James Woods
James WoodsBorn in Vernal, Utah, on April 18, 1947, James Woods attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a time before dropping out to pursue acting. Woods made his film debut in All the Way Home (1970), followed by a string of small movie parts through the 1970s. But he first gained notice playing a cop killer in The Onion Field (1979).

Woods made his mark as a leading man in Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986), which earned Woods a Best Actor Oscar nomination. He continued to make memorable supporting appearances in films such as Casino, Any Given Sunday, Contact and Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), for which he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.

Woods regularly takes roles in smaller works from up-and-coming directors, such as Another Day in Paradise (1998), The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Northfork (2003).

Featured Movies
  • The Virgin SuicidesThe Virgin Suicides

    In sharp response to the lax moral milieu of the mid-1970s, Ronald and Sara Lisbon keep their five alluring, adolescent daughters on a short leash by embracing religion and pushing away the opposite sex. But when the youngest unaccountably commits hara-kiri and a wayward elder sister violates... Read More

  • VampiresVampires

    At the Vatican's behest, vampire slayer Jack Crow and his team of exterminators wage war against the pesky minions of a 600-year-old master vampire, who's looking for an ancient talisman that will let bloodsuckers hunt in daylight. Read More

  • True BelieverTrue Believer

    Burnt-out civil rights lawyer James Woods's career has devolved into defense for known drug dealers. But he gets a shot at redemption when a starry-eyed legal assistant (Robert Downey Jr.) goads him into taking the case of an innocent man who's spent 8 years in jail for a murder he didn't commit.... Read More

  • VideodromeVideodrome

    Sleazy TV executive Max Renn (James Woods) is looking for cheap, exciting programming for his fly-by-night channel when he fortuitously stumbles across a fuzzy satellite feed showing torture, punishment ... and possibly murder. A conspiracy is afoot as two competing groups fight for the 20th... Read More

  • SalvadorSalvador

    Washed-up photojournalist Richard Boyle's (James Woods) bad habits keep him from getting jobs, so he heads to El Salvador with his pal Dr. Rock (James Belushi) to find work amidst the country's fledgling civil war. But he soon finds that the danger is more than he can handle. Boyle and Rock realize... Read More

All James Woods Movies
Coma (2012)
NR
Straw Dogs (2011)
R
Too Big to Fail (2011)
NR
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)
PG-13
An American Carol (2008)
PG-13
Surf's Up (2007)
PG
Shark (2006)
TV-14
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
R
End Game (2005)
R
Be Cool (2005)
PG-13
Ark (2005)
NR
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
NR
The Easter Egg Adventure (2004)
PG
This Girl's Life (2003)
R
Northfork (2003)
PG-13
Rolie Polie Olie: The Baby 'Bot Chase (2003)
G
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003)
NR
John Q (2002)
PG-13
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
PG
Rolie Polie Olie: Great Defender (2002)
G
Race to Space (2002)
PG
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
PG-13
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
R
Recess: School's Out (2001)
G
Uprising (2001)
NR
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
(Bonus materials available separately)
PG-13
Founding Fathers (2000)
NR
Dirty Pictures (2000)
R
Directors: Robert Zemeckis (2000)
NR
Cheating Las Vegas (2000)
NR
Sensational Cities: New York (2000)
NR
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
R
Any Given Sunday (1999)
(Bonus materials available separately)
R
The General's Daughter (1999)
R
True Crime (1999)
R
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Stars (1999)
NR
Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire (1999)
NR
Vampires (1998)
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R
Another Day in Paradise (1998)
R
Saturday Night Live: Halloween (1998)
TV-14
Contact (1997)
PG
Hercules (1997)
G
Kicked in the Head (1997)
R
Directors: Rob Reiner (1997)
NR
Killer: Journal of Murder (1996)
R
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
PG-13
Casino (1995)
(Bonus materials available separately)
R
Nixon (1995)
(Bonus materials available separately)
R
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
R
Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
NR
The Specialist (1994)
R
The Getaway (1994)
NR
Straight Talk (1992)
PG
Diggstown (1992)
Midnight Sting
R
Citizen Cohn (1992)
R
The Hard Way (1991)
R
Women & Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
R
My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
NR
True Believer (1989)
R
Immediate Family (1989)
PG-13
Cop (1988)
R
The Boost (1988)
R
In Love and War (1987)
NR
Best Seller (1987)
R
Salvador (1986)
R
Stephen King's Cat's Eye (1985)
PG-13
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
R
Against All Odds (1984)
R
Videodrome (1983)
NR
Eyewitness (1981)
R
The Black Marble (1980)
PG
The Onion Field (1979)
R
And Your Name Is Jonah (1979)
PG
Holocaust (1978)
NR
The Gift of Love (1978)
NR
Family: Seasons 1 & 2 (1976)
NR
Night Moves (1975)
R
The Gambler (1974)
R
Kojak (1973)
NR
The Visitors (1972)
R

 
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