Deliverance to play Lewis Medlock. Jack Nicholson was considered for the role of Ed, while both Donald Sutherland and Charlton Heston turned down the role of Lewis. Other actors who were attached to the project included Robert Redford, Henry Fonda, George C. Scott and Warren Beatty. The film is infamous for cutting costs by not insuring the production and having the actors perform their own stunts (most notably, Jon Voight climbed the cliff himself). In one scene, the stunt coordinator decided that a scene showing a canoe with a dummy of Burt Reynolds in it looked phony; he said it looked
Jon Voight Mitt Romney and Donald Trump in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections respectively. In the "Seinfeld" episode "The Mom & Pop Store," George Costanza buys a 1989 Chrysler LeBaron thinking it belonged previously to Jon Voight. However Jerry points out that Jon Voight must have misspelled his first name with an "h" in the owners manual for this to be true. Jon Voight appears briefly as himself in the episode and bites Kramer on the arm. By the end of the episode it appears that the car belonged to a periodontist by the name of John Voight. Jon Voight Jonathan