Jonathan Vincent “Jon” Voight is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations.
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.
Jon Voight Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jon Voight |
| Also Know | Jonathan Vincent Voight |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Yonkers, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1938-12-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 83 |
| Deathday |
Jon Voight Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Midnight Cowboy | Joe Buck | 1969-05-25 | Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an aili… |
| Deliverance | Ed Gentry | 1972-08-18 | Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it’s turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip… |
| The Odessa File | Peter Miller | 1974-10-17 | After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting o… |
| The Champ | Billy | 1979-07-10 | The more you love, the harder you fight. The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to … |
| The Five People You Meet In Heaven | Edward | 2004-12-05 | On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitt… |
| Conrack | Pat Conroy | 1974-03-27 | A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the ba… |
| Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 | Bill Biscane / Kane | 2004-08-27 | Following on from the plot of the last movie, babies can communicate with each other using ‘baby talk’, and have an innate knowledge of the secrets of… |
| Runaway Train | Oscar ‘Manny’ Manheim | 1985-11-15 | A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with … |
| September Dawn | Jacob Samuelson | 2007-05-17 | A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling o… |
| Lookin’ to Get Out | Alex Kovac | 1982-10-08 | Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital … |
| End of the Game | Walter Tschanz | 1975-09-21 | Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastma… |
| Beyond | Jon Koski | 2012-03-29 | A detective teams with a tabloid psychic to track down a missing child…. |
| Fearless Frank | Fearless Frank | 1967-04-29 | A country boy arrives in Chicago, gets killed by some gangsters, and returns to life with superhuman powers in this satirical look at movie genres…. |
| Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Dr. Robert Gale | 1991-04-22 | True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl…. |
| Baby Geniuses 3: Baby Squad Investigators | Moriarty | 2013-02-03 | When valuable objects begin disappearing throughout Europe, it’s up to a band of brilliant babies to travel overseas and catch the thieves before it’s… |
| Convict Cowboy | Ry Weston | 1995-07-15 | Rodeo-cum-prison movie about an ageing rodeo star bonding with a young rookie while they both serve time…. |
| Eternity | Edward / James | 1990-11-15 | TV producer James has an extremely vivid dream, in which he is a prince struggling to keep the kingdom at peace against the wishes of his warfaring br… |
| Table for Five | J.P. Tannen | 1983-02-18 | J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children … but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a fr… |
| The Fixer | Jack Killoran | 1998-03-08 | Jack Killoran is a lawyer who can ‘fix’ any situation for his wealthy clients, usually by bribing or blackmailing corrupt officials. Killoran runs afo… |
| The All-American Boy | Vic Bealer | 1973-10-23 | Vic “Bomber” Bealer is a handsome, manipulative boxer who aspires to something greater than the small-town life he knows in Texas. But, even when oppo… |
| The Rainbow Warrior | Peter Willcox | 1993-05-22 | Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the ‘Rainbow Warrior’, a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French … |
| The Revolutionary | A | 1970-07-15 | “A”, a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group’s inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radica… |
| Baby Geniuses and the Treasures of Egypt | Moriarty | 2014-06-24 | An adorable group of talking baby-detectives travel to the deserts of Egypt to track down the naughty baby-criminal mastermind, “Big Baby,” and his pa… |
| Baby Geniuses and the Space Baby | Moriarty | 2015-08-20 | When a Space Baby crash lands on Earth, the Baby Squad must race against time to stop an evil villain from taking over the universe!… |
| Second String | Coach Chuck Dichter | 2002-12-18 | American football coach Chuck Dichter has worked wonders with the Buffalo Bills, and is even confident to crown his career with a Super Bowl victory, … |
| JL Family Ranch | John | 2016-07-22 | A veteran rancher and former sheriff, forced to face some federal bureaucracy when an old enemy-cum-millionaire alleges he doesn’t actually own his be… |
| The Last of His Tribe | Professor Alfred Kroeber | 1992-03-28 | The story of Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Indians of California. Befriended by an Anthropologist (Jon Voight) who is able to speak Ishi’s langu… |
| Court of Conscience | Father Peter | 2015-12-31 | During life, your conscience may draw on divine knowledge or precepts that help direct you toward right action and warn against wrong action. But in d… |
| Surviving The Wild | Gus | 2018-01-05 | Against the wishes of his parents (who are in the midst of a messy divorce), a young boy steals the ashes of his dead Grandfather and runs away into t… |
| Orphan Horse | Ben Crowley | 2018-11-20 | A retired horse trainer finds a young runaway girl in his barn. Skeptic at first, he let’s her stay and a friendship develops while he discovers her h… |
| Roe v. Wade | Justice Burger | 2021-04-02 | Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversia… |
| JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift | John | 2020-09-27 | When Henry proposes it looks like Rebecca will get her fairytale ending until her daughter invites a visitor from her past to the ranch that will chan… |
| Man In The Arena | Narrator | 2020-07-01 | Man in the Arena is a feature-length documentary film exploring the life and accomplishments of media icon and political strategist Roger Ailes. Long … |
