Jon Voight Wikipedia. Jonathan Vincent Voight born December 2. American actor. He is the winner of one Academy Award, having been nominated for four. Watch Lay The Favorite HD 1080P'>Watch Lay The Favorite HD 1080P. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for eleven. He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven. Voight came to prominence in the late 1. Joe Buck, a would be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy 1. During the 1. 97. Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance 1. Vietnam veteran in Coming Home 1. Academy Award for Best Leading Actor and a penniless ex boxing champion in the remake of The Champ 1. Although his output slowed during the 1. Get the latest science news and technology news, read tech reviews and more at ABC News. Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train 1. During the 1. 99. 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Early lifeeditVoight was born on December 2. Yonkers, New York,1 the son of Barbara ne Kamp 1. Elmer Voight n Voytka 1. He has two brothers, Barry Voight born 1. Pennsylvania State University,3 and Wesley Voight born March 2. Chip Taylor, a singer songwriter who wrote Wild Thing and Angel of the Morning. Voights paternal grandfather and his paternal grandmothers parents were Slovak immigrants,4 while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmothers parents were German immigrants. Voight was raised as a Catholic5 and attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York, where he first took an interest in acting, playing the comedic role of Count Pepi Le Loup in the schools annual musical, The Song of Norway. Following his graduation in 1. The Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., where he majored in art and graduated with a B. A. in 1. 96. 0. After graduation, Voight moved to New York City, where he pursued an acting career. Personal lifeeditIn 1. Voight married actress Lauri Peters, who he met when they both appeared in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music. They divorced in 1. He married actress Marcheline Bertrand in 1. They separated in 1. Their children, James Haven born May 1. Angelina Jolie born June 4, 1. Voight was estranged from his children for several years, but they reconciled in 2. Bertrands death. 6In the early 1. Voight found work in television, appearing in several episodes of Gunsmoke, between 1. Naked City, and The Defenders, both in 1. Twelve OClock High, in 1. His theatre career took off in January 1. Rodolfo in Arthur Millers A View from the Bridge in an Off Broadway revival. Voights film debut did not come until 1. Phillip Kaufmans crimefighter spoof, Fearless Frank. Voight also took a small role in 1. Hour of the Gun, directed by veteran helmer. John Sturges. In 1. Voight took a role in director Paul Williamss Out of It. In 1. 96. 9, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking Midnight Cowboy, a film that would make his career. Voight played Joe Buck, a nave male hustler from Texas, adrift in New York City. He comes under the tutelage of Dustin Hoffmans Ratso Rizzo, a tubercular petty thief and con artist. The film explored late 1. New York and the development of an unlikely, but poignant friendship between the two main characters. Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the film struck a chord with critics and audiences. Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the only X rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Both Voight and co star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in True Grit. In 1. 97. 0, Voight appeared in Mike Nichols adaptation of Catch 2. Paul Williams to star in The Revolutionary, as a left wing college student struggling with his conscience. Voight next appeared in 1. Deliverance. Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America. The film and the performances of Voight and co star Burt Reynolds received great critical acclaim and were popular with audiences. He also appeared at the Studio Arena Theater, in Buffalo, NY in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire from 1. Stanley Kowalski. Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1. The All American Boy, then appeared in the 1. Conrack, directed by Martin Ritt. Based on Pat Conroys autobiographical novel The Water Is Wide, Voight portrayed the title character, an idealistic young schoolteacher sent to teach underprivileged black children on a remote South Carolina island. The same year he appeared in The Odessa File, based on Frederick Forsyths thriller, as Peter Miller, a young German journalist who discovers a conspiracy to protect former Nazis still operating within Germany. This film first teamed him with the actor director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named and based on the Butcher of Riga Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1. End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright Friedrich Drrenmatt. Voight was Steven Spielbergs first choice for the role of Matt Hooper in the 1. Jaws, but he turned down the role, which was ultimately played by Richard Dreyfuss. In 1. Voight portrayed the paraplegic Vietnam veteran Luke Martin in Hal Ashbys film Coming Home, and was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real life Vietnam veteran turned antiwar activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fondas character falls in love. The film included a much talked about love scene between the two. Jane Fonda won her second Best Actress award for her role, and Voight won for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In 1. Voight once again put on boxing gloves, starring in 1. Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper vehicle, The Champ, with Voight playing the part of an alcoholic ex heavyweight and a young Ricky Schroder playing the role of his adoring son. The film was an international success, but less popular with American audiences. Watch La La Land Online Metacritic. He next reteamed with director Ashby in 1. Lookin to Get Out, in which he played Alex Kovac, a con man who has run into debt with New York mobsters and hopes to win enough in Las Vegas to pay them off. Voight both co wrote the script and also co produced. He also produced and acted in 1. Table for Five, in which he played a widower bringing up his children by himself. Voight slated to play Robert Harmon in John Cassavetes Golden Bear winning Love Streams, having performed the role on stage in 1. However, a few weeks before shooting began, Voight announced that he also wanted to direct the picture and was consequently dropped. In 1. Voight teamed up with Russian writer and director Andrei Konchalovsky to play the role of escaped con Manny Manheim in Runaway Train. The script was based on a story by Akira Kurosawa, and paired Voight with Eric Roberts as a fellow escapee. Voight received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globes award for Best Actor. Roberts was also honored for his performance, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Voight followed up this and other performances with a role in the 1.