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James Woods

Born 1947-04-18
📍 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.

Filmography 167

Eddington
as James Woods (uncredited)
2025
Once Upon a Studio
as Hades (voice)
2023
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
2023
Dean Martin: King of Cool
as Self
2021
Justice League Action
as Lex Luthor / Repulse (voice)
2016
Justice League Action
as Lex Luthor (voice)
2016
First Contact
as Narrator
2016
Bling
as Victor (voice)
2016
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Jamesy Boy
as Lt. Falton
2014
Futurescape with James Woods
as Himself
2013
Any Given Tuesday
as self
2013
Jobs
as Jack Dudman
2013
Ray Donovan
as Patrick "Sully" Sullivan
2013
White House Down
as Walker
2013
The Frame
as Max Renn
2013
Mary and Martha
as Mary's Father
2013
Officer Down
as Captain Verona
2013
Coma
as Dr. Howard Stark
2012
Too Big to Fail
as Dick Fuld
2011
Straw Dogs
as Tom Heddon
2011
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
as Owlman (voice)
2010
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
as James Woods as General Veers (voice)
2009
An American Carol
as Todd Grosslight
2008
Surf's Up
as Reggie Belafonte (voice)
2007
Shark
as Sebastian Stark
2006
End Game
as Agent Vaughn Stevens
2006
Free as a Dog
2006
Ark
as Jallak (voice)
2005
Buddy
as Narrator
2005
Be Cool
as Tommy Athens
2005
Pretty Persuasion
as Hank Joyce
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
This Girl's Life
as Pops
2004
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
as Toreno (voice)
2004
The Easter Egg Adventure
as Grab Takit (voice)
2004
Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
as Self
2004
Entourage
as James Woods
2004
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
as Self
2004
Northfork
as Walter O'Brien
2003
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
as Rudy Giuliani
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
Mickey's House of Villains
as Hades (voice)
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
2002
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
Recess: School's Out
as Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)
2001
Disney's House of Mouse
as Hades (voice)
2001
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
as Self
2000
Founding Fathers
as John Adams (voice)
2000
The American Nightmare
as Self
2000
The Making of Hercules
as Self
2000
Clerks
as Major Baklava (voice)
2000
Dirty Pictures
as Dennis Barrie
2000
The Virgin Suicides
as Mr. Lisbon
2000
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
as Self
2000
Sensational Cities: New York
as Narrator
2000
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
1999
Family Guy
as James Woods (voice)
1999
Family Guy
as James Woods as General Veers (voice)
1999
Family Guy
as Family Guy James Woods / Simpsons James Woods (voice)
1999
Another Day in Paradise
as Mel
1998
Vampires
as Jack Crow
1998
Hercules
as Hades (voice)
1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as Narrator
1998
America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
as Narrator
1998
Kicked in the Head
as Uncle Sam
1997
EP Daily
1997
Contact
as Michael Kitz
1997
Hercules
as Hades (voice)
1997
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
1996
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
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
1995
The Specialist
as Ned Trent
1994
ER
as Dr. Nate Lennox
1994
Curse of the Starving Class
as Weston Tate
1994
Next Door
as Matt Coler
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
The Getaway
as Jack Benyon
1994
Jane's House
as Paul Clark
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
Fallen Angels
as Mickey Cohen
1993
Chaplin
as Joseph Scott
1992
Citizen Cohn
as Roy Marcus Cohn
1992
Diggstown
as Gabriel Caine
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
1992
Straight Talk
as Jack Russell
1992
The Boys
as Walter Farmer
1991
The Hard Way
as John Moss
1991
Voices That Care
as Self - Host & Choir Member
1991
Dream On
as Dennis Youngblood
1990
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
as Robert
1990
The Simpsons
as James Woods (voice)
1989
Immediate Family
as Michael Spector
1989
My Name Is Bill W.
as Bill Wilson
1989
True Believer
as Eddie Dodd
1989
The Boost
as Lenny Brown
1988
Crimes of Passion
as Himself - Host
1988
Cop
as Lloyd Hopkins
1988
Best Seller
as Cleve
1987
In Love and War
as James B. Stockdale
1987
Promise
as DJ
1986
Salvador
as Richard Boyle
1986
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
1985
Once Upon a Time in America
as Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
1984
Against All Odds
as Jake Wise
1984
Videodrome
as Max Renn
1983
The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
as Interviewee
1982
Split Image
as Charles Pratt
1982
Fast-Walking
as Fast-Walking
1982
Eyewitness
as Aldo Mercer
1981
The Black Marble
as The Fiddler
1980
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
1979
The Gift of Love
as Alfred Browning
1978
The Billion Dollar Bubble
as Art Lewis
1978
Holocaust
as Karl Weiss
1978
The Choirboys
as Harold Bloomguard
1977
Raid on Entebbe
as Capt. Sammy Berg
1976
The Disappearance of Aimee
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan
1976
Alex & the Gypsy
as Crainpool
1976
Distance
as Larry Vincent
1975
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
as Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld
1975
Foster & Laurie
as Walter The Addict
1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
Welcome Back, Kotter
1975
Night Moves
as Quentin
1975
The Gambler
as Bank Officer
1974
The Rockford Files
as Larry Kirkoff
1974
Kojak
1973
Kojak
as Caz
1973
The Way We Were
as Frankie McVeigh
1973
Police Story
1973
A Great American Tragedy
as Rick
1972
Hickey & Boggs
as Lt. Wyatt
1972
Footsteps
as Reporter
1972
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The Rookies
1972
The Visitors
as Bill Schmidt
1972
All the Way Home
as Andrew Lynch
1971
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Andrew Lynch
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Assistant District Attorney Joseph Ryan
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as DJ
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Bill Wilson
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Temple Rayburn
1951
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944