Jon Voight
Birthday: 1938-12-29 | Place of Birth: Yonkers, New York, USAJonathan 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.
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as Ezra Wilcott
as Nathaniel Turner
as Sanborn
as Byrne
as Hamilton Crassus III
as Richard
as Robert Wainwright
as Viktor Petrovich
as Patrick Quinn
as Ellison Betts
as Mickey Donovan
as Justice Burger
as Narrator
as Self - Interviewee
as Self
as Ben Crowley
as Gus
as Earl Hall
as Principle Skinner
as Henry Shaw Sr.
as John
as Jerry the Dog (voice)
as Moriarty
as Paul Bryant
as Moriarty
as Mickey Donovan
