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 ".

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.

Also in the article, Voight accused four-star General and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Wesley Clark of having " shame upon him, having been relieved of his command " and said that Clark " has done their Obama camp's ' bidding and become a lying fool in his need to demean a fellow soldier and a true hero.

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 ".

At the hospital, Sally meets Luke Martin ( Jon Voight ), a former classmate.

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

She also claimed to be of Iroquois ancestry, although her former husband, Jon Voight, once said that Bertrand was " not seriously Iroquois.

In 1982, she appeared in a minor role in Lookin ' to Get Out, a film co-written by and starring her former husband, Jon Voight.

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

" 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 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.

* Lost in the New Real ( 2012 )-Narrator / Voight Kampff

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 ".

The film was nominated for six Razzie Awards in 1998 including Worst Picture, Worst Actor ( Jon Voight ), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst New Star (" the animatronic anaconda ") and Worst Screen Couple ( Voight and " the animatronic anaconda ").

: 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.

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.

Between musical sets, the concerts include short intermissions with politically conservative speakers such as Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Mark Levin, Newt Gingrich, Jon Voight, and Rudy Giuliani.

Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train ( 1985 ).

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

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

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 received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe's award for Best Actor.

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.

Set in the Amazon, Voight played Paul Sarone, a snake hunter obsessed with a fabled giant anaconda, who hijacks an unwitting National Geographic film crew looking for a remote Indian tribe.

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 played Noah in the 1999 television production Noah's Ark, and appeared in Second String, also for TV.

Voight played Major-General Juergen Stroop, the German officer responsible for the destruction of the Jewish resistance, and received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

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.

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 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 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.

In May 2008, Voight paid a solidarity visit to Israel in honor of its 60th birthday.

In September 2008, Voight appeared in a video from the Republican National Convention admonishing viewers to support the United States military.

Voight was a guest at the 2008 Republican National Convention.