Jon Voight (Jonathan Vincent Voight) è nato il 29 dicembre 1938 a Yonkers, New York, Stati Uniti.

Carriera Cinematografica. Voight è uno degli attori più famosi di Hollywood. Ha recitato in una vasta gamma di film di successo, tra cui "Cowboy" (1969), "Un uomo da marciapiede" (1969) e "Coming Home - Tornando a casa" (1978), che gli è valso l'Oscar come Miglior Attore.

Interessi. Jon Voight è noto per il suo interesse nella politica e nella filantropia. Ha sostenuto diverse cause umanitarie e organizzazioni benefiche ed è stato attivo nel campo dei diritti civili e sociali.

Impegno Sociale. Ha sostenuto diverse cause umanitarie e organizzazioni benefiche ed è stato attivo nel campo dei diritti civili e sociali.

Famiglia. Jon Voight è padre dell'attrice Angelina Jolie e del fratello del musicista James Haven.

Filmografia

1967 - Fearless Frank (Director: Philip Kaufman)

1967 - Hour of the Gun (Director: John Sturges)

1969 - Midnight Cowboy (Director: John Schlesinger)

1969 - Out of It (Director: Paul Williams)

1970 - Catch-22 (Director: Mike Nichols)

1970 - The Revolutionary (Director: Paul Williams)

1971 - The All-American Boy (Director: Charles Eastman)

1972 - Deliverance (Director: John Boorman)

1973 - The Odessa File (Director: Ronald Neame)

1974 - Conrack (Director: Martin Ritt)

1974 - The Odessa File (Director: Ronald Neame)

1975 - The Day of the Locust (Director: John Schlesinger)

1976 - Coming Home (Director: Hal Ashby)

1978 - The Champ (Director: Franco Zeffirelli)

1978 - Coming Home (Director: Hal Ashby)

1982 - Lookin' to Get Out (Director: Hal Ashby)

1985 - Runaway Train (Director: Andrei Konchalovsky)

1986 - Desert Bloom (Director: Eugene Corr)

1987 - Table for Five (Director: Robert Lieberman)

1988 - Eternity (Director: Steven Paul)

1989 - The Return of the Champ (Director: Daniel Petrie)

1991 - Chernobyl: The Final Warning (TV Movie, Director: Anthony Page)

1992 - The Last of His Tribe (TV Movie, Director: Harry Hook)

1994 - Rosewood (Director: John Singleton)

1995 - Heat (Director: Michael Mann)

1996 - Mission: Impossible (Director: Brian De Palma)

1997 - Anaconda (Director: Luis Llosa)

1997 - U-Turn (Director: Oliver Stone)

1997 - The Rainmaker (Director: Francis Ford Coppola)

1998 - The General (Director: John Boorman)

1998 - The Fixer (TV Movie, Director: Charles Robert Carner)

1999 - A Dog of Flanders (Director: Kevin Brodie)

1999 - Enemy of the State (Director: Tony Scott)

2000 - Second String (TV Movie, Director: Robert Lieberman)

2001 - Pearl Harbor (Director: Michael Bay)

2001 - Zoolander (Director: Ben Stiller)

2001 - Ali (Director: Michael Mann)

2002 - The Manchurian Candidate (Director: Jonathan Demme)

2003 - Jasper, Texas (TV Movie, Director: Jeffrey W. Byrd)

2004 - The Five People You Meet in Heaven (TV Movie, Director: Lloyd Kramer)

2004 - National Treasure (Director: Jon Turteltaub)

2005 - The Legend of Simon Conjurer (Director: Q. Mark)

2006 - Transformers (Director: Michael Bay)

2006 - September Dawn (Director: Christopher Cain)

2006 - Bratz: Genie Magic (Video, Director: Mucci Fassett)

2007 - Bratz: Super Babyz (Video, Director: David Mucci Fassett)

2007 - Bratz Kidz: Sleep-Over Adventure (Video, Director: Sean McNamara)

2007 - Transformers (Director: Michael Bay)

2008 - An American Carol (Director: David Zucker)

2009 - 24 (TV Series, 3 episodes, Director: various)

2009 - Four Christmases (Director: Seth Gordon)

2010 - Lone Star (TV Series, 2 episodes, Director: various)

2011 - Beyond (TV Movie, Director: Josef Rusnak)

2011 - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series, 2 episodes, Director: various)

2011 - 24/7 (Short, Director: Sandro Miller)

2012 - Dracula: The Dark Prince (Director: Pearry Reginald Teo)

2012 - Getaway (Director: Courtney Solomon)

2013 - The Chaperone (TV Movie, Director: Stephen Herek)

2013 - Full Circle (TV Series, 5 episodes, Director: various)

2014 - Woodlawn (Director: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin)

2014 - Baby Geniuses and the Treasures of Egypt (Video, Director: Sean McNamara)

2015 - Dracula Untold (Director: Gary Shore)

2016 - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Director: David Yates)

2017 - Surviving the Wild (Director: Patrick Alessandrin)

2017 - Same Kind of Different as Me (Director: Michael Carney)

2018 - Orphan Horse (Director: Sean McNamara)

2018 - Beyond (TV Series, 10 episodes, Director: various)

2019 - Roe v. Wade (Director: Nick Loeb, Cathy Allyn)

2019 - 30 Nights (Director: Tom Metz III)

2021 - Reagan (Director: Sean McNamara)

2021 - American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (Director: Michael Polish)

Premi

• Academy Award come miglior attore protagonista in "Coming Home" nel 1979.
• Golden Globe Award come miglior attore in "Coming Home" nel 1979.
• Palma d'Oro al Cannes Film Festival come miglior attore in "The Champ" in 1979.