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. ...read more

Known For

Once Upon a Time in America

Casino

The Getaway

The Virgin Suicides

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Contact

Videodrome

The General's Daughter

Cat's Eye

True Crime

The Specialist

Chaplin

Be Cool

Scary Movie 2

Best Seller

Nixon

Stuart Little 2

Play It to the Bone

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

The Hard Way

Against All Odds

Salvador

Mickey's House of Villains

True Believer

Ghosts of Mississippi

Hercules

Eyewitness

John Q

Cop

Night Moves

Northfork

Surf's Up

End Game

Any Given Sunday

Vampires

The Onion Field

Footsteps

Ark

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

Another Day in Paradise

This Girl's Life

Straight Talk

Race to Space

Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun

My Name Is Bill W.

The Gambler

Voices That Care

Fast-Walking

Straw Dogs

Too Big to Fail

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

The Choirboys

Diggstown

Split Image

Citizen Cohn

The American Nightmare

Kicked in the Head

The Black Marble

Hickey & Boggs

The Boost

Killer: A Journal of Murder

Immediate Family

The Easter Egg Adventure

Officer Down

The Visitors

...And Your Name Is Jonah

Next Door

Dean Martin: King of Cool

Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story

The Summer of Ben Tyler

For Better or Worse

Jobs

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Alex & the Gypsy

White House Down

Dirty Pictures

Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh

The Gift of Love

Curse of the Starving Class

Joshua Then and Now

Free as a Dog

In Love and War

The Disappearance of Aimee

Jamesy Boy

Badge of the Assassin

A Great American Tragedy

Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand

Once Upon a Studio

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

The Way We Were

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

An American Carol

Mary and Martha

Buddy

All the Way Home

Promise

Riding in Cars with Boys

Pretty Persuasion

Bling

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel

Raid on Entebbe

Jane's House

First Contact

Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored

Distance

Recess: School's Out

The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome

The Making of The Virgin Suicides

The Billion Dollar Bubble

The Boys

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

Crimes of Passion

Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork

America | A Tribute to Heroes

Hercules: Zero to Hero

Any Given Tuesday

Foster & Laurie

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

Into the Valley of Death

Hollywood on Horses

A Journey to Sundance

The Making of Hercules

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction

Eddington

Sensational Cities: New York

Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After

Welcome Back, Kotter

The Simpsons

Inside the Actors Studio

The Rookies

Family Guy

Shark

EP Daily

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Daily Show

Entourage

The Streets of San Francisco

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Hercules

Kojak

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Fallen Angels

ER

Police Story

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Saturday Night Special

The Oscars

Saturday Night Live

Coma

Family Guy

Family Guy

Futurescape with James Woods

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Holocaust

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Ray Donovan

The Rockford Files

Disney's House of Mouse

Kojak

The Frame

Founding Fathers

Dream On

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

Justice League Action

Justice League Action

Clerks

The Mike Douglas Show

The Entertainment Biz

Golden Globe Awards