Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 18, 1947
Place of Birth:
Vernal, Utah, USA
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James Woods
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Once Upon a Studio | Hades (voice) |
| 2021 | Dean Martin: El Rey del Cool | Self |
| 2021 | A Journey to Sundance | Self |
| 2016 | Bling | Victor (voice) |
| 2016 | First Contact | Narrator |
| 2014 | Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Jamesy Boy | Lt. Falton |
| 2013 | Officer Down | Captain Verona |
| 2013 | Jobs | Jack Dudman |
| 2013 | White House Down | Chief SAIC Martin Walker |
| 2013 | Mary and Martha | Mary's Father |
| 2013 | Any Given Tuesday | Self |
| 2011 | Straw Dogs | Tom Heddon |
| 2011 | Too Big to Fail | Dick Fuld |
| 2010 | Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths | Owlman (voice) |
| 2010 | Family Guy: And Then There Were Fewer | James Woods (voice) |
| 2009 | Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side | James Woods as General Veers (voice) |
| 2008 | An American Carol | Todd Grosslight |
| 2007 | Surf's Up | Reggie Belafonte (voice) |
| 2006 | End Game | Vaughn Stevens |
| 2006 | Free as a Dog | |
| 2005 | Be Cool | Tommy Athens |
| 2005 | Ark | Jallak (voice) |
| 2005 | Buddy | Narrator |
| 2005 | Pretty Persuasion | Hank Joyce |
| 2004 | This Girl's Life | Pops |
| 2004 | The Easter Egg Adventure | Grab Takit (voice) |
| 2004 | Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh | Self |
| 2004 | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | Self |
| 2004 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction | Toreno (voice) |
| 2003 | Northfork | Walter O'Brien |
| 2003 | Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story | Rudy Giuliani |
| 2003 | Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork | |
| 2002 | Stuart Little 2 | Falcon (voice) |
| 2002 | John Q | Dr. Raymond Turner |
| 2002 | Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun | Gloomius Maximus (voice) |
| 2001 | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | General Hein (voice) |
| 2001 | Scary Movie 2 | Father McFeely |
| 2001 | Mickey's House of Villains | Hades (voice) |
| 2001 | Race to Space | Dr. Wilhelm von Huber |
| 2001 | Riding in Cars with Boys | Leonard Donofrio |
| 2001 | Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored | Self |
| 2001 | Recess: School's Out | Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice) |
| 2001 | America | A Tribute to Heroes | Self |
| 2001 | Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal | Self |
| 2001 | Into the Valley of Death | Self |
| 2000 | The Virgin Suicides | Mr. Lisbon |
| 2000 | The American Nightmare | Self |
| 2000 | Dirty Pictures | Dennis Barrie |
| 2000 | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self |
| 2000 | The Making of The Virgin Suicides | Self |
| 2000 | The Making of Hercules | |
| 1999 | The General's Daughter | Colonel Robert Moore |
| 1999 | True Crime | Alan Mann |
| 1999 | Play It to the Bone | James Woods (Ringside Fan) |
| 1999 | Any Given Sunday | Dr. Harvey Mandrake |
| 1999 | Hercules: Zero to Hero | Hades (voice) (archive sound) |
| 1998 | Vampires | Jack Crow |
| 1998 | America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye | Narrator |
| 1998 | Another Day in Paradise | Mel |
| 1997 | Contact | Michael Kitz |
| 1997 | Hercules | Hades (voice) |
| 1997 | Kicked in the Head | Uncle Sam |
| 1996 | Ghosts of Mississippi | Byron De La Beckwith |
| 1996 | Killer: A Journal of Murder | Carl Panzram |
| 1996 | The Summer of Ben Tyler | Temple Rayburn |
| 1995 | Casino | Lester Diamond |
| 1995 | Nixon | H.R. Haldeman |
| 1995 | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Danny Davis |
| 1995 | For Better or Worse | Reggie Makeshift |
| 1994 | The Getaway | Jack Benyon |
| 1994 | The Specialist | Ned Trent |
| 1994 | Next Door | Matt Coler |
| 1994 | Curse of the Starving Class | Weston Tate |
| 1994 | Jane's House | Paul Clark |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Joseph Scott |
| 1992 | Straight Talk | Jack Russell |
| 1992 | Diggstown | Gabriel Caine |
| 1992 | Citizen Cohn | Roy Marcus Cohn |
| 1991 | The Hard Way | John Moss |
| 1991 | Voices That Care | Self - Host & Choir Member |
