However, it was Woods' cold-blooded performance as the cop killer in The Onion Field (1979), based on a Joseph Wambaugh novel, that seized the attention of movie-goers to his on-screen power. After appearing in a handful of New York City theater productions, Woods scored his first film role in All the Way Home (1971) and followed that up with meager supporting roles in The Way We Were (1973) and The Choirboys (1977). James earned a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropping out during his sophomore year in 1967, he then headed off to New York with his fraternity brother Martin Donovan to pursue aspirations to appear on the stage. He graduated from Pilgrim High School in 1965, near the top of his class. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather Thomas E. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James Howard Woods was born on Apin Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A.
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