Jon Voight
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.
Acting (115 movies)
Heat
1995
Mission: Impossible
1996
National Treasure
2004
U Turn
1997
Pearl Harbor
2001
Midnight Cowboy
1969
Transformers
2007
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001
Deliverance
1972
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
2004
Uprising
2001
Conrack
1974
The Odessa File
1974
The Champ
1979
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
2004
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
Coming Home
1978
Ali
2001
The Rainmaker
1997
Runaway Train
1985
Holes
2003
Four Christmases
2008
Rosewood
1997
Enemy of the State
1998
Anaconda
1997
Zoolander
2001
Most Wanted
1997
Pride and Glory
2008
Glory Road
2006
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
The Karate Dog
2006
Varsity Blues
1999
September Dawn
2007
Mercy
2023
Pablo
2012
The General
1998
Lookin' to Get Out
1982
Casting By
2012
End of the Game
1978
Clarkworld
2009
A Tribute to Johnny Cash
1999
Beyond
2012
Fearless Frank
1969
Desert Bloom
1986
A Dog of Flanders
1999
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2009
Getaway
2013
Out of It
1969
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
Baby Geniuses and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels
2013
Convict Cowboy
1995
The Tin Soldier
1995
Eternity
1990
Dracula: The Dark Prince
2013
Table for Five
1983
The Fixer
1998
The All-American Boy
1973
Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation
2005
The Making of 'Heat'
2005
Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas
2001
The Painter
2024
The Rainbow Warrior
1997
Stardust
2010
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
2023
Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders
2022
An American Carol
2008
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films
2014
The Revolutionary
1970
Bratz
2007
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Same Kind of Different as Me
2017
Baby Geniuses and the Treasures of Egypt
2014
Woodlawn
2015
Catch-22
1970
Baby Geniuses and the Space Baby
2015
Hour of the Gun
1967
Shadow Land
2024
Brando
2007
Second String
2002
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
Deadly Lessons
2006
The Last of His Tribe
1992
J.L. Family Ranch
2016
Court of Conscience
2015
Hal
2019
Strangers
2024
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016
American Wrestler: The Wizard
2017
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
The Foreign Eye
2006
Tropic Thunder
2008
Surviving the Wild
2018
A Constant Forge
2000
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
1969
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
2006
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990
Roe v. Wade
2021
Orphan Horse
2018
Reagan
2024
JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift
2020
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Lookin' to Get Out | 1982 | Writer |
| Eternity | 1990 | Writer |
| The Final Song | 2014 | Executive Producer |