
Acting
Born April 18, 1947 · Vernal, Utah, USA
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.

Eddington
2025

Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After
2025

Once Upon a Studio
2023

A Journey to Sundance
2023

Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021

First Contact
2016

Bling
2016

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014

Jamesy Boy
2014

Any Given Tuesday
2013

Jobs
2013

White House Down
2013

Mary and Martha
2013

Officer Down
2013

Too Big to Fail
2011

Straw Dogs
2011

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
2010

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009

An American Carol
2008

Surf's Up
2007

End Game
2006

Free as a Dog
2006

Ark
2005

Buddy
2005

Be Cool
2005

Pretty Persuasion
2005

This Girl's Life
2004

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
2004

The Easter Egg Adventure
2004

Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
2004

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003

Northfork
2003

Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2003

Mickey's House of Villains
2002

Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
2002

Stuart Little 2
2002

John Q
2002

Race to Space
2001

Riding in Cars with Boys
2001

America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001

Scary Movie 2
2001

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001
Into the Valley of Death
2001
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
2001

Recess: School's Out
2001

The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000

The American Nightmare
2000

The Making of Hercules
2000

Dirty Pictures
2000

The Virgin Suicides
2000

Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000

Sensational Cities: New York
2000

Play It to the Bone
1999

Any Given Sunday
1999

Hercules: Zero to Hero
1999

The General's Daughter
1999

True Crime
1999

Another Day in Paradise
1998

Vampires
1998

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

Kicked in the Head
1997

Contact
1997

Hercules
1997

Ghosts of Mississippi
1996

The Summer of Ben Tyler
1996

Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996

Nixon
1995

Casino
1995

Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1995

For Better or Worse
1995

The Specialist
1994

Curse of the Starving Class
1994

Next Door
1994

The Getaway
1994

Jane's House
1994

Chaplin
1992

Citizen Cohn
1992

Diggstown
1992

Straight Talk
1992

The Boys
1991

The Hard Way
1991

Voices That Care
1991

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990

Immediate Family
1989

My Name Is Bill W.
1989

True Believer
1989
Hollywood on Horses
1989

The Boost
1988

Crimes of Passion
1988

Cop
1988

Best Seller
1987

In Love and War
1987

Promise
1986

Salvador
1986

Joshua Then and Now
1985

Cat's Eye
1985

Badge of the Assassin
1985

Once Upon a Time in America
1984

Against All Odds
1984

Videodrome
1983

The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
1982

Split Image
1982

Fast-Walking
1982

Eyewitness
1981

The Black Marble
1980
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979

The Onion Field
1979

...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1979

The Gift of Love
1978

The Billion Dollar Bubble
1978

The Choirboys
1977

Raid on Entebbe
1976

The Disappearance of Aimee
1976

Alex & the Gypsy
1976

Distance
1975

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1975

Foster & Laurie
1975

Night Moves
1975

The Gambler
1974

The Way We Were
1973

A Great American Tragedy
1972

Hickey & Boggs
1972

Footsteps
1972

The Visitors
1972

All the Way Home
1971