Jon Voight - Milestones

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• 2004: Portrayed Senator Thomas Jordan in the remake of the 1962 thriller "The Manchurian Candidate"
• 2004: Starred in "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" (ABC) based on the book by Mitch Albom; received a SAG nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
• 2004: Co-starred with Nicolas Cage and Harvey Keitel in "National Treasure"
• 2003: Co-starred in the feature "Holes"
• 2002: Cast as the coach of the Buffalo Bills in the TNT movie "Second String"
• 2002: Acted in the family film "Unleashed"
• 2002: Co-starred in "Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies"
• 2001: Portrayed Howard Cosell in the biopic "Ali", directed by Michael Mann; earned a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination
• 2001: Portrayed US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in "Pearl Harbor"
• 2001: Co-starred in the NBC miniseries "Uprising"; had limited theatrical release
• 2001: Played on screen father of real-life daughter Angelina Jolie in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"
• 2001: Was featured in "Jim Henson's Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story" (NBC) as the title character's uncle
• 1999: Served as excutive producer of the film "Baby Geniuses"
• 1999: Played "win-at-all-costs" Texas high school football coach in "Varsity Blues"
• 1999: Appeared as Noah in NBC miniseries "Noah's Ark"
• 1998: Portrayed an Irish policeman on the trail of notorious Irish thief Martin Cahill in John Boorman's "The General"; Voight called the experience "the 10 best working days I've ever had"
• 1998: Scored big as a ruthless National Security Agency official in "Enemy of the State"
• 1997: Played white merchant caught between his black neighbors-customers and the unruly local rednecks out for blood in John Singleton's "Rosewood"
• 1997: Was virtually unrecognizable as a wily blind Native American in Oliver Stone's "U-Turn"
• 1997: Garnered praise for his supporting role as a slick lawyer in "John Grisham's 'The Rainmaker'"
• 1997: Offered over-the-top performance as a South American poacher in "Anaconda"
• 1996: Cast as Jim Phelps in the feature "Mission: Impossible"
• 1995: Co-starred as a thief in "Heat", directed by Michael Mann
• 1995: TV directing debut, "The Tin Soldier" on Showtime (also acted; co-directed by Gregory Gieras); cited at the Berlin Film Festival as Best Children's Film; nominated for a CableACE Award
• 1994: Guest-starred as himself in an episode of "Seinfield" (NBC)
• 1994: Filed a $4 million sexual-harassment suit against former business partner Laura Pels; later withdrew the suit
• 1993: Succeeded Tommy Lee Jones as ex-Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the CBS miniseries sequel "Return to Lonesome Dove"
• From 1992 to 1993: Returned to the stage after a 16-year absence as Trigorin in a Broadway production of "The Sea Gull" at the National Actors Theater
• 1991: TV-movie debut, played Dr. Robert Gale in "Chernobyl: The Final Warning" on TNT
• 1990: Wrote and played dual role in direct-to-video release, "Eternity"
• 1986: Delivered solid performance as an embittered, alcoholic WWII hero reduced to running a gas station in "Desert Bloom"
• 1985: Garnered a third Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his slightly over-the-top portrayal of a brutal escaped convict in "Runaway Train"
• 1983: Produced the feature "Table for Five"; also acted
• 1982: Film producing and co-writing debut, "Lookin' to Get Out", directed by Hal Ashby; also acted; daughter Angelina Jolie Voight made her film acting debut as a child
• 1979: Headlined the Franco Zeffirelli-directed remake of the sentimental "The Champ"
• 1977: Earned Best Actor Oscar as a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Hal Ashby's "Coming Home"; film reprised "Midnight Cowboy" collaboration of screenwriter Salt and producer Jerry Hellman
• 1975: Stage co-producing debut, "The Hashish Club"
• 1974: Gave solid performance as German journalist on the trail of Nazis in the early 60s, single-handedly elevating the otherwise plodding "The Odessa File"
• 1973: Portrayed author-teacher Pat Conroy in the semi-autobiographical "Conrack"
• 1972: Co-starred in John Boorman's "Deliverance"
• 1970: Appeared in "Catch-22", directed by Mike Nichols
• 1970: Acted with Jennifer Salt (daughter of "Midnight Cowboy" screenwriter Waldo Salt) and Duvall in Paul Williams' "The Revolutionary"
• 1969: Breakthrough screen role as Joe Buck opposite Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo in John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy"; received Best Actor Academy Award nomination (as did Hoffman); had auditioned for role and then lost it to Michael Sarrazin; when Universal wouldn't release Sarrazin from his contract, director Schlesinger hired Voight
• 1967: Returned to Broadway in "That Summer, That Fall"
• 1965: Acted with Robert Duvall in Off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge"; assistant to the director Ulu Grossbard was Dustin Hoffman
• 1964: Film debut, "Fearless Frank" (shot in 1964; shown at Cannes in 1967; US release 1969)
• 1961: Broadway debut, playing Rolf Gruber in "The Sound of Music"; appeared opposite first wife Lauri Peters who played Liesl
• 1961: Off-Broadway debut, "O Oysters Revue"
• Raised in Yonkers, New York
• Did TV guest shots on "Gunsmoke" and "Cimarron Strip"
• Formed Jon Voight Entertainment (JVE)
• Lobbied unsuccessfully for the part of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"