James Woods
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Woods, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Apr 18, 1947 In Vernal, Utah, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 151
- First Appeared:
- In the series Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951-12-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie Eddington 2025-07-16
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Eddington | Self (uncredited) | 2025-07-16 |
| Movie | The League - a Future for Freeskiing | himself | 2024-03-01 |
| Movie | Kelly: Someone Else's Dream | Self - British Freestyle Skier | 2024-10-25 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Studio | Hades (voice) | 2023-09-24 |
| Movie | Dean Martin: King of Cool | Self | 2021-11-14 |
| Movie | A Journey to Sundance | Self | 2021-01-01 |
| Series | Pity Laughs | Giles | 2018-10-26 |
| Movie | The Great Satan | 2018-06-12 | |
| Movie | Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic | Self | 2018-11-22 |
| Movie | Bling | Victor (voice) | 2016-05-06 |
| Movie | First Contact | Narrator | 2016-09-16 |
| Series | Justice League Action | Lex Luthor (voice) | 2016-12-16 |
| Movie | Jamesy Boy | Lt. Falton | 2014-01-03 |
| Movie | Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau | Self (archive footage) | 2014-08-24 |
| Movie | Mary and Martha | Mary's Father | 2013-03-01 |
| Movie | Officer Down | Captain Verona | 2013-01-22 |
| Series | Ray Donovan | Patrick "Sully" Sullivan | 2013-06-30 |
| Movie | White House Down | Walker | 2013-06-27 |
| Series | Futurescape with James Woods | Himself | 2013-11-16 |
| Movie | Any Given Tuesday | Self | 2013-10-17 |
| Movie | Jobs | Jack Dudman | 2013-08-15 |
| Series | Coma | Dr. Howard Stark | 2012-09-03 |
| Movie | Straw Dogs | Tom Heddon | 2011-09-16 |
| Movie | Too Big to Fail | Dick Fuld | 2011-11-25 |
| Movie | Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths | Owlman (voice) | 2010-02-23 |
| Movie | Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side | James Woods as General Veers (voice) | 2009-12-22 |
| Movie | An American Carol | Todd Grosslight | 2008-10-03 |
| Movie | Surf's Up | Reggie Belafonte (voice) | 2007-06-08 |
| Series | Shark | Sebastian Stark | 2006-09-21 |
| Movie | End Game | Vaughn Stevens | 2006-07-27 |
| Movie | Pretty Persuasion | Hank Joyce | 2005-01-22 |
| Movie | Be Cool | Tommy Athens | 2005-03-04 |
| Movie | Buddy | Narrator | 2005-08-11 |
| Movie | Ark | Jallak (voice) | 2005-09-27 |
| Series | Entourage | Unknown | 2004-07-18 |
| Movie | Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh | Self | 2004-08-27 |
| Movie | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | Self | 2004-05-16 |
| Movie | The Easter Egg Adventure | Grab Takit (voice) | 2004-09-05 |
| Movie | This Girl's Life | Pops | 2004-12-03 |
| Movie | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction | Toreno (voice) | 2004-11-23 |
| Movie | Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story | Rudy Giuliani | 2003-03-30 |
| Movie | Northfork | Walter O'Brien | 2003-07-11 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | 101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment | Self (archive footage) | 2003-07-18 |
| Movie | Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork | 2003-12-30 | |
| Movie | Stuart Little 2 | Falcon (voice) | 2002-07-19 |
| Movie | John Q | Dr. Raymond Turner | 2002-02-15 |
| Movie | Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun | Gloomius Maximus (voice) | 2002-08-13 |
| Movie | Scary Movie 2 | Father McFeely | 2001-07-04 |
| Movie | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | General Hein (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Movie | Recess: School's Out | Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice) | 2001-02-16 |
| Movie | Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal | Self | 2001-08-21 |
| Movie | Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored | Self | 2001-05-31 |
| Movie | America | A Tribute to Heroes | Self | 2001-09-21 |
| Movie | Race to Space | Dr. Wilhelm von Huber | 2001-10-31 |
| Movie | Mickey's House of Villains | Hades (voice) | 2001-11-15 |
| Movie | Riding in Cars with Boys | Leonard Donofrio | 2001-10-19 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | The Virgin Suicides | Mr. Lisbon | 2000-04-21 |
| Movie | The American Nightmare | Self | 2000-09-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Pictures | Dennis Barrie | 2000-05-27 |
| Movie | The Making of The Virgin Suicides | Self | 2000-12-19 |
| Movie | True Crime | Alan Mann | 1999-03-19 |
| Series | Family Guy | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
| Movie | The General's Daughter | Colonel Robert Moore | 1999-06-18 |
| Movie | Play It to the Bone | James Woods (Ringside Fan) | 1999-12-25 |
| Movie | Hercules: Zero to Hero | Hades (voice) (archive sound) | 1999-08-17 |
