James Woods: movies and TV shows
James Woods has 179 credits in the archive: 132 films and 47 TV series, from 1944 to 2025. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2025 · busiest year: 2001 (10 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Eddington | James Woods (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 78 |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Film | 8.0 | 76 | |
| 2023 | Once Upon a Studio | Hades (voice) | Film | 8.3 | 76 |
| 2023 | A Journey to Sundance | Self | Film | — | 76 |
| 2021 | Dean Martin: King of Cool | Self | Film | 7.6 | 74 |
| 2016 | Justice League Action | Lex Luthor / Repulse (voice) | TV | 7.2 | 69 |
| 2016 | Justice League Action | Lex Luthor (voice) | TV | 7.2 | 69 |
| 2016 | Bling | Victor (voice) | Film | 5.7 | 69 |
| 2016 | First Contact | Narrator | Film | 7.6 | 69 |
| 2014 | Jamesy Boy | Lt. Falton | Film | 6.4 | 67 |
| 2014 | Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.6 | 67 |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | Patrick "Sully" Sullivan | TV | 7.5 | 66 |
| 2013 | White House Down | Walker | Film | 6.5 | 66 |
| 2013 | Jobs | Jack Dudman | Film | 6.1 | 66 |
| 2013 | The Frame | Max Renn | TV | 10.0 | 66 |
| 2013 | Futurescape with James Woods | Himself | TV | 7.0 | 66 |
| 2013 | Officer Down | Captain Verona | Film | 5.3 | 66 |
| 2013 | Mary and Martha | Mary's Father | Film | 6.3 | 66 |
| 2013 | Any Given Tuesday | self | Film | — | 66 |
| 2012 | Coma | Dr. Howard Stark | TV | 6.4 | 65 |
| 2011 | Straw Dogs | Tom Heddon | Film | 5.9 | 64 |
| 2011 | Too Big to Fail | Dick Fuld | Film | 6.9 | 64 |
| 2010 | Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths | Owlman (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 63 |
| 2009 | Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side | James Woods as General Veers (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 62 |
| 2008 | An American Carol | Todd Grosslight | Film | 4.2 | 61 |
| 2007 | Surf's Up | Reggie Belafonte (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 60 |
| 2006 | Shark | Sebastian Stark | TV | 6.7 | 59 |
| 2006 | End Game | Agent Vaughn Stevens | Film | 5.4 | 59 |
| 2006 | Stardust: The Bette Davis Story | Self | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 2006 | Free as a Dog | Film | — | 59 | |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | TV | 6.8 | 58 |
| 2005 | Pretty Persuasion | Hank Joyce | Film | 5.8 | 58 |
| 2005 | Be Cool | Tommy Athens | Film | 5.5 | 58 |
| 2005 | Ark | Jallak (voice) | Film | 5.6 | 58 |
| 2005 | Buddy | Narrator | Film | 9.0 | 58 |
| 2004 | Entourage | James Woods | TV | 7.4 | 57 |
| 2004 | This Girl's Life | Pops | Film | 5.0 | 57 |
| 2004 | The Easter Egg Adventure | Grab Takit (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 2004 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction | Toreno (voice) | Film | 6.8 | 57 |
| 2004 | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | Self | Film | 7.1 | 57 |
| 2004 | Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh | Self | Film | 6.7 | 57 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | TV | 5.3 | 56 |
| 2003 | Northfork | Walter O'Brien | Film | 6.0 | 56 |
| 2003 | Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story | Rudy Giuliani | Film | 3.2 | 56 |
| 2003 | Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork | Film | — | 56 | |
| 2002 | John Q | Dr. Raymond Turner | Film | 7.1 | 55 |
| 2002 | Stuart Little 2 | Falcon (voice) | Film | 5.8 | 55 |
| 2002 | Mickey's House of Villains | Hades (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 2002 | Behind the Scenes of 'John Q' | Self | Film | — | 55 |
| 2002 | Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun | Gloomius Maximus (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 2001 | Scary Movie 2 | Father McFeely | Film | 5.8 | 54 |
| 2001 | Disney's House of Mouse | Hades (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 54 |
| 2001 | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | General Hein (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 54 |
| 2001 | Recess: School's Out | Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 54 |
| 2001 | Riding in Cars with Boys | Leonard Donofrio | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 2001 | Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored | Self | Film | 6.1 | 54 |