| Mission: Impossible | Jim Phelps | 1996-05-22 | When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated… |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Lord Richard Croft | 2001-06-11 | English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlig… |
| National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Patrick Gates | 2007-12-13 | Benjamin Franklin Gates and Dr. Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth’s diary, … |
| Coming Home | Luke Martin | 1978-02-15 | The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin,… |
| Rosewood | John Wright | 1997-02-21 | Spurred by a white woman’s lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923…. |
| Pride and Glory | Francis Tierney, Sr. | 2008-09-09 | A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family’s moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a … |
| Most Wanted | Gen. Adam Woodward, alias Lt. Col. Grant Casey | 1997-10-10 | Sgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is saved from death row and recruited for top-secret specia… |
| The Karate Dog | Hamilton Cage | 2004-05-05 | When LAPD computer expert Peter Fowler investigates the killing of an old man in Chinatown, he finds the only witness is his dog, Cho Cho. But Fowler … |
| American Wrestler: The Wizard | Principle Skinner | 2017-05-16 | In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins th… |
| Desert Bloom | Jack Chismore | 1986-01-22 | The story involves Rose Chismore’s youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particula… |
| Out of It | Russ | 1969-12-01 | An introverted nerd and a dumb, violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader…. |
| The Tin Soldier | Yarik | 1995-05-27 | The story of a boy trying to find his place at a new school with the help of a toy knight that comes to life to teach him moral lessons…. |
| Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas | Storyteller | 2001-11-18 | Have you ever had a dream that felt so real, you couldn’t tell the difference between the real world and the dream world? On November 18, 2001, the wo… |
| Stardust | Himself (uncredited) | 2010-10-16 | Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost films everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and edits the images into a fiction … |
| Deadly Lessons | Dr. Crazx | 2006-03-24 | A mysterious college professor, Simon Conjurer guides a group of dysfunctionals on a journey of self discovery, as they become the focus of a murder i… |
| The Foreign Eye | Self | 2006-10-26 | Fantasies and clichés about Brazil and Brazilians as reinforced by international films, even those actually shot in Brazil. This documentary features… |
| The Crowd Around the Cowboy | Self | 1969-01-01 | A short documentary made on location during the filming of John Schlesinger’s 1969 film “Midnight Cowboy.”… |
| Jasper, Texas | Billy Rowles | 2003-06-08 | In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This … |
| Lt. Dan Band: For the Common Good | Self | 2011-07-29 | Chronicles the journey Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump) who since 9/11, has vowed to never to forget those who are willing to give all. By following Gary an… |
| Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky | 2013-07-22 | Andrei Konchalovsky reflects on the making of Runaway Train…. | |
| I Am Burt Reynolds | 2020-12-17 | Friends and family of the late actor Burt Reynolds remember his life and career, accompanied by clips of his most beloved films…. | |
| Hal | Self | 2019-03-28 | Hal Ashby’s obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as c… |
| The Rainmaker | Leo F. Drummond | 1997-11-18 | When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in… |
| Ali | Howard Cosell | 2001-12-10 | In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an enti… |
| Anaconda | Paul Serone | 1997-04-11 | A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest – and deadlie… |
| Glory Road | Adolph Rupp | 2006-01-13 | In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship…. |
| Varsity Blues | Coach Bud Kilmer | 1999-01-15 | In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday … |
| Clarkworld | himself | 2009-11-03 | Documentary on the life and death of Bob Clark, a director of movies such as Christmas Story, Porky’s and Black Christmas…. |
| Getaway | The Voice | 2013-08-29 | Former race car driver Brent Magna is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom … |
| Woodlawn | Paul Bryant | 2015-10-15 | Love and unity in a school torn by racism and hate in the 1970s. A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith a… |
| A Christmas Eve Miracle | Jerry the Dog | 2015-11-24 | Sharron Holden is a loving mother, wife, and workaholic. She’s on the verge of a huge promotion at work, but her husband feels as if she has given up … |
| Enemy of the State | Thomas Brian Reynolds | 1998-11-20 | A hotshot Washington criminal lawyer becomes the target of a rogue security executive videotaped in the act of murdering a congressman when the incrim… |
| Ann-Margret – FrÃ¥n Valsjöbyn till Hollywood | Self | 2014-05-01 | … |
| Heat | Nate | 1995-12-15 | Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna p… |
| Holes | Marion Sevillo “Mr. Sir” | 2003-04-18 | A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn’t know is that… |
| A Dog of Flanders | Michel | 1999-08-27 | Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flem… |
| Same Kind of Different as Me | Earl Hall | 2017-10-20 | International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams wi… |
| Uprising | SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop | 2001-01-01 | In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis…. |
| A Constant Forge | Self | 2000-01-01 | One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies. The actor-turned-filmma… |
| Pearl Harbor | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 2001-05-21 | The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love … |
| National Treasure | Patrick Gates | 2004-11-19 | Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas J… |