| 1991 | The Boys | Walter Farmer |
| 1990 | Women and Men: Stories of Seduction | Robert |
| 1989 | True Believer | Eddie Dodd |
| 1989 | My Name Is Bill W. | Bill Wilson |
| 1989 | Immediate Family | Michael Spector |
| 1989 | Hollywood on Horses | Self |
| 1988 | Cop | Lloyd Hopkins |
| 1988 | The Boost | Lenny Brown |
| 1988 | Crimes of Passion | Himself - Host |
| 1987 | Best Seller | Cleve |
| 1987 | In Love and War | James B. Stockdale |
| 1986 | Salvador | Richard Boyle |
| 1986 | Promise | DJ |
| 1985 | Cat's Eye | Morrison |
| 1985 | Joshua Then and Now | Joshua Shapiro |
| 1985 | Badge of the Assassin | Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney |
| 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz |
| 1984 | Against All Odds | Jake Wise |
| 1983 | Videodrome | Max Renn |
| 1982 | Fast-Walking | Fast-Walking |
| 1982 | Split Image | Charles Pratt |
| 1982 | The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome | Interviewee |
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Aldo Mercer |
| 1980 | The Black Marble | The Fiddler |
| 1979 | The Onion Field | Gregory Powell |
| 1979 | ...And Your Name Is Jonah | Danny Corelli |
| 1979 | Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand | Len Fraker |
| 1979 | The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel | Sin Eater |
| 1978 | The Gift of Love | Alfred Browning |
| 1978 | The Billion Dollar Bubble | Art Lewis |
| 1977 | The Choirboys | Harold Bloomguard |
| 1976 | Alex & the Gypsy | Crainpool |
| 1976 | The Disappearance of Aimee | Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan |
| 1976 | Raid on Entebbe | Capt. Sammy Berg |
| 1975 | Night Moves | Quentin |
| 1975 | F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood | Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld |
| 1975 | Distance | Larry Vincent |
| 1975 | Foster & Laurie | Walter The Addict |
| 1974 | The Gambler | Bank Officer |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | Frankie McVeigh |
| 1972 | Footsteps | Reporter |
| 1972 | Hickey & Boggs | Lt. Wyatt |
| 1972 | The Visitors | Bill Schmidt |
| 1972 | A Great American Tragedy | Rick |
| 1971 | All the Way Home | Andrew Lynch |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Justice League Action | Lex Luthor / Repulse (voice) |
| 2016 | Justice League Action | Lex Luthor (voice) |
| 2013 | Futurescape with James Woods | Himself |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | Patrick "Sully" Sullivan |
| 2013 | The Frame | Max Renn |
| 2012 | Coma | Dr. Howard Stark |
| 2006 | Shark | Sebastian Stark |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self |
| 2004 | Entourage | Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | |
| 2001 | Disney's House of Mouse | Hades (voice) |
| 2000 | Founding Fathers | John Adams (voice) |
| 2000 | Clerks | Major Baklava (voice) |
| 1999 | Family Guy | James Woods (voice) |
| 1999 | Family Guy | James Woods as General Veers (voice) |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Family Guy James Woods / Simpsons James Woods (voice) |
| 1998 | Hercules | Hades (voice) |
| 1998 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | Narrator |
| 1997 | EP Daily | |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | Saturday Night Special | |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1994 | ER | Dr. Nate Lennox |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels | Mickey Cohen |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self |
| 1990 | Dream On | Dennis Youngblood |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | James Woods (voice) |
| 1978 | Holocaust | Karl Weiss |
| 1975 | Welcome Back, Kotter | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Larry Kirkoff |
| 1973 | Kojak | |
| 1973 | Police Story | |
| 1973 | Kojak | Caz |
| 1972 | The Rookies | |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco | |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Andrew Lynch |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Assistant District Attorney Joseph Ryan |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | DJ |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Bill Wilson |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Temple Rayburn |