# James Woods on screen and stage

This is the screen and stage filmography of the American actor and producer James Woods, who is known for his work in various film, television and stage productions.

## Films

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1972 | The Visitors | Bill Schmidt | |
| 1972 | Hickey & Boggs | Lt. Wyatt | |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | Frankie McVeigh | |
| 1974 | The Gambler | Bank Officer | |
| 1975 | Night Moves | Quentin | |
| 1976 | The Billion Dollar Bubble | Art Lewis | |
| 1976 | Alex & the Gypsy | Crainpool | |
| 1977 | The Choirboys | Harold Bloomguard | |
| 1979 | The Onion Field | Gregory Powell | |
| 1980 | The Black Marble | The Fiddler | |
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Aldo Mercer | |
| 1982 | Fast-Walking | Fast-Walking | |
| 1982 | Split Image | Charles Pratt | |
| 1983 | Videodrome | Max Renn | |
| 1984 | Against All Odds | Jake Wise | |
| 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Maximilian Bercovicz | |
| 1985 | Cat's Eye | Dick Morrison | |
| 1985 | Joshua Then and Now | Joshua Shapiro | |
| 1986 | Salvador | Richard Boyle | |
| 1987 | Best Seller | Cleve | |
| 1988 | Cop | Lloyd Hopkins | Also producer |
| 1988 | The Boost | Lenny Brown | |
| 1989 | True Believer | Eddie Dodd | |
| 1989 | Immediate Family | Michael Spector | |
| 1991 | The Hard Way | John Moss | |
| 1992 | Straight Talk | Jack Russell | |
| 1992 | Diggstown | Gabriel Caine | |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Joseph Scott | |
| 1994 | The Getaway | Jack Benyon | |
| 1994 | Curse of the Starving Class | Weston Tate | |
| 1994 | The Specialist | Ned Trent | |
| 1995 | For Better or Worse | Reggie Makeshift | |
| 1995 | Killer: A Journal of Murder | Carl Panzram | |
| 1995 | Casino | Lester Diamond | |
| 1995 | Nixon | H.R. Haldeman | |
| 1996 | Ghosts of Mississippi | Byron De La Beckwith | |
| 1997 | Kicked in the Head | Uncle Sam | |
| 1997 | Hercules | Hades | Voice |
| 1997 | Contact | Michael Kitz | |
| 1998 | Vampires | Jack Crow | |
| 1998 | Another Day in Paradise | Mel | Also producer |
| 1999 | True Crime | Alan Mann | |
| 1999 | The Virgin Suicides | Ronald Lisbon | |
| 1999 | The General's Daughter | Col. Robert Moore | |
| 1999 | Any Given Sunday | Dr. Harvey Mandrake | |
| 1999 | Hercules: Zero to Hero | Hades | Voice, direct-to-video |
| 1999 | Play It to the Bone | Ringside Fan | Cameo |
| 2001 | Recess: School's Out | Dr. Phillium Benedict | Voice |
| 2001 | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | General Hein | Voice |
| 2001 | Scary Movie 2 | Father McFeely | |
| 2001 | Riding in Cars with Boys | Leonard Donofrio | |
| 2001 | Race to Space | Wilhelm von Huber | |
| 2002 | John Q. | Raymond Turner | |
| 2002 | Stuart Little 2 | The Falcon | Voice |
| 2002 | Mickey's House of Villains | Hades | Voice, direct-to-video |
| 2002 | Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun | Gloomius Maximus | Voice, direct-to-video |
| 2003 | Northfork | Walter O'Brien | Also executive producer |
| 2003 | This Girl's Life | Pops | |
| 2005 | Pretty Persuasion | Hank Joyce | |
| 2005 | Be Cool | Tommy Athens | |
| 2005 | Ark | Jallak | Voice |
| 2006 | End Game | Vaughn Stevens | |
| 2007 | Surf's Up | Reggie Belafonte | Voice |
| 2008 | Big Fat Important Movie | Agent Grosslight | |
| 2010 | Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths | Owlman | Voice, direct-to-video |
| 2011 | Straw Dogs | Tom Heddon | |
| 2011 | Mia and the Migoo | Jojo-la-Frite | English dub |
| 2012 | Officer Down | Captain Verona | |
| 2013 | White House Down | Martin Walker | |
| 2013 | Jobs | Dean Jack Dudman | |
| 2014 | Jamesy Boy | Lt. Falton | |
| 2016 | Bling | Victor | Voice |
| 2016 | First Contact | Narrator | Voice, documentary |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | — | Executive producer |
| 2023 | Once Upon a Studio | Hades | Voice, short film |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1973-74 | Kojak | Police Officer (uncredited)/Caz | 2 episodes |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Larry Kirkoff | Episode: "The Kirkoff Case" |
| 1975 | Welcome Back, Kotter | Alex Welles | Episode: "The Great Debate" |
| 1975 | The Streets of San Francisco | Doug | Episode: "Trail of Terror" |
| 1975 | The Rookies | Ted Ayres | Episode: "A Time to Mourn" |
