James Woods

Born

4/18/1947

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.

Known For117 Movies

Once Upon a Time in America
1984
★8.3
Scary Movie 2
2001
★5.4
Hercules
1997
★7.5
Contact
1997
★7.4
Casino
1995
★8.0
Eddington
2025
★6.5
Once Upon a Studio
2023
★8.3
White House Down
2013
★6.5
John Q
2002
★7.1
Surf's Up
2007
★6.5
The Specialist
1994
★6.0
The Virgin Suicides
2000
★7.1
Videodrome
1983
★7.3
The General's Daughter
1999
★6.4
Any Given Sunday
1999
★6.8
True Crime
1999
★6.5
Vampires
1998
★6.1
Chaplin
1992
★7.4
Stuart Little 2
2002
★5.8
The Getaway
1994
★5.8
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001
★6.2
Cat's Eye
1985
★6.7
The Way We Were
1973
★7.0
Pretty Persuasion
2005
★5.8
Jobs
2013
★6.1
Recess: School's Out
2001
★6.6
The Hard Way
1991
★6.2
Riding in Cars with Boys
2001
★6.7
Be Cool
2005
★5.5
Mickey's House of Villains
2002
★7.3
Play It to the Bone
1999
★5.5
Straw Dogs
2011
★5.9
Nixon
1995
★6.8
Too Big to Fail
2011
★6.9
Night Moves
1975
★6.7
Straight Talk
1992
★6.0
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
2010
★7.3
True Believer
1989
★6.2
Against All Odds
1984
★5.7
Cop
1988
★6.3
Salvador
1986
★7.0
The Gambler
1974
★6.7
Officer Down
2013
★5.3
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
★6.6
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
★6.7
Jamesy Boy
2014
★6.4
End Game
2006
★5.4
Best Seller
1987
★5.9
The Onion Field
1979
★6.0
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009
★7.2
An American Carol
2008
★4.2
Northfork
2003
★6.0
The Choirboys
1977
★5.4
Eyewitness
1981
★5.6
Diggstown
1992
★6.3
Raid on Entebbe
1976
★6.0
Split Image
1982
★6.0
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
★6.5
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1995
★6.9
Another Day in Paradise
1998
★6.2
Hercules: Zero to Hero
1999
★6.5
Bling
2016
★5.7
Hickey & Boggs
1972
★5.9
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
★7.1
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
2004
★6.8
Next Door
1994
★4.9
This Girl's Life
2004
★5.0
Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996
★5.8
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1979
★6.8
The American Nightmare
2000
★6.8
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004
★7.1
The Disappearance of Aimee
1976
★8.7
Fast-Walking
1982
★5.8
Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
2002
★6.3
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990
★4.4
For Better or Worse
1995
★4.7
Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021
★7.4
The Easter Egg Adventure
2004
★7.0
The Boost
1988
★5.6
Citizen Cohn
1992
★6.3
The Gift of Love
1978
★6.7
My Name Is Bill W.
1989
★6.5
The Summer of Ben Tyler
1996
★6.8
Mary and Martha
2013
★6.3
Voices That Care
1991
★7.0
First Contact
2016
★7.6
The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
1982
★7.3
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
★6.1
The Boys
1991
★7.0
The Visitors
1972
★5.9
In Love and War
1987
★5.0
Immediate Family
1989
★5.9
Race to Space
2001
★6.0
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006
★6.6
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000
★7.2
Dirty Pictures
2000
★6.1
America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
1998
★10.0
Jane's House
1994
★6.0
Kicked in the Head
1997
★4.1
Badge of the Assassin
1985
★5.6
Promise
1986
★7.3
The Black Marble
1980
★4.8
All the Way Home
1971
★10.0
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2003
★3.2
Footsteps
1972
★6.5
...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979
★6.6
Joshua Then and Now
1985
★5.4
Ark
2005
★5.6
Alex & the Gypsy
1976
★4.6
Distance
1975
★6.5
The Billion Dollar Bubble
1978
★7.5
Curse of the Starving Class
1994
★4.6
A Great American Tragedy
1972
★7.5
Foster & Laurie
1975
★8.5
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1975
★4.0
Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
2004
★6.7
Buddy
2005
★9.0