| Four Christmases | Creighton | 2008-11-26 | Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bu… |
| Dracula: The Dark Prince | Van Helsing | 2013-10-15 | In his search for the Lightbringer, Dracula crosses paths with a beautiful crusader named Alina who bears a remarkable resemblance to his murdered bri… |
| 24: Redemption | Jonas Hodges | 2008-11-23 | Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for ma… |
| Megalopolis | An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster…. | ||
| The Manchurian Candidate | Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT) | 2004-07-30 | Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s… |
| The General | Inspector Ned Kenny | 1998-05-01 | The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwant… |
| Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Henry Shaw Sr. | 2016-11-16 | In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of … |
| Reagan | Viktor Novikov | A drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to his time in the oval office…. | |
| Pacino and DeNiro: The Conversation | Self | 2005-02-22 | This short documentary tells about shooting the scene from ‘Heat (1995)’ where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino meet over a cup of coffee…. |
| Transformers | Defense Secretary John Keller | 2007-06-27 | Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autob… |
| The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films | Self | 2014-10-22 | Cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus relive the creation, rise and fall of their independent film company, Cannon Films. This documentary recounts t… |
| The Making of ‘Heat’ | Self | 2005-02-22 | Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film…. |
| U Turn | Blind Man | 1997-10-03 | When Bobby’s car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in … |
| Zoolander | Larry Zoolander | 2001-09-28 | Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1’s three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year’s… |
| An American Carol | President George Washington | 2008-10-03 | A cynical Anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a… |
| A Decade Under the Influence | Self | 2003-04-25 | A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today’s best filmmakers interview the influential direc… |
| Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film | Interviewee | 2006-02-21 | Documentary featuring the contentious news surrounding the movie “Midnight Cowboy” (1969), including its Oscar win for feature film…. |
| Ray Donovan: The Movie | Mickey Donovan | 2022-01-14 | A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the … |
| Bratz | Principal Dimly | 2007-08-03 | The popular Bratz dolls come to life in their first live-action feature film. Finding themselves being pulled further and further apart, the fashionab… |
| Catch-22 | 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder | 1970-06-24 | A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a craz… |
| Source of Pride: The Making of “Pride and Glory” | Self | 2009-01-27 | Documentary about the chaotic film shooting of “Pride and Glory”… |
| Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy | 2022-09-01 | This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a dark and difficult masterpiece and the deeply gifted and flawed people wh… | |
| Boys Will Be Boys | Lt. Palladino | 1999-02-24 | Two young brothers talk their strict father Lloyd Clauswell into allowing them to babysit themselves for the first time while their parents attend a c… |
| Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey | Self | 1990-01-19 | Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 19… |
| And the Oscar Goes To… | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
| Hour of the Gun | Curly Bill Brocius | 1967-11-01 | Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton’s thugs kill the marshal’s brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp start… |
| Tropic Thunder | Jon Voight | 2008-08-09 | Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in ‘Tropic Thunder,’ an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who se… |
| The Prince and the Surfer | Narrator | 1999-12-21 | The classic Twain story “The Prince and the Pauper” gets a modern slant when Prince Edward of Gelfland switches places with Southern California surfer… |
| Pablo | Self | 2012-10-17 | Pablo blends documentary and animation elements to tell the saga of “famous unknown” Pablo Ferro, a man with a personal journey that spans from Havana… |
| A Tribute To Johnny Cash | Host | 1999-06-04 | On Sunday, April 18, 1999, the hottest names in rock and roll united with the biggest stars in country music when TNT presented “A Tribute To Johnny C… |
| Love, Antosha | Self | 2019-08-02 | From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photog… |
| No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos | Self | 2009-01-11 | The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot … |
| Casting By | Self | 2012-09-09 | This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the mo… |
| The XXX Files: Lust in Space | 1995-10-21 | An alien commander is trying to conquer Earth by using sex to turn everyone into porn stars…. | |
Jon Voight Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Tin Soldier | Director | 1995-05-27 | The story of a boy trying to find his place at a new school with the help of a toy knight that comes to life to teach him moral lessons…. |
Jon Voight Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Final Song | Executive Producer | 2014-01-01 | A romantic comedy about a woman struggling to make it in the recording industry. Her life is complicated by her brother, a wacky garbage man who acts … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Lookin’ to Get Out | Writer | 1982-10-08 | Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital … |
| Eternity | Writer | 1990-11-15 | TV producer James has an extremely vivid dream, in which he is a prince struggling to keep the kingdom at peace against the wishes of his warfaring br… |
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