| 1976 | Barnaby Jones | Danny Reeves | Episode: "Sins of Thy Father" |
| 1976 | The Disappearance of Aimee | Asst. Disty. Atty. Joseph Ryan | Television film |
| 1976 | Police Story | Lewis Packer | Episode: "Thanksgiving" |
| 1976 | The Billion Dollar Bubble | Art Lewis | Television film |
| 1976 | Raid on Entebbe | Capt. Sammy Berg | Television film |
| 1977 | Family | Dr. Robert Styles | Episode: "An Eye to the Future" |
| 1978 | Holocaust | Karl Weiss | 4 episodes |
| 1978 | The Gift of Love | Alfred Browning | Television film |
| 1979 | The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel | Sin Eater | Television film |
| 1979–80 | Young Maverick | Lem Fraker | 2 episodes |
| 1985 | Badge of the Assassin | Robert K. Tannenbaum Assistant District Attorney | Television film |
| 1986 | Promise | D.J. | Television film |
| 1987 | In Love and War | James B. 'Jim' Stockdale | Television film |
| 1989 | My Name Is Bill W. | Bill Wilson | Television film |
| 1989 | Saturday Night Live | Host | Episode: James Woods/Don Henley |
| 1990 | Women & Men: Stories of Seduction | Robert | Television film |
| 1991 | The Boys | Walter Farmer | Television film |
| 1992 | Citizen Cohn | Roy Cohn | Television film |
| 1993 | Dream On | Dennis Youngblood | Episode: "Oral Sex, Lies and Videotape" |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels | Mickey Cohen | Episode: "Since I Don't Have You" |
| 1994 | Jane's House | Paul Clark | Television film |
| 1994 | The Simpsons | Himself | Voice, episode: "Homer and Apu" |
| 1994 | Next Door | Matt Coler | Television film |
| 1995 | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Danny Davis | Television film |
| 1996 | The Summer of Ben Tyler | Temple Rayburn | Television film |
| 1998–99 | Hercules | Hades | Voice, 31 episodes |
| 2000 | Dirty Pictures | Dennis Barrie | Television film |
| 2001 | Clerks: The Animated Series | Major Baklava | Voice, episode: "Leonardo Is Caught in the Grip of an Outbreak of Randal's Imagination and Patrick Swayze Either Does or Doesn't Work in the New Pet Store" |
| 2001–02 | House of Mouse | Hades | Voice, 10 episodes |
| 2002 | Founding Brothers | John Adams | Documentary Voice |
| 2003 | Mickeypalooza | Hades | Voice, television special |
| 2003 | Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story | Rudy Giuliani | Television film |
| 2005 | Odd Job Jack | Manny Kowalski | Voice, episode: "Orgy: The Musical" |
| 2005–16 | Family Guy | Himself | Voice, 8 episodes |
| 2006 | ER | Dr. Nate Lennox | Episode: "Body & Soul" |
| 2006 | Entourage | Himself | Episode: "Aquamom" |
| 2006–08 | Shark | Sebastian Stark | 38 episodes |
| 2011 | Too Big to Fail | Richard Fuld | Television film |
| 2012 | Coma | Dr. Theodore Stark | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Mary and Martha | Tom | Television film |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | Patrick Sullivan | 6 episodes |
| 2013 | Futurescape | Himself (host) | 3 episodes |
| 2016–17 | Justice League Action | Lex Luthor | Voice, 9 episodes |
| 2017 | Dice | James Woods | 2 episodes |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
| 1969 | The Penny Wars | Howie Clevenger | Royale Theatre, Broadway |
| 1970 | Borstal Boy | Tom Meadows | Lyceum Theatre, Broadway |
| 1971 | The Trial of the Catonsville Nine | David Darst | Lyceum Theatre, Broadway |
| 1972 | Moonchildren | Bob Riffle | Royale Theatre, Broadway |
| 1973 | Finishing Touches | Steve Cooper | Plymouth Theatre, Broadway |

## Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1997 | Hercules | Hades | |
| 1998 | Of Light and Darkness: The Prophecy | Gar Hob | |
| 2002 | Kingdom Hearts | Hades | |
| 2004 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Mike Toreno | |
| 2004 | Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories | Hades | |
| 2005 | Kingdom Hearts II | Hades | |
| 2006 | Scarface: The World Is Yours | George Sheffield | |
| 2010 | Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep | Hades | |
| 2014 | Kingdom Hearts Re:coded Cinematics | Hades | |
| 2019 | Kingdom Hearts III | Hades | |
| 2021 | Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition | Mike Toreno | Archival recordings Remaster of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas only |
| 2023 | Disney Speedstorm | Hades | |
| 2024 | Disney Dreamlight Valley | Hades | |