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Voight also took a small role in 1967's western, Hour of the Gun, directed by veteran helmer John Sturges.
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Voight both co-wrote the script and also co-produced.
In 1995, Voight played a role in the film, Heat, directed by Michael Mann, and appeared in the television films Convict Cowboy, and The Tin Soldier, also directing the latter film.
He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott's 1998 political thriller, Enemy of the State, in which Voight played Will Smith's stalwart antagonist from the NSA.
Voight played Noah in the 1999 television production Noah's Ark, and appeared in Second String, also for TV.
On June 8, 2009, Voight hosted a Republican congressional fundraiser, and he also made his own speech within the event, criticizing President Obama.
Big Spring was also featured in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight and received the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1969.
She also claimed to be of Iroquois ancestry, although her former husband, Jon Voight, once said that Bertrand was " not seriously Iroquois.
French also undertook translations of Miss Julie ( August Strindberg ), The Forest ( Alexander Ostrovsky ), and of Anton Chekhov ’ s The Seagull, a version of which was produced on Broadway starring Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, Jon Voight, and Tyne Daley.
Voigt ( mainly written Vogt, also Voight ) is a German surname, and may refer to:
According to an interview featurette with Jon Voight on the DVD of Coming Home ( 1978 ), Cleland also served during this time as a consultant on the Academy Award-winning drama set in a VA hospital in 1968.
Actors Mickey Rourke, Chuck Norris and Jon Voight also appear, while Voight's " pretty hot at one time " daughter is Angelina Jolie.
A 1983 Town and Country convertible was also famously featured in various episodes of the sitcom Seinfeld ; George Costanza purchased it because he believed it previously had been owned by Jon Voight.
She also appeared as the vampire Diamondback in Near Dark ( 1987 ), Officer Meagan Shapiro in Lethal Weapon 2 ( 1989 ), Janelle Voight in Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( 1991 ), the Enterprise-B science officer in Star Trek Generations ( 1994 ), and an Irish immigrant mother in Titanic ( 1997 ).
She may be best known for her role in Midnight Cowboy as a hooker on a busman's holiday, who invites Joe Buck ( Jon Voight ) up to her apartment for sex, seemingly unaware that he is also a prostitute.
The film was nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor ( Jon Voight, also for Most Wanted ).
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Voight was raised as a Catholic, and attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York, where he first took an interest in acting, playing the comedic role of Count Pepi Le Loup in the school's annual musical, The Song of Norway.
In 1968 Voight took a role in director Paul Williams ' Out of It.
Voight took a supporting role in The Rainmaker, adopted from the John Grisham novel and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Director Michael Mann tagged Voight for a small but crucial role in the 2001 biopic Ali, which starred Will Smith as the controversial former heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali.
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William Hurt ( at Circle Rep Off-Broadway, memorably performing " To Be Or Not to Be " while lying on the floor ), Jon Voight at Rutgers, and Christopher Walken ( fiercely ) at Stratford CT have all played the role, as has Diane Venora at the Public Theatre.
Voight was Steven Spielberg's first choice for the role of Matt Hooper in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, but he turned down the role, which was ultimately played by Richard Dreyfuss.
Jane Fonda won her second Best Actress award for her role, and Voight won for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
In 1979, Voight once again put on boxing gloves, starring in 1979's remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper vehicle, The Champ, with Voight playing the part of an alcoholic ex-heavyweight and a young Rick Schroder playing the role of his adoring son.
In 1985, Voight teamed up with Russian writer and director Andrei Konchalovsky to play the role of escaped con Manny Manheim in Runaway Train.
Voight followed up this and other performances with a role in the 1986 film, Desert Bloom, and reportedly experienced a " spiritual awakening " toward the end of the decade.
For the remainder of the decade, Voight would alternate between feature films and television movies, including a starring role in the 1993 miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove, a continuation of Larry McMurtry's western saga, 1989's Lonesome Dove.
Voight played the role of spymaster James Phelps, a role originated by Peter Graves in the television series.
Voight next appeared in a cameo role in Oliver Stone's U Turn, portraying a blind man.
The following year, Voight had the lead role in the television movie The Fixer, in which he played Jack Killoran, a lawyer who crosses ethical lines in order to " fix " things for his wealthy clients.
Voight next portrayed President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 2001's action / war film, Pearl Harbor, having accepted the role when Gene Hackman declined ( his performance was received favorably by critics ).
In the critically acclaimed CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II, released in December 2005, Voight, who was raised a Catholic, portrayed the pontiff from the time of his election until his death, garnering an Emmy nomination for the role.
Also in 2007, Voight reprised his role as Patrick Gates in National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
In 2009, Voight played Jonas Hodges, the villain, 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.
Jon Voight had been considered for the role of the husband, but after become involved with the film, he campaigned to play the paraplegic veteran.
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* Brocius is played by Jon Voight in Hour of the Gun ( 1967 ).
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Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1973's The All American Boy, then appeared in the 1974 film, Conrack, directed by Martin Ritt.
Voight next appeared in 1996's blockbuster Mission: Impossible, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise.
Coming Home is a 1978 drama film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern.
The film was going to be directed by John Schlesinger who had worked with producer Hellman and Voight in Midnight Cowboy, but he left the project finding the material too alien to his background.
At the time of Jolie's birth, Bisset was starring with Jolie's father, Jon Voight, in the film End of the Game, which Schell directed.
Anaconda is a 1997 adventure-horror film, directed by Luis Llosa, starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde, Owen Wilson, and Kari Wuhrer.
In 1997, The Rainmaker was adapted into a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, and Danny Glover.
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