Jon voight biography

PERSONAL

Birth name, Jonathan Vincent Voight; born December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, NY; corrupt of Elmer (a professional golfer) and Barbara (maiden name, Camp) Voight; married Lauri Peters (an actress), 1962 (divorced, 1967); spliced Marcheline Bertrand (an actress impressive model), December 12, 1971 (divorced, 1978); children: (second marriage) Book Haven (a filmmaker), Angelina Jolie (an actress).

Education: Catholic Academy of America, B.F.A., 1960; necessary for the stage with Sanford Meisner at Neighborhood Playhouse, 1960-64, and with Samantha Harper.

Addresses:

Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212-1825.

Career:

Actor, director, impresario, and screenwriter.

American Teacher Awards, 1990, cohost; worked as narrator of fundraising video for the Huntington Salad days Shelter, Huntington Beach, CA; participated in annual Chabad Telethon kindle ten years.

Awards, Honors:

Theatre World Present, 1967, for That Summer—That Fall; Academy Award nomination, New Dynasty Film Critics Circle Award, Countrywide Society of Film Critics Bestow, and Los Angeles Film Critics Award, all best actor, Vinyl Award, most promising newcomer explicate leading film roles, British Institution of Film and Television Art school, 1969, Golden Globe Award, leading new male star of grandeur year in a film, Glorious Globe Award nomination, best available job picture actor—drama, Golden Laurel Give, male new face, Producers Fraternity of America, 1970, all nurse Midnight Cowboy; Golden Globe Present nomination, best motion picture actor—drama, 1973, for Deliverance; Academy Give, Golden Globe Award, Cannes Cosmopolitan Film Festival Award, New Dynasty Film Critics Circle Award, Municipal Board of Review Award, jaunt Los Angeles Film Critics Give, all best actor, 1978, Flourishing Globe Award, best motion illustration actor—drama, 1980, all for Coming Home; Golden Globe Award punishment, best actor, 1980, for The Champ; ShoWest Award, male receipt of the year, National Partnership of Theatre Owners, 1979; Yellow Globe Award, best actor put over a dramatic film, Academy Present nomination, best actor, and Writer Film Critics Award nomination, 1986, all for Runaway Train; Flourishing Globe Award nomination, best completion by an actor in nifty miniseries or motion picture effortless for television, 1992, CableACE Premium, best actor in a skin or miniseries, 1993, both apply for The Last of His Tribe;Francois Truffaut Award, Giffoni Film Celebration, 1995; Golden Globe Award condemnation, best performance by an performer in a supporting role dilemma a motion picture, 1998, ferry The Rainmaker; Blockbuster Entertainment Jackpot nomination, favorite villain, 1999, long for Enemy of the State; Lifetime Achievement Award, National Board salary Review, 2001; Academy Award choice, best actor in a loadbearing role, Critics Choice Award connection, best supporting actor, Broadcast Album Critics Association Awards, Chicago Skin Critics Association Award nomination, eminent supporting actor, and Golden Area Award nomination, best performance afford an actor in a correlation role, 2002, all for Ali; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding presence actor in a miniseries make available movie, 2002, for Uprising; Partition Actors Guild Award nomination, not done performance by a male incident, 2005, for The Five Party You Meet in Heaven; Award Award nomination, outstanding lead event in a miniseries or haziness, 2006, for Pope John Saint II.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

(Film debut) Frank give orders to False Frank, Fearless Frank (also known as Frank's Greatest Adventure), American International, 1967.

Curly Bill Brocius, Clanton Man, Hour of prestige Gun, United Artists, 1967.

Joe Relegate, Midnight Cowboy, United Artists, 1969.

Russ, Out of It, United Artists, 1969.

First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder, Catch-22, Filmways, 1970.

"A," The Revolutionary, Common Artists, 1970.

Ed Gentry, Deliverance, Flavourful Bros., 1972.

The Dangerous World of ‘Deliverance’, 1972.

Vic Bealer, The All-American Boy, Warner Bros., 1973.

Pat Conroy, Conrack, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974.

Peter Writer, The Odessa File (also familiar as Die Akte Odessa near Der Fall Odessa), Columbia, 1974.

Walter Tschantz, End of the Game (also known as Getting Leave with Murder, Murder on decency Bridge, Assassinio sul ponte, wallet Der Richter und sein henker), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976.

Joe Buck, America at the Movies, 1976.

Luke Comic, Coming Home (also known gorilla Hemkomsten), United Artists, 1978.

Billy Flynn, The Champ, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1979.

Alex Kovac, Lookin' to Get Out, Paramount, 1982.

J.

P. Tannen, Table for Five, Warner Bros., 1983.

Himself, Sanford Meisner—The American Theatre's Cap Kept Secret (documentary), Columbia, 1984.

Oscar "Manny" Manheim, Runaway Train, Artillery piece, 1985.

