Play It to the Bone
as James Woods (Ringside Fan)
1999
Any Given Sunday
as Dr. Harvey Mandrake
1999
Hercules: Zero to Hero
as Hades (voice) (archive sound)
1999
The General's Daughter
as Colonel Robert Moore
1999
The Virgin Suicides
as Mr. Lisbon
1999
True Crime
as Alan Mann
1999
Another Day in Paradise
as Mel
1998
Vampires
as Jack Crow
1998
America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
as Narrator
1998
Kicked in the Head
as Uncle Sam
1997
Contact
as Michael Kitz
1997
Hercules
as Hades (voice)
1997
Ghosts of Mississippi
as Byron De La Beckwith
1996
The Summer of Ben Tyler
as Temple Rayburn
1996
Killer: A Journal of Murder
as Carl Panzram
1996
Nixon
as H.R. Haldeman
1995
Casino
as Lester Diamond
1995
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
as Danny Davis
1995
For Better or Worse
as Reggie Makeshift
1995
The Specialist
as Ned Trent
1994
Curse of the Starving Class
as Weston Tate
1994
Next Door
as Matt Coler
1994
The Getaway
as Jack Benyon
1994
Jane's House
as Paul Clark
1994
Chaplin
as Joseph Scott
1992
Citizen Cohn
as Roy Marcus Cohn
1992
Diggstown
as Gabriel Caine
1992
Straight Talk
as Jack Russell
1992
1991
The Hard Way
as John Moss
1991
Voices That Care
as Self - Host & Choir Member
1991
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
as Robert
1990
Immediate Family
as Michael Spector
1989
My Name Is Bill W.
as Bill Wilson
1989
True Believer
as Eddie Dodd
1989
Hollywood on Horses
as Self
1989
The Boost
as Lenny Brown
1988
Crimes of Passion
as Himself - Host
1988
Cop
as Lloyd Hopkins
1988
Best Seller
as Cleve
1987
In Love and War
as James B. Stockdale
1987
Promise
as DJ
1986
Salvador
as Richard Boyle
1986
Cat's Eye
as Richard 'Dick' Morrison
1985
Badge of the Assassin
as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
1985
Joshua Then and Now
as Joshua Shapiro
1985
Once Upon a Time in America
as Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
1984
Against All Odds
as Jake Wise
1984
Videodrome
as Max Renn
1983
The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
as Interviewee
1982
Split Image
as Charles Pratt
1982
Fast-Walking
as Fast-Walking
1982
Eyewitness
as Aldo Mercer
1981
The Black Marble
as The Fiddler
1980
The Onion Field
as Gregory Powell
1979
...And Your Name Is Jonah
as Danny Corelli
1979
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
as Sin Eater
1979
The Gift of Love
as Alfred Browning
1978
The Billion Dollar Bubble
as Art Lewis
1978
The Choirboys
as Harold Bloomguard
1977
Raid on Entebbe
as Capt. Sammy Berg
1976
The Disappearance of Aimee
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan
1976
Alex & the Gypsy
as Crainpool
1976
Distance
as Larry Vincent
1975
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
as Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld
1975
Foster & Laurie
as Walter The Addict
1975
Night Moves
as Quentin
1975
The Gambler
as Bank officer
1974
The Way We Were
as Frankie McVeigh
1973
A Great American Tragedy
as Rick
1972
Hickey & Boggs
as Lt. Wyatt
1972
Footsteps
as Reporter
1972
The Visitors
as Bill Schmidt
1972
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
as Len Fraker
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