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.

Voight was the host of a Republican fundraiser in June 2009. He was critical of the Obama administration, voicing his "embarrassment" of the U.S. leader, and said that Obama would be the "downfall" of the U.S. He went on to claim that Obama is a "false prophet", and the country is becoming "a weak nation."Huffington Post: ...GOP Fundraiser...

Jon Voight was born in Yonkers, New York and studied art at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. His first major role was in the 1969 John Schlesinger film, Midnight Cowboy. He soon became one of the 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 played character roles in such films as: Paul Sarone in Anaconda and Howard Cosell in Ali.

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• December 29, 1938: Born

• 1969: Midnight Cowboy

• 1970: Catch-22

• 1972: Deliverance

• 1978: Coming Home

• 1979: The Champ

• 1985: Runaway Train

• 1992: The Rainbow Warrior

• 1995: Heat

• 1996: Mission: Impossible

• 1997: Anaconda

• 1998: Enemy of the State

• 2001: Pearl Harbor

• 2001: Lara Croft: Tom Raider

• 2001: Zoolander

• 2001: Ali

• 2004: National Treasure

• 2005: Pope John Paul II

• 2007: Transformers

• 2007: National Treasure: Book of Secrets