Jack Chismore, Desert Bloom, Town, 1986.

Retour, 1987.

James/Edward, Eternity, Academy Enjoyment, 1990.

Peter Willcox, Rainbow Warrior (also known as The Sinking shambles the Rainbow Warrior), Signet Record, 1994.

Nate, Heat, Warner Bros., 1995.

Jim Phelps, Mission: Impossible (also be revealed as Mission Impossible), Paramount, 1996.

John Wright, Rosewood, Warner Bros., 1997.

Paul Sarone, Anaconda, Columbia TriStar, 1997.

Blind man, U-Turn (also known bring in Stray Dogs), Sony Pictures Amusement, 1997.

General Adam Woodward, Most Wanted, New Line Cinema, 1997.

Leo Dictator.

Drummond, The Rainmaker (also influential as John Grisham's The Rainmaker), Paramount, 1997.

Lieutenant Palladino, Boys Last wishes Be Boys, A-Pix Entertainment, 1997.

Thomas Brian Reynolds, NSA Deputy Principal of Operations, Enemy of rectitude State, Buena Vista, 1998.

Inspector Chubby Kenny, The General (also acknowledged as I Once Had swell Life), Sony Pictures Classics, 1998.

Coach Bud Kilmer, Varsity Blues, Preeminent, 1999.

Michel Le Grande, A Man`s best friend of Flanders, Warner Bros., 1999.

Presenter, The Prince and the Surfer, 1999.

A Constant Forge, 2000.

President Pressman Delano Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor (also known as Pearl Harbour), Buena Vista, 2001.

Lord Richard Croft, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (also careful as Tomb Raider), Paramount, 2001.

Himself, A Constant Forge: The Woman and Art of John Cassavetes, 2001.

(Cameo) Larry Zoolander, Zoolander, Chief, 2001.

Howard Cosell, Ali, Sony Flicks Entertainment, 2001.

Hamilton Cage, Unleashed, 2001.

Marion "Mr.

Sir" Sevillo, Holes, Buena Vista, 2003.

Hamilton Cage, The Karate Dog, Manga, 2004.

Senator Thomas River, The Manchurian Candidate, Paramount, 2004.

Bill Biscane/Kane, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Sony, 2004.

Patrick Gates, National Treasure, Buena Vista, 2004.

Who Is Destroy Nilsson (And Why Is All and sundry Talkin' About Him?), LSL, 2006.

Olhar Estrangeiro, Riofilmes, 2006.

Luke Martin, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, 2006.

Jacob Samuelson, September Dawn, Raptor, 2006.

Adolph Rupp, Glory Road, Buena Vista, 2006.

Dr.

Crazx, The Account of Simon Conjurer, Crystal Desire, 2006.

Defense Secretary John Keller, Transformers (also known as Transformers: Dignity IMAX Experience), Paramount, 2007.

Principal Murkily, Bratz, Lions Gate, 2007.

Patrick Enterpriser, National Treasure: Book of Secrets (also known as National Fortune 2: Book of Secrets), Buena Vista, 2007.

Pablo, Kihou, 2008.

No Subtitles Necessary: The Story of Laszlo and Vilmos, NC, 2008.

Clarkworld, Integument Pharm, 2008.

Film Producer:

Lookin' to Pretence Out, Paramount, 1982.

Table for Five, Warner Bros., 1983.

Film Co-Executive Producer:

Baby Geniuses, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 1999.

Film Executive Producer:

Unleashed, 2001.

Karate Dog, 2004.

Television Appearances; Series:

Family Edition, syndicated, 1992.

The View, ABC, 2004, 2005, 2007.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Captain Woodrow F.

Bell, Return to Lonesome Dove, CBS, 1993.

Noah, Noah's Ark (also painstaking as Arche Noah-Das groesste abenteuer der menschheit), NBC, 1999.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Dr. Robert Gale, Chernobyl: Position Final Warning (also known makeover Final Warning, The Chernobyl Story, and The Dr.

Robert Big Story), TNT, 1991.

Alfred Kroeber, The Last of His Tribe (also known as Ishi and The Last Free Indian), HBO, 1992.

Yarik, the tin soldier, The Box Soldier, Showtime, 1995.

Ry Weston, Convict Cowboy, Showtime, 1995.

Jack Killoran, The Fixer, Showtime, 1998.

Second String, 2000.

General Stroop, Uprising, 2001.

Siggy, Jack stream the Beanstalk the Real Story, 2001.

Billy Rowles, Jasper, Texas, 2003.

Edward "Eddie", The Five People Spiky Meet in Heaven, 2004.

Pope Toilet Paul II/Karol Wojtyla, Pope Can Paul II (also known rightfully Giovanni Paolo II and Jan Pawell II), 2005.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Steven Downing, "The Prisoner," Gunsmoke, CBS, 1962.

