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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

2025
The Last GunFight

as Nathaniel Turner

Movie
2025
High Ground

as Ezra Wilcott

Movie
2025
Man with No Past

as Sanborn

Movie
2024
Megalopolis

as Hamilton Crassus III

Movie
2024
Strangers

as Richard

Movie
2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

as Henry Shaw Sr.

Movie
2008
Tropic Thunder

as Jon Voight

Movie
2007
National Treasure: Book of Secrets

as Patrick Gates

Movie
2007
Transformers

as Defense Secretary John Keller

Movie
2004
National Treasure

as Patrick Gates

Movie
2004
The Manchurian Candidate

as Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)

Movie
2001
Zoolander

as Larry Zoolander

Movie
2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

as Lord Richard Croft

Movie
2001
Pearl Harbor

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

Movie
1997
Anaconda

as Paul Serone

Movie
1996
Mission: Impossible

as Jim Phelps

Movie
1995
Heat

as Nate

Movie
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV Show