In 1962, Voight married actress Lauri Peters, whom he met when they both appeared in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music.

In the early 1960s, Voight found work in television, appearing in several episodes of Gunsmoke, between 1962 and 1966, as well as guest spots on Naked City, and The Defenders, both in 1963, and Twelve O ' Clock High, in 1966.

The principal cast members are Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty, with both Cox and Beatty making their feature-film debuts.

Voight and Roberts were both nominated for Academy Awards for their respective roles.

Starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, both in Academy Award-winning performances, it was for this film that Ashby earned his only Best Director nomination from the Academy for his work.

The script was based on a story by Akira Kurosawa, and paired Voight with Eric Roberts as a fellow escapee.

Voight also took a small role in 1967's western, Hour of the Gun, directed by veteran helmer John Sturges.

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 ).

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.

Jonathan Vincent " Jon " Voight (; born December 29, 1938 ) is an American actor.

Voight is the father of actors Angelina Jolie and James Haven.

Voight was born in Yonkers, New York, the son of Barbara ( née Kamp ; 1910 – 1995 ) and Elmer Voight ( né Voytka ; 1909 – 1973 ), a professional golfer.

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.

After graduation, Voight moved to New York City, where he pursued an acting career.

Voight was estranged from his children for several years, but they reconciled in 2007 after Bertrand's death.

In 1968 Voight took a role in director Paul Williams ' Out of It.

In 1969, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking Midnight Cowboy, a film that would make his career.

Voight played Joe Buck, a naïve male hustler from Texas, adrift in New York City.

Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in True Grit.

In 1970 Voight appeared in Mike Nichols ' 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.

Voight next appeared in 1972's Deliverance.

The film and the performances of Voight and co-star Burt Reynolds received great critical acclaim and were popular with audiences.

Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1973's The All American Boy, then appeared in the 1974 film, Conrack, directed by Martin Ritt.

Based on Pat Conroy's autobiographical novel The Water Is Wide, Voight portrayed the title character, an idealistic young schoolteacher sent to teach underprivileged black children on a remote South Carolina island.

This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named, and based on, " Butcher Of Riga " Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1976's End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

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.

In 1978, Voight portrayed the paraplegic Vietnam veteran Luke Martin in Hal Ashby's film Coming Home.

Voight, who was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-anti-war activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fonda's character falls in love.

Jane Fonda won her second Best Actress award for her role, and Voight won for Best Actor in a Leading Role.