Biography
Prior to his breakthrough role, Voight had earned acclaim as a gifted performer on both stage and screen. But once he came into his own, the actor went on to star in some of the most important works of cinema being made by the New Hollywood of the 1970s. Following a supporting turn as the wheeling-dealing Milo Minderbinder in "Catch-22" (1970), he gave a sensitive portrayal of the intellectual Ed in the seminal "Deliverance" (1972). But it was …
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Career Milestones
2010 | Cast as Clint Thatcher, a Texas oil tycoon, on the short-lived FOX series "Lone Star" | |
2008 | Played Jonas Hodges, the villain, in the seventh season of the Fox drama "24" | |
2007 | Reprised role opposite Nicolas Cage in "National Treasure; Book of Secrets" | |
2007 | Played a US Secretary of State in Michael Bay's live action film, "Transformers" | |
2007 | Co-starred with Nicholas Cage in the Marvel Comics-inspired "Ghost Rider" | |
2005 | Earned an Emmy nomination for playing John Paul during his papacy in the CBS miniseries "Pope John Paul II" | |
2004 | Starred in "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" (ABC) based on the book by Mitch Albom; received a SAG nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries | |
2004 | Co-starred with Nicolas Cage and Harvey Keitel in "National Treasure" | |
2004 | Portrayed Senator Thomas Jordan in the remake of the 1962 thriller "The Manchurian Candidate" | |
2002 | Cast as the coach of the Buffalo Bills in the TNT movie "Second String" | |
2001 | Portrayed Howard Cosell in the biopic "Ali"; directed by Michael Mann; earned a Best Supporting Oscar nomination | |
2001 | Played on screen father of real-life daughter Angelina Jolie in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" | |
2001 | Portrayed US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in "Pearl Harbor" | |
1999 | Appeared as Noah in NBC miniseries "Noah's Ark" | |
1999 | Played "win-at-all-costs" Texas high school football coach in "Varsity Blues" | |
1998 | Portrayed an Irish policeman on the trail of notorious Irish thief Martin Cahill in John Boorman's "The General" | |
1998 | Scored big as a ruthless National Security Agency official in "Enemy of the State" | |
1997 | Garnered praise for his supporting role as a slick lawyer in "John Grisham's 'The Rainmaker'" | |
1997 | Was virtually unrecognizable as a wily blind Native American in Oliver Stone's "U-Turn" | |
1996 | Cast as Jim Phelps in the feature "Mission: Impossible" | |
| Formed Jon Voight Entertainment (JVE) | ||
1995 | Co-starred as a thief in "Heat", directed by Michael Mann | |
1995 | TV directing debut, "The Tin Soldier" on Showtime (also acted); cited at the Berlin Film Festival as Best Children's Film | |
1994 | Guest-starred as himself in an episode of "Seinfield" (NBC) | |
1994 | Filed a $4 million sexual-harassment suit against former business partner Laura Pels; later withdrew the suit | |
1993 | Succeeded Tommy Lee Jones as ex-Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the CBS miniseries sequel "Return to Lonesome Dove" | |
1992 | Returned to the stage after a 16-year absence as Trigorin in the Broadway production, "The Sea Gull" | |
| Lobbied unsuccessfully for the part of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" | ||
1991 | TV-movie debut, played Dr. Robert Gale in "Chernobyl: The Final Warning" on TNT | |
1990 | Wrote and played dual role in direct-to-video release, "Eternity" | |
1986 | Delivered solid performance as an embittered, alcoholic WWII hero reduced to running a gas station in "Desert Bloom" | |
1985 | Garnered a third Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his slightly over-the-top portrayal of a brutal escaped convict in "Runaway Train" | |
1983 | Produced the feature "Table for Five"; also starred | |
1982 | Feature producing and co-writing debut, "Lookin' to Get Out"; directed by Hal Ashby; also acted; daughter Angelina Jolie Voight made her film acting debut as a child | |
1979 | Headlined the Franco Zeffirelli-directed remake of the sentimental "The Champ" | |
1977 | Earned Best Actor Oscar as a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Hal Ashby's "Coming Home"; film reprised "Midnight Cowboy" collaboration of screenwriter Salt and producer Jerry Hellman | |
1975 | Stage co-producing debut, "The Hashish Club" | |
1974 | Gave solid performance as German journalist on the trail of Nazis in the early 60s, single-handedly elevating the otherwise plodding "The Odessa File" | |
1973 | Portrayed author-teacher Pat Conroy in the semi-autobiographical "Conrack" | |
1972 | Co-starred in John Boorman's "Deliverance" | |
1970 | Acted with Jennifer Salt (daughter of "Midnight Cowboy" screenwriter Waldo Salt) and Duvall in Paul Williams' "The Revolutionary" | |
1970 | Cast in the Mike Nichols directed, "Catch-22" | |
1969 | Breakthrough screen role as Joe Buck opposite Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo in John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy"; received Best Actor Academy Award nomination; had auditioned for role and then lost it to Michael Sarrazin; when Universal wouldn't release Sarrazin from his contract, director Schlesinger hired Voight | |
1967 | Returned to Broadway in "That Summer, That Fall" | |
1965 | Acted with Robert Duvall in Off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge"; assistant to the director Ulu Grossbard was Dustin Hoffman | |
1964 | Film debut, "Fearless Frank" (shot in 1964; shown at Cannes in 1967; US release 1969) | |
1961 | Broadway debut, playing Rolf Gruber in "The Sound of Music"; appeared opposite first wife Lauri Peters who played Liesl | |
1961 | Off-Broadway debut, "O Oysters Revue" | |
| Raised in Yonkers, NY | ||
Awards
2007 | Montreal World Film Festival for Special Awards for their exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art |
2006 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor In a Miniseries or Movie in Pope John Paul II |
2005 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries in The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
2002 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie in Uprising |
2001 | Academy Award for Actor In a Supporting Role in Ali |
2001 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in Ali |
2001 | Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor in Ali |
1997 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in John Grisham's The Rainmaker |
1992 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in The Last of His Tribe |
1985 | Academy Award for Actor In a Leading Role in Runaway Train |
1985 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in Runaway Train |
1979 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in The Champ |
1978 | Academy Award for Actor In a Leading Role in Coming Home |
1978 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in Coming Home |
1978 | Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor in Coming Home |
1978 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in Coming Home |
1978 | National Board of Review Award for Best Actor in Coming Home |
1978 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in Coming Home |
1972 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in Deliverance |
1969 | Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actor |
1969 | Academy Award for Actor in Midnight Cowboy |
1969 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor in Midnight Cowboy |
1969 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in Midnight Cowboy |
1969 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in Midnight Cowboy |
1969 | BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer To Leading Film Roles in Midnight Cowboy |