James Woods

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-04-18 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Vernal, Utah, USA

James Woods

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.

Acting

1984

Once Upon a Time in America

as Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz

1995

Casino

as Lester Diamond

1994

The Getaway

as Jack Benyon

2000

The Virgin Suicides

as Mr. Lisbon

2001

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

as General Hein (voice)

1997

Contact

as Michael Kitz

1983

Videodrome

as Max Renn

1999

The General's Daughter

as Colonel Robert Moore

1985

Cat's Eye

as Morrison

1999

True Crime

as Alan Mann

1994

The Specialist

as Ned Trent

1992

Chaplin

as Joseph Scott

2005

Be Cool

as Tommy Athens

2001

Scary Movie 2

as Father McFeely

1987

Best Seller

as Cleve

1995

Nixon

as H.R. Haldeman

2002

Stuart Little 2

as Falcon (voice)

1999

Play It to the Bone

as James Woods (Ringside Fan)

1991

The Hard Way

as John Moss

1984

Against All Odds

as Jake Wise

1986

Salvador

as Richard Boyle

2001

1989

True Believer

as Eddie Dodd

1996

Ghosts of Mississippi

as Byron De La Beckwith

1997

Hercules

as Hades (voice)

1981

Eyewitness

as Aldo Mercer

2002

John Q

as Dr. Raymond Turner

1988

Cop

as Lloyd Hopkins

1975

Night Moves

as Quentin

2003

Northfork

as Walter O'Brien

2007

Surf's Up

as Reggie Belafonte (voice)

2006

End Game

as Vaughn Stevens

1999

Any Given Sunday

as Dr. Harvey Mandrake

1998

Vampires

as Jack Crow

1979

The Onion Field

as Gregory Powell

1972

Footsteps

as Reporter

2005

Ark

as Jallak (voice)

2004

1992

Straight Talk

as Jack Russell

2001

Race to Space

as Dr. Wilhelm von Huber

2002

1989

My Name Is Bill W.

as Bill Wilson

1974

The Gambler

as Bank Officer

1991

Voices That Care

as Self - Host & Choir Member

1982

Fast-Walking

as Fast-Walking

2011

Straw Dogs

as Tom Heddon

2011

Too Big to Fail

as Dick Fuld

1975

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

as Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld

1977

The Choirboys

as Harold Bloomguard

1992

Diggstown

as Gabriel Caine

1982

Split Image

as Charles Pratt

1992

Citizen Cohn

as Roy Marcus Cohn

1997

Kicked in the Head

as Uncle Sam

1980

The Black Marble

as The Fiddler

1972

Hickey & Boggs

as Lt. Wyatt

1988

The Boost

as Lenny Brown

1996

1989

Immediate Family

as Michael Spector

2004

The Easter Egg Adventure

as Grab Takit (voice)

2013

Officer Down

as Captain Verona

1972

The Visitors

as Bill Schmidt

1979

1994

Next Door

as Matt Coler

2003

1996

The Summer of Ben Tyler

as Temple Rayburn

1995

For Better or Worse

as Reggie Makeshift

2013

Jobs

as Jack Dudman

1976

Alex & the Gypsy

as Crainpool

2013

White House Down

as Chief SAIC Martin Walker

2000

Dirty Pictures

as Dennis Barrie

1978

The Gift of Love

as Alfred Browning

1994

1985

Joshua Then and Now

as Joshua Shapiro

1987

In Love and War

as James B. Stockdale

1976

The Disappearance of Aimee

as Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan

2014

Jamesy Boy

as Lt. Falton

1985

Badge of the Assassin

as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney

2023

Once Upon a Studio

as Hades (voice)

1973

The Way We Were

as Frankie McVeigh

2008

An American Carol

as Todd Grosslight

2013

Mary and Martha

as Mary's Father

2005

Buddy

as Narrator

1971

All the Way Home

as Andrew Lynch

1986

Promise

as DJ

2001

Riding in Cars with Boys

as Leonard Donofrio

2005

Pretty Persuasion

as Hank Joyce

2016

Bling

as Victor (voice)

1976

Raid on Entebbe

as Capt. Sammy Berg

1994

Jane's House

as Paul Clark

2016

First Contact

as Narrator

1975

Distance

as Larry Vincent

2001

Recess: School's Out

as Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)

1991

The Boys

as Walter Farmer

2009

1988

Crimes of Passion

as Himself - Host

1999

Hercules: Zero to Hero

as Hades (voice) (archive sound)

1975

Foster & Laurie

as Walter The Addict

Production

1988

Cop

as Producer

2023

Oppenheimer

as Executive Producer

© All Rights Reserved 2025