James Woods

Known for: Acting
Born: April 18, 1947, Vernal, Utah, USA
Movies: 131

James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and Hercules, as well as in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and earned two Academy Award nominations.

Best-Known Movies

7.5

Hercules

1997

8.0

Casino

1995

8.4

Once Upon a Time in America

1984

5.9

Scary Movie 2

2001

6.5

White House Down

2013

7.5

Contact

1997

7.1

The Virgin Suicides

2000

6.5

Surf's Up

2007

7.2

John Q

2002

6.1

Jobs

2013

Filmography

2025	Eddington	James Woods (uncredited)
2023	Once Upon a Studio	Hades (voice)
2023	A Journey to Sundance	Self
2021	Dean Martin: King of Cool	Self
2016	First Contact	Narrator
2016	Bling	Victor (voice)
2014	Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau	Self (archive footage)
2014	Jamesy Boy	Lt. Falton
2013	Any Given Tuesday	self
2013	Jobs	Jack Dudman
2013	White House Down	Walker
2013	Mary and Martha	Mary's Father
2013	Officer Down	Captain Verona
2011	Too Big to Fail	Dick Fuld
2011	Straw Dogs	Tom Heddon
2010	Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths	Owlman (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	Agent Vaughn Stevens
2006	Stardust: The Bette Davis Story	Self
2006	Free as a Dog
2005	Ark	Jallak (voice)
2005	Buddy	Narrator
2005	Be Cool	Tommy Athens
2005	Pretty Persuasion	Hank Joyce
2004	This Girl's Life	Pops
2004	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction	Toreno (voice)
2004	The Easter Egg Adventure	Grab Takit (voice)
2004	Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh	Self
2004	Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession	Self
2003	Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003	Northfork	Walter O'Brien
2003	Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story	Rudy Giuliani
2002	Mickey's House of Villains	Hades (voice)
2002	Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun	Gloomius Maximus (voice)
2002	Stuart Little 2	Falcon (voice)
2002	Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'	Self
2002	John Q	Dr. Raymond Turner
2001	Race to Space	Dr. Wilhelm von Huber
2001	Riding in Cars with Boys	Leonard Donofrio
2001	America \| A Tribute to Heroes	Self
2001	Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal	Self
2001	Scary Movie 2	Father McFeely
2001	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	General Hein (voice)
2001	Into the Valley of Death	Self
2001	Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored	Self
2001	Recess: School's Out	Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)
2000	The Making of The Virgin Suicides	Self
2000	The American Nightmare	Self
2000	The Making of Hercules	Self
2000	Dirty Pictures	Dennis Barrie
2000	The Virgin Suicides	Mr. Lisbon
2000	Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone	Self
2000	Sensational Cities: New York	Narrator
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)
1999	The General's Daughter	Colonel Robert Moore
1999	True Crime	Alan Mann
1998	Another Day in Paradise	Mel
1998	Vampires	Jack Crow
1998	America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye	Narrator
1997	Kicked in the Head	Uncle Sam
1997	Contact	Michael Kitz
1997	Hercules	Hades (voice)
1996	Ghosts of Mississippi	Byron De La Beckwith
1996	The Summer of Ben Tyler	Temple Rayburn
1996	Killer: A Journal of Murder	Carl Panzram
1995	Nixon	H.R. Haldeman
1995	Casino	Lester Diamond
1995	Indictment: The McMartin Trial	Danny Davis
1995	For Better or Worse	Reggie Makeshift
1994	The Specialist	Ned Trent
1994	Curse of the Starving Class	Weston Tate
1994	Next Door	Matt Coler
1994	The Getaway	Jack Benyon
1994	Jane's House	Paul Clark
1992	Chaplin	Joseph Scott
1992	Citizen Cohn	Roy Marcus Cohn
1992	Diggstown	Gabriel Caine
1992	Straight Talk	Jack Russell
1991	The Boys	Walter Farmer
1991	The Hard Way	John Moss
1991	Voices That Care	Self - Host & Choir Member
1990	Women and Men: Stories of Seduction	Robert (segment "Hills Like White Elephants")
1989	Immediate Family	Michael Spector
1989	My Name Is Bill W.	Bill Wilson
1989	True Believer	Eddie Dodd
1989	Hollywood on Horses	Self
1988	The Boost	Lenny Brown
1988	Crimes of Passion	Himself - Host
1988	Cop	Lloyd Hopkins
1987	Best Seller	Cleve
1987	In Love and War	James B. Stockdale
1986	Promise	DJ
1986	Salvador	Richard Boyle
1985	Joshua Then and Now	Joshua Shapiro
1985	Cat's Eye	Morrison
1985	Badge of the Assassin	Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
1984	Once Upon a Time in America	Max
1984	Against All Odds	Jake Wise
1983	Videodrome	Max Renn
1982	The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome	Interviewee
1982	Split Image	Charles Pratt
1982	Fast-Walking	Fast-Walking
1981	Eyewitness	Aldo Mercer
1980	The Black Marble	The Fiddler
1979	Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand	Len Fraker
1979	The Onion Field	Gregory Powell
1979	...And Your Name Is Jonah	Danny Corelli
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	Raid on Entebbe	Capt. Sammy Berg
1976	The Disappearance of Aimee	Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan
1976	Alex & the Gypsy	Crainpool
1975	Distance	Larry Vincent
1975	F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood	Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld
1975	Foster & Laurie	Walter The Addict
1975	Night Moves	Quentin
1974	The Gambler	Bank Officer
1973	The Way We Were	Frankie McVeigh
1972	A Great American Tragedy	Rick
1972	Hickey & Boggs	Lt. Wyatt
1972	Footsteps	Reporter
1972	The Visitors	Bill Schmidt
1971	All the Way Home	Andrew Lynch

Directing, Writing & Producing

1998	Another Day in Paradise	Producer
1988	Cop	Producer

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