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Jon Voight

Actor

Jon Voight

  • Born: 17 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
  • Estimated net worth: $55 million

Jon Voight is an American actor known for his powerful performances in films. He gained recognition for roles in classics like 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Coming Home.' Voight has had a long and varied career, earning acclaim for his dramatic abilities and…

About Jon Voight

Jon Voight is an American actor known for his powerful performances in films. He gained recognition for roles in classics like 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Coming Home.' Voight has had a long and varied career, earning acclaim for his dramatic abilities and distinctive voice. He is often seen as a leading man in both drama and action genres.

Born
17 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
Height
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Spouses
Marcheline Bertrand (1971-1978)
Children
2 (Angelina Jolie, James Haven)
Parents
Elmer Voight, Barbara Voight
Estimated net worth
$55 million

Fun facts about Jon Voight

  • Jon Voight won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 'Coming Home' in 1979.
  • He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven.

Famous Jon Voight quotes

“I’m just a guy who likes to work.”
Runaway Train, 1985
“You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.”
The Rainmaker, 1997
“It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
The Champ, 1979

Jon Voight filmography

Cast (166)

YearTitleCharacterRating
2026Monument MovieYacov Rechter
2025Megadoc MovieSelf6.7
2025The Last GunFight MovieNathaniel Turner6.3
2025High Ground MovieEzra Wilcott6.0
2025Man with No Past MovieSanborn6.5
2024Megalopolis MovieHamilton Crassus III5.1
2024Reagan MovieViktor Petrovich6.3
2024Strangers MovieRichard5.8
2024Shadow Land MovieRobert Wainwright5.2
2024The Painter MovieByrne6.0
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YearTitleCharacterRating
2023Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy MovieSelf5.1
2023Mercy MoviePatrick Quinn6.0
2022Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders MovieEllison Betts6.1
2022Ray Donovan: The Movie MovieMickey Donovan6.8
2021Roe v. Wade MovieJustice Burger5.6
2021Tucker Carlson Today TVSelf6.7
2020I Am Burt Reynolds MovieSelf - Interviewee6.9
2020Friends of Chabad TVhimself
2020JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift MovieJohn6.4
2020Man In The Arena MovieNarrator9.5
2019Love, Antosha MovieSelf7.4
2019Hal MovieSelf6.6
2018Orphan Horse MovieBen Crowley8.2
2018Hollywood: No Sex, Please! MovieUnknown character5.5
2018Surviving the Wild MovieGus7.8
2017Same Kind of Different as Me MovieEarl Hall6.8
2017American Wrestler: The Wizard MoviePrinciple Skinner7.2
2016Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them MovieShaw Senior7.3
2016J.L. Family Ranch MovieJohn6.0
2015Court of Conscience MovieFather Peter7.0
2015A Christmas Eve Miracle MovieJerry the Dog (voice)4.3
2015Woodlawn MoviePaul Bryant6.8
2015Baby Geniuses and the Space Baby MovieMoriarty3.5
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter TVSelf6.2
2014The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films MovieSelf6.4
2014Baby Geniuses and the Treasures of Egypt MovieMoriarty2.9
2014Ann-Margret - Från Valsjöbyn till Hollywood MovieSelf
2013Dracula: The Dark Prince MovieVan Helsing4.8
2013Getaway MovieThe Voice5.0
2013Running on Empty: An Interview with Andrei Konchalovsky MovieOscar 'Manny' Manheim (archive footage)2.0
2013Ray Donovan TVMickey Donovan7.5
2013Baby Geniuses Television Series TVTaxi Driver
2013Baby Geniuses and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels MovieMoriarty3.4
2012Casting By MovieSelf6.9
2012Pablo MovieSelf6.9
2012Beyond MovieJon Koski4.8
2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen Movie(archive footage)7.5
2010Stardust MovieSelf (uncredited)6.0
2010Lone Star TVClint Thatcher5.7
20102Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift Movie(archive footage)6.1
2010Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible MovieSelf
2009Clarkworld MovieSelf10.0
2009Source of Pride: The Making of "Pride and Glory" MovieSelf9.0
2009No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos MovieSelf5.6
2008Shatner's Raw Nerve TVSelf4.0
2008Four Christmases MovieCreighton5.8
2008An American Carol MoviePresident George Washington4.2
2008Pride and Glory MovieFrancis Tierney, Sr.6.3
2008Tropic Thunder MovieJon Voight6.7
2007National Treasure: Book of Secrets MoviePatrick Gates6.4
2007Bratz MoviePrincipal Dimly5.7
2007Transformers MovieDefense Secretary John Keller6.8
