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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 ).
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Voight next appeared in 1972's Deliverance.
Voight next appeared in 1996's blockbuster Mission: Impossible, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise.
Voight next appeared in Anaconda.
Voight next appeared in a cameo role in Oliver Stone's U Turn, portraying a blind man.
Voight next appeared in 1999's Varsity Blues.
Voight and portrayed
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.
In 1978, Voight portrayed the paraplegic Vietnam veteran Luke Martin in Hal Ashby's film Coming Home.
Voight played a blunt, autocratic football coach, pitted in a test of wills against his star player, portrayed by James Van Der Beek.
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.
In the 1970 film adaptation of Catch-22 the Minderbinder character is portrayed by Jon Voight.
* In the 2001 film Uprising, Stroop is depicted as the film's main antagonist and is portrayed by the American actor Jon Voight.
Voight and President
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 8, 2009, Voight hosted a Republican congressional fundraiser, and he also made his own speech within the event, criticizing President Obama.
In June 2010, the Washington Times published An open letter to President Obama from Jon Voight, calling President Obama a liar and promoter of anti-Semitism.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( Jon Voight ) wants to send a message that the Japanese homeland is not immune from bombing.
* Jon Voight as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Voight and Franklin
Arnold was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany, the third child of Carl Franklin and Elizabeth ( Voight ) Arnold.
Voight and .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Voight and action
" 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.
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* Lost in the New Real ( 2012 )-Narrator / Voight Kampff
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