James Woods
James Woods is known for Hercules (1997), Casino (1995), Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
Biography
James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and Hercules, as well as in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and earned two Academy Award nominations.
Questions about James Woods
How many James Woods films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 128 films with James Woods, from 1971 to 2025.
What is the best rated James Woods film?
The best rated James Woods film in the catalogue is Once Upon a Time in America (1984), rated 8.4.
What was the first James Woods film?
The first James Woods film in the catalogue is The Way We Were, from 1973.
Who has James Woods worked with the most?
In the catalogue, James Woods shares the most credits with Alan Silvestri (3 films), Alec Baldwin (3 films) and Bobcat Goldthwait (3 films).
People data: TMDb.
- Awards
- Daytime Emmy Award (2000) · star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1998) · Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award (1996) · Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1987) · Theatre World Award (1972) · Clarence Derwent Awards
- Nominations
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1997) · Academy Award for Best Actor (1987)
Known for
Trivia
- Also works as
- poker player
- Studied at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Pilgrim High School · Warwick Veterans High School
- Notable works
- Hercules · Salvador
Trivia from Wikidata, licensed CC0.
Full filmography
129 films — 128 in the catalogue
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6.5 Eddington
2025 · James Woods (uncredited)
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8.3 Once Upon a Studio
2023 · Hades (voice)
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A Journey to Sundance
2023 · Self
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7.4 Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021 · Self
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7.6 First Contact
2016 · Narrator
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5.7 Bling
2016 · Victor (voice)
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6.7 Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Self (archive footage)
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6.4 Jamesy Boy
2014 · Lt. Falton
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Any Given Tuesday
2013 · self
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6.1 Jobs
2013 · Jack Dudman
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6.5 White House Down
2013 · Walker
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6.3 Mary and Martha
2013 · Mary's Father
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5.3 Officer Down
2013 · Captain Verona
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6.9 Too Big to Fail
2011 · Dick Fuld
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5.9 Straw Dogs
2011 · Tom Heddon
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7.3 Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
2010 · Owlman (voice)
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7.2 Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
2009 · James Woods as General Veers (voice)
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4.2 An American Carol
2008 · Todd Grosslight
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6.5 Surf's Up
2007 · Reggie Belafonte (voice)
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5.4 End Game
2006 · Agent Vaughn Stevens
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6.6 Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006 · Self
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Free as a Dog
2006
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5.6 Ark
2005 · Jallak (voice)
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9.0 Buddy
2005 · Narrator
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5.5 Be Cool
2005 · Tommy Athens
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5.8 Pretty Persuasion
2005 · Hank Joyce
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5.0 This Girl's Life
2004 · Pops
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6.5 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
2004 · Toreno (voice)
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7.0 The Easter Egg Adventure
2004 · Grab Takit (voice)
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6.7 Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh
2004 · Self
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7.1 Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004 · Self
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Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003
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6.0 Northfork
2003 · Walter O'Brien
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3.2 Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2003 · Rudy Giuliani
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7.3 Mickey's House of Villains
2002 · Hades (voice)
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6.3 Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun
2002 · Gloomius Maximus (voice)
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5.8 Stuart Little 2
2002 · Falcon (voice)
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Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'
2002 · Self
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7.2 John Q
2002 · Dr. Raymond Turner
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6.0 Race to Space
2001 · Dr. Wilhelm von Huber
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6.8 Riding in Cars with Boys
2001 · Leonard Donofrio
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6.5 America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001 · Self
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7.1 Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001 · Self
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5.8 Scary Movie 2
2001 · Father McFeely
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6.2 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001 · General Hein (voice)
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Into the Valley of Death
2001 · Self
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6.1
Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored
2001 · Self
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6.6 Recess: School's Out
2001 · Dr. Phillium Benedict (voice)
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7.2 The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000 · Self
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6.8 The American Nightmare
2000 · Self
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The Making of Hercules
2000 · Self
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6.1 Dirty Pictures
2000 · Dennis Barrie
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7.1 The Virgin Suicides
2000 · Mr. Lisbon
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6.1 Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000 · Self
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Sensational Cities: New York
2000 · Narrator
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5.5 Play It to the Bone
1999 · James Woods (Ringside Fan)
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6.8 Any Given Sunday
1999 · Dr. Harvey Mandrake
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6.5 Hercules: Zero to Hero
1999 · Hades (voice) (archive sound)
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6.4 The General's Daughter
1999 · Colonel Robert Moore
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6.5 True Crime
1999 · Alan Mann
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6.2 Another Day in Paradise
1998 · Mel
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6.3 Vampires
1998 · Jack Crow
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10.0 America's Endangered Species: Don't Say Good-bye
1998 · Narrator
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4.1 Kicked in the Head
1997 · Uncle Sam
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7.5 Contact
1997 · Michael Kitz
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7.5 Hercules
1997 · Hades (voice)
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6.6 Ghosts of Mississippi
1996 · Byron De La Beckwith
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6.8 The Summer of Ben Tyler
1996 · Temple Rayburn
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5.8 Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996 · Carl Panzram
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6.8 Nixon
1995 · H.R. Haldeman
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8.0 Casino
1995 · Lester Diamond
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6.9 Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1995 · Danny Davis
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4.7 For Better or Worse
1995 · Reggie Makeshift
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6.0 The Specialist
1994 · Ned Trent
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4.6 Curse of the Starving Class
1994 · Weston Tate
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4.9 Next Door
1994 · Matt Coler
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5.8 The Getaway
1994 · Jack Benyon
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6.0 Jane's House
1994 · Paul Clark
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7.4 Chaplin
1992 · Joseph Scott
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6.3 Citizen Cohn
1992 · Roy Marcus Cohn
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6.3 Diggstown
1992 · Gabriel Caine
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6.0 Straight Talk
1992 · Jack Russell
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7.0 The Boys
1991 · Walter Farmer
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6.2 The Hard Way
1991 · John Moss
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7.0 Voices That Care
1991 · Self - Host & Choir Member
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4.4 Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990 · Robert (segment "Hills Like White Elephants")
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5.9 Immediate Family
1989 · Michael Spector
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6.5 My Name Is Bill W.
1989 · Bill Wilson
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6.2 True Believer
1989 · Eddie Dodd
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4.7
Hollywood on Horses
1989 · Self
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5.6 The Boost
1988 · Lenny Brown
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Crimes of Passion
1988 · Himself - Host
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6.3 Cop
1988 · Lloyd Hopkins
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5.9 Best Seller
1987 · Cleve
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5.0 In Love and War
1987 · James B. Stockdale
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7.3 Promise
1986 · DJ
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7.0 Salvador
1986 · Richard Boyle
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5.4 Joshua Then and Now
1985 · Joshua Shapiro
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6.7 Cat's Eye
1985 · Morrison
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5.6 Badge of the Assassin
1985 · Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney
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8.4 Once Upon a Time in America
1984 · Max
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5.7 Against All Odds
1984 · Jake Wise
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7.2 Videodrome
1983 · Max Renn
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7.3 The Making of David Cronenberg's Videodrome
1982 · Interviewee
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6.0 Split Image
1982 · Charles Pratt
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5.8 Fast-Walking
1982 · Fast-Walking
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5.6 Eyewitness
1981 · Aldo Mercer
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4.9 The Black Marble
1980 · The Fiddler
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Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979 · Len Fraker
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6.0 The Onion Field
1979 · Gregory Powell
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6.6 ...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979 · Danny Corelli
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6.8 The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1979 · Sin Eater
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6.7 The Gift of Love
1978 · Alfred Browning
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7.5 The Billion Dollar Bubble
1978 · Art Lewis
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5.4 The Choirboys
1977 · Harold Bloomguard
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6.0 Raid on Entebbe
1976 · Capt. Sammy Berg
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8.7 The Disappearance of Aimee
1976 · Asst. Dist. Atty. Joseph Ryan
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4.6 Alex & the Gypsy
1976 · Crainpool
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6.5 Distance
1975 · Larry Vincent
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4.0 F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1975 · Leonard "Lenny" Schoenfeld
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8.5 Foster & Laurie
1975 · Walter The Addict
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6.7 Night Moves
1975 · Quentin
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6.7 The Gambler
1974 · Bank Officer
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7.0 The Way We Were
1973 · Frankie McVeigh
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7.5 A Great American Tragedy
1972 · Rick
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5.9 Hickey & Boggs
1972 · Lt. Wyatt
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6.5 Footsteps
1972 · Reporter
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6.0 The Visitors
1972 · Bill Schmidt
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10.0 All the Way Home
1971 · Andrew Lynch
Series and TV shows
27 titles
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7.2
Justice League Action
2016 · Lex Luthor (voice) · 6 ep.
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7.5
Ray Donovan
2013 · Patrick "Sully" Sullivan · 5 ep.
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6.7
Shark
2006 · Sebastian Stark · 38 ep.
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6.8
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Appearance · 2 ep.
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7.4
Entourage
2004 · James Woods
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5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Appearance · 2 ep.
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7.7
Disney's House of Mouse
2001 · Hades (voice) · 5 ep.
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7.2
Clerks
2000 · Major Baklava (voice)
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7.4
Family Guy
1999 · James Woods (voice) · 6 ep.
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6.9
Hercules
1998 · Hades (voice) · 65 ep.
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6.4
The Daily Show
1996 · Appearance
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7.8
ER
1994 · Dr. Nate Lennox
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7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Guest · 3 ep.
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5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Appearance · 5 ep.
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6.9
Dream On
1990 · Dennis Youngblood
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8.0
The Simpsons
1989 · James Woods (voice)
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7.3
Holocaust
1978 · Karl Weiss · 4 ep.
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6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Host
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7.6
The Rockford Files
1974 · Larry Kirkoff
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7.3
Kojak
1973 · Caz
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7.0
Police Story
1973 · Cast
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6.9
The Rookies
1972 · Cast
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7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Cast
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7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Appearance
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5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Appearance
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7.0
The Oscars
1953 · Appearance
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7.0
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Nominee · 2 ep.
People data: TMDb.
Cast
