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 film "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Lily Tomlin. In 1982, Beatty returned to work with Richard Donner and Richard Pryor in the comedy "The Toy". Beatty worked with Burt Reynolds again in the auto-racing farce "Stroker Ace" (1983). In the middle of the 1980s, Beatty appeared in the comedy film "Restless Natives" (1985), directed by Michael Hoffman. By the end of the 1980s, Beatty appeared in another comedy film, as the academic "Dean Martin" in "Back to School" (1986), starring Rodney Dangerfield. He played a corrupt cop in the 1987 American neo-noir crime film "The