James Woods
Biography
Date of Birth 18 April 1947, Vernal, Utah, USA Birth Name James Howard Woods Height 6' (1.83 m) Leanly built, strangely handsome actor-producer-director with intense eyes, swarthy complexion, and a sometimes untrustworthy grin has been impressing audiences for over three decades with his compelling performances. The son of a US Intelligence officer, he earned a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completed a degree in political science, and then headed off to New York to pursue aspirations to appear on the stage. After appearing in a handful of New York City theater productions, Woods scored his first film role in All the Way Home (1971) (TV) and followed that up with meager supporting roles in The Way We Were (1973) and The Choirboys (1977). However, it was Woods cold blooded performance as the cop killer in The Onion Field (1979), based on a Joseph Wambaugh novel, that seized the attention of cinema-goers to his on-screen power. Woods quickly followed up with another role in another Joseph Wambaugh film adaptation, The Black Marble (1980), as a sleazy and unstable cable-TV-station owner in David Cronenberg's mind-bending and prophetic Videodrome (1983), as gangster Max Bercovicz in Sergio Leones mammoth epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and scored a best actor Academy Award nomination as abrasive journalist Richard Boyle in Oliver Stones gritty and unsettling Salvador (1986). There seemed to be no stopping the rise of this star as he continued to amaze cinema-goers with his remarkable versatility and his ability to create such intense, memorable characters. The decade of the 1990s started off strongly with high praise for his role as Roy Cohn in the TV production of Citizen Cohn (1992) (TV). Woods was equally impressive as slimy hustler Lester Diamond who cons Sharon Stone in Casino (1995), made a tremendous H.R. Haldeman in Nixon (1995), portrayed serial killer Carl Panzram in Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996), and then as accused civil rights assassin Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Not to be typecast solely as hostile hoodlums, Woods has further expanded his range to encompass providing voice-overs for animated productions including Hercules (1997), Hooves of Fire (1999) (TV), and Stuart Little 2 (2002). Woods also recently appeared in the critically praised The Virgin Suicides (1999), in the coming-of-age movie Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), as a corrupt medico in Any Given Sunday (1999), and in the comedy-horror spoof Scary Movie 2 (2001). A remarkable performer with an incredibly diverse range of acting talent, Woods remains one of Hollywood's outstanding leading men.
John Carpenter's Vampires
Jack Crow
Once Upon a Time in America
Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
The Virgin Suicides
Mr. Lisbon
Any Given Sunday
Dr. Harvey Mandrake
Videodrome
Max Renn
The Specialist
Ned Trent
The Hard Way
Detective Lt. John Moss, NYPD
Salvador
Richard Boyle
Cat's Eye
Dick Morrison
True Crime
Alan Mann
Filthy Animals
Blues Musician
Sharon Stone: Survival Instinct
Self
Wanda and Sully
Police Officer 2
Once Upon a Studio
Hades (voice)
The Wet Ones
Emma 'Woodsy' Bunton
First Contact
Narrator (voice)
Bling
Victor (voice)
Jamesy Boy
Lt. Falton
Jobs
Jack Dudman
White House Down
Walker
Mary and Martha
Mary's Father
Officer Down
Captain Verona
Straw Dogs
Tom Heddon
Too Big To Fail
Richard Fuld
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Owlman (Voice)
Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side
Himself as General Veers (voice)
An American Carol
Michael's Agent
Surf's Up
Reggie Belafonte (voice)
Broke Sky
Contest MC
Die Bette Davis Story
Himself
End Game
Vaughn Stevens
Be Cool
Tommy Athens
Pretty Persuasion
Hank Joyce
The Easter Egg Adventure
Grab Takit (voice)
Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
Himself (archive footage)
Z Channel - A Magnificent Obsession
Himself
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
(archive footage)
Ark
Jallak (Voice)
Northfork
Walter O'Brien
This Girl's Life
Pops
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Rudolph 'Rudy' Giuliani
Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
Gloomius Maximus (voice)
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire / Legend of the Lost Tribe
Narrator/The Vikings (voice: English version)
Stuart Little 2
The Evil Falcon (voice)
John Q.
Dr. Raymond Turner
Race to Space
Dr. Wilhelm von Huber
Mickey's House of Villains
Hades (voice)
Riding in Cars with Boys
Mr. Leonard Donofrio
America: A Tribute To Heroes
Himself
Scary Movie 2
Father McFeely
Recess: School's Out
Dr. Philliam "Phil" Benedict (voice)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
General Hein (voice)
Self
Dirty Pictures
Dennis Barrie
Citizen Cohn
Roy Marcus Cohn
Play it to the Bone
Ringside Fan
Robbie The Reindeer: Hooves Of Fire
Narrator (voice: English version)
Any Given Sunday
Dr. Harvey Mandrake
Hercules: Zero to Hero
Hades: Lord of the Dead (voice)
The General's Daughter
Colonel Moore
The Virgin Suicides
Mr. Lisbon
True Crime
Alan Mann
Another Day in Paradise
Mel
John Carpenter's Vampires
Jack Crow
Narrator
Daria - Is It Fall Yet?
(voice)
Kicked in the Head
Uncle Sam
Contact
Michael Kitz
Hercules
Hades; Lord of the Underworld (voice)
Ghosts Of Mississippi
Byron De La Beckwith
The Summer of Ben Tyler
Temple Rayburn
Nixon
H.R. Haldeman
Casino
Lester Diamond
Killer: A Journal of Murder
Carl Panzram
For Better or Worse
Reggie Makeshift
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Danny Davis
The Specialist
Ned Trent
Next Door
Matt Coler
The Getaway
Jack Benyon
Chaplin
Joseph Scott
Diggstown
Gabriel Caine
Straight Talk
Jack Russell
The Hard Way
Detective Lt. John Moss, NYPD
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Robert
My Name is Bill W
Bill Wilson
True Believer
Eddie Dodd
The Boost
Lenny Brown
Cop
Lloyd Hopkins
Best Seller
Cleve
Vietnam: Prisionero de Guerra
James B. Stockdale
Salvador
Richard Boyle
Badge of the Assassin
Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
Joshua Then and Now
Joshua Shapiro
Cat's Eye
Dick Morrison
Once Upon a Time in America
Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
Against All Odds
Jake Wise
Videodrome
Max Renn
Split Image
Charles Pratt
Fast-Walking
Fast-Walking
Eyewitness
Aldo Mercer
The Black Marble
The Fiddler
The Onion Field
Gregory Ulas Powell
...and Your Name Is Jonah
Danny Corelli
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
The Sin Eater
The Gift of Love
Alfred Browning
Die Chorknaben
Harold Bloomguard
Alex and the Gypsy
Crainpool
Raid on Entebbe
Capt. Sammy Berg
Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld
Walter The Addict
Night Moves
Quentin
The Gambler
Bank Officer
The Way We Were
Frankie McVeigh
Hickey & Boggs
Lt. Wyatt
Los Visitantes
Bill Schmidt