2007September Dawn MovieJacob Samuelson5.3
2007Brando: The Documentary TVSelf4.5
2007Brando MovieSelf6.8
2006The Foreign Eye MovieSelf6.1
2006The Karate Dog MovieHamilton Cage5.2
2006Deadly Lessons MovieDr. Crazx2.9
2006Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film MovieSelf
2006Glory Road MovieAdolph Rupp7.4
2005Pope John Paul II TVPope John Paul II / Karol Wojtyla6.5
2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood MovieSelf (archive footage)10.0
2005The Making of Heat MovieSelf6.2
2005Pacino and De Niro: The Conversation MovieSelf6.0
2004The Five People You Meet In Heaven MovieEdward7.0
2004National Treasure MoviePatrick Gates6.7
2004The Tony Danza Show TVSelf - Guest6.4
2004Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 MovieBill Biscane / Kane2.9
2004The Manchurian Candidate MovieSenator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)6.5
2004After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later MovieUnknown character
2003Jasper, Texas MovieBilly Rowles6.0
2003A Decade Under the Influence MovieSelf7.9
2003Holes MovieMr. Sir6.9
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! TVSelf5.3
2002Second String MovieCoach Chuck Dichter7.0
2001The Making of 'Ali' MovieSelf
2001Ali MovieHoward Cosell6.7
2001Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story TVSiggy6.8
2001Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas MovieStoryteller8.5
200124 TVJonas Hodges7.8
2001Uprising MovieSS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop6.5
2001Uprising TVSS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop5.5
2001Zoolander MovieLarry Zoolander6.2
2001Lara Croft: Tomb Raider MovieLord Richard Croft5.9
2001Pearl Harbor MoviePresident Roosevelt6.9
2000A Constant Forge MovieSelf6.8
1999The Prince and the Surfer MovieNarrator4.0
1999A Dog of Flanders MovieMichel6.3
1999Noah's Ark TVNoah4.5
1999A Tribute to Johnny Cash MovieSelf - Host7.8
1999The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn TVSelf - Guest5.3
1999Boys Will Be Boys MovieLt. Palladino6.2
1999Varsity Blues MovieCoach Bud Kilmer6.2
1998Enemy of the State MovieReynolds7.1
1998The General MovieInspector Ned Kenny6.7
1998The Fixer MovieJack Killoran4.4
1997The Rainmaker MovieLeo F. Drummond7.0
1997Most Wanted MovieGen. Adam Woodward, alias Lt. Col. Grant Casey5.4
1997U Turn MovieBlind Man6.6
1997The View TVSelf4.3
1997Anaconda MoviePaul Serone5.3
1997The Rainbow Warrior MoviePeter Willcox5.4
1997Rosewood MovieJohn Wright6.5
1996E! True Hollywood Story TVUnknown character8.1
1996Mission: Impossible MovieJim Phelps7.0
1995Heat MovieNate7.9
1995The XXX Files: Lust in Space MovieUnknown character8.0
1995Convict Cowboy MovieRy Weston6.5
1995The Tin Soldier MovieYarik6.3
1993Return to Lonesome Dove TVCaptain Woodrow F. Call7.0
1992The Last of His Tribe MovieAlfred Kroeber7.0
1991Chernobyl: The Final Warning MovieDr. Robert Gale5.8
1990Eternity MovieEdward / James3.9
1990Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret MovieSelf
1990Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years MovieSelf7.2
1990Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey MovieSelf7.2
1989Seinfeld TVJon Voight8.3
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark TVUnknown character5.6
1986Desert Bloom MovieJack Chismore5.8
1985Runaway Train MovieOscar 'Manny' Manheim7.0
1983Table for Five MovieJ.P. Tannen5.7
1982Lookin' to Get Out MovieAlex Kovac5.1
1982Wogan TVSelf5.6
1979The Champ MovieBilly7.0
1978Coming Home MovieLuke Martin7.0
1975End of the Game MovieWalter Tschanz5.0
1974The Odessa File MoviePeter Miller6.6
1974Conrack MoviePat Conroy6.7
1973The All-American Boy MovieVic Bealer4.0
1972Deliverance MovieEd Gentry7.3
1972The Dangerous World of 'Deliverance' MovieSelf7.0
1970The Revolutionary MovieA5.3
1970Catch-22 Movie1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder6.7
1969Fearless Frank MovieFearless Frank5.6
1969Out of It MovieRuss4.3
1969Midnight Cowboy MovieJoe Buck7.5
1969The Crowd Around the Cowboy MovieSelf
1967Hour of the Gun MovieCurly Bill Brocius6.5
1967Cimarron Strip TVUnknown character5.8
1966NET Playhouse TVUnknown character7.3
196412 O'Clock High TVCapt. Karl Holtke7.2
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TVSelf7.6
1962The Merv Griffin Show TVSelf6.8
1961The Defenders TVAlan Link6.3
1961The Defenders TVCliff Wakeman6.3
1958Naked City TVVictor Binks5.7
1955Gunsmoke TVPetter Karlgren6.7
1955Gunsmoke TVSteven Downing6.7
1955Gunsmoke TVCory6.7
1953The Oscars TVSelf7.1
1944Golden Globe Awards TVSelf - Nominee / Presenter7.0
1944Golden Globe Awards TVSelf7.0
1944Golden Globe Awards TVSelf - Nominee7.0
1944Golden Globe Awards TVSelf (uncredited)7.0
TBAThe Last Firefighter MovieJon
TBAThe Honey Wars Movie(voice)

