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Piers Haggard

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{{Short description|British film and television director (1939–2023)}}
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'''Piers Inigo Haggard''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (18 March 1939 – 11 January 2023) was a British director who worked in film, television, and theatre.

==Early life==
A member of the [[Haggard family]], he was born in London, the son of Morna Gillespie and the actor, poet, and novelist [[Stephen Haggard]].<ref name="Yossman">{{cite news |last=Yossman |first=K. J. |date=17 January 2023 |title=Piers Haggard, 'Pennies From Heaven' Director Who Worked With Liza Minnelli, Dies at 83 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/global/piers-haggard-dead-dies-pennies-from-heaven-1235491886/ |accessdate=17 January 2023}}</ref> He was the great-great-nephew of the writer [[Sir Henry Rider Haggard]].<ref name=":1" />

At the age of one, Haggard was evacuated with his mother and older brother Paul to New York where his paternal grandfather [[Godfrey Haggard]] was the British [[consul-general]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2023-01-18 |title=Piers Haggard, director of theatre, film and TV who ranged from lurid horror to Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven – obituary |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/01/18/piers-haggard-director-theatre-film-tv-who-ranged-lurid-horror/ |access-date=2023-01-22 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Shortly after they left, his father wrote his sons a letter, which later that year was published in the ''[[The Atlantic|Atlantic Monthly]]'' as "I'll Go to Bed at Noon: A Soldier's Letter to His Sons".<ref name="bed">{{cite book|last=Fiscus |first=James W.|title=Critical Perspectives on World War II |publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|year=2004|pages=62–69|chapter=I'll go to bed at noon: A soldier's letter to his sons|isbn=978-1-4042-0065-4|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MTcnkLfDZAC&pg=PT65}}</ref> Haggard and his mother returned to Britain after his brother's death from diphtheria. There a younger brother, Mark, was born.<ref name=":0" />

His father was a captain in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|British Intelligence Corps.]]<ref name=":0" /> Sent to Egypt, he had an affair with a married woman, and when she broke off the affair, he committed suicide in 1943. In 1946, Haggard’s mother remarried and the family moved to Muckhart Mill Farm in [[Clackmannanshire]], Scotland.<ref name=":0" /> He attended school at [[Dollar Academy]], and between 1956 and 1960 studied English at [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh University]]. While there, he was active in the dramatic society as an actor and director, and helped found the Festival Fringe Society in 1958.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==Career==
Haggard began his career as an assistant director at the [[Royal Court Theatre|Royal Court]] in 1960.<ref name="Yossman" /> In 1961, he was director of productions at the [[Dundee Repertory Theatre|Dundee Rep]] including directing the [[pantomime]] ''[[Cinderella]]'' which was described by ''[[The Stage]]'' as “the best pantomime Dundee has seen in many years”.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Quinn |first=Michael |date=24 January 2023 |title=Piers Haggard |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/piers-haggard-stage-directors-uk-founder |access-date=2023-01-29 |website=[[The Stage]] |language=En}}</ref> In 1962, he moved to the [[Citizens Theatre|Glasgow Citizens]], where productions included [[Albert Finney]] as [[Luigi Pirandello]]'s [[Henry IV (Pirandello)|''Henry IV'']].<ref name=":2" /> He joined the first [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] company in 1963,<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Evans-Powell |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XnFvEAAAQBAJ&dq=piers+haggard&pg=PA10 |title=The Blood on Satan's Claw |publisher=Liverpool University Press |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-80034-605-5 |pages=10–12 |language=en}}</ref> where he co-directed with [[John Dexter]] and [[Bill Gaskill]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coveney |first=Michael |date=2011-01-24 |title=Desmond O'Donovan obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jan/24/desmond-o-donovan |access-date=2023-01-29 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref> and assisted [[Laurence Olivier]] (1963 on ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'', starring [[Michael Redgrave]]) and [[Franco Zeffirelli]] (1965 on ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'', with [[Maggie Smith]] and [[Robert Stephens]]).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Parfitt |first=Orlando |date=18 January 2023 |title=Piers Haggard, champion of fellow UK directors, dies aged 83 |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/piers-haggard-champion-of-fellow-uk-directors-dies-aged-83/5178210.article |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=[[Screen Daily]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" />

In 1965, he moved to BBC Television, directing plays for the anthology drama series ''[[Thirty-Minute Theatre]]'' <ref name = Yossman/><ref name=":3" /> and episodes of series such as [[The Newcomers (TV series)|The Newcomers]], and ''[[Play for Today]]'' for the BBC, as well as ''[[Armchair Theatre]]'', ''[[Callan (TV series)|Callan]]'', [[Man at the Top (TV series)|''Man at the Top'']] and ''[[Public Eye (TV series)|Public Eye]]'' for ITV.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> He directed for a variety of programmes throughout the 1970s, such as ''[[The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (television series)|The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes]]'', [[Churchill's People]]'',''<ref name=":1" /> ''[[The Love School]]'',<ref name=":1" /> ''[[Love for Lydia (TV series)|Love for Lydia]]'' and ''Play of the Month: The Chester Mystery Plays'' (1976).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Piers Haggard obituary: Pennies from Heaven and The Blood on Satan's Claw director |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/piers-haggard-obituary-pennies-from-heaven-blood-satans-claw-director |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |date=23 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1978, Haggard was hired by producer [[Kenith Trodd]] to direct [[Dennis Potter]]'s BBC drama serial ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'', which received a [[BAFTA]]..<ref name = Yossman/><ref name=":0" /> The following year, he directed the science-fiction serial ''[[Quatermass (TV serial)|Quatermass]]'', a [[Euston Films]] production for [[Thames Television]], which was shown on the ITV network.<ref name=":1" />

Returning to the National Theatre in 1981, he directed [[Tom Taylor]]’s play ''The Ticket-of-Leave Man'' and the next year, at the Piccadilly Theatre, directed the Norwegian ‘opera-musical’ ''[[Which Witch]]'', for which he worked on the libretto.<ref name=":2" /> For television, he directed two [[Alan Bennett]] plays ''Marks'' and ''Rolling Home'' (1982), ''Treasure Island'' (1985), Dennis Potter's ''Visitors'' (1987), and [[Jack Rosenthal]]’s ''[[Eskimo Day]]'' (1996) and ''Cold Enough for Snow'' (1997).<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />

In 1966, Haggard began his film career working as an interpreter for [[Michelangelo Antonioni]] on the British-Italian film ''[[Blowup]]''.<ref name=":4" /> His feature film debut was ''[[I Can't... I Can't|Wedding Night]]'' (1970).<ref name=":3" /> The producers of ''[[The Blood on Satan's Claw]]'' (1970) attended a screening of ''Wedding Night'' and offered the job of director to him.<ref name="Yossman" /><ref name=":0" /> He also directed the cinema version of ''Quatermass'' (1980)'';'' ''Summer Story'' (1988); ''[[The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu]]'' (1980), [[Peter Sellers|Peter Sellers']] last film; and ''[[Venom (1981 film)|Venom]]'' (1982).<ref name=":0" /> Haggard's audio commentary on ''Venom'' is well known for its forthrightness, and some hilarious anecdotes on the competitive antics of stars [[Oliver Reed]] and [[Klaus Kinski]].

Later television work included ''Mrs Reinhardt (1986)''; a number of US TV Specials with stars such as Liza Minnelli, Cheryl Ladd and Judge Reinhold; the [[Gerry Anderson]] science-fiction series ''[[Space Precinct]]'' (1994); and various one-off TV dramas such as ''The Hunt'' (2001). The Canadian prairies-set ''[[Conquest (1998 film)|Conquest]]'' (1998) was his last feature film. He directed [[Academy Award]] winners [[Vanessa Redgrave]] and [[Maximilian Schell]] in the 2006 mini-series ''[[The Shell Seekers (mini-series)|The Shell Seekers]]''.<ref name=":3" />

Haggard campaigned for directors' rights. He was president of The Association of Directors and Producers in 1976; he founded and was first chairman of the Directors Guild of Great Britain (DGGB),<ref name="Yossman" /> formed in 1982 at a meeting of over a hundred film, theatre, and television directors at [[Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club]] in London. He started the Directors’ and Producers' Rights Society (DPRS, 1987), serving on its board for 20 years, until it transmuted in 2007 into Directors UK, where he served on the board until 2017.<ref name = Yossman/> He was also vice president and chairman of FERA, the Association of European film directors, from 2010 to 2013.<ref name="Yossman" />

It has been claimed that Haggard invented the term '[[folk horror]]'.This appears not to be the case (though the term was invented in regard to his film ''Blood on Satan's Claw''), but his use of it in a 2004 interview in ''[[Fangoria]]'' magazine does appear to have popularised the term.

== Personal life ==
Haggard had four children by his first marriage, to Christiane Stokes.<ref name="Yossman" /> The couple married in 1960 and later divorced.<ref name = Gilbey>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/30/piers-haggard-obituary|title = Piers Haggard obituary|last = Gilbey|first = Ryan|date = 30 January 2023|accessdate = 30 January 2023|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]}}</ref> In 1972, Haggard married stained glass artist Anna Sklovsky, with whom he had two children, including [[Daisy Haggard]].<ref name="Yossman" /><ref name = Gilbey/>

Haggard was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[2016 New Year Honours]] for services to film, television and theatre.<ref>{{London Gazette
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Haggard died on 11 January 2023, at the age of 83.<ref name="Yossman" />

==Selected filmography==
* ''[[I Can't... I Can't|Wedding Night]]'' (1970)
* ''[[The Blood on Satan's Claw]]'' (1971)
* ''[[The Love School]]'' (1975)
* ''[[Quatermass (TV serial)|The Quatermass Conclusion]]'' (1979)
* ''[[The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Venom (1981 film)|Venom]]'' (1981)
* ''[[A Summer Story]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Four Eyes and Six Guns]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Conquest (1998 film)|Conquest]]'' (1998)

==References==
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==External links==
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Jon Voight

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{{short description|American actor (born 1938)}}
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| office = [[Ambassadors of the United States#Special envoys, representatives, and coordinators|Special Ambassador to Hollywood]]
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| birth_place = [[Yonkers, New York]], U.S.
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'''Jonathan Vincent Voight''' ({{IPAc-en|'|v|ɔɪ|t}}; born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. Throughout his career, he has received [[List of awards and nominations received by Jon Voight|numerous accolades]], including an [[Academy Award]], a [[British Academy Film Award]], and four [[Golden Globe Awards]] as well as nominations for four [[Primetime Emmy Awards]]. In 2019, he was awarded the [[List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts|National Medal of Arts]].<ref>{{cite web |title=President Donald J. Trump to Award the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal |access-date=November 21, 2019 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |publisher=[[White House]] |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-award-national-medal-arts-national-humanities-medal/ |archive-date=May 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509183615/https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-award-national-medal-arts-national-humanities-medal/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Films in which Voight has appeared have grossed more than $5.2 billion worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top Stars at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 301-400)|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/person/126870401-Adam-Sandler#tab=summary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201223928/https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-star-records/worldwide/lifetime-acting/top-grossing-stars/301 |archive-date=February 1, 2024|publisher=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |access-date=February 1, 2024}}</ref>

