Jon Voight
AKA: Jonathan Vincent Voight
Birthday: 1938-12-29
Birthplace: Yonkers, New York, USA
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations.
Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy (1969). During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance (1972), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ (1979).
Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train (1985). During the 1990s, he most notably starred as an unscrupulous showman attorney in The Rainmaker (1997).
Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s, appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali (2001), as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising (2001), and as Pope John Paul II in the television film of the same name (2005).
Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie.
Filmography
Character: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Character: Defense Secretary John Keller
Character: Lord Richard Croft
Character: Bill Biscane / Kane
Character: Oscar 'Manny' Manheim
Character: Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir"
Character: Leo F. Drummond
Character: Larry Zoolander
Character: Francis Tierney, Sr.
Character: Gen. Adam Woodward, alias Lt. Col. Grant Casey
Character: Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)
Character: Coach Bud Kilmer
Character: Jacob Samuelson
Character: Inspector Ned Kenny
Character: Walter Tschanz
Character: Principle Skinner
Character: Fearless Frank
Character: Dr. Robert Gale
Character: Edward / James
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: President George Washington
Character: Principal Dimly
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder
Character: Curly Bill Brocius
Character: Coach Chuck Dichter
Character: Alfred Kroeber
Character: Henry Shaw Sr.
Character: SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop
Character: Justice Burger
Character: Viktor Novikov
Character: Oscar 'Manny' Manheim (archive footage)
Character: Self - Interviewee
Character: Mickey Donovan
Character: Hamilton Crassus III
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Robert Wainwright
Character: archival footage
Job: Co-Executive Producer