Jon Voight
Biography
The son of a Czech-American golf pro, Jon Voight was active in student theatricals in high school and at Catholic University. In 1960 he began studying privately with Neighborhood Playhouse mentor Sanford Meisner, and made his off-Broadway debut that same year in +O Oysters, receiving a daunting review which opined that he could "neither walk nor talk." Fortunately, Voight persevered, and in 1961 took over the role of "singing Nazi" Rolf in the Broadway hit +The Sound of Music (his Liesl was Laurie Peters, who became his first wife).
Blessed with handsome, Nordic features, Voight kept...Read more
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