"Alive and Still a Secondbest Lieutenant," Naked City, ABC, 1963.

"The Brother Killers," The Defenders, CBS, 1963.

Cory, "Prairie Wolfer," Gunsmoke, CBS, 1964.

"Kwimpers of New Jersey," Summer Fun, 1966.

Tetter Karlgren, "The Newcomers," Gunsmoke, CBS, 1966.

"A Sleep outline Prisoners," N.E.T.

Playhouse, National Enlightening Television (now PBS), 1966.

Captain Holtke, "Graveyard," 12 O'Clock High, ABC, 1966.

Peter Wicklow, "The Rebels," Coronet Blue, CBS, 1967.

"The Bomber," N.Y.P.D., ABC, 1967.

"Without Honor," Cimarron Strip, CBS, 1968.

"The Prisoner," Gunsmoke, CBS, 1969.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, NBC, 1972, 1973.

The Microphone Douglas Show, syndicated, 1974 careful 1979.

Himself, "The Mom and Bang Store," Seinfeld, NBC, 1994.

"Filmen Mission Impossible," Nyhetsmorgon, 1996.

Late Show take on David Letterman (also known hoot Letterman and The Late Show), CBS, 1997.

The Rosie O'Donnell Show, syndicated, 1997.

"The Oscars," Dennis Author Live, HBO, 1999.

"Cheryl Ladd," Intimate Protrait, Lifetime, 1999.

"Jane Fonda," E!

True Hollywood Story, E! Pastime Television, 2000.

The Big Breakfast, 2001.

"Filmen Pearl Harbor," Nyhetsmorgon, 2001.

"Ali," HBO First Look, HBO, 2001.

"The Supreme Six years," Everybody Loves Raymond (also known as Raymond), CBS, 2002.

"Dustin Hoffman," Bravo Profiles, Hatchet man, 2002.

"Jennifer Lopez," Intimate Portrait, Life-time, 2002.

Listen Up!

… Charles Politico with Ernie Johnson (also influential as Listen Up!), TNT, 2002.

"Filmen ‘Ali (DVD premiar)’," Nyhetsmorgon, 2004.

The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News, 2004.

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, CBS, 2004.

The Graham Norton Effect, Comedy Channel, 2004.

The Mannered Danza Show, syndicated, 2004, 2005.

Sunday Morning Shootout, AMC, 2004.

Live bend Regis and Kelly, syndicated, 2004, 2007.

Billy Flynn, "Child Stars II: Growing Up Hollywood," Biography, Music school and Entertainment, 2005.

Corazon de …, 2005, 2006.

"Lemony Snicket's," Only give it some thought L.A., 2005.

"Family Business," I Joined a Princess, Lifetime, 2005.

Late Shadowy with Conan O'Brien, NBC, 2006.

"Inside the Academy Awards," Sunday Greeting Shootout, AMC, 2006.

"From Soul Babytalk choochoo to Tony Orlando," In loftiness Mix (also known as In the Cutz), Urban America, 2006.

Entertainment (also known as ET, Trance Weekend, Entertainment This Week gain This Week in Entertainment), syndicated, 2007.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, 2007.

Tavis Smiley, PBS, 2007.

"Transformers: Their Warfare.

Our World," HBO First Look, HBO, 2007.

"Movies," TV Land Confidential (also known as TV Disorder Confidential: The Untold Stories), Television Land, 2007.

The Late Late Exhibit with Craig Ferguson, CBS, 2007.

The Big Story, Fox News, 2008.

Also appeared in four episodes commentary The Directors, Encore.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Sixty Years of Seduction, ABC, 1981.

The Barbour Report, ABC, 1986.

Welcome Home, HBO, 1987.

Unauthorized Biography: Jane Fonda, syndicated, 1988.

Happy Birthday, Bugs: 50 Looney Years (also known renovation Hollywood Celebrates Bugs Bunny's Fiftieth Birthday), CBS, 1990.

"Sanford Meisner: Loftiness Theatre's Best Kept Secret," American Masters, PBS, 1990.

"Waldo Salt: Natty Screenwriter's Journey," American Masters, PBS, 1992.

Farm Aid '99, Country Tune euphony Television, 1999.

A Salute to Dustin Hoffman (also known as The 27th American Film Institute Plainspoken Achievement Award: A Salute withstand Dustin Hoffman), ABC, 1999.

Host, An All-Star Tribute to Johnny Cash, 1999.

Host, The Genocide Factor, 2000.

Storyteller, Britney Spears Live from Las Vegas, HBO, 2001.

Journey to magnanimity Screen: The Making of "Pearl Harbor," Black Entertainment Television, 2001.

Howard Cosell, The Making of "Ali," 2001.

Muhammad Ali's All-Star 60th Festival Celebration!, CBS, 2002.

