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Jon Voight

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Biography

Recent Role:
Guest on Piers Morgan Tonight
Gender:
Male
Born:
12-29-1938
Birthplace:
Yonkers, New York, USA
Birth Name:
Jonathan Vincent Voight
AKA:
Jon Voight
Godfather of 'Skyler Shaye'

Attended Archbishop Stepinac High School, and all-boy school in White Plains, New York.

Beat out Gene Hackman for the role of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in "Pearl Harbor".

His father was a professional golfer.

Honored at fund-raiser for Joseph Papp Children's Humanitarian Fund in New York City, May 2002.

Graduated from Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. in 1960. Changed his major after his Freshman year from Speech and Drama to Art.













More His grandfather was a Czech imigrant.

Jon Voight played father to Rick Schroder twice: The first time in The Champ (1979) and the second time in The Return to Lonesome Dove (1993).

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    Jon Voight is a true actor. You really believe that he got into acting because he loves it for what it is. You'll never see him in any tabloids and you won't hear any gossip about him. In his roles, you sense more realism than many other actor's who are considered more talented than he. Of all of his roles in all of his movies, my favorite has to be "Varsity Blues."

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