Associated with the angst and unruliness that typified the late [[1960s counterculture]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jon_voight |title=Jon Voight |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-date=May 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523131406/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jon_voight |url-status=live}}</ref> Voight won the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] for his portrayal of a [[paraplegic]] [[Vietnam veteran]] in ''[[Coming Home (1978 film)|Coming Home]]'' (1978). His other Oscar nominations are for playing Joe Buck, a would-be [[gigolo]], in ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'' (1969); ruthless [[bank robber]] Oscar "Manny" Manheim in ''[[Runaway Train (film)|Runaway Train]]'' (1985); and sportscaster [[Howard Cosell]] in ''[[Ali (2001 film)|Ali]]'' (2001). His other notable films include ''[[Deliverance]]'' (1972), ''[[The Champ (1979 film)|The Champ]]'' (1979), ''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]'' (1995), ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]]'' (1996), ''[[The Rainmaker (1997 film)|The Rainmaker]]'' (1997), ''[[Enemy of the State (film)|Enemy of the State]]'' (1998), ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'', ''[[Zoolander]]'' (both 2001), ''[[Holes (film)|Holes]]'' (2003), ''[[Glory Road (film)|Glory Road]]'' (2006), ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' (2007), and ''[[Pride and Glory (film)|Pride and Glory]]'' (2008). He is also known for his role in the ''[[National Treasure (franchise)|National Treasure]]'' film series.

Voight is also known for his television roles, including as [[Nazi]] officer [[Jürgen Stroop]] in ''[[Uprising (2001 film)|Uprising]]'' (2001) and [[Pope John Paul II]] on the [[Pope John Paul II (TV miniseries)|eponymous miniseries]] (2005). His role as Mickey Donovan on the [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] drama series ''[[Ray Donovan]]'' brought him newfound acclaim and attention among critics and audiences, as well as his fourth Golden Globe win in 2014. He also appeared on the thriller series ''[[24 (TV show)|24]]'' in its seventh season.

Despite earlier having liberal views, Voight has gained attention in his later years for his outspoken [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] and religious beliefs.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jon-voight-i-have-to-say-my-piece/|title= Jon Voight: "I have to say my piece"|website= [[CBS News]]|date= April 25, 2021|accessdate= April 17, 2023|archive-date= April 18, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230418000237/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jon-voight-i-have-to-say-my-piece/|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/11/jon-voight-donald-trump-re-election-campaign-civil-war|title= Jon Voight Thinks He and Donald Trump Are in "Our Greatest Fight Since the Civil War"|website= [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date= November 11, 2020|accessdate= April 17, 2023|archive-date= March 24, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230324102138/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/11/jon-voight-donald-trump-re-election-campaign-civil-war|url-status= live}}</ref> He is the father of actress [[Angelina Jolie]] and actor [[James Haven]].

==Early life and education ==
Jonathan Vincent Voight<ref name="britannica.com"/> was born on December 29, 1938, in [[Yonkers, New York]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Jon Voight bio |access-date=June 10, 2009 |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/115561/Jon-Voight/biography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610132655/https://movies.nytimes.com/person/115561/Jon-Voight/biography |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |year=2008 |archive-date=10 June 2008}}</ref> to Barbara ({{nee|Kamp}}) and Elmer Voight ({{ne|Voytka}}),<ref name="wargs">{{cite web |last=Reitwiesner |first=William Addams |title=Ancestry of Angelina Jolie |publisher=wargs.com |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/voight.html |access-date=April 24, 2011 |archive-date=June 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601150956/http://www.wargs.com/other/voight.html |url-status=live }}</ref> a professional golfer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/new-york-club-professional-elmer-voight-raised-geologist-singer-and-academy-award-winning-actor |title=New York club professional Elmer Voight raised a geologist, a singer and an Academy Award-winning actor |work=Golf Magazine |date=2014-08-06 |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417103215/https://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/new-york-club-professional-elmer-voight-raised-geologist-singer-and-academy-award-winning-actor |url-status=live }}</ref> He has two brothers, [[Barry Voight]], a former [[volcanologist]] at [[Pennsylvania State University]],<ref>[http://www.geosc.psu.edu/people/faculty/personalpages/bvoight/index.html Barry Voight Biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907162328/http://www.geosc.psu.edu/people/faculty/personalpages/bvoight/index.html |date=September 7, 2013 }}. Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved April 24, 2011.</ref> and James Wesley Voight, known as [[Chip Taylor]], a singer-songwriter who wrote "[[Wild Thing (The Troggs song)|Wild Thing]]" and "[[Angel of the Morning]]". Voight's paternal grandfather and his paternal grandmother's parents were [[List of Slovak Americans|Slovak]] immigrants,<ref>{{cite web |title=Is Jon Voight Slovak? |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh]] |access-date=June 2, 2011 |url=http://www.pitt.edu/~votruba/qsonhist/celebrities/voightjon.html |archive-date=February 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219111111/http://www.pitt.edu/~votruba/qsonhist/celebrities/voightjon.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's parents were German immigrants.<ref name="wargs" /> Political activist [[Joseph P. Kamp]] was his great-uncle through his mother.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Middle East: Abstracts and index, Part 2 |publisher=Northumberland Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vK1tAAAAMAAJ |page=53 |date=2006 |access-date=17 January 2019}}</ref>

Voight was raised as a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sunday.niedziela.pl/artykul.php?dz=kultura&id_art=00006 |title=Sunday Catholic weekly |work=sunday.niedziela.pl |access-date=April 5, 2010 |archive-date=February 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227135724/http://sunday.niedziela.pl/artykul.php?dz=kultura&id_art=00006 |url-status=live }}</ref> and attended the Catholic boys' [[Archbishop Stepinac High School]] in [[White Plains, New York]], where he first took an interest in acting. Following his graduation in 1956, he enrolled at [[Catholic University of America]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], where he majored in art and graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree in 1960. After graduation, Voight moved to New York City, where he pursued an acting career. He graduated from the [[Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre]],<ref name="britannica.com">{{Cite web |title=Jon Voight {{!}} Biography, Movies, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Voight |access-date=2020-12-02 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en |archive-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003161039/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Voight |url-status=live }}</ref> where he studied under [[Sanford Meisner]].<ref name="britannica.com"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/jon-voight |title=Jon Voight | Encyclopedia.com |website=encyclopedia.com |access-date=December 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501214858/https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/jon-voight |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Career==
===1961–1969: Early roles and breakthrough ===
[[File:Jon Voight as Prince Hamlet.jpg|thumb|Voight as Prince Hamlet in ''[[Hamlet]]'' in 1976]]
Voight started his off-Broadway career in a [[revue]] called ''O Oysters'', which ran in early 1961.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/cowboy-ar2.html | title=The New York Times: Best Pictures | website=[[The New York Times]] | access-date=January 6, 2024 | archive-date=January 18, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118101522/http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/cowboy-ar2.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KiEEAAAAMBAJ&dq=o+oysters+revue+jon+voight&pg=PA12 | title=Billboard | date=February 6, 1961 }}</ref> He made his Broadway debut in the fall of 1961 as Rolf in ''[[The Sound of Music]]''.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zNGGDwAAQBAJ&dq=jon+voight+sound+of+music+1961&pg=PT65 | title=The Sound of Music FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Maria, the von Trapps and Our Favorite Things | isbn=978-1-4950-2595-2 | last1=Monush | first1=Barry | date=February 2015 | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Voight | title=Jon Voight | Biography, Movies, Midnight Cowboy, & Facts | Britannica | date=December 25, 2023 | access-date=December 2, 2020 | archive-date=October 3, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003161039/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Voight | url-status=live }}</ref> In the early 1960s, Voight found work in television, appearing in several episodes of ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', between 1963 and 1968, as well as guest spots on ''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]'' and ''[[The Defenders (1961 TV series)|The Defenders]]'', both in 1963, and ''[[Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)|Twelve O'Clock High]]'', in 1966 and ''[[Cimarron Strip]]'' in 1968. Voight's theater career took off in January 1965, playing Rodolfo in [[Arthur Miller]]'s ''[[A View from the Bridge]]'' in an [[Off-Broadway]] revival. Voight's film debut did not come until 1967, when he took a part in Phillip Kaufman's crimefighter spoof, ''Fearless Frank''. He also took a small role in 1967's western, ''[[Hour of the Gun]]'', directed by veteran [[Film director|helmer]] [[John Sturges]]. In 1968 he took a role in director Paul Williams's ''Out of It''.

In 1968, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'' (1969), the film that would make his career. He played Joe Buck, a naïve male [[Male prostitution|hustler]] from [[Texas]], adrift in New York City. He comes under the tutelage of [[Dustin Hoffman]]'s Ratso Rizzo, a tubercular petty [[thief]] and [[con artist]]. The film explored late 1960s New York and the development of an unlikely, but poignant friendship between the two main characters. Directed by [[John Schlesinger]] and based on a novel by [[James Leo Herlihy]], the film struck a chord with critics and audiences. Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Both Voight and Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to [[John Wayne]] in'' [[True Grit (1969 film)|True Grit]].''

=== 1970–1989: Stardom and acclaim ===
[[File:Jon Voight 1988.jpg|left|thumb|180px|Voight at the [[60th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]] in April 1988]]
In 1970, Voight appeared in [[Mike Nichols]]' adaptation of ''[[Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22]]'', and re-teamed with director Paul Williams to star in ''[[The Revolutionary (1970 film)|The Revolutionary]]'', as a left-wing college student struggling with his conscience. Voight next starred in 1972's ''[[Deliverance]].'' Directed by [[John Boorman]], from a script that [[James Dickey]] had helped to adapt from his own novel of the same name, it tells the story of a [[canoe]] trip in a feral, backwoods America. Both the film and the performances of Voight and co-stars [[Burt Reynolds]] and [[Ned Beatty]] received great critical acclaim, and were popular with audiences. Voight also appeared at the [[Studio Arena Theater]], in [[Buffalo, New York]], in the [[Tennessee Williams]] play ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' from 1973 to 1974 as [[Stanley Kowalski]].

Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1973's ''[[The All-American Boy (film)|The All American Boy]]'', then appeared in the 1974 film ''[[Conrack (1974 film)|Conrack]]'', directed by [[Martin Ritt]]. Based on [[Pat Conroy]]'s autobiographical novel ''[[The Water Is Wide (book)|The Water Is Wide]]'', Voight portrayed the title character, an idealistic young schoolteacher sent to teach underprivileged black children on a remote [[South Carolina]] island. The same year he appeared in ''[[The Odessa File (film)|The Odessa File]]'', based on [[Frederick Forsyth]]'s thriller, as Peter Miller, a young German journalist who discovers a conspiracy to protect former [[Nazi]]s still operating within Germany. This film first teamed him with the actor-director [[Maximilian Schell]], who acted out a character named and based on the "Butcher of Riga" [[Eduard Roschmann]], and for whom Voight would appear in 1975's ''[[End of the Game]]'', a psychological thriller co-starring [[Jacqueline Bisset]] and based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]].

According to Joseph McBride's biography of [[Steven Spielberg]], Voight was Spielberg's first choice for the role of Matt Hooper in the 1975 film ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' and he turned down the role, which was ultimately played by [[Richard Dreyfuss]].<ref>Joseph McBride, ''Steven Spielberg: A Biography'' (Da Capo Press, 1999), {{ISBN|978-0-306-80900-2}}, p.236. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DbqATVZHvkQC&q=%22Jon+Voight%22+Jaws+Hooper&pg=PA236 Excerpt available]{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at [[Google Books]].</ref> However, in interview with Dr. Ben Carson on September 6, 2024,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB_hvV2Ke3s&t=6m35s | title=Courage in Cinema: Unfiltered Jon Voight Stands Tall | website=[[YouTube]] | date=September 9, 2024 }}</ref> Voight was asked if he turned down the part of Quint in Jaws; Voight said that the offer of a part in Jaws is "a myth" and that Spielberg had actually offered him a part in a different, less successful film, a role that he turned down because he thought it was a "repeat of the character from Midnight Cowboy". In 1978, Voight portrayed the [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] veteran Luke Martin in [[Hal Ashby]]'s film ''[[Coming Home (1978 film)|Coming Home]],'' and was awarded [[Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actor]] at the [[Cannes Film Festival]], for his portrait of a cynical, yet noble paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar-activist [[Ron Kovic]], with whom [[Jane Fonda]]'s character falls in love. The film included a much-talked-about love scene between the two. Fonda won her second [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] award for her role, and Voight won for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Oscars.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979 |title=The 51st Academy Awards |work=Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences |date=October 5, 2014 |access-date=16 September 2018 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402004111/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1979, Voight once again put on [[boxing]] gloves, starring as an alcoholic ex-heavyweight in [[Franco Zeffirelli]]'s ''[[The Champ (1979 film)|The Champ]]'' with [[Faye Dunaway]] and [[Ricky Schroder]]. The film was an international success, but less popular with American audiences.

He next reteamed with director Ashby in 1982's ''[[Lookin' to Get Out]]'', in which he played Alex Kovac, a con man who has run into debt with New York mobsters and hopes to win enough in Las Vegas to pay them off. Voight both co-wrote the script and also co-produced. He also produced and acted in 1983's ''[[Table for Five]]'', in which he played a widower bringing up his children by himself. Also in 1983, Voight was slated to play Robert Harmon in [[John Cassavetes]]' Golden Bear-winning ''[[Love Streams (film)|Love Streams]]'', having performed the role on stage in 1981. However, a few weeks before shooting began, Voight announced that he also wanted to direct the picture and was consequently dropped.<ref>''Cassavetes on Cassavetes'', Ed. Ray Carney, London: Faber and Faber, 2001, p. 474</ref> In 1985, Voight teamed up with Russian writer and director [[Andrei Konchalovsky]] to play the role of escaped con Oscar "Manny" Manheim in ''[[Runaway Train (film)|Runaway Train]]''. The script was based on a story by [[Akira Kurosawa]], and paired Voight with [[Eric Roberts]] as a fellow escapee, and [[Rebecca De Mornay]] as an assistant locomotive engineer. Voight received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the [[Golden Globe]]'s award for Best Actor. Roberts was also honored for his performance, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Voight followed up this and other performances with a role in the 1986 film, ''[[Desert Bloom (film)|Desert Bloom]]'', and reportedly experienced a "spiritual awakening" toward the end of the decade. In 1989, Voight starred in and helped write ''[[Eternity (1990 film)|Eternity]]'', which dealt with a television reporter's efforts to uncover corruption.

===1990–2012: Established actor ===
[[File:Jon Voight Cannes.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Voight at the [[1993 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]] in 1993]]
He made his first acting debut into [[television film]]s, acting in 1991's ''[[Chernobyl: The Final Warning]]'', followed by ''The Last of his Tribe'', in 1992. He followed with 1992's ''[[The Rainbow Warrior (film)|The Rainbow Warrior]]'' for ABC, the story of the [[Rainbow Warrior (1978)|ill-fated Greenpeace ship]] sunk by [[France|French]] operatives in [[Auckland Harbour]]. For the remainder of the decade, Voight would alternate between feature films and television movies, including a starring role in the 1993 miniseries ''[[Return to Lonesome Dove]]'', a continuation of [[Larry McMurtry]]'s [[Western (genre)|western]] saga, 1989's ''[[Lonesome Dove (miniseries)|Lonesome Dove]]''. Voight played Captain Woodrow F. Call, the part played by [[Tommy Lee Jones]] in the original miniseries. Voight made a cameo appearance as himself on the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "[[The Mom & Pop Store]]" airing November 17, 1994, in which [[George Costanza]] buys a car that appears to be owned by Jon Voight. Voight described the process leading up to the episode in an interview on the Red Carpet at the 2006 BAFTA Emmy Awards:

::Well what happened was I was asked to be on Seinfeld. They said: "Would you do a Seinfeld?" And I said, and I just happened to know to see a few Seinfelds and I knew these guys were really tops; they were really, really clever guys, and I liked the show. And so I said "Sure!" and I thought they would ask me to do a walk-on, the way it came: "Would you come be part of the show?" And I said "Yeah, sure I'll do it." You know what I mean? Then I got the script and my name was on every page because it was about my car. And I laughed; it was hysterically funny. So I was really delighted to do it. The writer came up to me and he said "Jon, would you come take a look at my car to see if you ever owned it?", because the writer wrote it from a real experience where someone sold him the car based on the fact that it was my car. And I went down and I looked at the car and I said "No, I never had this car." So unfortunately I had to give him the bad news. But it was a funny episode.<ref>{{YouTube|b8o140TFyAA }}{{dead link|date=September 2011}}</ref>

In 1992, Voight appeared in the HBO film ''[[The Last of His Tribe]]''.<ref name=LAT>{{cite web |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-20-vw-4294-story.html |title=Makers of HBO's 'Tribe' Given a Warm Reception |date=March 20, 1992 |first=Bill |last=Higgins |access-date=February 11, 2014 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305220442/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-20/news/vw-4294_1_american-indian-college-fund |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1995, Voight played the role of "Nate", a sophisticated [[Fence (criminal)|fence]], in the crime drama film ''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]'', directed by [[Michael Mann (film director)|Michael Mann]], and appeared in the television films ''Convict Cowboy'' and ''The Tin Soldier'', also directing the latter film. Voight next appeared in 1996's blockbuster film ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission: Impossible]]'', directed by [[Brian De Palma]] and starring [[Tom Cruise]]. Voight played the role of spymaster James Phelps, a role originated by [[Peter Graves (actor)|Peter Graves]] in the television series. In 1997, Voight appeared in six films, beginning with ''[[Rosewood (film)|Rosewood]]'', based on the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of [[Rosewood, Florida]], by the white residents of nearby Sumner. Voight played John Wright, a white Rosewood storeowner who follows his conscience and protects his black customers from the white rage. He next appeared in ''[[Anaconda (1997 film)|Anaconda]]'', set in the [[Amazon Basin|Amazon]]; he played Paul Sarone, a snake hunter obsessed with a fabled giant [[anaconda]], who hijacks an unwitting [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] film crew who are looking for a remote Indian tribe. Voight next appeared in a supporting role in [[Oliver Stone]]'s ''[[U Turn (1997 film)|U Turn]]'', portraying a blind man. He took a supporting role in ''[[The Rainmaker (1997 film)|The Rainmaker]]'', adopted from the [[John Grisham]] novel and directed by [[Francis Ford Coppola]]. He played an unscrupulous lawyer representing an [[insurance]] company, facing off with a neophyte lawyer played by [[Matt Damon]]. His last film of 1997 was ''Boys Will Be Boys'', a family comedy directed by [[Dom DeLuise]].

The following year, Voight had the lead role in the television film ''The Fixer'', in which he played Jack Killoran, a lawyer who crosses ethical lines in order to "fix" things for his wealthy clients. A near-fatal accident awakens his dormant conscience and Killoran soon runs afoul of his former clients. He also took a substantial role in [[Tony Scott]]'s 1998 political thriller, ''[[Enemy of the State (film)|Enemy of the State]],'' in which he played [[Will Smith]]'s character's stalwart antagonist from the NSA. Voight was reunited with director Boorman in 1998's ''[[The General (1998 film)|The General]]''. Set in [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], the film tells the true-life story of the charismatic leader of a gang of thieves, [[Martin Cahill]], at odds with both the police and the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]]. Voight portrays Inspector Ned Kenny, determined to bring Cahill to justice. He next appeared in 1999's ''[[Varsity Blues (film)|Varsity Blues]]''. He played a blunt, autocratic football coach, pitted in a test of wills against his star player, portrayed by [[James Van Der Beek]]. Produced by fledgling [[MTV]] Pictures, the film became a surprise hit and helped connect Voight with a younger audience. Voight played Noah in the 1999 television production ''[[Noah's Ark (1999 film)|Noah's Ark]]'', and appeared in ''Second String,'' also for TV. He also appeared with [[Cheryl Ladd]] in the feature ''[[A Dog of Flanders (1999 film)|A Dog of Flanders]]'', a remake of a popular film set in Belgium.

[[File:JonVoightHWOFJune2013.jpg|thumb|180px|Voight in June 2013]]
Voight next portrayed President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 2001's action/war film ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'', having accepted the role when [[Gene Hackman]] declined (his performance was received favorably by critics). Also that year, he appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of ''[[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000927/ca_paramou.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001017211419/http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000927/ca_paramou.html |title=Jon Voight Joins Cast of 'Tomb Raider' to Play Lord Croft |agency=[[PR Newswire]] |publisher=[[Cision]] |archive-date=October 17, 2000 |date=September 27, 2000 |access-date=June 11, 2019}}</ref> Based on the popular video game, the digital adventuress was played on the big screen by Voight's own real-life daughter [[Angelina Jolie]]. That year, he also appeared in ''[[Zoolander]]'', directed by [[Ben Stiller]] who starred as the title character, a vapid supermodel with humble roots. Voight appeared as Zoolander's coal-miner father. The film extracted both pathos and cruel humor from the scenes of Zoolander's return home, when he entered the mines alongside his father and brothers and Voight's character expressed his unspoken disgust at his son's chosen profession. Also in 2001, Voight joined [[Leelee Sobieski]], [[Hank Azaria]] and [[David Schwimmer]] in the made-for-television film ''[[Uprising (2001 film)|Uprising]]'', which was based on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. Voight played Major-General [[Juergen Stroop]], the German officer responsible for the destruction of the Jewish resistance, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie|Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie]].

