Jon Voight

JON VOIGHT. American actor, father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven. He first came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as 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) and as a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978) for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. He also played a penniless ex-boxing champion in the remake of The Champ (1979). Although his output slowed during the 1980s, he received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train (1985). During the 1990s, he most notably starred as an unscrupulous showman attorney in The Rainmaker (1997).