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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 18, 1947
Place of Birth
Vernal, Utah, USA
Also Known As
- James H. Woods
- James Howard Woods
- جیمز وودز
James Woods
3.2 Popularity
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
6.5
Self (uncredited)
Eddington
2025
0.0
Hades
Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After
2025
8.3
Hades (voice)
Once Upon a Studio
2023
0.0
Self
A Journey to Sundance
2023
7.6
Self
Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021
7.1
Lex Luthor / Repulse (voice)
Justice League Action
2016
7.1
Lex Luthor (voice)
Justice League Action
2016
7.2
Narrator
First Contact
2016
5.7
Victor (voice)
Bling
2016
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Credits
Eddington
as Self (uncredited)
2025
6.5
Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After
as Hades
2025
0.0
Once Upon a Studio
as Hades (voice)
2023
8.3
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
2023
0.0
Dean Martin: King of Cool
as Self
2021
7.6
Justice League Action
as Lex Luthor / Repulse (voice)
2016
7.1
Justice League Action
as Lex Luthor (voice)
2016
7.1
First Contact
as Narrator
2016
7.2
Bling
as Victor (voice)
2016
5.7
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
2014
6.7
Jamesy Boy
as Lt. Falton
2014
6.4
Futurescape with James Woods
as Himself
2013
7.0
Any Given Tuesday
as Self
2013
8.3
Jobs
as Jack Dudman
2013
6.1
Ray Donovan
as Patrick "Sully" Sullivan
2013
7.5
White House Down
as Walker
2013
6.5
The Frame
as Max Renn
2013
10.0
Mary and Martha
as Mary's Father
2013
6.3
Officer Down
as Captain Verona
2013
5.3
Coma
as Dr. Howard Stark
2012
6.4
Too Big to Fail
as Dick Fuld
2011
7.0
Straw Dogs
as Tom Heddon
2011
5.9
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
as Owlman (voice)
2010
7.3
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
as James Woods as General Veers (voice)
2009
7.3
An American Carol
as Todd Grosslight
2008
4.2
Surf's Up
as Reggie Belafonte (voice)
2007
6.5
Shark
as Sebastian Stark
2006
6.7
End Game
as Vaughn Stevens
2006
5.4
Free as a Dog
2006
0.0
Ark
as Jallak (voice)
2005
5.5
Buddy
as Narrator
2005
0.0
Be Cool
as Tommy Athens
2005
5.5
Pretty Persuasion
as Hank Joyce
2005
5.8
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.7
This Girl's Life
as Pops
2004
4.9
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
as Toreno (voice)
2004
9.7
The Easter Egg Adventure
as Grab Takit (voice)
2004
5.5
Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
as Self
2004
6.5
Entourage
as James Woods
2004
7.4
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
as Self
2004
7.1
🎬
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003
0.0
Northfork
as Walter O'Brien
2003
6.0
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
as Rudy Giuliani
2003
2.6
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Mickey's House of Villains
as Hades (voice)
2002
7.3
Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
as Gloomius Maximus (voice)
2002
5.5
Stuart Little 2
as Falcon (voice)
2002
5.8
John Q
as Dr. Raymond Turner
2002
7.1
Race to Space
as Dr. Wilhelm von Huber
2001
5.9
Riding in Cars with Boys
as Leonard Donofrio
2001
6.7
America | A Tribute to Heroes
as Self
2001
6.2
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
as Self
2001
6.7
Scary Movie 2
as Father McFeely
2001
5.8
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
as General Hein (voice)
2001
6.2
🎬
Into the Valley of Death
as Self
2001
0.0
🎬
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
as Self
2001
6.1
Recess: School's Out
as Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)
2001
6.6
Disney's House of Mouse
as Hades (voice)
2001
7.4
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
as Self
2000
7.2
Founding Fathers
as John Adams (voice)
2000
0.0
The American Nightmare
as Self
2000
6.8
The Making of Hercules
as Self
2000
0.0
Clerks
as Major Baklava (voice)
2000
7.1
Dirty Pictures
as Dennis Barrie
2000
5.8
The Virgin Suicides
as Mr. Lisbon
2000
7.1
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
as Self
2000
5.8
Sensational Cities: New York
as Narrator
2000
0.0
Play It to the Bone
as James Woods (Ringside Fan)
1999
5.5
Any Given Sunday
as Dr. Harvey Mandrake
1999
6.8
Hercules: Zero to Hero
as Hades (voice) (archive sound)
1999
6.5
The General's Daughter
as Colonel Robert Moore
1999
6.4
True Crime
as Alan Mann
1999
6.5
Family Guy
as James Woods (voice)
1999
7.4
Family Guy
as James Woods as General Veers (voice)
1999
7.4
Family Guy
