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James Woods

Acting · 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.

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2025 · James Woods (uncredited)

Once Upon a Studio

2023 · Hades (voice)

2023 · Executive Producer

Dean Martin: King of Cool

Justice League Action

2016 · Lex Luthor / Repulse (voice)

2016 · Narrator

2016 · Victor (voice)

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

2014 · Self (archive footage)

2014 · Lt. Falton

Futurescape with James Woods

2013 · Himself

2013 · Jack Dudman

2013 · Patrick "Sully" Sullivan

White House Down

2013 · Max Renn

Mary and Martha

2013 · Mary's Father

2013 · Captain Verona

2012 · Dr. Howard Stark

Too Big to Fail

2011 · Dick Fuld

2011 · Tom Heddon

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

2010 · Owlman (voice)

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

2009 · James Woods as General Veers (voice)

An American Carol

2008 · Todd Grosslight

2007 · Reggie Belafonte (voice)

2006 · Sebastian Stark

2006 · Agent Vaughn Stevens

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

2005 · Jallak (voice)

2005 · Narrator

2005 · Tommy Athens

Pretty Persuasion

2005 · Hank Joyce

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

This Girl's Life

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction

2004 · Toreno (voice)

The Easter Egg Adventure

2004 · Grab Takit (voice)

Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh

2004 · James Woods

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

2003 · Walter O'Brien

Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story

2003 · Rudy Giuliani

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Mickey's House of Villains

2002 · Hades (voice)

Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun

2002 · Gloomius Maximus (voice)

Stuart Little 2

2002 · Falcon (voice)

2002 · Dr. Raymond Turner

2001 · Dr. Wilhelm von Huber

Riding in Cars with Boys

2001 · Leonard Donofrio

America | A Tribute to Heroes

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

2001 · Father McFeely

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

2001 · General Hein (voice)

Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored

Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored

Recess: School's Out

2001 · Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)

Disney's House of Mouse

2001 · Hades (voice)

The Making of The Virgin Suicides

Founding Fathers

2000 · John Adams (voice)

The American Nightmare

2000 · Major Baklava (voice)

2000 · Dennis Barrie

The Virgin Suicides

2000 · Mr. Lisbon

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

Play It to the Bone

1999 · James Woods (Ringside Fan)

Any Given Sunday

1999 · Dr. Harvey Mandrake

Hercules: Zero to Hero

1999 · Hades (voice) (archive sound)

The General's Daughter

1999 · Colonel Robert Moore

1999 · Alan Mann

1999 · James Woods (voice)

Another Day in Paradise

1998 · Jack Crow

1998 · Hades (voice)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

1998 · Narrator

The Entertainment Biz

The Entertainment Biz

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

1998 · Narrator

Kicked in the Head

1997 · Uncle Sam

1997 · Michael Kitz

1997 · Hades (voice)

Ghosts of Mississippi

1996 · Byron De La Beckwith

The Summer of Ben Tyler

1996 · Temple Rayburn

Killer: A Journal of Murder

1996 · Carl Panzram

Saturday Night Special

Saturday Night Special

1995 · H.R. Haldeman

1995 · Lester Diamond

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

1995 · Danny Davis

For Better or Worse

1995 · Reggie Makeshift

1994 · Ned Trent

1994 · Dr. Nate Lennox

Curse of the Starving Class

1994 · Weston Tate

1994 · Matt Coler

Inside the Actors Studio

1994 · Jack Benyon

1994 · Paul Clark

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993 · Self - Guest

1993 · Mickey Cohen

1992 · Joseph Scott

1992 · Roy Marcus Cohn

1992 · Gabriel Caine

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992 · Jack Russell

1991 · Walter Farmer

1991 · John Moss

Voices That Care

1991 · Self - Host & Choir Member

1990 · Dennis Youngblood

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

1990 · Robert (segment "Hills Like White Elephants")

1989 · James Woods (voice)

Immediate Family

1989 · Michael Spector

My Name Is Bill W.

1989 · Bill Wilson

1989 · Eddie Dodd

Hollywood on Horses

Hollywood on Horses

1988 · Lenny Brown

1988 · Lloyd Hopkins

In Love and War

1987 · James B. Stockdale

1986 · Richard Boyle

Joshua Then and Now

1985 · Joshua Shapiro

1985 · Morrison

Badge of the Assassin

1985 · Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney

Once Upon a Time in America

Against All Odds

1984 · Jake Wise

1983 · Max Renn

The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome

1982 · Interviewee

1982 · Charles Pratt

1982 · Fast-Walking

1981 · Aldo Mercer

The Black Marble

1980 · The Fiddler

The Onion Field

1979 · Gregory Powell

...And Your Name Is Jonah

1979 · Danny Corelli

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

1979 · Sin Eater

The Gift of Love

1978 · Alfred Browning

The Billion Dollar Bubble

1978 · Art Lewis

1978 · Karl Weiss

1977 · Harold Bloomguard

Raid on Entebbe

1976 · Capt. Sammy Berg

The Disappearance of Aimee

1976 · Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan

Alex & the Gypsy

1976 · Crainpool

1975 · Larry Vincent

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

1975 · Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld

Foster & Laurie

1975 · Walter The Addict

Saturday Night Live

1975 · Self - Host

Welcome Back, Kotter

1975 · Quentin

1974 · Bank Officer

The Rockford Files

1974 · Larry Kirkoff

The Way We Were

1973 · Frankie McVeigh

A Great American Tragedy

1972 · Lt. Wyatt

1972 · Reporter

The Streets of San Francisco

1972 · Bill Schmidt

All the Way Home

1971 · Andrew Lynch

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Mike Douglas Show

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Andrew Lynch

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Self - Nominee

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