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.

Oppenheimer
2023
Executive Producer

Once Upon a Studio
2023
Hades (voice)

Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021
Self

A Journey to Sundance
2021
Self

Bling
2016
Victor (voice)

First Contact
2016
Narrator

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

Jamesy Boy
2014
Lt. Falton

Officer Down
2013
Captain Verona

Jobs
2013
Jack Dudman

White House Down
2013
Chief SAIC Martin Walker

Mary and Martha
2013
Mary's Father

Any Given Tuesday
2013
Self

Straw Dogs
2011
Tom Heddon

Too Big to Fail
2011
Dick Fuld

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

Surf's Up
2007
Reggie Belafonte (voice)

End Game
2006
Vaughn Stevens

Free as a Dog
2006

Be Cool
2005
Tommy Athens

Ark
2005
Jallak (voice)

Buddy
2005
Narrator

Pretty Persuasion
2005
Hank Joyce

This Girl's Life
2004
Pops

The Easter Egg Adventure
2004
Grab Takit (voice)

Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
2004
Self

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004
Self

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

Northfork
2003
Walter O'Brien

Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2003
Rudy Giuliani

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
2003

Stuart Little 2
2002
Falcon (voice)

John Q
2002
Dr. Raymond Turner

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

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

Scary Movie 2
2001
Father McFeely

Mickey's House of Villains
2001
Hades (voice)

Race to Space
2001
Dr. Wilhelm von Huber

Riding in Cars with Boys
2001
Leonard Donofrio

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

America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
Self

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
Self

The Virgin Suicides
2000
Mr. Lisbon

The American Nightmare
2000
Self

Dirty Pictures
2000
Dennis Barrie

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
Self

The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000
Self

The Making of Hercules
2000
Self

The General's Daughter
1999
Colonel Robert Moore

True Crime
1999
Alan Mann

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)

Another Day in Paradise
1998
Producer

Vampires
1998
Jack Crow

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

Contact
1997
Michael Kitz

Hercules
1997
Hades (voice)

Kicked in the Head
1997
Uncle Sam

Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
Byron De La Beckwith

Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996
Carl Panzram

The Summer of Ben Tyler
1996
Temple Rayburn

Casino
1995
Lester Diamond

Nixon
1995
H.R. Haldeman

Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1995
Danny Davis

For Better or Worse
1995
Reggie Makeshift

The Getaway
1994
Jack Benyon

The Specialist
1994
Ned Trent

Next Door
1994
Matt Coler

Curse of the Starving Class
1994
Weston Tate

Jane's House
1994
Paul Clark

Chaplin
1992
Joseph Scott

Straight Talk
1992
Jack Russell

Diggstown
1992
Gabriel Caine

Citizen Cohn
1992
Roy Marcus Cohn

The Hard Way
1991
John Moss

Voices That Care
1991
Self - Host & Choir Member

The Boys
1991
Walter Farmer

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990
Robert

True Believer
1989
Eddie Dodd

My Name Is Bill W.
1989
Bill Wilson

Immediate Family
1989
Michael Spector

Cop
1988
Producer

The Boost
1988
Lenny Brown

Crimes of Passion
1988
Himself - Host

Best Seller
1987
Cleve

In Love and War
1987
James B. Stockdale

Salvador
1986
Richard Boyle

Promise
1986
DJ

Cat's Eye
1985
Morrison

Joshua Then and Now
1985
Joshua Shapiro

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

Once Upon a Time in America
1984
Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz

Against All Odds
1984
Jake Wise

Videodrome
1983
Max Renn

Fast-Walking
1982
Fast-Walking

Split Image
1982
Charles Pratt

The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
1982
Interviewee

Eyewitness
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

The Choirboys
1977
Harold Bloomguard

Alex & the Gypsy
1976
Crainpool

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

Raid on Entebbe
1976
Capt. Sammy Berg

Night Moves
1975
Quentin

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

Distance
1975
Larry Vincent

Foster & Laurie
1975
Walter The Addict

The Gambler
1974
Bank Officer

The Way We Were
1973
Frankie McVeigh

Footsteps
1972
Reporter

Hickey & Boggs
1972
Lt. Wyatt

The Visitors
1972
Bill Schmidt

All the Way Home
1971
Andrew Lynch