as Family Guy James Woods / Simpsons James Woods (voice)
1999
7.4
Another Day in Paradise
as Mel
1998
6.2
Vampires
as Jack Crow
1998
6.3
Hercules
as Hades (voice)
1998
6.9
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as Narrator
1998
8.2
🎬
The Entertainment Biz
as Self
1998
0.0
America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
as Narrator
1998
0.0
Kicked in the Head
as Uncle Sam
1997
3.5
EP Daily
1997
8.5
Contact
as Michael Kitz
1997
7.4
Hercules
as Hades (voice)
1997
7.5
Ghosts of Mississippi
as Byron De La Beckwith
1996
6.6
The Summer of Ben Tyler
as Temple Rayburn
1996
5.7
Killer: A Journal of Murder
as Carl Panzram
1996
5.8
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
🎬
Saturday Night Special
1996
5.0
Nixon
as H.R. Haldeman
1995
6.9
Casino
as Lester Diamond
1995
8.0
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
as Danny Davis
1995
7.0
For Better or Worse
as Reggie Makeshift
1995
4.0
The Specialist
as Ned Trent
1994
5.9
ER
as Dr. Nate Lennox
1994
7.8
Curse of the Starving Class
as Weston Tate
1994
3.8
Next Door
as Matt Coler
1994
4.4
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
The Getaway
as Jack Benyon
1994
5.8
Jane's House
as Paul Clark
1994
5.0
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Fallen Angels
as Mickey Cohen
1993
5.9
Chaplin
as Joseph Scott
1992
7.4
Citizen Cohn
as Roy Marcus Cohn
1992
6.0
Diggstown
as Gabriel Caine
1992
6.3
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
1992
5.4
Straight Talk
as Jack Russell
1992
6.0
The Boys
as Walter Farmer
1991
0.0
The Hard Way
as John Moss
1991
6.1
Voices That Care
as Self - Host & Choir Member
1991
8.0
Dream On
as Dennis Youngblood
1990
6.9
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
as Robert
1990
4.1
The Simpsons
as James Woods (voice)
1989
8.0
Immediate Family
as Michael Spector
1989
5.8
My Name Is Bill W.
as Bill Wilson
1989
6.3
True Believer
as Eddie Dodd
1989
6.2
🎬
Hollywood on Horses
as Self
1989
3.0
The Boost
as Lenny Brown
1988
5.6
Crimes of Passion
as Himself - Host
1988
0.0
Cop
as Lloyd Hopkins
1988
6.2
Best Seller
as Cleve
1987
5.9
In Love and War
as James B. Stockdale
1987
4.0
Promise
as DJ
1986
6.8
Salvador
as Richard Boyle
1986
7.0
Joshua Then and Now
as Joshua Shapiro
1985
5.0
Cat's Eye
as Morrison
1985
6.7
Badge of the Assassin
as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
1985
5.4
Once Upon a Time in America
as Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
1984
8.4
Against All Odds
as Jake Wise
1984
5.7
Videodrome
as Max Renn
1983
7.3
The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
as Interviewee
1982
7.3
Split Image
as Charles Pratt
1982
6.0
Fast-Walking
as Fast-Walking
1982
5.7
Eyewitness
as Aldo Mercer
1981
5.6
The Black Marble
as The Fiddler
1980
4.8
🎬
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
as Len Fraker
1979
0.0
The Onion Field
as Gregory Powell
1979
6.0
...And Your Name Is Jonah
as Danny Corelli
1979
6.6
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
as Sin Eater
1979
6.0
The Gift of Love
as Alfred Browning
1978
6.0
The Billion Dollar Bubble
as Art Lewis
1978
7.0
Holocaust
as Karl Weiss
1978
7.3
The Choirboys
as Harold Bloomguard
1977
5.3
Raid on Entebbe
as Capt. Sammy Berg
1976
6.0
The Disappearance of Aimee
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan
1976
8.0
Alex & the Gypsy
as Crainpool
1976
4.0
Distance
as Larry Vincent
1975
5.0
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
as Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld
1975
2.7
Foster & Laurie
as Walter The Addict
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Welcome Back, Kotter
1975
7.2
Night Moves
as Quentin
1975
6.7
The Gambler
as Bank Officer
1974
6.7
The Rockford Files
as Larry Kirkoff
1974
7.6
Kojak
1973
7.0
Kojak
as Caz
1973
7.0
The Way We Were
as Frankie McVeigh
1973
7.0
Police Story
1973
6.9
A Great American Tragedy
as Rick
1972
6.7
Hickey & Boggs
as Lt. Wyatt
1972
5.7
Footsteps
as Reporter
1972
0.0
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
The Rookies
1972
6.8
The Visitors
as Bill Schmidt
1972
6.0
All the Way Home
as Andrew Lynch
1971
0.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Andrew Lynch
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Assistant District Attorney Joseph Ryan
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as DJ
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Temple Rayburn
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Bill Wilson
1951
8.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2