Jon Voight

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Jon Voight, 2012

Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight [ ˈd͡ʒɒn ˈvɔɪt ] (born December 29, 1938 in Yonkers , New York ) is an American actor . He became famous for the title role in the classic film Asphalt-Cowboy (1969). For Coming Home - Sie kehren heim , Voight received the Oscar in 1979 for best leading actor , and he was also awarded a total of four Golden Globes for his appearances .

Career

The son of a professional golfer made his first appearances at school performances and eventually made it to Broadway. Voight became famous for the role of the gigolo Joe Buck on the side of Dustin Hoffman in the drama Asphalt-Cowboy (1969). The film by the British John Schlesinger was the first studio production that was not approved for young people and was also awarded the Oscar for best film . It is considered a classic of " New Hollywood ". Voight won the Golden Globe for Best Young Actor for his performance . He was also nominated for an Oscar. This was followed by appearances in films such as Catch-22 - The Evil Trick , Everyone Is First To Die , The Odessa Files , which are now also classics of cinema of the 1970s. In 1979 he then received the Oscar for best actor for his role as an instructed on a wheelchair Vietnam veteran in the film Coming Home - Coming Home by Hal Ashby . For this role he also received the Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 . Later he was also nominated for an Oscar for the films Runaway Train and most recently in 2002 for Ali .

In mid-June 2008 it was announced that Voight could be won for the seventh season of the successful television series 24 as an opponent of Kiefer Sutherland . For Voight this was the first major appearance in a television series after 40 years . Most recently, the actor had various guest appearances in the western series Smoking Colts and a brief appearance in the series Seinfeld (episode "The Mom & Pop Store" / "The Denture"), in which he played himself and bit Kramer on the arm . Since 2013, Voight has played the father of the main character in the television series Ray Donovan (played by Liev Schreiber ). For this role he received critical acclaim and his fourth Golden Globe.

family

The German-American Jon Voight is the son of Barbara Agnes Kamp (1910–1995) and Elmer Samuel Voight, born Voytka (1909–1973). His maternal grandparents come from Büren (Westphalia) , his paternal grandfather from Košice in Slovakia .

In 1962 Voight married Lauri Peters , the marriage lasted until 1967. James Haven (* 1973), who is also an actor, and Oscar winner Angelina Jolie (* 1973) came from his marriage to Marcheline Bertrand (1950–2007) , which he entered into in 1971 and divorced in 1978. 1975).

His brother James Wesley Voight had some success as a songwriter under the stage name Chip Taylor . Jon Voight is also the godfather of actress Skyler Shaye .

Political opinions

Voight, who took pacifist positions during the Vietnam War , is now part of the conservative camp. He is close to the tea party movement and claims to be a fan of Mike Huckabee . He accused critics of President George W. Bush of being unpatriotic. Bush is the leader of the free world.

Voight was close to the candidate Rudolph Giuliani in 2008 and campaigned for the Republicans .

Voight is an avid supporter of the State of Israel and called it a "moral beacon".

The Washington Times published on July 28, 2008 a named contribution by Jon Voight, who criticized the then presidential candidate Barack Obama . In 2010 he even described him as a promoter of anti-Semitism. In a video biography of Sarah Palin , on John McCain was seen website, Voight was heard as a speaker. In March 2015, just before the general election in Israel , Voight posted a video aimed at Israeli voters. In it, he called on them to vote for Likud candidate Benjamin Netanyahu . He criticized the opposition candidate, Isaac Herzog , saying that those who believed negotiations were the solution were as wrong as Neville Chamberlain , who believed in negotiations with Adolf Hitler .

In the United States presidential election, 2016 he enlisted as one of the few American celebrities for the Republican candidate Donald Trump and accused the Democrat Hillary Clinton , inter alia, the immigration policies of Barack Obama to advocate and religious freedom to want to restrict. He also held her indirectly responsible for the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi .

Filmography

Awards

Jon Voight at the 1988 Academy Awards

Oscar

Golden Raspberry

Web links

Commons : Jon Voight  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/midnight-revolution-200503
  2. ↑ http://www.newwavefilm.com/international/new-hollywood.shtml
  3. ↑ cf. Jon Voight becomes Jack Bauer's opponent at spiegel.de, June 15, 2008 (accessed June 16, 2008)
  4. ^ Van Gosse: The World the Sixties Made . Temple University Press, 2003, ISBN 9781592132010 , p. 107.
  5. ↑ Jake Tapper: Gibbs on Capitol Hill Protest: "I'm Sure There's a Jon Voight Joke in Here Somewhere" . November 5, 2009. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.abcnews.com 
  6. ^ Actor Jon Voight on Daughter Angelina Jolie . In: Fox News , April 27, 2007. 
  7. ↑ James Barron: Star of the Silver Screen And a Political Entourage , The New York Times . February 1, 2008. Accessed June 9, 2009. 
  8. ^ Jon Voight to pay Sderot a solidarity visit , Ynet . Retrieved June 11, 2009. 
  9. ↑ washingtontimes.com
  10. ↑ a b Jon Voight backs Netanyahu, says' Obama doesn't love Israel In: The Jerusalem Post , March 15, 2015.
  11. ↑ a b Chris Spargo: President Obama does not love Israel ': Jon Voight attacks Obama in scathing new video as he voices his support for Netanyahu and desire to protect Israel from the' mad men of this world. In: The Daily Mail , March 15, 2015.
  12. ^ A b Colin Gorenstein: Like making “a peace deal with Hitler”: Oscar winner Jon Voight freaks out at Obama. In: Salon , March 16, 2015 (English).
  13. ↑ Jon Voight's videotirade. "She has blood on her hands". Spiegel Online . October 14, 2016, accessed October 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Voight, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voight, Jonathan Vincent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Yonkers , New York , USA