Jonathan Vincent Jon Voight is an American actor He has received an Academy Award out of four nominations and three Golden Globe Awards out of nine nominations Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a wouldbe gigolo in Midnight Cowboy 1969 During the 1970s he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance 1972 a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home 1978 for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a penniless exboxing champion in The Champ 1979 Although his output slowed during the 1980s Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train 1985 During the 1990s he most notably starred as an unscrupulous showman attorney in The Rainmaker 1997 Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali 2001 as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising 2001 and as Pope John Paul II in the television film of the same name 2005 Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie
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