Jon Voight’s break-through role came in 1969’s Midnight Cowboy.
Jon Voight
Jon Voight is the first guest star in Ray Donovan. His name is #11 on the list of charters in the first episode – yet he’s the first character on the screen as he’s being released from prison … then sticking a gun in a priest’s mouth and blowing his brains out.
Plus he’s one of only five characters to appear in all 82 episodes.
His character, Mickey Donovan, is one of the most underhanded, evil, manipulating characters ever created – and Jon Voight plays him masterfully.
He has 97 acting credits.
Despite the fact that he’s 82 years old, he’s playing Justice Berger in Roe v Wade – in post-production – and Viktor Novikov in Reagan – filming now.
His break-through role came as Joe Buck in 1969’s Midnight Cowboy. He’s a versatile actor with great range. Besides Ray Donovan and Midnight Cowboy, I enjoyed his performances in nine other movies:
Catch 22 (1970), Deliverance (1972), Coming Home (1978), The Champ (1979), Anaconda (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), Enemy of the State (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), and as Howard Cosell in Ali (2001).
Deliverance 
Coming Home 
Anaconda 
Ali
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Warner Books published Born to Be Wild in 1992 & it still sells every day at Amazon & Kindle. True story about certain members of the Warlocks motorcycle gang.
The story takes 21 years to play out – with many twists & turns – an amalgam of Sons of Anarchy & Breaking Bad – but these outlaw bikers make the Sons look like Cub Scouts.
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