The poster child for “intense actor,” James Woods made an indelible impression on moviegoers with his no-holds-barred performances as fast-talking, hard-nosed, and often violent men in films like “The Onion Field” (1979), “Once Upon a Time in America” (1984), and “Casino” (1995). Woods has received the lion’s share of his praise and fame for these roles, as well as several Academy Award nominations and three Emmy wins, but he also has earned critical acclaim for sympathetic turns in projects like “My Name is Bill W.” (1989) – the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous – and showed a wicked sense of
