Jon Voight
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Frank's Greatest Adventure (Fearless Frank) (1967)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Jon Voight, Severn Darden
- Curious superhero spoof in which Jon Voight is topped by gangsters and reincarnated as a crime–fighter extraordinaire. The director's career…
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman
- Stunning character study of a naive farm–hand whose pipe–dreams take him to New York where he befriends a derilect and makes a living as…
- Catch 22 (1970)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Orson Welles
- An acerbic anti–war statement based on the much–hailed novel about a WW2 fighter pilot's reluctance to fight, in order to preserve his…
- Deliverance (1972)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty
- Four businessmen encounter the dark side of both human and mother nature on their weekend canoe trip in the deep South. Aided by that unmistakable…
- Odessa File, The (1974)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell…
- Jon Voight plays a German journalist on the trail of Nazi war criminals. From Frederic Forsyth's bestseller.
- Conrack (1974)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Hume Cronyn
- Based on the true experiences of a teacher in a sunlit backwater of South Carolina, Jon Voight gives one of his best performances, trying to rouse…
- Coming Home (1978)
- Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern
- A provocative weepie about the effects of the Vietnam war on the relatives at home. Jane Fonda involves herself with paraplegic veteran Jon Voight.
- Champ, The (1979)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder…
- Franco Zeffirelli's sentimental remake of the 1931 Academy Award–winning film stars Jon Voight as a debt–ridden Florida…
- Runaway Train (1985)
- Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Feat. Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay
- Voight and Roberts are terrific as two ecsaped convicts who endure a nerve–jangling journey aboard an unstoppable locomotive. Based on a…
- Desert Bloom (1986)
- Dir. Eugene Corr
Feat. Ellen Barkin, Jon Voight
- In 1951 Nevada, a 13–year–old girl becomes the victim of domestic turbulence and the ignorance of nuclear testing on their back…
- Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-series) (Lonesome Dove, Streets Of Laredo, Dead Man's Walk, Return to Lonesome Dove) (1989-1993)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover…
- A hefty star cast congregate for this acclaimed TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel about two former Texas Rangers (Duvall, Jones) who retire to…
- Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, The (1992)
- Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Sam Neill, Jon Voight, Tony Barry…
- Telemovie enactment of the French–sponsored bombing of the Greenpeace vessel ' Rainbow Warrior' in 1984. Solidly dramatised with Neill and…
- Anaconda (1997)
- Dir. Luis Llosa
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Ice-Cube, Jon Voight…
- Riverboat excursion through the Amazon proves treacherous for a bunch of wholly unsympathetic stock characters. Among giant man–eating snakes,…
- Rosewood (1997)
- Dir. John Singleton
Feat. Ving Rhames, Jon Voight, Don Cheadle…
- A black community in 1920s Florida is plagued by mobs of local rednecks in this impassioned melodrama from Dir. John Singleton's ('Boyz in the…
- Rainmaker, The (1997)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Damon, Danny De Vito, Jon Voight…
- John Grisham's novel is spared from the airport–novel–as–movie–fodder assembly line by a refined Coppola script that attends…
- Enemy of the State (1998)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Will Smith, Jon Voight, Gene Hackman
- Lawyer Will Smith unwittingly receives proof of a high–ranking assassination, and becomes not so much the enemy of the state as of…
- General, The (1998)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Jon Voight
- Top–rate return to form for dir. Boorman, styling the career of true–life Dublin gangster Martin Cahill as an epic comedy of criminal…
- Varsity Blues (1999)
- Dir. Brian Robbins
Feat. James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight
- Reluctant star quarterback James Van Der Beek (from TV's Dawson's Creek) takes a stand against team coach Jon Voight's voracious pursuit of sporting…
- Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001)
- Dir. Simon West
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor
- Hugely silly fantasy–action is never a bore, despite all the odds, with an oiled Angelina Jolie filling the kit of the pneumatic…
- Pearl Harbour (2001)
- Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett…
- Overblown, but technically impressive rendition of the 1941 Japanese surprise–attack on Pearl Harbour in which a sizable proportion of the US…
- Ali (2001)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright…
- Boxing–legend Muhammad Ali’s (Will Smith) 10 crucial years: 1964–74, are refought in this biopic composed in dynamic visuals and epic…
- Uprising (2001)
- Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer…
- An above–par telemovie that depicts the clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII by the Nazis.
Treading similiar territory to SCHINDLER'S…
- Jack and the Beanstalk - The Real Story (2001)
- Dir. Brian Henson
Feat. Matthew Modine, Jon Voight, Vanessa Redgrave…
- TV sequel to the fairytale of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in which a descendant of Jack (Modine) must lift a family curse by returning the world of the…
- Holes (2003)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson…
- Surprisingly cunning comedy, where a teenager is unjustly sent to an isolated reformatory, and set to work digging holes in the desert for no…
- Manchurian Candidate, The (2004)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber…
- Slickly modernised version of the Cold War classic, tailors its twisted fable of political paranoia into a complex speculation on military, political…
- Five People You Meet in Heaven, The (2004)
- Dir. Lloyd Kramer
Feat. Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels…
- An 'afterlife' drama in which five people highlight the key moments of an elderly man's life after he dies trying to save a young accident…
- Glory Road (2006)
- Dir. James Gartner
Feat. Josh Lucas, Jon Voight, Derek Luke
- Appealing despite its familiarity, this underdog sports yarn concerns the true–life basketball coach who, during the segregated US 1960s,…
- Transformers (2007)
- Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Voight…
- Industrial–strength live–action adaptation of the cult 80s cartoon, about two waring robot factions with the ability to 'transform' into…
- National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (2007)
- Dir. Jon Turtletaub
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger…
- Family adventure sequel joining up with a treasure hunter on a global quest for clues to prove his family's innocence over Abraham Lincoln's death. A…
- 24 - Redemption (2008)
- Dir. Jon Cassar
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Carlyle, Gil Bellows…
- Solid feature–length primer for 24's seventh season finds the ever–durable Jack Bauer on the lam from American authorities, hiding out in…