Director Michael Mann tagged Voight for a supporting role in the 2001 biopic ''[[Ali (2001 film)|Ali]]'', which starred [[Will Smith]] as the controversial former heavyweight champ, [[Muhammad Ali]]. Voight was almost unrecognizable under his make-up and [[toupée]], as he impersonated the sports broadcaster [[Howard Cosell]]. Voight received his fourth Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, for his performance. Also in 2001, he appeared in the television mini-series ''[[Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story]]'' along with [[Vanessa Redgrave]], [[Matthew Modine]], [[Richard Attenborough]], and [[Mia Sara]]. In 2003, he played the role of Marion Seville/Mr. Sir in ''[[Holes (film)|Holes]]''. In 2004, Voight joined [[Nicolas Cage]], in ''[[National Treasure (film)|National Treasure]]'' as Patrick Gates, the father of Cage's character. In 2005, he played the title role in the second part of CBS' miniseries, ''[[Pope John Paul II (miniseries)|Pope John Paul II]]''.

In 2006, he was [[University of Kentucky|Kentucky Wildcats]] head coach [[Adolph Rupp]] in the Disney hit ''[[Glory Road (film)|Glory Road]]''. In 2007, he played [[United States Secretary of Defense]] John Keller in the summer blockbuster ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'', reuniting him with ''Holes'' star [[Shia LaBeouf]]. Also in 2007, Voight reprised his role as Patrick Gates in ''[[National Treasure: Book of Secrets]]''. He appeared in ''[[Bratz (film)|Bratz]]'' with his goddaughter [[Skyler Shaye]]. In 2008, he appeared as Creighton Kinkaid in the Christmas film ''[[Four Christmases]]''. In 2009, Voight played Jonas Hodges, the American antagonist, in the seventh season of the hit [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] drama ''[[24 (TV series)|24]]'', a role that many argue is based on real life figures [[Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach|Alfried Krupp]], [[Johann Rall]] and [[Erik Prince]]. Voight plays the [[chief executive officer]] of a fictional [[private military company]] based in northern Virginia called ''Starkwood'', which has loose resemblances to [[Academi]] and [[ThyssenKrupp]]. Voight made his first appearance in the two-hour prequel episode ''[[24: Redemption]]'' on November 23. He then went on to recur for 10 episodes of Season 7. He joined [[Dennis Haysbert]] as the only two actors ever to have been credited with the "Special Guest Appearance" card on ''[[24 (TV series)|24]]''.

