Jon Voight Great-grandparents: Theresia Baum, Peter Franz, Barbara
American actor Jonathan Vincent Voight is from this country. He gained notoriety in the late 1960s thanks to his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Joe Buck, a would-be gigolo, in Midnight Cowboy. He gained notoriety in Hollywood during the 1970s thanks to his roles as a businessman involved in a murder in Deliverance (1972), a paraplegic…
American actor Jonathan Vincent Voight is from this country. He gained notoriety in the late 1960s thanks to his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Joe Buck, a would-be gigolo, in Midnight Cowboy.
He gained notoriety in Hollywood during the 1970s thanks to his roles as a businessman involved in a murder in Deliverance (1972), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and an impoverished former boxing champion in the remake of The Champ (1979).
Jonathan Vincent Voight was born on December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, New York, to Barbara and professional golfer Elmer Voight.
Barry Voight, a former volcanologist at Pennsylvania State University, and Chip Taylor, a singer-songwriter who wrote the songs “Wild Thing” and “Angel of the Morning,” are his two brothers.
Actress Lauri Peters, whom Voight met while performing together in The Sound of Music on Broadway in the early 1960s, and he was married in 1962.
They split up in 1967. In 1971, he wed the actress Marcheline Bertrand. They filed for divorce in 1978 after separating in 1976, and it was finally granted in 1980.
James Haven (born May 11, 1973) and Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) both became actors and producers in the movie industry. He has six grandchildren through Jolie.
Jon Voight Great-grandparents: Theresia Baum, Peter Franz, Barbara
Joseph Kamp was Jon’s maternal grandfather (the son of Heinrich Kamp and Theresia Baum). Germany’s Büren is where Joseph was born.
Franz Kamp and Bernardina Thielemeyer’s son was Heinrich. The mother of Theresia Baum was Christina Baum.
Margaret Franz was the maternal grandmother of Jon (the daughter of Peter Franz and Barbara Seigler). German parents, a Prussian-born father, and a Bavarian mother gave birth to Margaret in New York.
