Jon Voight
Acting
- Born:
- 1938-12-29
- Place of birth:
- Yonkers, New York, USA
Biography
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award (out of four nominations) and three Golden Globe Awards (out of nine). 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.
Known For
Filmography
Monument
Megadoc
The Last GunFight
High Ground
Man with No Past
Megalopolis
Reagan
Strangers
Shadow Land
The Painter
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Mercy
Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders
Ray Donovan: The Movie
Roe v. Wade
Tucker Carlson Today
I Am Burt Reynolds
Friends of Chabad
JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift
Man In The Arena
Love, Antosha
Hal
Orphan Horse
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
Surviving the Wild
Same Kind of Different as Me
American Wrestler: The Wizard
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
J.L. Family Ranch
Court of Conscience
A Christmas Eve Miracle
Woodlawn
Baby Geniuses and the Space Baby
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films
Baby Geniuses and the Treasures of Egypt
Ann-Margret - Från Valsjöbyn till Hollywood
Dracula: The Dark Prince
Getaway
Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky
Ray Donovan
Baby Geniuses Television Series
Baby Geniuses and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels
Casting By
Pablo
Beyond
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Stardust
Lone Star
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible
Clarkworld
Source of Pride: The Making of "Pride and Glory"
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Shatner's Raw Nerve
Four Christmases
An American Carol
Pride and Glory
Tropic Thunder
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Bratz
Transformers
September Dawn
Brando
Brando: The Documentary
The Foreign Eye
The Karate Dog
Deadly Lessons
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
Glory Road
Pope John Paul II
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation
The Making of Heat
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
National Treasure
The Tony Danza Show
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
The Manchurian Candidate
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
Jasper, Texas
A Decade Under the Influence
Holes
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Second String
The Making of 'Ali'
Ali
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas
24
Uprising
Uprising
Zoolander
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Pearl Harbor
A Constant Forge
The Prince and the Surfer
A Dog of Flanders
Noah's Ark
A Tribute to Johnny Cash
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Boys Will Be Boys
Varsity Blues
Enemy of the State
The General
The Fixer
The Rainmaker
Most Wanted
U Turn
The View
Anaconda
The Rainbow Warrior
Rosewood
E! True Hollywood Story
Mission: Impossible
Heat
The XXX Files: Lust in Space
Convict Cowboy
The Tin Soldier
Return to Lonesome Dove
The Last of His Tribe
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Eternity
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Seinfeld
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Desert Bloom
Runaway Train
Table for Five
Lookin' to Get Out
Wogan
The Champ
Coming Home
End of the Game
The Odessa File
Conrack
The All-American Boy
Deliverance
The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance'
The Revolutionary
Catch-22
Fearless Frank
Out of It
Midnight Cowboy
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
Hour of the Gun
Cimarron Strip
NET Playhouse
12 O'Clock High
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Merv Griffin Show
The Defenders
Naked City
Gunsmoke
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
The Last Firefighter