| Movie | Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire | Narrator (voice) | 1999-12-25 |
| Movie | Any Given Sunday | Dr. Harvey Mandrake | 1999-12-22 |
| Series | Hercules | Hades (voice) | 1998-08-31 |
| Movie | Another Day in Paradise | Mel | 1998-12-30 |
| Movie | Vampires | Jack Crow | 1998-10-30 |
| Movie | Contact | Michael Kitz | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Hercules | Hades (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Series | EP Daily | Unknown | 1997-09-20 |
| Movie | Kicked in the Head | Uncle Sam | 1997-09-26 |
| Series | Saturday Night Special | Unknown | 1996-04-13 |
| Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | The Summer of Ben Tyler | Temple Rayburn | 1996-12-15 |
| Movie | Killer: A Journal of Murder | Carl Panzram | 1996-09-06 |
| Movie | Ghosts of Mississippi | Byron De La Beckwith | 1996-12-20 |
| Movie | For Better or Worse | Reggie Makeshift | 1995-03-19 |
| Movie | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Danny Davis | 1995-05-20 |
| Movie | Casino | Lester Diamond | 1995-11-22 |
| Movie | Nixon | H.R. Haldeman | 1995-12-22 |
| Movie | The Getaway | Jack Benyon | 1994-02-11 |
| Movie | Jane's House | Paul Clark | 1994-01-02 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-08-14 |
| Movie | Curse of the Starving Class | Weston Tate | 1994-09-13 |
| Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
| Movie | Next Door | Matt Coler | 1994-09-04 |
| Movie | The Specialist | Ned Trent | 1994-10-07 |
| Series | Fallen Angels | Unknown | 1993-08-01 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Movie | Chaplin | Joseph Scott | 1992-12-17 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | Straight Talk | Jack Russell | 1992-04-03 |
| Movie | Citizen Cohn | Roy Marcus Cohn | 1992-08-22 |
| Movie | Diggstown | Gabriel Caine | 1992-08-14 |
| Movie | Voices That Care | Self - Host & Choir Member | 1991-02-28 |
| Movie | The Hard Way | John Moss | 1991-03-08 |
| Movie | Women and Men: Stories of Seduction | Robert | 1990-04-02 |
| Movie | True Believer | Eddie Dodd | 1989-02-17 |
| Movie | My Name Is Bill W. | Bill Wilson | 1989-04-30 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Movie | Immediate Family | Michael Spector | 1989-10-27 |
| Movie | Cop | Lloyd Hopkins | 1988-02-05 |
| Movie | Crimes of Passion | Himself - Host | 1988-10-26 |
| Movie | The Boost | Lenny Brown | 1988-12-23 |
| Movie | In Love and War | James B. Stockdale | 1987-03-16 |
| Movie | Best Seller | Cleve | 1987-09-25 |
| Movie | Salvador | Richard Boyle | 1986-04-23 |
| Movie | Promise | DJ | 1986-12-21 |
| Movie | Cat's Eye | Morrison | 1985-04-12 |
| Movie | Badge of the Assassin | Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney | 1985-01-04 |
| Movie | Joshua Then and Now | Joshua Shapiro | 1985-09-17 |
| Movie | Against All Odds | Jake Wise | 1984-03-02 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time in America | Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz | 1984-05-23 |
| Movie | Videodrome | Max Renn | 1983-02-04 |
| Movie | Fast-Walking | Fast-Walking | 1982-05-11 |
| Movie | Split Image | Charles Pratt | 1982-10-03 |
| Movie | Eyewitness | Aldo Mercer | 1981-02-13 |
| Movie | The Black Marble | The Fiddler | 1980-03-07 |
| Movie | The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel | Sin Eater | 1979-01-02 |
| Movie | ...And Your Name Is Jonah | Danny Corelli | 1979-01-28 |
| Movie | The Onion Field | Gregory Powell | 1979-09-09 |
| Series | Holocaust | Karl Weiss | 1978-04-16 |
| Movie | The Gift of Love | Alfred Browning | 1978-12-08 |
| Movie | The Choirboys | Harold Bloomguard | 1977-12-23 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Aimee | Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan | 1976-11-17 |
| Movie | Alex & the Gypsy | Crainpool | 1976-10-03 |
| Movie | Raid on Entebbe | Capt. Sammy Berg | 1976-12-26 |
| Movie | Night Moves | Quentin | 1975-06-11 |
| Series | Welcome Back, Kotter | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
| Movie | Distance | Larry Vincent | 1975-12-22 |
| Movie | F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood | Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld | 1975-12-17 |
| Movie | Foster & Laurie | Walter The Addict | 1975-11-13 |
| Series | The Rockford Files | Larry Kirkoff | 1974-09-13 |
| Movie | The Gambler | Bank Officer | 1974-10-02 |
| Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
| Series | Kojak | Unknown | 1973-10-24 |
| Movie | The Way We Were | Frankie McVeigh | 1973-10-17 |
| Series | The Rookies | Unknown | 1972-09-11 |
| Movie | The Visitors | Bill Schmidt | 1972-02-02 |
| Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Unknown | 1972-09-23 |
| Movie | Footsteps | Reporter | 1972-10-03 |
| Movie | A Great American Tragedy | Rick | 1972-10-18 |
| Movie | Hickey & Boggs | Lt. Wyatt | 1972-10-04 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |