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 novel, "Streets of Laredo" (1995). He appeared in a 1998 sports-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, "He Got Game". In 1999, Beatty returned to work with "Cookie's Fortune", "Life", and "Spring Forward". In the beginning of the 2000s, he was a member of the original cast of the television police drama reunion film "Homicide: The Movie" (2000), reprising his role of Detective Stanley Bolander. In 2002, he appeared in Peter Hewitt's film "Thunderpants". In 2003, he portrayed a simple sheriff in "Where the Red Fern Grows". Beatty has also had a career as a