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.
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From Vernal, Utah, USA
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Popularity127
Credits6.6
Rating65.8M
Budget180M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 Eddington as Self
2023 Once Upon a Studio as Hades (voice)
2023 Oppenheimer Executive Producer
2021 Dean Martin: El Rey del Cool as Self
2021 A Journey to Sundance as Self
2016 First Contact as Narrator
2016 Bling as Victor (voice)
2014 Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
2014 Jamesy Boy as Lt. Falton
2013 Any Given Tuesday as Self
2013 Jobs as Jack Dudman
2013 White House Down as Chief SAIC Martin Walker
2013 Mary and Martha as Mary's Father
2013 Officer Down as Captain Verona
2011 Too Big to Fail as Dick Fuld
2011 Straw Dogs as Tom Heddon
2010 Family Guy: And Then There Were Fewer as James Woods (voice)
2010 Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths as Owlman (voice)
2009 Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side as James Woods as General Veers (voice)
2008 An American Carol as Todd Grosslight
2007 Surf's Up as Reggie Belafonte (voice)
2006 End Game as Vaughn Stevens
2006 Free as a Dog
2005 Ark as Jallak (voice)
2005 Buddy as Narrator
2005 Be Cool as Tommy Athens
2005 Pretty Persuasion as Hank Joyce
2004 This Girl's Life as Pops
2004 The Easter Egg Adventure as Grab Takit (voice)
2004 Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh as Self
2004 Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession as Self
2003 Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003 Northfork as Walter O'Brien
2003 Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story as Rudy Giuliani
2002 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
2001 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 Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
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 Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored as Self
2001 Recess: School's Out as Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)
2000 The Making of The Virgin Suicides as Self
2000 The American Nightmare as Self
2000 Dirty Pictures as Dennis Barrie
2000 The Virgin Suicides as Mr. Lisbon
2000 Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone as Self
1999 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 True Crime as Alan Mann
1998 Another Day in Paradise as Mel Producer
1998 Vampires as Jack Crow
1998 America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye as Narrator
1997 Kicked in the Head as Uncle Sam
1997 Contact as Michael Kitz
1997 Hercules as Hades (voice)
1996 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
1995 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
1994 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
1992 Chaplin as Joseph Scott
1992 Citizen Cohn as Roy Marcus Cohn
1992 Diggstown as Gabriel Caine
1992 Straight Talk as Jack Russell
1991 The Boys as Walter Farmer
1991 The Hard Way as John Moss
1991 Voices That Care as Self - Host & Choir Member
1990 Women and Men: Stories of Seduction as Robert
1989 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
1988 The Boost as Lenny Brown
1988 Crimes of Passion as Himself - Host
1988 Cop as Lloyd Hopkins Producer
1987 Best Seller as Cleve
1987 In Love and War as James B. Stockdale
1986 Promise as DJ
1986 Salvador as Richard Boyle
1985 Joshua Then and Now as Joshua Shapiro
1985 Cat's Eye as Morrison
1985 Badge of the Assassin as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
1984 Once Upon a Time in America as Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
1984 Against All Odds as Jake Wise
1983 Videodrome as Max Renn
1982 The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome as Interviewee
1982 Split Image as Charles Pratt
1982 Fast-Walking as Fast-Walking
1981 Eyewitness as Aldo Mercer
1980 The Black Marble as The Fiddler
1979 Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand as Len Fraker
1979 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
1978 The Gift of Love as Alfred Browning
1978 The Billion Dollar Bubble as Art Lewis
1977 The Choirboys as Harold Bloomguard
1976 Raid on Entebbe as Capt. Sammy Berg
1976 The Disappearance of Aimee as Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan
1976 Alex & the Gypsy as Crainpool
1975 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
1974 The Gambler as Bank Officer
1973 The Way We Were as Frankie McVeigh
1972 A Great American Tragedy as Rick
1972 Hickey & Boggs as Lt. Wyatt
1972 Footsteps as Reporter
1972 The Visitors as Bill Schmidt
1971 All the Way Home as Andrew Lynch
7.09 Science Fiction 5
7.05 War 1
6.92 Horror 5
6.76 History 7
6.68 Mystery 9
6.63 Documentary 13
6.59 Animation 13
6.54 Fantasy 7
6.52 Family 12
6.40 Western 1
6.20 Music 1
6.19 Thriller 20
6.19 Adventure 9
6.13 Crime 26
6.11 Drama 69
5.95 Action 15
5.90 Comedy 25
5.62 TV Movie 22
5.60 Romance 16