| 2001 | America | A Tribute to Heroes | Self | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 2001 | Race to Space | Dr. Wilhelm von Huber | Film | 6.0 | 54 |
| 2001 | Into the Valley of Death | Self | Film | — | 54 |
| 2001 | Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal | Self | Film | 7.1 | 54 |
| 2000 | The Virgin Suicides | Mr. Lisbon | Film | 7.1 | 53 |
| 2000 | The American Nightmare | Self | Film | 6.8 | 53 |
| 2000 | Clerks | Major Baklava (voice) | TV | 7.2 | 53 |
| 2000 | Dirty Pictures | Dennis Barrie | Film | 6.1 | 53 |
| 2000 | The Making of Hercules | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 2000 | Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone | Self | Film | 6.1 | 53 |
| 2000 | Sensational Cities: New York | Narrator | Film | — | 53 |
| 2000 | The Making of The Virgin Suicides | Self | Film | 7.2 | 53 |
| 2000 | Founding Fathers | John Adams (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 53 |
| 1999 | Family Guy | James Woods (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 52 |
| 1999 | Family Guy | James Woods as General Veers (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 52 |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Family Guy James Woods / Simpsons James Woods (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 52 |
| 1999 | Any Given Sunday | Dr. Harvey Mandrake | Film | 6.8 | 52 |
| 1999 | The General's Daughter | Colonel Robert Moore | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 1999 | True Crime | Alan Mann | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 1999 | Hercules: Zero to Hero | Hades (voice) (archive sound) | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 1999 | Play It to the Bone | James Woods (Ringside Fan) | Film | 5.4 | 52 |
| 1998 | Hercules | Hades (voice) | TV | 6.9 | 51 |
| 1998 | Vampires | Jack Crow | Film | 6.3 | 51 |
| 1998 | The Entertainment Biz | Self | TV | — | 51 |
| 1998 | Another Day in Paradise | Mel | Film | 6.2 | 51 |
| 1998 | Another Day in Paradise | Film | 6.2 | 51 | |
| 1998 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | Narrator | TV | 8.4 | 51 |
| 1998 | America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 1997 | Hercules | Hades (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 50 |
| 1997 | Contact | Michael Kitz | Film | 7.4 | 50 |
| 1997 | Kicked in the Head | Uncle Sam | Film | 4.1 | 50 |
| 1997 | EP Daily | TV | — | 50 | |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | TV | 6.4 | 49 |
| 1996 | Ghosts of Mississippi | Byron De La Beckwith | Film | 6.6 | 49 |
| 1996 | Killer: A Journal of Murder | Carl Panzram | Film | 5.8 | 49 |
| 1996 | The Summer of Ben Tyler | Temple Rayburn | Film | 6.8 | 49 |
| 1996 | Saturday Night Special | TV | 7.5 | 49 | |
| 1995 | Casino | Lester Diamond | Film | 8.0 | 48 |
| 1995 | Nixon | H.R. Haldeman | Film | 6.9 | 48 |
| 1995 | For Better or Worse | Reggie Makeshift | Film | 4.7 | 48 |
| 1995 | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Danny Davis | Film | 7.0 | 48 |
| 1994 | ER | Dr. Nate Lennox | TV | 7.8 | 47 |
| 1994 | The Specialist | Ned Trent | Film | 5.9 | 47 |
| 1994 | The Getaway | Jack Benyon | Film | 5.8 | 47 |
| 1994 | Next Door | Matt Coler | Film | 4.9 | 47 |
| 1994 | Jane's House | Paul Clark | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 47 |
| 1994 | Curse of the Starving Class | Weston Tate | Film | 4.6 | 47 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.3 | 46 |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels | Mickey Cohen | TV | 6.6 | 46 |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self | TV | 5.4 | 45 |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Joseph Scott | Film | 7.4 | 45 |
| 1992 | Diggstown | Gabriel Caine | Film | 6.3 | 45 |
| 1992 | Straight Talk | Jack Russell | Film | 6.0 | 45 |
| 1992 | Citizen Cohn | Roy Marcus Cohn | Film | 6.3 | 45 |
| 1991 | The Hard Way | John Moss | Film | 6.2 | 44 |
| 1991 | Voices That Care | Self - Host & Choir Member | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1991 | The Boys | Walter Farmer | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1990 | Dream On | Dennis Youngblood | TV | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1990 | Women and Men: Stories of Seduction | Robert | Film | 4.4 | 43 |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | James Woods (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 42 |
