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:
- 138
- First Appeared:
- In the series Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951-12-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie A Journey to Sundance 2026
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | A Journey to Sundance | Self | 2026 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Studio | Hades (voice) | 2023-09-24 |
| Movie | Dean Martin: King of Cool | Self | 2021-11-14 |
| Movie | The Great Satan | 2018-06-12 | |
| Series | Pity Laughs | Giles | 2018-10-26 |
| Movie | Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic | Self | 2018-11-22 |
| Movie | Bling | Victor (voice) | 2016-05-06 |
| 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 | Futurescape with James Woods | Himself | 2013-11-16 |
| Movie | White House Down | Chief SAIC Martin Walker | 2013-06-27 |
| Movie | Jobs | Jack Dudman | 2013-08-15 |
| Movie | Any Given Tuesday | Self | 2013-10-17 |
| 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 | Thomas Wayne Jr. / 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 | Be Cool | Tommy Athens | 2005-03-04 |
| Movie | Pretty Persuasion | Hank Joyce | 2005-01-22 |
| Movie | Buddy | Narrator | 2005-08-11 |
| Movie | Ark | Jallak (voice) | 2005-09-27 |
| Movie | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | Self | 2004-05-16 |
| Series | Entourage | Unknown | 2004-07-18 |
| Movie | The Easter Egg Adventure | Grab Takit (voice) | 2004-09-05 |
| Movie | This Girl's Life | Pops | 2004-12-03 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story | Rudy Giuliani | 2003-03-30 |
| Movie | Northfork | Walter O'Brien | 2003-07-11 |
| 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 | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | General Hein (voice) | 2001-07-02 |
| Movie | Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored | Self | 2001-05-31 |
| Movie | Recess: School's Out | Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice) | 2001-02-16 |
| Movie | Scary Movie 2 | Father McFeely | 2001-07-04 |
| Movie | America | A Tribute to Heroes | Self | 2001-09-21 |
| Movie | Mickey's House of Villains | Hades (voice) | 2001-11-15 |
| Movie | Race to Space | Dr. Wilhelm von Huber | 2001-10-31 |
| Movie | Riding in Cars with Boys | Leonard Donofrio | 2001-10-19 |
| Movie | Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal | Self | 2001-08-21 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Dirty Pictures | Dennis Barrie | 2000-05-27 |
| Movie | The Virgin Suicides | Mr. Lisbon | 2000-04-21 |
| Movie | The American Nightmare | Self | 2000-09-11 |
| Movie | The Making of The Virgin Suicides | Self | 2000-12-19 |
| Movie | The General's Daughter | Colonel Robert Moore | 1999-06-18 |
| Movie | True Crime | Alan Mann | 1999-03-19 |
| Movie | Hercules: Zero to Hero | Hades (voice) (archive sound) | 1999-08-17 |
| Series | Family Guy | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
| Movie | Any Given Sunday | Dr. Harvey Mandrake | 1999-12-22 |
| Movie | Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire | Narrator (voice) | 1999-12-25 |
| Movie | Play It to the Bone | James Woods (Ringside Fan) | 1999-12-25 |
| Movie | Vampires | Jack Crow | 1998-10-30 |
| Series | Hercules | Hades (voice) | 1998-08-31 |
| Movie | Another Day in Paradise | Mel | 1998-12-30 |
| Movie | Hercules | Hades (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Movie | Contact | Michael Kitz | 1997-07-11 |
| Movie | Kicked in the Head | Uncle Sam | 1997-09-26 |
| Movie | Killer: A Journal of Murder | Carl Panzram | 1996-09-06 |
| Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | The Summer of Ben Tyler | Temple Rayburn | 1996-12-15 |
| 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 |
| Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-08-14 |
| Movie | The Getaway | Jack Benyon | 1994-02-11 |
| Movie | Next Door | Matt Coler | 1994-09-04 |
| Movie | Curse of the Starving Class | Weston Tate | 1994-09-13 |
| Movie | The Specialist | Ned Trent | 1994-10-07 |
| Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
| Series | Fallen Angels | Unknown | 1993-08-01 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Movie | Diggstown | Gabriel Caine | 1992-08-14 |
| Movie | Straight Talk | Jack Russell | 1992-04-03 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | Citizen Cohn | Roy Marcus Cohn | 1992-08-22 |
| Movie | Chaplin | Joseph Scott | 1992-12-17 |
| 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 | My Name Is Bill W. | Bill Wilson | 1989-04-30 |
| Movie | True Believer | Eddie Dodd | 1989-02-17 |
| Movie | Immediate Family | Michael Spector | 1989-10-27 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Movie | Crimes of Passion | Himself - Host | 1988-10-26 |
| Movie | Cop | Lloyd Hopkins | 1988-02-05 |
| 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 | Badge of the Assassin | Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney | 1985-01-04 |
| Movie | Cat's Eye | Morrison | 1985-04-12 |
| 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 | Split Image | Charles Pratt | 1982-10-03 |
| Movie | Fast-Walking | Fast-Walking | 1982-05-11 |
| Movie | Eyewitness | Aldo Mercer | 1981-02-13 |
| Movie | The Black Marble | The Fiddler | 1980-03-07 |
| Movie | The Onion Field | Gregory Powell | 1979-09-09 |
| Movie | The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel | Sin Eater | 1979-01-02 |
| Movie | ...And Your Name Is Jonah | Danny Corelli | 1979-01-28 |
| 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 | 1975-02-27 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Hickey & Boggs | Lt. Wyatt | 1972-10-04 |
| Movie | A Great American Tragedy | Rick | 1972-10-18 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |