Born April 18, 1947
Vernal, Utah, USA
167 credits
Acting
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.
The Simpsons
1989 · ★ 8.0
Family Guy
1999 · ★ 7.4
The Daily Show
1996 · ★ 6.4
ER
1994 · ★ 7.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · ★ 7.5
Saturday Night Live
1975 · ★ 7.0
Entourage
2004 · ★ 7.4
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · ★ 5.8
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · ★ 7.2
Oppenheimer
2023 · ★ 8.0
The Rockford Files
1974 · ★ 7.6
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · ★ 6.8
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · ★ 5.4
Ray Donovan
2013 · ★ 7.5
Once Upon a Time in America
1984 · ★ 8.4
Hercules
1998 · ★ 6.9
Kojak
1973 · ★ 7.1
The Rookies
1972 · ★ 6.9
Shark
2006 · ★ 6.7
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · ★ 7.3
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · ★ 5.4
Hercules
1997 · ★ 7.5
Scary Movie 2
2001 · ★ 5.8
Disney's House of Mouse
2001 · ★ 7.5
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · ★ 7.0
The Oscars
1953 · ★ 7.0
Contact
1997 · ★ 7.4
Justice League Action
2016 · ★ 7.2
Casino
1995 · ★ 8.0
Police Story
1973 · ★ 7.0
Dream On
1990 · ★ 7.0
Once Upon a Studio
2023 · ★ 8.3
Fallen Angels
1993 · ★ 6.2
Eddington
2025 · ★ 6.5
The Specialist
1994 · ★ 5.9
Videodrome
1983 · ★ 7.3
Surf's Up
2007 · ★ 6.5
White House Down
2013 · ★ 6.5
John Q
2002 · ★ 7.1
The Virgin Suicides
2000 · ★ 7.1
Holocaust
1978 · ★ 7.3
Clerks
2000 · ★ 7.2
Any Given Sunday
1999 · ★ 6.8
Stuart Little 2
2002 · ★ 5.8
Cat's Eye
1985 · ★ 6.7
Chaplin
1992 · ★ 7.4
The Getaway
1994 · ★ 5.8
Straw Dogs
2011 · ★ 5.9
Welcome Back, Kotter
1975 · ★ 7.3
The Way We Were
1973 · ★ 7.0
Be Cool
2005 · ★ 5.5
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001 · ★ 6.2
Vampires
1998 · ★ 6.3
Against All Odds
1984 · ★ 5.7
The General's Daughter
1999 · ★ 6.4
The Frame
2013 · ★ 10.0
Night Moves
1975 · ★ 6.7
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998 · ★ 8.4
Jobs
2013 · ★ 6.1
True Crime
1999 · ★ 6.5
Nixon
1995 · ★ 6.9
Mickey's House of Villains
2002 · ★ 7.3
The Hard Way
1991 · ★ 6.2
Too Big to Fail
2011 · ★ 7.0
Pretty Persuasion
2005 · ★ 5.8
The Entertainment Biz
1998 · ★ 0.0
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
2010 · ★ 7.3
Recess: School's Out
2001 · ★ 6.6
Coma
2012 · ★ 6.4
Salvador
1986 · ★ 7.1
Saturday Night Special
1996 · ★ 7.5
Raid on Entebbe
1976 · ★ 6.1
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · ★ 8.8
Riding in Cars with Boys
2001 · ★ 6.7
An American Carol
2008 · ★ 4.2
Cop
1988 · ★ 6.3
Jamesy Boy
2014 · ★ 6.4
The Gambler
1974 · ★ 6.7
Eyewitness
1981 · ★ 5.6
Hercules: Zero to Hero
1999 · ★ 6.5
True Believer
1989 · ★ 6.2
Diggstown
1992 · ★ 6.3
Another Day in Paradise
1998 · ★ 6.2
End Game
2006 · ★ 5.4
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009 · ★ 7.2
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996 · ★ 6.6
This Girl's Life
2004 · ★ 4.9
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
2001 · ★ 6.1
Play It to the Bone
1999 · ★ 5.4
Straight Talk
1992 · ★ 6.0
Founding Fathers
2000 · ★ 8.0
Officer Down
2013 · ★ 5.2
Mary and Martha
2013 · ★ 6.3
The American Nightmare
2000 · ★ 6.8
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001 · ★ 6.5
Split Image
1982 · ★ 6.0
Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996 · ★ 5.8
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1979 · ★ 6.8
Bling
2016 · ★ 5.7
The Onion Field
1979 · ★ 6.0
My Name Is Bill W.
1989 · ★ 6.5
Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021 · ★ 7.6
Northfork
2003 · ★ 6.0
Immediate Family
1989 · ★ 5.9
Futurescape with James Woods
2013 · ★ 7.0
The Black Marble
1980 · ★ 5.0
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · ★ 6.7
The Easter Egg Adventure
2004 · ★ 7.0
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · ★ 7.6
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004 · ★ 7.1
For Better or Worse
1995 · ★ 4.7
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990 · ★ 4.4
Best Seller
1987 · ★ 6.0
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000 · ★ 7.2
Voices That Care
1991 · ★ 8.7
Dirty Pictures
2000 · ★ 6.1
Citizen Cohn
1992 · ★ 6.3
Jane's House
1994 · ★ 6.0
A Journey to Sundance
2023 · ★ 0.0
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000 · ★ 6.1
Badge of the Assassin
1985 · ★ 5.6
Hickey & Boggs
1972 · ★ 5.9
The Choirboys
1977 · ★ 5.5
In Love and War
1987 · ★ 5.0
The Boost
1988 · ★ 5.7
Kicked in the Head
1997 · ★ 4.1
Next Door
1994 · ★ 4.9
Joshua Then and Now
1985 · ★ 5.4
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1995 · ★ 7.0
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
2004 · ★ 7.8
The Gift of Love
1978 · ★ 6.7
Race to Space
2001 · ★ 6.0
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001 · ★ 7.1
Hollywood on Horses
1989 · ★ 6.0
Footsteps
1972 · ★ 6.5
...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979 · ★ 6.6
The Summer of Ben Tyler
1996 · ★ 6.8
The Visitors
1972 · ★ 6.0
Alex & the Gypsy
1976 · ★ 4.6
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979 · ★ 0.0
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2003 · ★ 3.2
Fast-Walking
1982 · ★ 5.8
Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
2002 · ★ 6.3
Foster & Laurie
1975 · ★ 8.5
A Great American Tragedy
1972 · ★ 7.5
Ark
2005 · ★ 5.6
The Boys
1991 · ★ 7.0
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1975 · ★ 4.0
Curse of the Starving Class
1994 · ★ 4.4
Promise
1986 · ★ 7.3
EP Daily
1997 · ★ 0.0
The Billion Dollar Bubble
1978 · ★ 7.5
The Disappearance of Aimee
1976 · ★ 8.7
All the Way Home
1971 · ★ 10.0
Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
2004 · ★ 6.7
Into the Valley of Death
2001 · ★ 0.0
The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
1982 · ★ 7.3
First Contact
2016 · ★ 7.2
Buddy
2005 · ★ 9.0
Any Given Tuesday
2013 · ★ 0.0
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003 · ★ 0.0
The Making of Hercules
2000 · ★ 0.0
Distance
1975 · ★ 6.5
Free as a Dog
2006 · ★ 0.0
America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
1998 · ★ 10.0
Sensational Cities: New York
2000 · ★ 0.0
Crimes of Passion
1988 · ★ 0.0