Jon Voight


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BirthPlace
12/28/1938
Yonkers, NY
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Debuted on Broadway in 1961 as Rolf Gruber — the Austrian teen who sings "I Am 16" with Liesl — in The Sound of Music.
Appeared with Robert Duvall in a 1965 off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge; the director's assistant was Dustin Hoffman.
Four years later, he appeared opposite Hoffman in the groundbreaking 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy.
Champion of Native American rights.