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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. He started his career in minor roles on and off-Broadway before making his Broadway debut in The Penny Wars (1969), followed by Borstal Boy (1970), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1971) and Moonchildren (1972). Woods' early film roles include The Visitors (1972), The Way We Were (1973) and The Gambler (1974). He starred in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978) opposite Meryl Streep. He rose to prominence portraying Gregory Powell in The Onion Field (1979). He earned two Academy Awards nominations: one for Best Actor for his role as journalist Richard Boyle in Salvador (1986) and for Best Supporting Actor for playing white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Notable film roles include Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Immediate Family (1989), The Hard Way (1991), Chaplin (1992), The Specialist (1994), Casino (1995), Contact (1997), Another Day in Paradise (1998), The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Jobs (2013). He served as an executive producer on Christopher Nolan's biographical drama film Oppenheimer (2023). For his television roles, he is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying as D.J. in the CBS movie Promise (1987) and Bill W. in the ABC film My Name Is Bill W. (1989). He has also played Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn (1992) and Dick Fuld in Too Big to Fail (2011). He starred in the CBS legal series Shark (2006–2008), and had a recurring role in the Showtime crime series Ray Donovan (2013). He has voiced roles for Hercules (1997), Recess: School's Out (2001), Stuart Little 2 (2002), the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) and Surf's Up (2007), as well as voicing himself once in The Simpsons (1993), and several times in Family Guy (2005–2016).

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for Hades in Looney Tunes: Back in Action... with Animaniacs! (2024 film)
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Fed up with playing second fiddle to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck demands his own movie from "CEO of Warner Bros. Studios", Nora Rita Norita, Plucky Duck joins in along-side with Daffy since he felt what Daffy felt, but now they're promptly fired by the "Vice-President of Comedy", Kate Houghton. Security guard and aspiring stuntman, D.J. Drake is asked to escort Daffy and Plucky off the studio lot, but the ensuing chase leads to the Batmobile crashing into the studio water tower, which set the Warner Siblings on the loose to run amok in the studio, causing D.J. to also get fired in the process. D.J. returns home with Daffy and Plucky hitching a ride, where he receives a message from his father, action film star, Damian Drake, who is actually a secret agent. Damian instructs his son to travel to Las Vegas, find his associate, Dusty Tails, and find a mystical diamond called the "blue monkey" diamond, before he is shortly thereafter captured by the ACME Corporation, which is revenge of "former-CEO of Warner Bros. Studios" Mr. Plotz. D.J. and Daffy head for Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Bugs' routines collapsing without Daffy, and Tiny Toons' routine collapse without Plucky, so Kate Houghton have to find and rehire Daffy and Plucky or face herself terminated. The Warners inform Kate of the situation, so they head to D.J.'s home where they find Damian's spy car, and use it pursue D.J. and Daffy.
