James Woods' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Shark Sebastian S… Disney's Hercules Hades Fallen Angels Mickey Cohen

Main Movie Roles 2008 - An American Carol 2007 - Surf's Up 2006 - End Game 2005 - Pretty Persuasion 2005 - Be Cool 2003 - This Girl's Life 2003 - Northfork 2002 - John Q 2002 - Stuart Little 2 2001 - Scary Movie 2 2001 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001 - Recess: School's Out 2001 - Riding in Cars with Boys 1999 - Any Given Sunday 1999 - The General's Daughter 1999 - True Crime 1999 - The Virgin Suicides 1998 - Another Day in Paradise 1998 - Vampires 1997 - Contact 1997 - Hercules 1996 - Ghosts of Mississippi 1995 - Nixon 1995 - Casino 1994 - The Specialist 1992 - Chaplin 1992 - Diggstown 1992 - Straight Talk 1991 - The Hard Way 1989 - True Believer 1988 - Cop 1987 - Best Seller 1986 - Salvador 1985 - Cat's Eye 1984 - Against All Odds 1984 - Terror in the Aisles 1984 - Once Upon a Time in America 1983 - Videodrome 1982 - Fast-Walking 1981 - Eyewitness 1979 - The Onion Field 1975 - Night Moves 1974 - The Gambler 1973 - The Way We Were

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:

• 1997: Was engaged to actress 'Missy Crider' (qv); they met when she played his daughter in the TV movie _Jane's House (1994) (TV)_ (qv).
• 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.
• Loves photography.
• Provided the voice of Carl, the straight-laced rabbit in the pet store across the street from a rental station, in a series of Blockbuster commercials.
• Enjoys playing golf.
• A reserve officer in the Los Angeles Police Dept.
• Childhood friend of Wall Street Journal personal technology columnist Walt Mossberg.
• Is ambidextrous (as seen in _The Virgin Suicides (1999)_ (qv), writes on chalkboard with both hands).