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Contents 1 Nationality 2 Voight being German... 3 Rosewood 4 Photo caption 5 Jon voight was born to slovak - american family...

[edit] Nationality

Jon Voight's grandfather was ethnical german - in german 'sudetenland' or 'sudetendeutsch' (see wikipedia). they lived there for almost 1000 years but nowadays it's cech territory and the germans were kicked out or even slaughtered after 1945. the name voigt is very common in eastern Germany - whereas the 'h' in Jon Voight's name was added to enable a convenient pronunciation of the former german name. Elisa

elisa! please stop your propanda based editing in englisch and german wikipedia without valid sources! Their are enough examples of people having a name that doesn't correspond to their nationality! 25% of german family names have slavic origin, or do you think Dirk Nowitzki is Polish? Furthermore we are talking about eastern Slovakia,the minoritys over there are AFAIK mainly Hungarians, Ukranians and Gipsies. [Popolfi]--217.224.13.33 16:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Voight being German...

Voight is a german name but I believe he was czech. Czechs and germans have always lived together in the sudentenland. That would explain the german name and czech ancestry. Can you verify that he is German? I am pretty sure his family heritage was Czech from the sudentenland.

• • He is often confused with actor Christopher Walken. **

What kind of nonsense is this ?!? He looks / acts nothing at all like Christopher Walken! I wanted to delete this, but I have never edited anything on Wikipedia before and so I wasn't so brash as to do so. But if no one responds to this comment giving any kind of justification, I will go and delete that sentence.

Christopher Walken is in turn often confused with actor Dennis Leary... does this mean Jon Voight, Dennis Leary, and Christopher Walken all are confused for eachother?

[edit] Rosewood

Voight also played in the movie Rosewood with Ving Rhames. This should be added to the filmography.

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he also played in a movie called " a sleep of prisoners" which was aired on national television in 1964 or 1965. i am looking for a copy of this movie and would appreciate any help. thanks andy karpf, "andykarpf@yahoo.com"

For the person who denied that Voight is usually confused with Christopher Walken, consider that the only reason I am visiting Wikipedia, is to once and for all settle the dispute between me and my friends about the identity of Nicholas Cage's character's dad in the movie "National Treasure." We are divided 3 to 5, me being in the minority arguing that the role is played by Christopher Walken. A few minutes ago, I found out that I am wrong... as I was about the Character in the Movie "Holes"

Apparently, there are lots of people out there like me who think the two look alike and do confuse them with each other therefore, it's not Nonsensical.

[edit] Photo caption

Jon Voight at an April 2005 meeting with Senator Norm Coleman and rabbis from Chabad Lubavich

Since his is the only full and recognisable face in the photo, does it matter who else was at the meeting with him? I don't think the others are worthy of mention. JackofOz 03:48, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

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Voight merits better than opening his bio with the "better known as the father of Angelina Jolie" stuff. Weak beginning for an entry on such an important actor. Given he had no hand in her upbringing, or any evident influence on her career, that familial link is worth merely a brief mention further down in the article.

Funnily enough, had come here to say the same thing. And anyway it's a point of view, I'm a young person sort of and I best know Jon Voight as Jon Voight, the bloke from Midnight Cowboy. BennyFromCrossroads 22:39, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jon voight was born to slovak - american family...

Jon Voight is the star of Midnight cowboy and father of Angelina Golie. He was born to Slovak - American family. His father was born in eastern Slovakia where Jon Voight went for holidays. There are few articles on the NET about his visits there. Interestingly Eastern Slovakia is a birth place to Andy Warhol parents too. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Georgeison (talk • contribs) 10:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

Then how do you explain his German surname? I still think, he is of Sudeten-German ancestry, at least on his paternal side. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.255.38.124 (talk) 04:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC).