Jon Voight
Jonathan Vincent " Jon" Voight ( born December 29, 1938 in Yonkers, New York ) is an American actor and Oscar - winner.
Biography
The son of a professional golfer had first appearances in school plays and finally got to Broadway. Voight is best known for the role of wannabe cowboys Joe Buck on the side of Dustin Hoffman in the film drama Midnight Cowboy (1969). The film by the British John Schlesinger was the first studio production, which received no youth released and was also honored as Best Film of the year with an Oscar. For his portrayal of Escorts Voight won the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor. He was also nominated for an Academy Award, which he then in 1979 for his role as a shackled to a wheelchair Vietnam veteran in the film Coming Home - Coming Home was awarded by Hal Ashby. For this role, he also received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978. Later he was also for the movies Runaway Train and last nominated in 2002 for Ali for an Oscar.
Mid-June 2008 it was announced that Voight was won for the seventh season of the television series 24 as an opponent of Kiefer Sutherland. For Voight, this was after 40 years again the first major appearance in a television series. Most recently, the actor had in the late 1960s several guest appearances in the Western series Gunsmoke as well as a brief appearance in the series Seinfeld ( episode " The Mom & Pop Store" / " The dental impression " ), in which he played himself and Kramer in the arm bite.
Family
The German Americans Jon Voight is the son of Barbara Agnes Kamp (1910-1995) and Samuel Elmer Voight (b. Voytka ) ( 1909-1973 ). His maternal grandparents are from Buren ( Westphalia), his paternal grandfather from Kosice in Slovakia.
1962 married Voight Lauri Peters, the marriage lasted until 1967. From his 1971 and 1978 closed divorced with Marcheline Bertrand ( 1950-2007 ) originate James Haven (born 1973 ), who is also an actor, and Oscar winner Angelina Jolie (* 1975 ).
His brother James Wesley Voight had as a songwriter under the stage name Chip Taylor some success. Jon Voight is also the godfather of actress Skyler Shaye.
Politics
Voight, who represented pacifist positions during the Vietnam War, is now assigned to the right-wing camp. He stands close to the Tea Party movement and claims itself to be a fan of Mike Huckabee. Critics of President George W. Bush, he accused of being unpatriotic. Bush is the leader of the free world.
Voight was in 2008 the candidate Rudolph Giuliani close and operational campaign for the Republican. He described Giuliani as a " God -sent angel " of.
Voight is an avid supporter of the State of Israel and called him a " moral beacon ".
The Washington Times published on July 28, 2008 By-lined article by Jon Voight, who criticized the then presidential candidate Barack Obama. In 2010, he described this even as a promoter of anti-Semitism. In a video biography of Sarah Palin, which was shown on John McCain's website, Voight could also be heard as a speaker.