Jon Voight
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.
Filmography (42)
Man with No Past
High Ground
Megalopolis
Reagan
Ray Donovan: The Movie
Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders
Same Kind of Different as Me
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Getaway
Tropic Thunder
Four Christmases
Pride and Glory
Transformers
Bratz
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Glory Road
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
The Manchurian Candidate
National Treasure
Holes
Zoolander
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Pearl Harbor
Ali
Uprising
Varsity Blues
Baby Geniuses
Enemy of the State
The General
Anaconda
U Turn
Rosewood
The Rainmaker
Mission: Impossible
Heat
Runaway Train
The Champ
Coming Home
The Odessa File
Deliverance
Catch-22