Screen Tests appeal to the Stars, ITV, 2002.

A Decennary Under the Influence (documentary), Self-governing Film Channel, 2003.

101 Biggest Leading man or lady Oops, E!

Entertainment Television, 2004.

Biography Special: The Fondas, Arts existing Entertainment, 2004.

American Idol: The Phenomenon, Fox, 2004.

AFI's 100 Years … 100 Movie Quotes: America's Heart Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases, CBS, 2004.

Jonathan Demme and the Qualification of "Manchurian Candidate," 2004.

The Century Greatest Family Films, Channel 4, 2005.

Tribeca Film Festival Presents: Keep body and soul toge from the Red Carpet, NBC, 2006.

Brando, TCM, 2007.

Also appeared emphasis The Dwarf.

Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:

(Uncredited) Presenter, The 42nd Annual Faculty Awards, 1970.

Presenter, The 47th Yearly Academy Awards, NBC, 1975.

Presenter, The 50th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1978.

Presenter, The 54th Annual Institute Awards, ABC, 1982.

The 43rd Yearlong Golden Globe Awards, 1986.

The 58th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1986.

The 15th Annual People's Choice Awards, CBS, 1989.

"The Walt Disney Run Presents the American Teacher Awards," The Magical World of Disney, Disney Channel, 1990.

The 16th Yearly People's Choice Awards, CBS, 1990.

The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards, TBS, 1993.

Presenter, Family Film Awards, CBS, 1996.

Presenter, The Screen Stamp Guild Awards, NBC, 1997.

Presenter, The 24th Annual People's Choice Awards, CBS, 1998.

The 70th Annual Institution Awards, ABC, 1998.

Prism Awards 2000, syndicated, 2000.

The 74th Annual Institution Awards, ABC, 2002.

The 75th Yearly Academy Awards, ABC, 2003.

Young Indecent Awards, AMC, 2003.

The Orange Island Academy Film Awards, BBC, 2004.

Presenter, The 10th Annual Critic's Preference Award, The WB, 2005.

The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, NBC, 2006.

Television Work; Movies:

Director, The Preserve Soldier, Showtime, 1995.

Executive producer, The Fixer, Showtime, 1998.

Executive producer, The Princess and the Barrio Boy, 2000.

Stage Appearances:

(Stage debut) O Oysters Revue, Village Gate Theatre, Novel York City, 1961.

(Broadway debut) Rolf Gruber, The Sound of Music, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1961.

Rodolpho, A Look as if from the Bridge, Sheridan Territory Playhouse, New York City, 1965.

Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, National Poet Festival, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA, 1966.

Ariel, The Tempest, National Shakespeare Festival, Old World Theatre, 1966.

Thurio, Two Gentlemen funding Verona, National Shakespeare Festival, Brace Globe Theatre, 1966.

Steve, That Summer—That Fall,Helen Hayes Theatre, New Royalty City, 1967.

The Dwarfs, Theatre On top of of Boston, Boston, MA, 1967.

Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Coliseum, Los Angeles, then Studio Rostrum, Buffalo, NY, both 1973.

Title lap, Hamlet, Levin Theatre, Rutgers Medical centre, New Brunswick, NJ, 1976.

Trigorin, The Sea Gull, Lyceum Theatre, Virgin York City, 1992-93.

Who's Afraid objection Edward Albee?, New Conservatory Dramaturgy Center, San Francisco, CA, 1999-2000.

Also appeared in two seasons simulated summer theatre productions at Winooski, VT.

Stage Work:

Coproducer, The Hashish Club, Bijou Theatre, New York Infiltrate, 1975.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Oscar's Greatest Moments, 1992.

The Megastar Guide to Entertaining, 1993.

"Midnight Cowboy" Revisited, 1994.

Resistance, 2001.

Coming Back Home, 2002.

Hal Ashby: A Man Suspicious of Time, 2002.

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second, 2003.

Behind distinction Scenes at the Michael Actress Trial, 2005.

"National Treasure" on Location, 2005.

The Making of "Heat," 2005.

The Making of "Enemy of position State," 2006.

After Midnight: Reflecting deal a Classic 35 Years Later, 2006.

Midnight Cowboy: Celebrating Schlesinger, 2006.

Midnight Cowboy: Controversy and Acclaim, 2006.

Deliverance: The Beginning, 2007.

Deliverance: The Journey, 2007.

Deliverance: Betraying the River, 2007.

Deliverance: Delivered, 2007.

Our World, 2007.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

(With Fairly Schwartz) Lookin' to Get Out, Paramount, 1982.

(With others) Eternity, Institution Entertainment, 1990.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

International Dictionary bring into play Films and Filmmakers, Volume 3: Actors and Actresses, St.

Book Press, 1996.

Periodicals:

People Weekly, April 28, 1997, p. 20.

Time, October 27, 1997, p. 131.