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James Woods

Born 1947 · American actor

James Howard Woods is an American actor. Known for fast-talking, intense roles on screen and stage, he has received numerous accolades, including three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and three Actor Awards. Woods made his Broadway debut in the Elliott Baker play The Penny Wars (1969). His early films roles include The Visitors (1972), The Way We Were (1973) and The Gambler (1974), before starring with Meryl Streep in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978).

James Woods, in order

  1. 1972 Footsteps (TV movie): acted · directed by Paul Wendkos
  2. 1972 Hickey & Boggs: acted · directed by Robert Culp
  3. 1972 The Visitors: acted · directed by Elia Kazan · audiences 35% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+
  4. 1973 The Way We Were: acted · directed by Sydney Pollack · critics 64%, audiences 81%
  5. 1974 The Gambler: acted · directed by Karel Reisz
  6. 1975 Distance: acted · directed by Anthony Lover
  7. 1975 Night Moves: acted · directed by Arthur Penn
  8. 1976 Alex & the Gypsy: acted · directed by John Korty
  9. 1976 Raid on Entebbe (TV movie): acted · directed by Irvin Kershner
  10. 1977 The Choirboys: acted · directed by Robert Aldrich
  11. 1978 Holocaust (TV series): acted · directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
  12. 1978 The Billion Dollar Bubble: acted · directed by Brian Gibson
  13. 1979 The Onion Field: acted · directed by Harold Becker
  14. 1980 The Black Marble: acted · directed by Harold Becker
  15. 1981 Eyewitness: acted · directed by Peter Yates · critics 63%, audiences 40% · streaming on Hoopla
  16. 1982 Fast-Walking: acted · directed by James B. Harris
  17. 1982 Split Image: acted · directed by Ted Kotcheff · audiences 74% · streaming on Tubi
  18. 1983 Videodrome: acted · directed by David Cronenberg · critics 83%, audiences 80%
  19. 1984 Against All Odds: acted · directed by Taylor Hackford
  20. 1984 Once Upon a Time in America: acted · directed by Sergio Leone · critics 87%, audiences 93% · streaming on Prime Video, Plex, Tubi
  21. 1984 Terror in the Aisles: acted · directed by Andrew J. Kuehn · critics 63%, audiences 51%
  22. 1985 Badge of the Assassin (TV movie): acted · directed by Mel Damski
  23. 1985 Cat's Eye: acted · directed by Lewis Teague
  24. 1985 Joshua Then and Now: acted · directed by Ted Kotcheff
  25. 1986 Salvador: acted · directed by Oliver Stone
  26. 1987 Best Seller: acted · directed by John Flynn
  27. 1987 In Love and War (TV movie): acted · directed by Paul Aaron
  28. 1988 Cop: produced, acted · directed by James B. Harris
  29. 1988 The Boost: acted · directed by Harold Becker
  30. 1989 Immediate Family: acted · directed by Jonathan Kaplan · critics 54%, audiences 55% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  31. 1989 My Name Is Bill W. (TV movie): acted · directed by Daniel Petrie
  32. 1989 True Believer: acted · directed by Joseph Ruben
  33. 1990 Women & Men: Stories of Seduction: acted · directed by Frederic Raphael
  34. 1991 The Boys (TV movie): acted · directed by Glenn Jordan
  35. 1991 The Hard Way: acted · directed by John Badham · critics 79%, audiences 53%
  36. 1992 Chaplin: acted · directed by Richard Attenborough
  37. 1992 Citizen Cohn (TV movie): acted · directed by Frank Pierson
  38. 1992 Diggstown: acted · directed by Michael Ritchie
  39. 1992 Straight Talk: acted · directed by Barnet Kellman
  40. 1994 Curse of the Starving Class: acted · directed by J. Michael McClary
  41. 1994 Jane's House (TV movie): acted · directed by Glenn Jordan
  42. 1994 Next Door: acted · directed by Tony Bill
  43. 1994 The Getaway: acted · directed by Roger Donaldson
  44. 1994 The Specialist: acted · directed by Luis Llosa
  45. 1995 Casino: acted · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 78%, audiences 93% · streaming on Prime Video
  46. 1995 For Better or Worse: acted · directed by Jason Alexander · audiences 12%
  47. 1995 Indictment: The McMartin Trial (TV movie): acted · directed by Mick Jackson
  48. 1995 Killer: A Journal of Murder: acted · directed by Tim Metcalfe
  49. 1995 Nixon: acted · directed by Oliver Stone · critics 76%, audiences 74% · streaming on Prime Video, Hoopla
  50. 1996 Ghosts of Mississippi: acted · directed by Rob Reiner · critics 45%, audiences 62% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Plex
  51. 1996 The Summer of Ben Tyler (TV movie): acted · directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
  52. 1997 Contact: acted · directed by Robert Zemeckis · critics 71%, audiences 79% · streaming on Prime Video
  53. 1998 Another Day in Paradise: produced, acted · directed by Larry Clark
  54. 1998 Hercules: Zero to Hero (TV movie): acted · directed by Bob Kline
  55. 1998 Vampires: acted · directed by John Carpenter
  56. 1999 Any Given Sunday: acted · directed by Oliver Stone
  57. 1999 Play It to the Bone: acted · directed by Ron Shelton
  58. 1999 The General's Daughter: acted · directed by Simon West · critics 22%, audiences 46% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+
  59. 1999 The Virgin Suicides: acted · directed by Sofia Coppola · critics 80%, audiences 81% · streaming on fuboTV, Kanopy, Hoopla
  60. 1999 True Crime: acted · directed by Clint Eastwood
  61. 2000 Dirty Pictures (TV movie): acted · directed by Frank Pierson
  62. 2001 Race to Space: acted · directed by Sean McNamara
  63. 2001 Riding in Cars with Boys: acted · directed by Penny Marshall
  64. 2001 Scary Movie 2: acted · directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans
  65. 2002 John Q: acted · directed by Nick Cassavetes · critics 25%, audiences 78% · streaming on YouTube (free), Fawesome, Starz
  66. 2002 Stuart Little 2: acted · directed by Rob Minkoff
  67. 2003 Northfork: acted · directed by Michael Polish
  68. 2003 Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (TV movie): acted · directed by Robert Dornhelm
  69. 2003 This Girl's Life: acted · directed by Ash Baron-Cohen
  70. 2004 Imaginary Witness: acted · directed by Daniel Anker · critics 88%, audiences 83%
  71. 2005 Be Cool: acted · directed by F. Gary Gray
  72. 2005 Pretty Persuasion: acted · directed by Marcos Siega · critics 32%, audiences 62% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Kanopy
  73. 2006 End Game (TV movie): acted · directed by Andy Cheng
  74. 2006 Shark (TV series): acted · directed by Spike Lee · critics 52%, audiences 50%
  75. 2008 An American Carol: acted · directed by David Zucker · critics 13%, audiences 48% · streaming on Prime Video, Fandango at Home (free), YouTube (free)
  76. 2011 Straw Dogs: acted · directed by Rod Lurie
  77. 2011 Too Big to Fail (TV movie): acted · directed by Curtis Hanson
  78. 2012 Coma (TV movie): acted · directed by Mikael Salomon
  79. 2013 Jobs: acted · directed by Joshua Michael Stern · critics 27%, audiences 40% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Fandango at Home (free)
  80. 2013 Officer Down: acted · directed by Brian A. Miller
  81. 2013 White House Down: acted · directed by Roland Emmerich · critics 52%, audiences 62% · streaming on Netflix, Starz
  82. 2014 Jamesy Boy: acted · directed by Trevor White