News Of Actor Woody Harrelson's Dad Killing Judge for $250,000 Resurfaces VladTV 6,435 views • comments News of the father of actor Woody Harrelson killing a judge for $250,000 has resurfaced on the 42nd anniversary of the event. Harrelson is an A-list actor known for his roles as Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers and films like No Country for Old Men, and Zombieland, and many are unaware of his father's criminal past. The incident took place on May 29, 1979, when Charles Harrelson took a hitman job to kill U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr. in San Antonio. Charles was hired by Jamiel "Jimmy" Chagra, a drug lord, to kill Wood before he was set to preside over Chagra's trial. Harrelson, using the alias "Bill Bannister," carried out the plan and shot Judge Wood with a rifle outside of his Alamo Heights townhome.