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Guide Note: Jon Voight is an Academy Award winning American actor who shot to fame after his performance in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy. He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie.
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Jon Voight began his extraordinary career on the stage, performing in high school productions, and in 1961, participating in The Sound of Music, on Broadway. During the late 1960s, he guest starred on some television shows such as, Coronet Blue and Gunsmoke. Voight made his film debut in 1967's HOUR OF THE GUN, starring James Garner and Jason Robards. His part was small but memorable at the same time. Voight's big brake came in 1969 when he was chosen to star in a film entitled, MIDNIGHT COWBOY. He got the starring role in this dramatic and controversial movie, and was honored with his first Academy Award nomination.
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With his boyish features and baby-blue eyes, Jon Voight could easily have taken the James Dean route to eternal stardom. Two major roles, in Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance - and then bang, gone, but remembered forever as both a pin-up and a consummate, risk-taking artiste, personifying his generation. He could ... have done a De Niro - sought out roles that suited him and replayed himself over and over, his very intensity keeping audiences interested. Instead, he took the hardest route of all. He decided, after his first phenomenal success, that he should only take work of depth and meaning. Sounds crazy, doesn't it, considering Hollywood's perennial dearth of both.
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Jon Voight's feature film credits include his Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning performance in "Coming Home," and "Runaway Train" and "Midnight Cowboy," both of which ... earned him Golden Globe Awards. His additional film credits include "Ali," "Midnight Cowboy," "National Treasure," "Pearl Harbor," "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," "Mission Impossible," "Varsity Blues," "Enemy of the State," "Anaconda," "The General," "The Odessa File," "Deliverance," "The Rainmaker" and "The Champ." His television credits include the movies "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" and "Uprising," and the mini-series "Jack and The Beanstalk: The Real Story" and "Return to Lonesome Dove," both on CBS. He made his directorial debut on the television movie "The Tin Soldier."
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Born on Dec. 29, 1938, in Yonkers, N.Y., Jon Voight began acting on the stage before appearing in small television and film roles. He created a splash in 1969 with his portrayal of vulnerable bumpkin Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy, one of the seminal films of the 1960s.
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Jonathan Vincent Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American film actor. Voight, an Oscar-winner and four-time nominee, has had a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. He came to prominence at the end of the sixties, with a riveting performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. Throughout the following decades, Voight built his reputation with an array of challenging roles and has appeared in such landmark films as 1972's Deliverance, and 1978's Coming Home, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor. Voight's impersonation of the late sportscaster/journalist Howard Cosell, in 2001's biopic Ali, earned Voight critical raves and his fourth Oscar nomination. He is ... the estranged[1] father of actress Angelina Jolie.
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