| 1989 | True Believer | Eddie Dodd | Film | 6.2 | 42 |
| 1989 | My Name Is Bill W. | Bill Wilson | Film | 6.5 | 42 |
| 1989 | Immediate Family | Michael Spector | Film | 5.9 | 42 |
| 1989 | Hollywood on Horses | Self | Film | 4.7 | 42 |
| 1988 | Cop | Lloyd Hopkins | Film | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1988 | Cop | Film | 6.3 | 41 | |
| 1988 | The Boost | Lenny Brown | Film | 5.7 | 41 |
| 1988 | Crimes of Passion | Himself - Host | Film | — | 41 |
| 1987 | Best Seller | Cleve | Film | 5.9 | 40 |
| 1987 | In Love and War | James B. Stockdale | Film | 5.0 | 40 |
| 1986 | Salvador | Richard Boyle | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1986 | Promise | DJ | Film | 7.3 | 39 |
| 1985 | Cat's Eye | Morrison | Film | 6.7 | 38 |
| 1985 | Badge of the Assassin | Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney | Film | 5.6 | 38 |
| 1985 | Joshua Then and Now | Joshua Shapiro | Film | 5.4 | 38 |
| 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Max | Film | 8.4 | 37 |
| 1984 | Against All Odds | Jake Wise | Film | 5.7 | 37 |
| 1983 | Videodrome | Max Renn | Film | 7.2 | 36 |
| 1982 | Split Image | Charles Pratt | Film | 6.0 | 35 |
| 1982 | Fast-Walking | Fast-Walking | Film | 5.8 | 35 |
| 1982 | The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome | Interviewee | Film | 7.3 | 35 |
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Aldo Mercer | Film | 5.6 | 34 |
| 1980 | The Black Marble | The Fiddler | Film | 4.9 | 33 |
| 1979 | The Onion Field | Gregory Powell | Film | 6.0 | 32 |
| 1979 | ...And Your Name Is Jonah | Danny Corelli | Film | 6.6 | 32 |
| 1979 | Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand | Len Fraker | Film | — | 32 |
| 1979 | The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel | Sin Eater | Film | 6.8 | 32 |
| 1978 | Holocaust | Karl Weiss | TV | 7.3 | 31 |
| 1978 | The Gift of Love | Alfred Browning | Film | 6.7 | 31 |
| 1978 | The Billion Dollar Bubble | Art Lewis | Film | 7.5 | 31 |
| 1977 | The Choirboys | Harold Bloomguard | Film | 5.5 | 30 |
| 1976 | Raid on Entebbe | Capt. Sammy Berg | Film | 6.0 | 29 |
| 1976 | The Disappearance of Aimee | Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan | Film | 8.7 | 29 |
| 1976 | Alex & the Gypsy | Crainpool | Film | 4.6 | 29 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 28 |
| 1975 | Night Moves | Quentin | Film | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1975 | Welcome Back, Kotter | TV | 7.3 | 28 | |
| 1975 | Distance | Larry Vincent | Film | 6.5 | 28 |
| 1975 | Foster & Laurie | Walter The Addict | Film | 8.5 | 28 |
| 1975 | F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood | Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld | Film | 4.0 | 28 |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Larry Kirkoff | TV | 7.6 | 27 |
| 1974 | The Gambler | Bank Officer | Film | 6.7 | 27 |
| 1973 | Kojak | TV | 7.2 | 26 | |
| 1973 | Kojak | Caz | TV | 7.2 | 26 |
| 1973 | Police Story | TV | 7.0 | 26 | |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | Frankie McVeigh | Film | 7.0 | 26 |
| 1972 | The Rookies | TV | 6.9 | 25 | |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco | TV | 7.0 | 25 | |
| 1972 | The Visitors | Bill Schmidt | Film | 6.0 | 25 |
| 1972 | Hickey & Boggs | Lt. Wyatt | Film | 5.9 | 25 |
| 1972 | A Great American Tragedy | Rick | Film | 7.5 | 25 |
| 1972 | Footsteps | Reporter | Film | 6.5 | 25 |
| 1971 | All the Way Home | Andrew Lynch | Film | 10.0 | 24 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 15 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 14 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 6 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Andrew Lynch | TV | 8.8 | 4 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Assistant District Attorney Joseph Ryan | TV | 8.8 | 4 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | DJ | TV | 8.8 | 4 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Temple Rayburn | TV | 8.8 | 4 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Bill Wilson | TV | 8.8 | 4 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 2 |