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James Woods
Age: 62
Height: 6' 0"
Birth Place: Vernal, Utah, USA
Born: Apr. 18th, 1947
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BIOGRAPHY: James Woods grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, USA, where he graduated from Pilgrim High School in 1965 near the top of his class. Afterwards, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He dropped out to pursue his acting career shortly before his scheduled graduation in 1969.
TRIVIA:
- Got his third TV role, as a thug on _"Kojak" (1973)_ (qv), after 'Richard Dreyfuss' (qv) and 'Martin Sheen' (qv) had turned it down.
- 2001: While on a commercial flight from Boston to Los Angeles in August, he noticed a group of men acting suspiciously on the plane and informed a flight attendant that he felt they were planning to hijack the plane. He has thus been in several interviews with FBI agents since the September 11 attacks.
- Majored in Political Science at M.I.T.
- Writes with his right hand mostly but does pretty much everything else with his left.
- He was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a full scholarship, majoring not in the physical sciences but in political science. He also pursued acting, appearing in 36 plays at MIT, Harvard, and the Theater Company of Boston and also performed in summer stock at the Provincetown Playhouse. He dropped out of MIT during his last year to move to New York and pursue acting full-time.
- He plays a character who works for 'Richard Nixon' (qv) in _Nixon (1995)_ (qv) and played one of a band of men who wore Nixon masks when they robbed a police depository in _Best Seller (1987)_ (qv).
- He appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care."
- A reserve officer in the Los Angeles Police Dept.
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