Jon Voight

Known for ActingBorn 1938-12-29 (age 87)Yonkers, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Clarkworld

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Man In The Arena

Source of Pride: The Making of "Pride and Glory"

Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas

Orphan Horse

Seinfeld

E! True Hollywood Story

Surviving the Wild

The XXX Files: Lust in Space

A Decade Under the Influence

Heat

24

A Tribute to Johnny Cash

Ray Donovan

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Love, Antosha

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Glory Road

American Wrestler: The Wizard

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Midnight Cowboy

Court of Conscience

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

I Am Burt Reynolds

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years

Enemy of the State

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Deliverance

Pablo

Casting By

Second String

Ray Donovan: The Movie

Mission: Impossible

The Rainmaker

Same Kind of Different as Me

NET Playhouse

Woodlawn

Megadoc

Holes

Return to Lonesome Dove

Transformers

The Last of His Tribe

Pearl Harbor

Tucker Carlson Today

Brando

12 O'Clock High

Tropic Thunder