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

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.

" In a June 13, 2009, article, New York Times columnist Frank Rich said of Voight's speech, in which Voight called to " bring an end to this false prophet Obama ," that: " This kind of rhetoric, with its pseudo-Scriptural call to action, is toxic.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( Jon Voight ) wants to send a message that the Japanese homeland is not immune from bombing.

Four Atlanta businessmen, Lewis ( Reynolds ), Ed ( Voight ), Bobby ( Beatty ) and Drew ( Cox ), decide to canoe down the Cahulawassee River in the remote Georgia wilderness, expecting to have fun and see the glory of nature before the river valley is flooded by the construction of a dam.

Coming Home is a 1978 drama film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern.

Schell is the godfather of actress Angelina Jolie, daughter of The Odessa File co-star Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.

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 her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, " Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight ".

Voigt ( mainly written Vogt, also Voight ) is a German surname, and may refer to:

When this clue is later revealed to the agent ( played by Jon Voight ), he remarks, " They stamped it, didn't they?

In the 1970 film adaptation of Catch-22 the Minderbinder character is portrayed by Jon Voight.

James Wesley Voight ( born March 21, 1940 ), better known by his stage name as Chip Taylor, is an American songwriter, who is noted for writing the songs " Angel of the Morning " and " Wild Thing.

" He is the brother of actor Jon Voight and geologist Barry Voight.

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.

It is the first film in the National Treasure franchise and stars Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, and Christopher Plummer.

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.

Actors Mickey Rourke, Chuck Norris and Jon Voight also appear, while Voight's " pretty hot at one time " daughter is Angelina Jolie.

He is reported to have stolen a large sum of money from Nounes and fellow mobster Dutch Voight, after which Nitti fled to Chicago.

A made-for-television film adaptation of the novel, starring Jon Voight as Eddie, was released in 2004 and is available on DVD.

* In the 2001 film Uprising, Stroop is depicted as the film's main antagonist and is portrayed by the American actor Jon Voight.

Voight appeared as Zoolander's coal-miner father.

In 2004, Voight joined Nicolas Cage, in National Treasure as Patrick Gates, the father of Cage's character.

Screenwriter Graham Yost was told by his father, Canadian television host Elwy Yost, about a film called Runaway Train starring Jon Voight, about a train that speeds out of control.

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.

* October 8 = Angelina Jolie makes her film debut as a child actress appearing with her father Jon Voight, in Lookin ' to Get Out.

He disdains his football-obsessed father ( Thomas F. Duffy ) and dreads playing it under legendary coach Bud Kilmer ( Jon Voight ), a verbally abusive, controlling authority who believes in winning " at all costs ".

Voight received his fourth Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, for his performance, extending his reign as one of Hollywoods most talented actors.

Four other actors ( Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, James Garner, and Jon Voight ) were offered the role of Woodrow Call but declined for various reasons before the role fell to Tommy Lee Jones.

Tallman flew the dramatic night shots of the Milo Minderbinder Air Force B-25 bombing its own base just over the heads of actors Jon Voight and Martin Sheen.

Bertrand was the former wife of actor Jon Voight and the mother of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven.

The productions of Second-Hand Hearts and Lookin ' to Get Out — the latter a Las Vegas caper film that reunited him with Voight and featured Voight's young daughter, Angelina Jolie — were plagued by Ashby's increasingly erratic behavior, such as pacifying former girlfriends by hiring them to edit Lookin ' to Get Out.

Voight played the role of spymaster James Phelps, a role originated by Peter Graves in the television series.

Voight played a blunt, autocratic football coach, pitted in a test of wills against his star player, portrayed by James Van Der Beek.

Additionally, Jon Voight, James Caan, James Brolin and Burt Reynolds along with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, were considered for the part of Stewart Graff.

Throughout his career, Meisner worked with, and taught, students who became well known, such as Sandra Bullock, Dylan McDermott, Eileen Fulton, James Caan, Steve McQueen, Robert Duvall, Gregory Peck, Jack Lord, Bob Fosse, Diane Keaton, Peter Falk, Jon Voight, Jeff Goldblum, Grace Kelly, James Doohan, Jason Boss, Manu Tupou, Tony Randall and Sydney Pollack.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.