Crew (5)

YearTitleRoleRating
2014The Final Song MovieExecutive Producer · Production1.5
1999Baby Geniuses MovieCo-Executive Producer · Production4.1
1995The Tin Soldier MovieDirector · Directing6.3
1990Eternity MovieWriter · Writing3.9
1982Lookin' to Get Out MovieWriter · Writing5.1

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Questions about Jon Voight

What are some of Jon Voight's career highlights?

Jon Voight's career highlights include winning an Academy Award for 'Coming Home' and starring in iconic films such as 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Deliverance.' He has also received several nominations throughout his career.

Has Jon Voight won any awards?

Yes, Jon Voight won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1979 for 'Coming Home.' He has also received multiple Golden Globe Awards and nominations for his performances.

What was Jon Voight's first film?

Jon Voight's first film was 'Fear and Desire,' directed by Stanley Kubrick, released in 1953. His breakthrough role came in 'Midnight Cowboy' in 1969.

Which films are considered Jon Voight's most successful?

Some of Jon Voight's most successful films include 'Midnight Cowboy,' 'Coming Home,' and 'The Rainmaker.' These films are critically acclaimed and have performed well at the box office.

What can you tell me about Jon Voight's personal life?

Jon Voight was married to Marcheline Bertrand from 1971 to 1978. He has two children, Angelina Jolie and James Haven, both of whom are actors. Voight has been open about his political views and personal beliefs.

What is Jon Voight's estimated net worth?

Jon Voight's estimated net worth is approximately $55 million. He has accumulated wealth through his extensive acting career in film and television.

What are some milestones in Jon Voight's filmography?

Notable milestones in Jon Voight's filmography include his Academy Award win for 'Coming Home,' his role in the critically acclaimed 'Midnight Cowboy,' and his performances in 'Ray Donovan' on television.

What is Jon Voight's acting style?

Jon Voight's acting style is characterized by his intense emotional range and strong screen presence. He often portrays complex characters, bringing depth and authenticity to his roles.