
James Woods
Known for Acting · 166 credits
- Born
- 1947-04-18 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Vernal, Utah, USA
- Also known as
- James H. Woods · James Howard Woods · جیمز وودز
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.
Known For

The Simpsons
1989
as James Woods (voice)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

Family Guy
1999
as James Woods (voice) / James Woods as General Veers (voice) / Family Guy James Woods / Simpsons James Woods (voice)

The Daily Show
1996
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
TV Shows (39)

The Simpsons
1989
as James Woods (voice)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

Family Guy
1999
as James Woods (voice) / James Woods as General Veers (voice) / Family Guy James Woods / Simpsons James Woods (voice)

The Daily Show
1996
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

ER
1994
as Dr. Nate Lennox

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self

Entourage
2004
as James Woods

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self

The Rockford Files
1974
as Larry Kirkoff

Ray Donovan
2013
as Patrick "Sully" Sullivan

Shark
2006
as Sebastian Stark

Hercules
1998
as Hades (voice)

The Rookies
1972

Kojak
1973
as Caz

The Streets of San Francisco
1972

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Justice League Action
2016
as Lex Luthor / Repulse (voice) / Lex Luthor (voice)

Police Story
1973

Disney's House of Mouse
2001
as Hades (voice)

Fallen Angels
1993
as Mickey Cohen

Dream On
1990
as Dennis Youngblood

The Frame
2013
as Max Renn

Holocaust
1978
as Karl Weiss

Clerks
2000
as Major Baklava (voice)

Welcome Back, Kotter
1975

Coma
2012
as Dr. Howard Stark

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Andrew Lynch / Assistant District Attorney Joseph Ryan / DJ / Bill Wilson / Temple Rayburn

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998
as Narrator
The Entertainment Biz
1998
as Self
Saturday Night Special
1996

Futurescape with James Woods
2013
as Himself

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Founding Fathers
2000
as John Adams (voice)

EP Daily
1997
Movies (127)

Scary Movie 2
2001
as Father McFeely

Once Upon a Time in America
1984
as Max

Hercules
1997
as Hades (voice)

Contact
1997
as Michael Kitz

Casino
1995
as Lester Diamond

White House Down
2013
as Walker

John Q
2002
as Dr. Raymond Turner

Eddington
2025
as James Woods (uncredited)

Once Upon a Studio
2023
as Hades (voice)

Surf's Up
2007
as Reggie Belafonte (voice)

The Specialist
1994
as Ned Trent

The Virgin Suicides
2000
as Mr. Lisbon

Videodrome
1983
as Max Renn

Vampires
1998
as Jack Crow

Be Cool
2005
as Tommy Athens

Pretty Persuasion
2005
as Hank Joyce

Stuart Little 2
2002
as Falcon (voice)

Any Given Sunday
1999
as Dr. Harvey Mandrake

Jobs
2013
as Jack Dudman

Nixon
1995
as H.R. Haldeman

Straw Dogs
2011
as Tom Heddon

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
2010
as Owlman (voice)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001
as General Hein (voice)

The Getaway
1994
as Jack Benyon

Diggstown
1992
as Gabriel Caine

The Way We Were
1973
as Frankie McVeigh

The General's Daughter
1999
as Colonel Robert Moore

True Crime
1999
as Alan Mann

Against All Odds
1984
as Jake Wise

Cat's Eye
1985
as Morrison

Too Big to Fail
2011
as Dick Fuld

Salvador
1986
as Richard Boyle

Mickey's House of Villains
2002
as Hades (voice)

America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
as Self

Straight Talk
1992
as Jack Russell

Chaplin
1992
as Joseph Scott

Cop
1988
as Lloyd Hopkins

The Hard Way
1991
as John Moss

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009
as James Woods as General Veers (voice)

Riding in Cars with Boys
2001
as Leonard Donofrio

Recess: School's Out
2001
as Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)

Jamesy Boy
2014
as Lt. Falton

Night Moves
1975
as Quentin

End Game
2006
as Agent Vaughn Stevens
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
2001
as Self

Officer Down
2013
as Captain Verona

Best Seller
1987
as Cleve

This Girl's Life
2004
as Pops

True Believer
1989
as Eddie Dodd

Eyewitness
1981
as Aldo Mercer

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
as Self

Play It to the Bone
1999
as James Woods (Ringside Fan)

The Gambler
1974
as Bank Officer

Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
as Byron De La Beckwith

Raid on Entebbe
1976
as Capt. Sammy Berg

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
as Self (archive footage)

Northfork
2003
as Walter O'Brien

Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1995
as Danny Davis

The Onion Field
1979
as Gregory Powell

An American Carol
2008
as Todd Grosslight

Voices That Care
1991
as Self - Host & Choir Member

Dirty Pictures
2000
as Dennis Barrie

Kicked in the Head
1997
as Uncle Sam

Hercules: Zero to Hero
1999
as Hades (voice) (archive sound)

Bling
2016
as Victor (voice)

Citizen Cohn
1992
as Roy Marcus Cohn

The Choirboys
1977
as Harold Bloomguard

Split Image
1982
as Charles Pratt

Next Door
1994
as Matt Coler

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1979
as Sin Eater

Ark
2005
as Jallak (voice)

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990
as Robert

Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2003
as Rudy Giuliani

Badge of the Assassin
1985
as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney

Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021
as Self

Immediate Family
1989
as Michael Spector

Another Day in Paradise
1998
as Mel

The Boys
1991
as Walter Farmer

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004
as Self

The Summer of Ben Tyler
1996
as Temple Rayburn

The Disappearance of Aimee
1976
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan

Mary and Martha
2013
as Mary's Father

A Journey to Sundance
2023
as Self

In Love and War
1987
as James B. Stockdale

The Boost
1988
as Lenny Brown

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
as Self

Promise
1986
as DJ

Fast-Walking
1982
as Fast-Walking

The American Nightmare
2000
as Self

Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
2002
as Gloomius Maximus (voice)

The Black Marble
1980
as The Fiddler

Race to Space
2001
as Dr. Wilhelm von Huber

Footsteps
1972
as Reporter

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
2004
as Toreno (voice)

Jane's House
1994
as Paul Clark

Foster & Laurie
1975
as Walter The Addict

Alex & the Gypsy
1976
as Crainpool

All the Way Home
1971
as Andrew Lynch

Hickey & Boggs
1972
as Lt. Wyatt

For Better or Worse
1995
as Reggie Makeshift

The Visitors
1972
as Bill Schmidt

The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000
as Self

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1975
as Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld

Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996
as Carl Panzram

...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979
as Danny Corelli
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003

Joshua Then and Now
1985
as Joshua Shapiro

The Easter Egg Adventure
2004
as Grab Takit (voice)

The Gift of Love
1978
as Alfred Browning

My Name Is Bill W.
1989
as Bill Wilson

A Great American Tragedy
1972
as Rick
Hollywood on Horses
1989
as Self

Curse of the Starving Class
1994
as Weston Tate
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979
as Len Fraker

The Billion Dollar Bubble
1978
as Art Lewis

The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
1982
as Interviewee

Crimes of Passion
1988
as Himself - Host

America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
1998
as Narrator

Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
2004
as Self

First Contact
2016
as Narrator
About James Woods
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. With 166 credits spanning from 1944 to 2025, James Woods has appeared in 127 films and 39 TV shows.
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Most Popular James Woods Movies
- Scary Movie 2 (2001) — as Father McFeely
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) — as Max
- Hercules (1997) — as Hades (voice)
- Contact (1997) — as Michael Kitz
- Casino (1995) — as Lester Diamond
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