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.

McCauley's fence Nate ( Jon Voight ) sets up a meeting with Van Zant to sell the bonds back.

To ensure the bill's passage, National Security Agency official Thomas Reynolds ( Voight ) kills Hammersley, but he is unaware of a video camera set up by wildlife researcher Daniel Zavitz ( Lee ) that has captured the entire incident.

: After years of gestation, the idea for the Toonerville Trolley was born one day up in Westchester County when my wife and I had left New York City to visit Charlie Voight, the cartoonist, in the Pelhams.

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.

Voight made a cameo appearance as himself on the Seinfeld episode " The Mom & Pop Store " airing November 17, 1994, in which George Costanza buys a car that appears to be owned by Jon Voight.

Voight made his first appearance in the two-hour prequel episode 24: Redemption on November 23.

In the episode, George Costanza buys John Voight's car, thinking it belonged to Jon Voight the actor.

On April 27, 2007, Voight spoke about criticism of George W. Bush in an interview with Bill O ' Reilly on The O ' Reilly Factor: " And they — what I hear, you know, talking about our president.

" In another interview in Miami with AventuraUSA. com, Voight said he first met Giuliani " years ago " at a movie premiere in New York City and the main reason for his support was Giuliani's public poise in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

In an April 11, 2008, interview on the CNN Headline News Glenn Beck Show Voight stated that he had thrown his support to Republican Senator John McCain for President.

" On June 10, 2009, on the topic of Voight's fundraiser speech, Glenn Beck told Voight in a radio interview: " It's good not to be alone.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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

The year 1997 was a busy time for Voight in which he appeared in six films, beginning with Rosewood, based on the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of Rosewood, Florida, by the white residents of nearby Sumner.

Also in 2001, Voight joined Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria and David Schwimmer in the made-for-television movie Uprising, which was based on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.

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.

" I'm coming to salute, encourage and strengthen the people of Israel on this joyous 60th birthday ," said Voight.

When appearing on Governor Mike Huckabee's Fox News talk show, Voight said Obama was arrogant, caused civil unrest and stood for all that this country was against during its past.

In a letter released on September 11, 2009, Voight accused his former Coming Home co-star, Jane Fonda, of " aiding and abetting those who seek the destruction of Israel ".

In November 2009 Voight was a featured speaker, at a Tea Party protesting the healthcare reform legislation, and again at a rally outside the capital on March 20, 2010.

After seeing the Voight movie, Graham decided that it would have been better if there had been a bomb on board a bus with the bus being forced to travel at 20 mph to prevent an actual explosion.

He has two brothers, Barry Voight ( born 1937 ), a former volcanologist at Pennsylvania State University, and Wesley Voight ( born 1940 ), known as Chip Taylor, a singer-songwriter who penned " Wild Thing " and " Angel of the Morning ".

Voight at the 60th Academy Awards | Academy Awards in 1988

Voight at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival | Cannes Film Festival in 1993

In March 2008, Voight appeared at a rally aboard the in San Diego, California, for the kick-off of Vets for Freedom's National Heroes Tour.

" In August 2011, Voight visited terror victims at Soroka Medical Center in the Negev after attacks from Gaza.

Voight was a guest at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

There sat actor Jon Voight, staring gravely at the host, who praised the thespian's " courage.

During his speech at the capital, Voight stated the White House was using " radical Chicago tactics " in hopes to pass health care reform.

She won her second Oscar in 1978 for Coming Home, as a Marine officer's wife who volunteers at a veterans ' hospital and becomes involved with a disabled Vietnam War veteran ( played by Jon Voight ).

Coming Home premiered at the at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival where Voight won the Award for Best Actor for his performance.

In Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy wrote, " The director's visual and aural dapplings are strikingly effective at their best, but over the long haul don't represent a satisfactory alternative to in-depth dramatic scenes ; one longs, for example, for even one sequence in which Ali and Dundee discuss boxing strategy or assess an opponent ", but he did have praise for the performances: " The cast is outstanding, from Smith, who carries the picture with consummate skill, and Voight, who is unrecognizable under all the makeup but nails Cosell's distinctive vocal cadences ".

In the 1996 film update of Mission: Impossible, the character of Phelps ( played by Jon Voight ) was re-imagined as a traitor who murders three fellow IMF agents only to be killed himself at the end of the film, a decision that disappointed Graves, as well as many fans of the original series.

In June 29, 2012, Beatty appeared at a 40th anniversary screening of Deliverance in June 2012 at Warner Bros., together with Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Jon Voight.