James Woods - Actor Profile

James Woods

50Movies
9.7 Best Rating

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.

Top Rated Movies

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2025 Eddington James Woods (uncredited) ★ 6.4 FLOP
2023 Once Upon a Studio Hades (voice) ★ 8.3 HIT
2021 Dean Martin: King of Cool Self ★ 7.6 HIT
2016 First Contact Narrator ★ 7.2 HIT
2014 Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau Self (archive footage) ★ 6.7 HIT
2014 Jamesy Boy Lt. Falton ★ 6.4 FLOP
2013 Any Given Tuesday Self ★ 8.3 HIT
2013 White House Down Walker ★ 6.5 HIT
2011 Too Big to Fail Dick Fuld ★ 7.0 HIT
2010 Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths Owlman (voice) ★ 7.3 HIT
2009 Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side James Woods as General Veers (voice) ★ 7.3 HIT
2007 Surf's Up Reggie Belafonte (voice) ★ 6.5 HIT
2004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction Toreno (voice) ★ 9.7 HIT
2004 Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh Self ★ 6.5 HIT
2004 Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession Self ★ 7.1 HIT
2002 Mickey's House of Villains Hades (voice) ★ 7.3 HIT
2002 John Q Dr. Raymond Turner ★ 7.1 HIT
2001 Riding in Cars with Boys Leonard Donofrio ★ 6.7 HIT
2001 Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal Self ★ 6.7 HIT
2001 Recess: School's Out Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice) ★ 6.6 HIT
2000 The Making of The Virgin Suicides Self ★ 7.2 HIT
2000 The American Nightmare Self ★ 6.8 HIT
2000 The Virgin Suicides Mr. Lisbon ★ 7.1 HIT
1999 Any Given Sunday Dr. Harvey Mandrake ★ 6.8 HIT
1999 Hercules: Zero to Hero Hades (voice) (archive sound) ★ 6.5 HIT
1999 The General's Daughter Colonel Robert Moore ★ 6.4 FLOP
1999 True Crime Alan Mann ★ 6.5 HIT
1998 Vampires Jack Crow ★ 6.3 FLOP
1997 Contact Michael Kitz ★ 7.4 HIT
1997 Hercules Hades (voice) ★ 7.5 HIT
1996 Ghosts of Mississippi Byron De La Beckwith ★ 6.6 HIT
1995 Nixon H.R. Haldeman ★ 6.9 HIT
1995 Casino Lester Diamond ★ 8.0 HIT
1995 Indictment: The McMartin Trial Danny Davis ★ 7.0 HIT
1992 Chaplin Joseph Scott ★ 7.4 HIT
1991 Voices That Care Self - Host & Choir Member ★ 8.0 HIT
1986 Promise DJ ★ 6.8 HIT
1986 Salvador Richard Boyle ★ 7.0 HIT
1985 Cat's Eye Morrison ★ 6.7 HIT
1984 Once Upon a Time in America Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz ★ 8.4 HIT
1983 Videodrome Max Renn ★ 7.3 HIT
1982 The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome Interviewee ★ 7.3 HIT
1979 ...And Your Name Is Jonah Danny Corelli ★ 6.6 HIT
1978 The Billion Dollar Bubble Art Lewis ★ 7.0 HIT
1976 The Disappearance of Aimee Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan ★ 8.0 HIT
1975 Foster & Laurie Walter The Addict ★ 7.0 HIT
1975 Night Moves Quentin ★ 6.7 HIT
1974 The Gambler Bank Officer ★ 6.7 HIT
1973 The Way We Were Frankie McVeigh ★ 7.0 HIT
1972 A Great American Tragedy Rick ★ 6.7 HIT