Jon Voight
Acting
Born: Dec 29, 1938
From: Yonkers, New York, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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.
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Four Christmases | Creighton | 2008 | 5.821 |
| Pride and Glory | Francis Tierney, Sr. | 2008 | 6.347 |
| Transformers | Defense Secretary John Keller | 2007 | 6.822 |
| National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Patrick Gates | 2007 | 6.373 |
| Glory Road | Adolph Rupp | 2006 | 7.419 |
| National Treasure | Patrick Gates | 2004 | 6.651 |
| The Five People You Meet In Heaven | Edward | 2004 | 6.986 |
| Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 | Bill Biscane / Kane | 2004 | 2.949 |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT) | 2004 | 6.481 |
| Holes | Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir" | 2003 | 6.901 |
| Pearl Harbor | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 2001 | 6.937 |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Lord Richard Croft | 2001 | 5.9 |
| Uprising | SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop | 2001 | 6.5 |
| Ali | Howard Cosell | 2001 | 6.75 |
| Zoolander | Larry Zoolander | 2001 | 6.219 |
| Enemy of the State | Reynolds | 1998 | 7.061 |
| U Turn | Blind Man | 1997 | 6.637 |
| The Rainmaker | Leo F. Drummond | 1997 | 7.02 |
| Rosewood | John Wright | 1997 | 6.521 |
| Anaconda | Paul Serone | 1997 | 5.3 |
| Most Wanted | Gen. Adam Woodward, alias Lt. … | 1997 | 5.391 |
| Mission: Impossible | Jim Phelps | 1996 | 7.023 |
| Heat | Nate | 1995 | 7.933 |
| Runaway Train | Oscar 'Manny' Manheim | 1985 | 6.971 |
| The Champ | Billy | 1979 | 7.04 |
| Coming Home | Luke Martin | 1978 | 7.028 |
| Conrack | Pat Conroy | 1974 | 6.782 |
| The Odessa File | Peter Miller | 1974 | 6.614 |
| Deliverance | Ed Gentry | 1972 | 7.322 |
| Midnight Cowboy | Joe Buck | 1969 | 7.517 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1938 |
| From | Yonkers, New York, … |