James Woods
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Eddington as Self (uncredited)
2025Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After as Hades
2023Once Upon a Studio as Hades (voice)
2023A Journey to Sundance as Self
2021Dean Martin: King of Cool as Self
2016Justice League Action as Lex Luthor / Repulse (voice)
2016Justice League Action as Lex Luthor (voice)
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
2013Futurescape with James Woods as Himself
2013Any Given Tuesday as Self
2013Jobs as Jack Dudman
2013Ray Donovan as Patrick "Sully" Sullivan
2013White House Down as Walker
2013The Frame as Max Renn
2013Mary and Martha as Mary's Father
2013Officer Down as Captain Verona
2012Coma as Dr. Howard Stark
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)
2006Shark as Sebastian Stark
2006End Game as Vaughn Stevens
2006Free as a Dog
2005Ark as Jallak (voice)
2005Buddy as Narrator
2005Be Cool as Tommy Athens
2005Pretty Persuasion as Hank Joyce
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
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
2004Entourage as James Woods
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
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
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)
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)
2001Disney's House of Mouse as Hades (voice)
2000The Making of The Virgin Suicides as Self
2000Founding Fathers as John Adams (voice)
2000The American Nightmare as Self
2000The Making of Hercules as Self
2000Clerks as Major Baklava (voice)
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
1999Family Guy as James Woods (voice)
1999Family Guy as James Woods as General Veers (voice)
1999Family Guy as Family Guy James Woods / Simpsons James Woods (voice)
1998Another Day in Paradise as Mel
1998Vampires as Jack Crow
1998Hercules as Hades (voice)
1998AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Narrator
1998The Entertainment Biz as Self
1998America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye as Narrator
1997Kicked in the Head as Uncle Sam
1997EP Daily
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
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996Saturday Night Special
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
1994ER as Dr. Nate Lennox
1994Curse of the Starving Class as Weston Tate
1994Next Door as Matt Coler
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994The Getaway as Jack Benyon
1994Jane's House as Paul Clark
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Fallen Angels as Mickey Cohen
1992Chaplin as Joseph Scott
1992Citizen Cohn as Roy Marcus Cohn
1992Diggstown as Gabriel Caine
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
1992Straight Talk as Jack Russell
1991The Boys as Walter Farmer
1991The Hard Way as John Moss
1991Voices That Care as Self - Host & Choir Member
1990Dream On as Dennis Youngblood
1990Women and Men: Stories of Seduction as Robert
1989The Simpsons as James Woods (voice)
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 Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
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
1978Holocaust as Karl Weiss
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
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Welcome Back, Kotter
1975Night Moves as Quentin
1974The Gambler as Bank Officer
1974The Rockford Files as Larry Kirkoff
1973Kojak
1973Kojak as Caz
1973The Way We Were as Frankie McVeigh
1973Police Story
1972A Great American Tragedy as Rick
1972Hickey & Boggs as Lt. Wyatt
1972Footsteps as Reporter
1972The Streets of San Francisco
1972The Rookies
1972The Visitors as Bill Schmidt
1971All the Way Home as Andrew Lynch
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1953The Oscars as Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Andrew Lynch
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Assistant District Attorney Joseph Ryan
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as DJ
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Temple Rayburn
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Bill Wilson
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee