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Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award (out of four nominations) and three Golden Globe Awards (out of nine). Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy (1969). During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance (1972), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ (1979). Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train (1985). During the 1990s, he most notably starred as an unscrupulous showman attorney in The Rainmaker (1997). Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s, appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali (2001), as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising (2001), and as Pope John Paul II in the television film of the same name (2005). Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie.

Jon Voight

Detective Peterson
for Detective Peterson in I Saw the Devil (1974)
Suggested by ryancannon

On a dark road, taxi driver Kevin James comes across a scared female motorist stranded in a broken-down vehicle. He pulls over, but not to help her. Instead, he kidnaps, rapes, and kills her. When the woman's head is discovered in a local river, her devastated fiancé, Shaun Kennedy, a trained secret agent, becomes obsessed with hunting down her killer. Once he finds Kevin, things get twisted. After brutally beating the murderer, Shaun lets him go free, and a demented game of cat and mouse begins where at first Shaun believes this will make up for that he wasn’t able to save his fiancée, but slowly goes on a journey to madness.