James Woods
Acting • Born 1947-04-18
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.
Filmography
175 credits
Once Upon a Time in America
Movie • 1984
Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
Casino
Movie • 1995
Lester Diamond
The Getaway
Movie • 1994
Jack Benyon
The Virgin Suicides
Movie • 2000
Mr. Lisbon
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Movie • 2001
General Hein (voice)
Contact
Movie • 1997
Michael Kitz
Videodrome
Movie • 1983
Max Renn
The General's Daughter
Movie • 1999
Colonel Robert Moore
Cat's Eye
Movie • 1985
Morrison
True Crime
Movie • 1999
Alan Mann
The Specialist
Movie • 1994
Ned Trent
Chaplin
Movie • 1992
Joseph Scott
Be Cool
Movie • 2005
Tommy Athens
Scary Movie 2
Movie • 2001
Father McFeely
Best Seller
Movie • 1987
Cleve
Nixon
Movie • 1995
H.R. Haldeman
Stuart Little 2
Movie • 2002
Falcon (voice)
Play It to the Bone
Movie • 1999
James Woods (Ringside Fan)
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Movie • 2010
Owlman (voice)
The Hard Way
Movie • 1991
John Moss
Against All Odds
Movie • 1984
Jake Wise
Salvador
Movie • 1986
Richard Boyle
Mickey's House of Villains
Movie • 2002
Hades (voice)
True Believer
Movie • 1989
Eddie Dodd
Ghosts of Mississippi
Movie • 1996
Byron De La Beckwith
Eyewitness
Movie • 1981
Aldo Mercer
Hercules
Movie • 1997
Hades (voice)
John Q
Movie • 2002
Dr. Raymond Turner
Cop
Movie • 1988
Lloyd Hopkins
Night Moves
Movie • 1975
Quentin
Northfork
Movie • 2003
Walter O'Brien
Surf's Up
Movie • 2007
Reggie Belafonte (voice)
End Game
Movie • 2006
Agent Vaughn Stevens
Any Given Sunday
Movie • 1999
Dr. Harvey Mandrake
Vampires
Movie • 1998
Jack Crow
The Onion Field
Movie • 1979
Gregory Powell
Footsteps
Movie • 1972
Reporter
Ark
Movie • 2005
Jallak (voice)
America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
Movie • 1998
Narrator
Another Day in Paradise
Movie • 1998
Mel
Straight Talk
Movie • 1992
Jack Russell
This Girl's Life
Movie • 2004
Pops
Race to Space
Movie • 2001
Dr. Wilhelm von Huber
Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
Movie • 2002
Gloomius Maximus (voice)
My Name Is Bill W.
Movie • 1989
Bill Wilson
The Gambler
Movie • 1974
Bank Officer
Voices That Care
Movie • 1991
Self - Host & Choir Member
Fast-Walking
Movie • 1982
Fast-Walking
Straw Dogs
Movie • 2011
Tom Heddon
Too Big to Fail
Movie • 2011
Dick Fuld
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Movie • 1995
Danny Davis
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
Movie • 1975
Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld
The Choirboys
Movie • 1977
Harold Bloomguard
Diggstown
Movie • 1992
Gabriel Caine
Split Image
Movie • 1982
Charles Pratt
Citizen Cohn
Movie • 1992
Roy Marcus Cohn
The American Nightmare
Movie • 2000
Self
Kicked in the Head
Movie • 1997
Uncle Sam
The Black Marble
Movie • 1980
The Fiddler
Hickey & Boggs
Movie • 1972
Lt. Wyatt
The Boost
Movie • 1988
Lenny Brown
Killer: A Journal of Murder
Movie • 1996
Carl Panzram
Immediate Family
Movie • 1989
Michael Spector
The Easter Egg Adventure
Movie • 2004
Grab Takit (voice)
Officer Down
Movie • 2013
Captain Verona
The Visitors
Movie • 1972
Bill Schmidt
...And Your Name Is Jonah
Movie • 1979
Danny Corelli
Next Door
Movie • 1994
Matt Coler
Dean Martin: King of Cool
Movie • 2021
Self
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Movie • 2003
Rudy Giuliani
The Summer of Ben Tyler
Movie • 1996
Temple Rayburn
For Better or Worse
Movie • 1995
Reggie Makeshift
Jobs
Movie • 2013
Jack Dudman
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Alex & the Gypsy
Movie • 1976
Crainpool
White House Down
Movie • 2013
Walker
Dirty Pictures
Movie • 2000
Dennis Barrie
Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
Movie • 2004
Self
The Gift of Love
Movie • 1978
Alfred Browning
Curse of the Starving Class
Movie • 1994
Weston Tate
Joshua Then and Now
Movie • 1985
Joshua Shapiro
Free as a Dog
Movie • 2006
In Love and War
Movie • 1987
James B. Stockdale
The Disappearance of Aimee
Movie • 1976
Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan
Jamesy Boy
Movie • 2014
Lt. Falton
Badge of the Assassin
Movie • 1985
Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
A Great American Tragedy
Movie • 1972
Rick
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
Movie • 1979
Len Fraker
Once Upon a Studio
Movie • 2023
Hades (voice)
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
Movie • 2000
Self
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Movie • 2004
Self
The Way We Were
Movie • 1973
Frankie McVeigh
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Movie • 1990
Robert
An American Carol
Movie • 2008
Todd Grosslight
Mary and Martha
Movie • 2013
Mary's Father
Buddy
Movie • 2005
Narrator
All the Way Home
Movie • 1971
Andrew Lynch
Promise
Movie • 1986
DJ
Riding in Cars with Boys
Movie • 2001
Leonard Donofrio
Pretty Persuasion
Movie • 2005
Hank Joyce
Bling
Movie • 2016
Victor (voice)
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
Movie • 1979
Sin Eater
Raid on Entebbe
Movie • 1976
Capt. Sammy Berg
Jane's House
Movie • 1994
Paul Clark
First Contact
Movie • 2016
Narrator
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
Movie • 2001
Self
Distance
Movie • 1975
Larry Vincent
Recess: School's Out
Movie • 2001
Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)
The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
Movie • 1982
Interviewee
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
Movie • 2000
Self
The Billion Dollar Bubble
Movie • 1978
Art Lewis
The Boys
Movie • 1991
Walter Farmer
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Movie • 2009
James Woods as General Veers (voice)
Crimes of Passion
Movie • 1988
Himself - Host
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
Movie • 2003
America | A Tribute to Heroes
Movie • 2001
Self
Hercules: Zero to Hero
Movie • 1999
Hades (voice) (archive sound)
Foster & Laurie
Movie • 1975
Walter The Addict
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Movie • 2001
Self
Into the Valley of Death
Movie • 2001
Self
Hollywood on Horses
Movie • 1989
Self
A Journey to Sundance
Movie • 2023
Self
The Making of Hercules
Movie • 2000
Self
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
Movie • 2004
Toreno (voice)
Eddington
Movie • 2025
James Woods (uncredited)
Sensational Cities: New York
Movie • 2000
Narrator
Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After
Movie • 2025
Hades
Any Given Tuesday
Movie • 2013
self
Welcome Back, Kotter
TV • 1975
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
James Woods (voice)
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Family Guy
TV • 1999
James Woods (voice)
EP Daily
TV • 1997
Shark
TV • 2006
Sebastian Stark
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Entourage
TV • 2004
James Woods
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Self
Hercules
TV • 1998
Hades (voice)
Kojak
TV • 1973
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Andrew Lynch
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Fallen Angels
TV • 1993
Mickey Cohen
ER
TV • 1994
Dr. Nate Lennox
Police Story
TV • 1973
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Saturday Night Special
TV • 1996
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Coma
TV • 2012
Dr. Howard Stark
Family Guy
TV • 1999
James Woods as General Veers (voice)
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Family Guy James Woods / Simpsons James Woods (voice)
Futurescape with James Woods
TV • 2013
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Holocaust
TV • 1978
Karl Weiss
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Assistant District Attorney Joseph Ryan
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
DJ
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Temple Rayburn
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Bill Wilson
Ray Donovan
TV • 2013
Patrick "Sully" Sullivan
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Larry Kirkoff
Disney's House of Mouse
TV • 2001
Hades (voice)
Kojak
TV • 1973
Caz
The Frame
TV • 2013
Max Renn
Founding Fathers
TV • 2000
John Adams (voice)
Dream On
TV • 1990
Dennis Youngblood
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
TV • 1998
Narrator
Justice League Action
TV • 2016
Lex Luthor / Repulse (voice)
Justice League Action
TV • 2016
Lex Luthor (voice)
Clerks
TV • 2000
Major Baklava (voice)
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Entertainment Biz
TV • 1998
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee