James Woods

2003 Emmy Nominated: Lead Actor, Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani

James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor.

Born in Vernal, Utah, he grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island where he attended Pilgrim High School. He conducted his undergraduate studies at MIT where he majored in political science (though he originally planned on a career as a surgeon), but dropped out in 1969, just before his graduation, in order to pursue a career in acting. Before this transition to acting, however, he was considered a brilliant student and was permitted to enroll in a linear algebra course at UCLA while still in high school, having scored a perfect 800 on the verbal portion of the SAT and a 780 on the quantitative aspect. It is claimed he possess an I.Q. of 180.

His career has been noted for the intense characters he has chosen. He was nominated for an Academy Award twice: the first in 1987 for Best Actor in Salvador and again in 1996 for Best Supporting Actor for Ghosts of Mississippi. He has also garnered critical praise for his voice work for Hades in Disney's Hercules. His personal favorite of all of his roles, however, is as the domineering gangster Max in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon A Time In America.

Woods appeared as himself in the episode of The Simpsons entitled "Homer and Apu", and in an episode of Family Guy entitled "Peter's Got Woods".

James Woods is nominated for 2003's Lead Actor in a Mini series or Movie for his role in Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story.

James Woods Videography

Surf's Up, 2007
Scarface: The World Is Yours, 2005
End Game, 2005
Be Cool, 2005
The Easter Egg Adventure, 2005
Pretty Persuasion, 2005
Ark, 2005
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, 2004
This Girl's Life, 2003
Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, 2003
Northfork, 2003
Legend of the Lost Tribe, 2002
Mickey's House of Villains, 2002
Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun, 2002
Stuart Little 2, 2002
Kingdom Hearts, 2002
John Q, 2002
Race to Space, 2001
Riding in Cars with Boys, 2001
Scary Movie 2, 2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, 2001
Recess: School's Out, 2001
"House of Mouse", 2001
Dirty Pictures, 2000
Hooves of Fire, 1999
Any Given Sunday, 1999
The General's Daughter, 1999
The Virgin Suicides, 1999
True Crime, 1999
Hercules: Zero to Hero, 1999
World's Deadliest Earthquakes, 1999
Another Day in Paradise, 1998
"Hercules", 1998
Vampires, 1998
Of Light and Darkness, 1998
Contact, 1997
Hercules, 1997
Kicked in the Head, 1997
Hercules, 1997/II
Ghosts of Mississippi, 1996
The Summer of Ben Tyler, 1996
Killer: A Journal of Murder, 1996
For Better or Worse, 1996
Nixon, 1995
Casino, 1995
Indictment: The McMartin Trial, 1995
The Specialist, 1994
Curse of the Starving Class, 1994
Next Door, 1994
The Getaway, 1994
Jane's House, 1994
Chaplin, 1992
Citizen Cohn, 1992
Diggstown, 1992
Straight Talk, 1992
The Boys, 1991
The Hard Way, 1991
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction, 1990
Immediate Family, 1989
My Name Is Bill W., 1989
True Believer, 1989
The Boost, 1988
Cop, 1988
Best Seller, 1987
In Love and War, 1987
Promise, 1986
Salvador, 1986
Badge of the Assassin, 1985
Joshua Then and Now, 1985
Cat's Eye, 1985
Against All Odds, 1984
Once Upon a Time in America, 1984
Videodrome, 1983
Split Image, 1982
Fast-Walking, 1982
Eyewitness, 1981
The Black Marble, 1980
The Onion Field, 1979
And Your Name Is Jonah, 1979
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel, 1979
The Gift of Love, 1978
"Holocaust", 1978
The Choirboys, 1977
Raid on Entebbe, 1977
The Disappearance of Aimee, 1976
Alex & the Gypsy, 1976
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, 1976
The Billion Dollar Bubble, 1976
Foster and Laurie, 1975
Night Moves, 1975
Distance, 1975
The Gambler, 1974
The Way We Were, 1973
A Great American Tragedy, 1972
Footsteps, 1972
Hickey & Boggs, 1972
The Visitors, 1972
All the Way Home, 1971

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