This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Woods has said that he owes his acting career to Tim Affleck, father of actors Ben and Casey Affleck, who was a stage manager at the Theatre Company of Boston, which Woods attended as a student. He dropped out of MIT in 1969, one semester before graduating, to pursue an acting career. He pledged the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and was a member of the student theatre group Dramashop, acting in and directing a number of plays. He stated on Inside the Actors Studio that he originally intended to become an eye surgeon. Woods was an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is of part Irish descent and was raised Catholic, briefly serving as an altar boy. Woods grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he attended Pilgrim High School, from which he graduated in 1965. ( née Smith), ran a pre-school after her husband's death and later married Thomas E. His father, Gail Peyton Woods, was an army intelligence officer who died in 1960 after routine surgery. Woods was born on April 18, 1947, in Vernal, Utah, and had a brother ten years younger. He is also known for his voice roles in the animated features Hercules (1997), Recess: School's Out (2001), Stuart Little 2 (2002), and Surf's Up (2007) and for voice-acting as himself on various episodes of Family Guy and The Simpsons. He starred in CBS legal series Shark (2006-2008), and had a recurring role in the Showtime crime series Ray Donovan (2013). He has also portrayed Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn (1992) and Dick Fuld in Too Big to Fail (2011). in the CBS movie Promise (1987) and Bill W. He is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his roles as D.J. Notable film roles include in Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Nixon (1995), Chaplin (1992), Casino (1995), Contact (1997), Vampires (1998), Any Given Sunday (1999), and The Virgin Suicides (1999). His career spans five decades and includes collaborations with some of the most acclaimed filmmakers of his time, such as John Carpenter, Elia Kazan, Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Sydney Pollack, Arthur Penn, Oliver Stone, Rob Reiner, Robert Zemeckis, Richard Attenborough, and Sofia Coppola. He earned two Academy Awards nominations: one for Best Actor for Salvador (1986) and for Best Supporting Actor for Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). He rose to prominence portraying Gregory Powell in The Onion Field (1979). Woods early film roles include in The Visitors (1972), The Way We Were (1973) and Night Moves (1975). In 1978, he made his television breakthrough alongside Meryl Streep, playing her husband in the acclaimed NBC miniseries Holocaust, which received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series. In 1972, he appeared in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine alongside Sam Waterston on Broadway. He started his career in minor roles on and off- Broadway. He received various accolades including three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. He is known for fast-talking intense roles on stage and screen. I’m glad I saw it, but I’m not sure if I’d run out again for a second helping.James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. I love Little Big Man and Bonnie & Clyde, but I felt this one fell a little short for Penn. I got a kick out of seeing a teenage Melanie Griffith and 20 something James Woods. But it’s not strong enough to overcome the shortcomings of the plot.Īcting was overall pretty great, Gene Hackman had his thing down pretty well in the 70s. Except here, as you mentioned, it all feels forced, and executed inelegantly, with all the characters being shoehorned into the finale.Īs a statement about the decline of the American Dream, post Kennedy, maybe it achieves something there as the backdrop to the main story. All the same beats are there, a hard boiled PI who’s too smart and driven for his own good, a mysterious love interest, some sexual perversity, a case that goes deeper than the PI expected, and an ending where nobody wins. I walked out of the theater thinking it was a poor man’s Chinatown. I mention this because I think it had an effect on how much I enjoyed it. The print was very old, lots of dust (which I don’t mind) and very fuzzy sound (which I do mind). What a coincidence! I just saw this film for the first time at a festival earlier this week where they were having an Arthur Penn retrospective.
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