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Jon Voight

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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.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Heat

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Anaconda

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Midnight Cowboy

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

As Shaw Senior

Mission: Impossible

As Jim Phelps

National Treasure

As Patrick Gates

Pearl Harbor

As President Roosevelt

Tropic Thunder

As Jon Voight

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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When Nature Turns

Exploring the deep to the desert, and the skies to the suburbs, animals have long been cinema's most primal villains. This chain traces the evolution of the cre...

8 films

When Money Buys Trouble

From Brooklyn to the world, a chain of films where transactions turn tender, then treacherous.

8 films

Second Chances

From Hitchcock to Mann, a journey through films where directors revisit their own earlier work, refining obsession into art.

8 films

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