James Howard Woods is an American actor, voice actor, and producer, who is best known for playing Sebastian Stark, the lead character of the TV series Shark. He also voiced Falcon, the main antagonist of Stuart Little 2, and Reggie Belafonte in the 2007 Sony Pictures animated film, Surf's Up.
For Disney, he voiced Hades in the 1997 Disney animated feature film, Hercules, and reprised the role in most of his appearances. He also voiced Dr. Phillium Benedict in Recess: School's Out and Gloomius Maximus in Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun. Additionally, he played Bob Haldeman in the 1995 Hollywood Pictures biographical drama Nixon and Jack Russell in Straight Talk.
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- James Woods has said in some interviews that he enjoyed voicing Hades so much, that he will always be willing to voice him in any future appearances, regardless of the pay. So far, he has done so in Hercules: The Animated Series, Hades Challenge, Fantasmic!, House of Mouse, the Kingdom Hearts series, and Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom.
- However, the only time Woods didn't voice Hades was his singing voice, which was done by Rob Paulsen, especially in the song It's Our House Now!.