For the rest of his life, he wore the animal’s pelt as a cloak. (Some storytellers say that Zeus had fathered this magical beast as well.) Hercules trapped the lion in its cave and strangled it. The Nemean Lionįirst, Apollo sent Hercules to the hills of Nemea to kill a lion that was terrorizing the people of the region. Once Hercules completed every one of the labors, Apollo declared, he would be absolved of his guilt and achieve immortality. He ordered Hercules to perform 12 labors for the Mycenaen king Eurystheus. Guilty and heartbroken, Hercules tracked down Apollo, the god of truth and healing (and another of Zeus’ sons), and begged to be punished for what he had done.Īpollo understood that Hercules’ crime had not been his fault-Hera’s vengeful actions were no secret-but still he insisted that the young man make amends. When her stepson was a young adult, she cast a kind of spell on him that drove him temporarily insane and caused him to murder his beloved wife and their two children. The infant Hercules was unusually strong and fearless, however, and he strangled the snakes before they could strangle him.īut Hera kept up her dirty tricks. Then, after Hercules was born, Hera sent two snakes to kill him in his crib. (Perseus, who was also said to be one of Zeus’ sons, famously beheaded the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa.)ĭid you know? The constellation Hercules is the fifth-largest one in the sky. According to legend, his father was Zeus, ruler of all the Greek gods on Mount Olympus and all the mortals on earth, and his mother was Alcmene, the granddaughter of the hero Perseus. Woods' IQ is reportedly 180, a score that earned him a spot in Mensa.Hercules was not a god but was born a mortal, although, like many mythic heroes, he had a complicated family tree. In 1969, one semester short of graduating, he dropped out of MIT to pursue a career in acting.
While at MIT, he was also an active member of the student theatre group "Dramashop", where he both acted in and directed a number of plays. Woods stated on Inside the Actors Studio that he originally intended to follow a career as an eye surgeon. He pursued an undergraduate degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Woods was born in Vernal, Utah, and grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he attended Pilgrim High School.
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Outside of Disney, Woods is well-known for his various film and television roles, such as Gregory Powell in the crime thriller film The Onion Field, Joseph Scott in Chaplin, Carl Panzram in Killer: A Journal of Murder, Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi, Sebastian Stark in the CBS drama series Shark, Karl Weiss in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (with Meryl Streep), and voicing Falcon, the main antagonist of Stuart Little 2 and Reggie Belafonte in the 2007 Sony Pictures animated film Surf's Up. Haldeman in the biographical drama film Nixon, and a ringside fan in the 1999 Touchstone Pictures film Play It to the Bone. Phil Benedict in Recess: School's Out, and portrayed Jack Russell in the 1992 Hollywood Pictures film Straight Talk, H. Sara Miller-Woods ( 2021–present) Source James Howard Woods is an American actor, who is best known for voicing Hades in the 1997 Disney animated feature film Hercules, and reprised this role in future appearances.
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