Jon Voight Jon Voight Jonathan Vincent Voight (; born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. He is the winner of one Academy Award, having been nominated for four. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards and has so far been nominated for eleven. He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven. Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his Oscar-nominated performance as Joe Buck, a would-be 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
Ned Beatty the bride in "Prelude to a Kiss" (1992), opposite Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin. In 1993, he appeared in the true story "Rudy", playing a Notre Dame Fighting Irish football fan whose son, against all odds, makes the school's football team. Beatty starred in the television series "" as Detective Stanley Bolander for its first three seasons (1993–1995). Beatty made the 1994 science-fiction film "Replikator" (1994) and mystery-comedy "Radioland Murders". In 1995, he worked with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne in the thriller "Just Cause". He appeared as Judge Roy Bean in the TV miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's western