James Woods

Biography

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

Known For

Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz

Once Upon a Time in America

Lester Diamond

Casino

Mr. Lisbon

The Virgin Suicides

Jack Benyon

The Getaway

General Hein (voice)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Michael Kitz

Contact

Max Renn

Videodrome

Morrison

Cat's Eye

Colonel Robert Moore

The General's Daughter

Alan Mann

True Crime

Ned Trent

The Specialist

Joseph Scott

Chaplin

Tommy Athens

Be Cool

Father McFeely

Scary Movie 2

Cleve

Best Seller

H.R. Haldeman

Nixon

Falcon (voice)

Stuart Little 2

James Woods (Ringside Fan)

Play It to the Bone

Thomas Wayne Jr. / Owlman (voice)

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

John Moss

The Hard Way

Jake Wise

Against All Odds

Richard Boyle

Salvador

Hades (voice)

Mickey's House of Villains

Eddie Dodd

True Believer

Byron De La Beckwith

Ghosts of Mississippi

Aldo Mercer

Eyewitness

Hades (voice)

Hercules

Dr. Raymond Turner

John Q

Lloyd Hopkins

Cop

Quentin

Night Moves

Walter O'Brien

Northfork

Reggie Belafonte (voice)

Surf's Up

Vaughn Stevens

End Game

Dr. Harvey Mandrake

Any Given Sunday

Jack Crow

Vampires

Gregory Powell

The Onion Field

Reporter

Footsteps

Jallak (voice)

Ark

Narrator

America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye

Mel

Another Day in Paradise

Jack Russell

Straight Talk

Pops

This Girl's Life

Dr. Wilhelm von Huber

Race to Space

Gloomius Maximus (voice)

Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun

Bill Wilson

My Name Is Bill W.

Bank Officer

The Gambler

Self - Host & Choir Member

Voices That Care

Fast-Walking

Fast-Walking

Tom Heddon

Straw Dogs

Dick Fuld

Too Big to Fail

Danny Davis

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

Harold Bloomguard

The Choirboys

Gabriel Caine

Diggstown

Charles Pratt

Split Image

Roy Marcus Cohn

Citizen Cohn

Self

The American Nightmare

Uncle Sam

Kicked in the Head

The Fiddler

The Black Marble

Lt. Wyatt

Hickey & Boggs

Lenny Brown

The Boost

Carl Panzram

Killer: A Journal of Murder

Michael Spector

Immediate Family

Grab Takit (voice)

The Easter Egg Adventure

Captain Verona

Officer Down

Bill Schmidt

The Visitors

Danny Corelli

...And Your Name Is Jonah

Matt Coler

Next Door

Self

Dean Martin: King of Cool

Rudy Giuliani

Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story

Temple Rayburn

The Summer of Ben Tyler

Reggie Makeshift

For Better or Worse

Jack Dudman

Jobs

Self (archive footage)

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Crainpool

Alex & the Gypsy

Chief SAIC Martin Walker

White House Down

Dennis Barrie

Dirty Pictures

Self

Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh

Alfred Browning

The Gift of Love

Weston Tate

Curse of the Starving Class

Joshua Shapiro

Joshua Then and Now

Free as a Dog

James B. Stockdale

In Love and War

Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan

The Disappearance of Aimee

Lt. Falton

Jamesy Boy

Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney

Badge of the Assassin

Rick

A Great American Tragedy

Len Fraker

Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand

Hades (voice)

Once Upon a Studio

Self

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

Self

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Frankie McVeigh

The Way We Were

Robert

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

Todd Grosslight

An American Carol

Mary's Father

Mary and Martha

Narrator

Buddy

Andrew Lynch

All the Way Home

DJ

Promise

Leonard Donofrio

Riding in Cars with Boys

Hank Joyce

Pretty Persuasion

Victor (voice)

Bling

Sin Eater

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

Capt. Sammy Berg

Raid on Entebbe

Paul Clark

Jane's House

Narrator

First Contact

Self

Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored

Larry Vincent

Distance

Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)

Recess: School's Out

Interviewee

The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome

Self

The Making of The Virgin Suicides

Art Lewis

The Billion Dollar Bubble

Walter Farmer

The Boys

James Woods as General Veers (voice)

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

Himself - Host

Crimes of Passion

Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork

Self

America | A Tribute to Heroes

Hades (voice) (archive sound)

Hercules: Zero to Hero

Self

Any Given Tuesday

Walter The Addict

Foster & Laurie

Self

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

Self

Into the Valley of Death

Self

Hollywood on Horses

Self

A Journey to Sundance

The Making of Hercules

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

124

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-04-18

Place of Birth

Vernal, Utah, USA

Also Known As

James H. Woods