Jon Voight
Jon Voight is an Academy Award winning American actor who shot to fame after his performance in the 1969 Oscar winner for best picture, Midnight Cowboy. Voight earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal as Joe Buck, an eccentric Texas gigolo in New York City. Voight soon went on to star in such notable films as: Deliverance, Coming Home and Heat.
Fast Facts
- Born: December 29, 1938
- Birthplace: Yonkers, New York
- Full name: Jonathan Vincent Voight
- Spouses: Lauri Peters and Marcheline Bertrand
- 1978: Won an Oscar for Coming Home
- Father of Angelina Jolie
- Voight's father, Elmer Voytka, was a professional golfer
- Turned down the role of "Matt Hooper" in Jaws
- Breakthrough film: Midnight Cowboy
- Brother Barry Voight was a Geology professor at Penn State University
Brief Biography
Jon Voight was born in Yonkers, New York and studied art at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. He got his first major role in the 1969 John Schlesinger film, Midnoght Cowboy. He soon became one of the more acclaimed leading actors of the 1970s. He received an Oscar nearly ten years after his portrayal as Joe Buck, in the 1978 film, Coming Home. In recent years Voight has been casted in more of a character actor role in such films as: Paul Sarone in Anaconda and Howard Cosell in Ali.
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