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Jon Voight
Jonathan Paul Voight is an American actor. Throughout his career, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and four Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2019, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Films in which Voight has appeared have grossed more than $5.2 billion worldwide.
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Born 29 December 1938 · Q167520
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 3 entries
Deadline.com: Jon Voight, Hollywood Studios And Unions Pen Letter To Donald Trump Calling For Expanded Incentives — But They Do Not Mention Tariffs
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Deadline.com: Jon Voight’s “Make Hollywood Great Again” Team Praise “Helpful” Trump, Defend Their Own Runaway Productions, & Diss Gavin Newsom’s $7.5B Incentive Idea
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President-elect Donald Trump announced that Voight would serve in a new role as a Special Ambassador to Hollywood, sharing the role with fellow actors Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone
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2024· 3 entries
Voight was asked if he turned down the part of Quint in Jaws; Voight said that the offer of a part in Jaws is "a myth" and that Spielberg had actually offered him a part in a different, less successful film, a role that
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie Join Forces for a Non-Woke Production Studio” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie created a "Non-Woke" production studio” Satire Origin.
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2022· 3 entries
Voight was cast in the science fiction epic Megalopolis, directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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Following a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Voight posted a video in support of gun control, arguing that "proper qualifications" and "testing" should be necessary for gun ownership
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Participated in the documentary film Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy with Bob Balaban, Brian De Palma and Brenda Vaccaro
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2019· 3 entries
Voight was appointed to a six-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC
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Was awarded with the National Medal of Arts
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Was awarded the National Medal of Arts
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2018· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Jon Voight once said "I pray all Americans who have seen and felt the meltdown of America with the Obama years, to please fight for Donald Trump"” True.
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2016· 1 entry
“God answered all our prayers”
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2014· 1 entry
As well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
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2013· 1 entry
Voight made his much-acclaimed appearance on crime drama Ray Donovan as Mickey Donovan, the main character's conniving father
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2009· 1 entry
Voight played Jonas Hodges, the American antagonist, in the seventh season of the hit Fox drama 24, a role that many argue is based on real life figures Alfried Krupp, Johann Rall and Erik Prince
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2008· 1 entry
Appeared as Creighton Kinkaid in the Christmas film Four Christmases
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2007· 2 entries
Played United States Secretary of Defense John Keller in the summer blockbuster Transformers, reuniting him with Holes star Shia LaBeouf
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Voight reprised his role as Patrick Gates in National Treasure: Book of Secrets
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2006· 1 entry
Was Kentucky Wildcats head coach Adolph Rupp in the Disney hit Glory Road
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2005· 1 entry
Played the title role in the second part of CBS's miniseries Pope John Paul II
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2004· 1 entry
Voight joined Nicolas Cage, in National Treasure as Patrick Gates, the father of Cage's character
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for Ali (2001).
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Appeared in the television mini-series Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story along with Vanessa Redgrave, Matthew Modine, Richard Attenborough, and Mia Sara
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Voight joined Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria and David Schwimmer in the made-for-television film Uprising, which was based on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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1997· 1 entry
Voight appeared in six films, beginning with Rosewood, based on the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of Rosewood, Florida, by the white residents of nearby Sumner
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1995· 1 entry
Voight played the role of "Nate", a sophisticated fence, in the crime drama film Heat, directed by Michael Mann, and appeared in the television films Convict Cowboy and The Tin Soldier, also directing the latter film
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1992· 1 entry
By The Last of His Tribe and The Rainbow Warrior, the story of the ill-fated Greenpeace ship sunk by French operatives in Auckland Harbour
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1989· 1 entry
Voight starred in and helped write Eternity, which dealt with a television reporter's efforts to uncover corruption
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1985· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Runaway Train (1985).
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Voight teamed up with Russian writer and director Andrei Konchalovsky to play the role of escaped con Oscar "Manny" Manheim in Runaway Train
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1983· 1 entry
Voight was slated to play Robert Harmon in John Cassavetes's Golden Bear-winning Love Streams, having performed the role on stage in 1981
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1979· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Coming Home (1979).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Ray Donovan (1979).
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Voight once again put on boxing gloves, starring as an alcoholic ex-heavyweight in Franco Zeffirelli's The Champ with Faye Dunaway and Ricky Schroder
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1978· 7 entries
Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Coming Home (1978).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Coming Home (1978).
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Awarded New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for Coming Home (1978).
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for Coming Home (1978).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Coming Home (1978).
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Voight portrayed the Vietnam veteran Luke Martin in Hal Ashby's film Coming Home, and was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of a cynical, yet noble paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life
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“Donald Trump is the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.”
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1976· 1 entry
Filed for divorce in 1978, and finalized it in 1980
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for Midnight Cowboy (1970).
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Voight appeared in Mike Nichols's adaptation of Catch-22, and re-teamed with director Paul Williams to star in The Revolutionary, as a left-wing college student struggling with his conscience
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor for Midnight Cowboy (1969).
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Won Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor for Midnight Cowboy (1969).
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1968· 2 entries
Took a role in director Paul Williams's Out of It
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Voight was cast in the groundbreaking Midnight Cowboy (1969), the film that would make his career
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (1967).
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1963· 1 entry
Twelve O'Clock High in 1966, and Cimarron Strip in 1968
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1962· 1 entry
Voight married actress Lauri Peters, whom he met when they both appeared in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music
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1956· 1 entry
Enrolled at Catholic University of America in Washington, D
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1938· 2 entries
In Yonkers, New York, to Barbara (née Kamp) and Elmer Voight (né Voytka), a professional golfer
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Born 1938-12-29.
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