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Jon Voight
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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). 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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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). 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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Gunsmoke
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
24
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
E! True Hollywood Story
Golden Globe Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Defenders
Honest Trailers
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Cimarron Strip
Wogan
Seinfeld
The Oscars
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Tropic Thunder
Catch-22
Transformers
Bratz
Zoolander
Ray Donovan: The Movie
Ray Donovan
The Manchurian Candidate
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Four Christmases
Megalopolis
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
National Treasure
Pearl Harbor
Mercy
Heat
Holes
Same Kind of Different as Me
The Rainmaker
Glory Road
Varsity Blues
Getaway
Anaconda
The Painter
Jasper, Texas
The Tin Soldier
High Ground
Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas
Strangers
Mission: Impossible
Deliverance
Noah's Ark
Pope John Paul II
Eternity
Return to Lonesome Dove
Midnight Cowboy
Man with No Past
Shadow Land
Production Credits
The Tin Soldier
Eternity
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