Jon Voight

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-12-29 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Yonkers, New York, USA

Jon Voight

Biography

Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) 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 ...

Acting

1995

Heat

as Nate

1996

Mission: Impossible

as Jim Phelps

2004

National Treasure

as Patrick Gates

1997

U Turn

as Blind Man

2001

Pearl Harbor

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

1969

Midnight Cowboy

as Joe Buck

2007

Transformers

as Defense Secretary John Keller

2001

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

as Lord Richard Croft

1972

Deliverance

as Ed Gentry

1974

Conrack

as Pat Conroy

2001

Uprising

as SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop

1974

The Odessa File

as Peter Miller

1979

The Champ

as Billy

2004

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2

as Bill Biscane / Kane

1978

Coming Home

as Luke Martin

2001

Ali

as Howard Cosell

1997

The Rainmaker

as Leo F. Drummond

1985

Runaway Train

as Oscar 'Manny' Manheim

2003

Holes

as Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir"

2008

Four Christmases

as Creighton

1997

Rosewood

as John Wright

1998

1997

Anaconda

as Paul Serone

2001

Zoolander

as Larry Zoolander

1997

Most Wanted

as Gen. Adam Woodward, alias Lt. Col. Grant Casey

2008

Pride and Glory

as Francis Tierney, Sr.

2006

Glory Road

as Adolph Rupp

2004

The Manchurian Candidate

as Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)

2006

The Karate Dog

as Hamilton Cage

1999

Varsity Blues

as Coach Bud Kilmer

2007

September Dawn

as Jacob Samuelson

2023

Mercy

as Patrick Quinn

2012

Pablo

as Self

1998

The General

as Inspector Ned Kenny

1982

Lookin' to Get Out

as Alex Kovac

2012

Casting By

as Self

1978

End of the Game

as Walter Tschanz

2009

Clarkworld

as Self

1999

2012

Beyond

as Jon Koski

1969

Fearless Frank

as Fearless Frank

1986

Desert Bloom

as Jack Chismore

1999

2013

Getaway

as The Voice

1969

Out of It

as Russ

1991

1995

Convict Cowboy

as Ry Weston

1995

1990

Eternity

as Edward / James

2013

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1983

Table for Five

as J.P. Tannen

1998

The Fixer

as Jack Killoran

1973

2024

The Painter

as Byrne

1997

The Rainbow Warrior

as Peter Willcox

2010

Stardust

as Self (uncredited)

2008

An American Carol

as President George Washington

2007

Bratz

as Principal Dimly

2015

Woodlawn

as Paul Bryant

1970

Catch-22

as 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder

1967

Hour of the Gun

as Curly Bill Brocius

2012

2024

Shadow Land

as Robert Wainwright

2007

Brando

as Self

2002

Second String

as Coach Chuck Dichter

2010

2006

Deadly Lessons

as Dr. Crazx

1992

The Last of His Tribe

as Alfred Kroeber

2015

Court of Conscience

as Father Peter

2019

Hal

as Self

2024

Strangers

as Richard

2017

American Wrestler: The Wizard

as Principle Skinner

2006

2008

Tropic Thunder

as Jon Voight

2000

2021

Roe v. Wade

as Justice Burger

2018

Orphan Horse

as Ben Crowley

2024

Reagan

as Viktor Petrovich

2003

Jasper, Texas

as Billy Rowles

2019

2020

Man In The Arena

as Narrator

2013

Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky

as Oscar 'Manny' Manheim (archive footage)

1999

Boys Will Be Boys

as Lt. Palladino

2020

I Am Burt Reynolds

as Self - Interviewee

2022

Ray Donovan: The Movie

as Mickey Donovan

2024

Megalopolis

as Hamilton Crassus III

-

The Honey Wars

as (voice)

2015

A Christmas Eve Miracle

as Jerry the Dog (voice)

2025

2025

High Ground

as Ezra Wilcott

2025

The Last GunFight

as Nathaniel Turner

Production

2014

The Final Song

as Executive Producer

1982

1995

The Tin Soldier

as Director

1999

Baby Geniuses

as Co-Executive Producer

1990

Eternity

as Writer

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