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James Woods

Actor

Born: April 18, 1947 (age 79) · Vernal, Utah, USA

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.

Known for

Hercules
June 13, 1997
Casino
November 22, 1995
Once Upon a Time in America
May 23, 1984
Scary Movie 2
July 4, 2001
White House Down
June 27, 2013
Contact
July 11, 1997
The Virgin Suicides
April 21, 2000
Surf's Up
June 8, 2007
John Q
February 15, 2002
Jobs
August 15, 2013
Videodrome
February 4, 1983
Stuart Little 2
July 19, 2002

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2025Eddington as James Woods (uncredited)
2023Once Upon a Studio as Hades (voice)
2023A Journey to Sundance as Self
2021Dean Martin: King of Cool as Self
2016First Contact as Narrator
2016Bling as Victor (voice)
2014Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
2014Jamesy Boy as Lt. Falton
2013Any Given Tuesday as self
2013Jobs

as Jack Dudman

2013White House Down as Walker

2013Mary and Martha as Mary's Father

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2013Officer Down as Captain Verona
2011Too Big to Fail as Dick Fuld
2011Straw Dogs as Tom Heddon
2010Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths as Owlman (voice)
2009Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side as James Woods as General Veers (voice)
2008An American Carol as Todd Grosslight
2007Surf's Up as Reggie Belafonte (voice)
2006End Game as Agent Vaughn Stevens
2006Stardust: The Bette Davis Story as Self
2006Free as a Dog
2005Ark as Jallak (voice)
2005Buddy as Narrator
2005Be Cool as Tommy Athens
2005Pretty Persuasion as Hank Joyce
2004This Girl's Life as Pops
2004Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction as Toreno (voice)
2004The Easter Egg Adventure as Grab Takit (voice)
2004Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh as Self
2004Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession as Self
2003Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003Northfork as Walter O'Brien
2003Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story as Rudy Giuliani
2002Mickey's House of Villains as Hades (voice)
2002Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun as Gloomius Maximus (voice)
2002Stuart Little 2 as Falcon (voice)
2002Behind the Scenes of 'John Q' as Self
2002John Q as Dr. Raymond Turner
2001Race to Space as Dr. Wilhelm von Huber
2001Riding in Cars with Boys as Leonard Donofrio
2001America: A Tribute to Heroes as Self
2001Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
2001Scary Movie 2 as Father McFeely
2001Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as General Hein (voice)
2001Into the Valley of Death as Self
2001Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored as Self
2001Recess: School's Out as Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)
2000The Making of The Virgin Suicides as Self
2000The American Nightmare as Self
2000The Making of Hercules as Self
2000Dirty Pictures as Dennis Barrie
2000The Virgin Suicides as Mr. Lisbon
2000Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone as Self
2000Sensational Cities: New York as Narrator
1999Play It to the Bone as James Woods (Ringside Fan)
1999Any Given Sunday as Dr. Harvey Mandrake
1999Hercules: Zero to Hero as Hades (voice) (archive sound)
1999The General's Daughter as Colonel Robert Moore
1999True Crime as Alan Mann
1998Another Day in Paradise as Mel
1998Vampires as Jack Crow
1998America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye as Narrator
1997Kicked in the Head as Uncle Sam
1997Contact as Michael Kitz
1997Hercules as Hades (voice)
1996Ghosts of Mississippi as Byron De La Beckwith
1996The Summer of Ben Tyler as Temple Rayburn
1996Killer: A Journal of Murder as Carl Panzram
1995Nixon as H.R. Haldeman
1995Casino as Lester Diamond
1995Indictment: The McMartin Trial as Danny Davis
1995For Better or Worse as Reggie Makeshift
1994The Specialist as Ned Trent
1994Curse of the Starving Class as Weston Tate
1994Next Door as Matt Coler
1994The Getaway as Jack Benyon
1994Jane's House as Paul Clark
1992Chaplin as Joseph Scott
1992Citizen Cohn as Roy Marcus Cohn
1992Diggstown as Gabriel Caine
1992Straight Talk as Jack Russell
1991The Boys as Walter Farmer
1991The Hard Way as John Moss
1991Voices That Care as Self - Host & Choir Member
1990Women and Men: Stories of Seduction as Robert (segment "Hills Like White Elephants")
1989Immediate Family as Michael Spector
1989My Name Is Bill W. as Bill Wilson
1989True Believer as Eddie Dodd
1989Hollywood on Horses as Self
1988The Boost as Lenny Brown
1988Crimes of Passion as Himself - Host
1988Cop as Lloyd Hopkins
1987Best Seller as Cleve
1987In Love and War as James B. Stockdale
1986Promise as DJ
1986Salvador as Richard Boyle
1985Joshua Then and Now as Joshua Shapiro
1985Cat's Eye as Morrison
1985Badge of the Assassin as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
1984Once Upon a Time in America as Max
1984Against All Odds as Jake Wise
1983Videodrome as Max Renn
1982The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome as Interviewee
1982Split Image as Charles Pratt
1982Fast-Walking as Fast-Walking
1981Eyewitness as Aldo Mercer
1980The Black Marble as The Fiddler
1979Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand as Len Fraker
1979The Onion Field as Gregory Powell
1979...And Your Name Is Jonah as Danny Corelli
1979The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel as Sin Eater
1978The Gift of Love as Alfred Browning
1978The Billion Dollar Bubble as Art Lewis
1977The Choirboys as Harold Bloomguard
1976Raid on Entebbe as Capt. Sammy Berg
1976The Disappearance of Aimee as Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan
1976Alex & the Gypsy as Crainpool
1975Distance as Larry Vincent
1975F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood as Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld
1975Foster & Laurie as Walter The Addict
1975Night Moves as Quentin
1974The Gambler as Bank Officer
1973The Way We Were as Frankie McVeigh
1972A Great American Tragedy as Rick
1972Hickey & Boggs as Lt. Wyatt
1972Footsteps as Reporter
1972The Visitors as Bill Schmidt
1971All the Way Home as Andrew Lynch

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2023Oppenheimer Executive Producer
1998Another Day in Paradise Producer
1988Cop Producer