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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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Popularity

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Rating

65.8M

Budget

180M

Revenue

Acting

Primarily

127 Credits

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Oppenheimer 2023
Executive Producer
Hercules 1997
Hades (voice)
Casino 1995
Lester Diamond
Once Upon a Time in America 1984
Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
Scary Movie 2 2001
Father McFeely
White House Down 2013
Chief SAIC Martin Walker
Contact 1997
Michael Kitz
Surf's Up 2007
Reggie Belafonte (voice)
Jobs 2013
Jack Dudman
John Q 2002
Dr. Raymond Turner
Stuart Little 2 2002
Falcon (voice)
Any Given Sunday 1999
Dr. Harvey Mandrake

Credit 127

2025 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 The Making of Hercules

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

Genres

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