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    Sep 9, 2022 · Jon Voight was born December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, New York. He earned widespread acclaim for his role in 1969's Midnight Cowboy, and an Academy Award in 1979 for the Vietnam War drama Coming Home ...

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    Jonathan Vincent Voight [6] was born on December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, New York, [7] to Barbara ( née Kamp) and Elmer Voight ( né Voytka ), [8] a professional golfer. [9] He has two brothers, Barry Voight, a former volcanologist at Pennsylvania State University, [10] and James Wesley Voight, known as Chip Taylor, a singer-songwriter who wrote ...

  3. Learn about the life and career of Jon Voight, an American actor of German and Slovak descent who won an Oscar for "Coming Home". Find out his birth date, family background, education, film roles, awards and trivia.

    • December 29, 1938
  4. May 9, 2024 · Jon Voight (born December 29, 1938, Yonkers, New York, U.S.) is an American actor who achieved stardom with his portrayal of the street hustler Joe Buck in the groundbreaking film Midnight Cowboy (1969) and went on to have a successful career taking on challenging leading and character roles in a wide range of movies and television shows.

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  5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000685Jon Voight - IMDb

    Jon Voight. Actor: Midnight Cowboy. Jon Voight is an American actor of German and Slovak descent. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Luke Martin in the war film "Coming Home" (1978).

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    • December 29, 1938
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  6. Barry Voight, Chip Taylor (brothers) Jon Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. Voight came to publicity in the late 1960s with his Academy Award –nominated performance as Joe Buck, a would-be gigolo, in Midnight Cowboy (1969). He has received an Academy Award for Best Actor, having received it for his role in the 1978 film ...

  7. May 29, 2018 · VOIGHT, Jon. ( b. 29 December 1938 in Yonkers, New York ), actor who became a star in his first major film, Midnight Cowboy (1969), which expressed the angst and social rebellion that permeated much of American society at the end of the 1960s. Voight was the second son of Elmer Voight, a professional golfer at the Sunningdale Golf Club in ...

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