| Jon Voight  AKA Jonathan Voight
Born: 29-Dec-1938
Birthplace: Yonkers, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Midnight Cowboy Jon Voight was a big movie star in the late 1960s and 1970s. Early in his career, he did guest shots on 1960s TV shows like Naked City, Gunsmoke, and Twelve O'Clock High. He played the 17-going-on-18-year-old Nazi in Broadway's Sound of Music, and married and divorced the actress who played Leisl. With his pretty boy baby face, Voight was perfect as the hick-turned-gigolo in the X-rated Midnight Cowboy (1969), for which he was nominated for an Oscar. He also starred in Catch 22 (1970), Deliverance (1972), The Odessa File (1978), and The Champ (1979). His most famous work is Coming Home, the 1978 Vietnam aftermath movie which won him his Oscar. Voight's best flick might be Conrack, Pat Conroy's true tale of teaching black children in South Carolina amid stark poverty and indifference.
Now mostly a charactor actor, Voight's celebrity has been eclipsed by that of his daughter, Angelina Jolie. In 2002, as Jolie's marriage to Billy Bob Thornton was crumbling, Voight said publicly that he and Jolie were not on speaking terms, due to her "serious emotional problems."
Voight's brother James wrote the pop hits "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning", under the pen name Chip Taylor. Father: Elmer Voight (professional golfer)
Mother: Barbara Voight (housewife)
Brother: James Wesley Voight ("Chip Taylor", composer, b. circa 1973)
Brother: Barry Voight (volcanologist, Penn State University)
Wife: Lauri Peters (actress, m. 1962, div. 1967)
Wife: Marcheline Bertrand (m. 12-Dec-1971, div. 1978, d. 2007, one son, one daughter)
Son: James Haven (actor, b. 11-May-1973)
Daughter: Angelina Jolie (actor, b. 4-Jun-1975)
Girlfriend: Stacey Pickren (actor, together 1976-1980s)
Girlfriend: Eileen Davidson (actor, together late 1980s)
High School: Archbishop Stepinac High School, White Plains, NY (1956)
University: BFA, Catholic University of America (1960)
Oscar for Best Actor 1979 for Coming Home
Golden Globe 1970 Most Promising Newcomer, Male for Midnight Cowboy
Golden Globe 1979 for Coming Home
Golden Globe 1986 for Runaway Train
Czech Ancestry Paternal
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Four Christmases (26-Nov-2008)
24: Redemption (23-Nov-2008)
An American Carol (3-Oct-2008)
Pride and Glory (9-Sep-2008)
Tropic Thunder (13-Aug-2008) Himself
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (13-Dec-2007)
Bratz: The Movie (3-Aug-2007)
Transformers (21-Jun-2007)
Glory Road (13-Jan-2006)
September Dawn (2006)
Pope John Paul II (17-Nov-2005)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (5-Dec-2004)
National Treasure (8-Nov-2004)
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (27-Aug-2004)
The Manchurian Candidate (22-Jul-2004)
The Karate Dog (5-May-2004)
Holes (11-Apr-2003)
Jasper, Texas (11-Apr-2003)
A Decade Under the Influence (19-Jan-2003) Himself
Second String (18-Dec-2002)
Ali (11-Dec-2001)
Britney Spears Live from Las Vegas (18-Nov-2001)
Uprising (04-Nov-2001)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (1-Oct-2001)
Zoolander (28-Sep-2001)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (11-Jun-2001)
Pearl Harbor (21-May-2001)
A Dog of Flanders (7-Aug-1999)
Noah's Ark (2-May-1999)
Varsity Blues (15-Jan-1999)
Enemy of the State (16-Nov-1998)
The General (29-May-1998)
The Fixer (8-Mar-1998)
The Rainmaker (21-Nov-1997)
Most Wanted (10-Oct-1997)
U Turn (27-Aug-1997)
Anaconda (11-Apr-1997)
Rosewood (21-Feb-1997)
Boys Will Be Boys (1997)
Mission Impossible (22-May-1996)
Heat (15-Dec-1995)
Return to Lonesome Dove (14-Nov-1993)
Desert Bloom (22-Jan-1986)
Runaway Train (17-Jan-1986)
Table for Five (1983)
Lookin' to Get Out (8-Oct-1982)
The Champ (4-Apr-1979)
Coming Home (15-Feb-1978)
End of the Game (1975)
The Odessa File (18-Oct-1974)
Conrack (28-Aug-1974)
Deliverance (30-Jul-1972)
Catch 22 (24-Jun-1970)
Midnight Cowboy (25-May-1969)
Hour of the Gun (01-Nov-1967)
Fearless Frank (1967)
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