James Woods

James Woods was born on Apr 18, 1947 in USA. James Woods's big-screen debut came with All the Way Home directed by Fred Coe in 1971, strarring Andrew Lynch. James Woods is known for Kingdom Hearts III directed by Tetsuya Nomura, Haley Joel Osment stars as Sora and David Gallagher as Riku. James Woods has got 21 awards and 39 nominations so far. The most recent award James Woods achieved is Satellite Awards. The upcoming new movie James Woods plays is Kingdom Hearts III which will be released on Jan 29, 2019.

James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather Thomas E. Dixon. He graduated from Pilgrim High School in 1965, near the top of his class. James earned a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; dropping out during his sophomore year in 1967, he then headed off to New York with his fraternity brother Martin Donovan to pursue aspirations to appear on the stage. After appearing in a handful of New York City theater productions, Woods scored his first film role in All the Way Home (1971) and followed that up with meager supporting roles in Nos plus belles années (1973) and Bande de flics ! (1977).However, it was Woods' cold-blooded performance as the cop killer in Tueurs de flics (1979), based on a Joseph Wambaugh novel, that seized the attention of movie-goers to his on-screen power. Woods quickly followed up with another role in another Joseph Wambaugh film adaptation, Flics-Frac! (1980), as a sleazy and unstable cable-T.V.-station owner in David Cronenberg's mind-bending and prophetic Vidéodrome (1983), as gangster Max Bercovicz in Sergio Leones mammoth epic Il était une fois en Amérique (1984), and scored a best actor Academy Award nomination as abrasive journalist Richard Boyle in Oliver Stone's gritty and unsettling Salvador (1986).There seemed to be no stopping the rise of this star as he continued to amaze movie-goers with his remarkable versatility and his ability to create such intense, memorable characters. The decade of the 1990s started off strongly with high praise for his role as Roy Cohn in the television production of Citizen Cohn (1992). Woods was equally impressive as sneaky hustler Lester Diamond who cons Sharon Stone in Casino (1995), made a tremendous H.R. Haldeman in Nixon (1995), portrayed serial killer Carl Panzram in Killer: journal d'un assassin (1995), and then as accused civil rights assassin Byron De La Beckwith in Les fantômes du passé (1996).Not to be typecast solely as hostile hoodlums, Woods has further expanded his range to encompass providing voice-overs for animated productions including Hercule (1997), Robbie le renne dans la grande course polaire (1999), and Stuart Little 2 (2002). Woods also appeared in the critically praised Virgin Suicides (1999), in the coming-of-age movie Écarts de conduite (2001), as a corrupt medico in L'enfer du dimanche (1999), and in the comedy-horror spoof Scary Movie 2 (2001). A remarkable performer with an incredibly diverse range of acting talent, Woods remains one of Hollywood's outstanding leading men.