That same year Voight also lent his voice talents in the [[Thomas Nelson (publisher)|Thomas Nelson]] audio Bible production known as ''The Word of Promise''. In this dramatized audio, Voight played the character of [[Abraham]]. The project also featured a large ensemble of other well-known Hollywood actors including [[Jim Caviezel]], [[Louis Gossett Jr.]], [[John Rhys-Davies]], [[Luke Perry]], [[Gary Sinise]], [[Jason Alexander]], [[Christopher McDonald]], [[Marisa Tomei]] and [[John Schneider (screen actor)|John Schneider]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://wordofpromise.thomasnelson.com/cast.php |title=The Word of Promise: Cast |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029002922/http://wordofpromise.thomasnelson.com/cast.php |archive-date=2014-10-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-16-me-beliefs16-story.html |title=BELIEFS : Stars lined up for elaborate audio Bible : Michael York, Jason Alexander and many others gave voice to a 79-CD reading of Old and New Testaments. |date=November 16, 2009 |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-date=February 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214194441/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/16/local/me-beliefs16 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===2013–2024: Later career===
[[File:Jon Voight 2024.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Voight at the [[USS Ronald Reagan|USS ''Ronald Reagan'']] in 2024]]
In 2013, Voight made his much-acclaimed appearance on ''[[Ray Donovan]]'' as Mickey Donovan, the main character's conniving father. The role earned him a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]] in 2014 as well as nominations for two [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Denton Davidson |url=https://www.goldderby.com/article/2017/jon-voight-ray-donovan-2017-emmys-news/ |title=Jon Voight could ride 'Ray Donovan' Emmy wave to first career triumph |publisher=GoldDerby |date=2017-06-05 |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-date=October 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001073451/https://www.goldderby.com/article/2017/jon-voight-ray-donovan-2017-emmys-news/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mic.com/articles/78821/ray-donovan-wins-a-golden-globe-for-best-supporting-actor |title='Ray Donovan' Wins a Golden Globe For Best Supporting Actor |publisher=Mic.com |date=2014-01-12 |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802185913/https://www.mic.com/articles/78821/ray-donovan-wins-a-golden-globe-for-best-supporting-actor |url-status=live }}</ref> He reprised his role in the 2022 film ''[[Ray Donovan: The Movie]]''. He played Henry Shaw Sr. in ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)|Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'' (2016). The following year he acted in the [[Christian drama]] ''[[Same Kind of Different as Me (film)|Same Kind of Different as Me]]'' alongside [[Greg Kinnear]] and [[Renée Zellweger]]. On March 26, 2019, Voight was appointed to a six-year term on the Board of Trustees of the [[Kennedy Center]] in Washington DC.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/trump-appoints-jon-voight-mike-huckabee-and-8-others-to-kennedy-center-board/2019/03/27/bda1f858-50cd-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html |title=Trump appoints Jon Voight, Mike Huckabee and 8 others to Kennedy Center board of trustees |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2019-03-27 |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-date=December 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231000506/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/trump-appoints-jon-voight-mike-huckabee-and-8-others-to-kennedy-center-board/2019/03/27/bda1f858-50cd-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://dcist.com/story/19/03/27/trump-appoints-mike-huckabee-jon-voight-to-the-kennedy-center-board/ |title=Trump Appoints Mike Huckabee, Jon Voight To The Kennedy Center Board |publisher=DCist |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228182657/https://dcist.com/story/19/03/27/trump-appoints-mike-huckabee-jon-voight-to-the-kennedy-center-board/ |archive-date=December 28, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> He portrayed [[Supreme Court Justice]] [[Warren E. Burger]] in the film ''[[Roe v. Wade (film)|Roe v. Wade]]'' (2020). In 2022 he participated in the documentary film ''[[Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy]]'' with [[Bob Balaban]], [[Brian De Palma]] and [[Brenda Vaccaro]]. It premiered at the [[79th Venice International Film Festival]] and was later shortlisted for the [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature]] at the [[96th Academy Awards]]. In 2022, Voight was cast in the science fiction epic ''[[Megalopolis (film)|Megalopolis]]'', directed by [[Francis Ford Coppola]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |date=2022-05-12 |title=Francis Coppola Sets 'Megalopolis' Cast: Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight & Filmmaker's 'Apocalypse Now' Teen Discovery Laurence Fishburne |url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/francis-coppola-megalopolis-adam-driver-forest-whitaker-nathalie-emmanuel-jon-voight-laurence-fishburne-1235022150/ |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=Deadline |language=en-US |archive-date=May 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512170307/https://deadline.com/2022/05/francis-coppola-megalopolis-adam-driver-forest-whitaker-nathalie-emmanuel-jon-voight-laurence-fishburne-1235022150/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In ''[[Reagan (2024 film)|Reagan]]'', Jon Voight is cast as [[Viktor Ivanov]], a former [[KGB]] agent. The film, starring [[Dennis Quaid]] as [[Ronald Reagan]], was theatrically released in the United States on August 30, 2024.

=== 2025–present: Special Ambassador to Hollywood ===
On January 16, 2025, it was announced by [[President-elect of the United States|president-elect]] [[Donald Trump]] that Voight would serve in a new role as a Special Ambassador to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], sharing the role with fellow actors [[Mel Gibson]] and [[Sylvester Stallone]]. Trump stated that he wants these actors to make Hollywood "stronger than ever before" by bringing back business lost to "foreign countries".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moreau |first=Jordan |date=2025-01-16 |title=Trump Names Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as 'Special Ambassadors' to 'Troubled' Hollywood: They'll Bring 'Lost Business' Back |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/trump-sylvester-stallone-mel-gibson-jon-voight-ambassadors-hollywood-1236276088/ |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> According to [[Deadline Hollywood|''Deadline'']], by May 2025, Voight had held meetings with both Hollywood unions and executives on issues with domestic film production. Stallone and Gibson were not involved and have not held similar talks of their own.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campione |first=Katie |date=2025-05-02 |title=Jon Voight Has A Plan To Save Hollywood: Will Trump Or Anyone Else Care? |url=https://deadline.com/2025/05/jon-voight-save-hollywood-plan-trump-approval-1236383155/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Political views==
[[File:National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Presentations (49101695708).jpg|thumb|Voight with President [[Donald Trump]] after receiving the [[National Medal of Arts]] in 2019]]
In his early life, Voight's political views aligned with American [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] views, and he supported President [[John F. Kennedy]], describing [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|his assassination]] as traumatizing to people at that time.<ref name="mojo">{{cite web |date=September 8, 2007 |first=Scott |last=Holleran |title=Interview: Actor Jon Voight |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/features/?id=2381&pagenum=all&p=.htm |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=June 9, 2009 |archive-date=March 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316010543/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/features/?id=2381&pagenum=all&p=.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> He also worked alongside [[Jane Fonda]], [[Tina Sinatra]], and [[Cicely Tyson]] for the [[George McGovern]] campaign, assisting with voter registration efforts in the inner city areas of [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite book |isbn=978-0-684-87076-2 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |title=My father's daughter |url=https://archive.org/details/myfathersdaughte00sina |url-access=limited |author1=Tina Sinatra |author-link=Tina Sinatra |author2=Jeff Coplon |page=[https://archive.org/details/myfathersdaughte00sina/page/140 140] |year=2000}}</ref> Voight actively [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|protested against]] the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="wash" /> In the 1970s, he made public appearances alongside [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Leonard Bernstein]] in support of the leftist [[Popular Unity (Chile)|Popular Unity]] group in [[Chile]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The World the Sixties Made |url=https://archive.org/details/worldsixtiesmade00goss |url-access=limited |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldsixtiesmade00goss/page/n117 107] |first=Van |last=Gosse |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1-59213-201-0 |year=2003}}</ref>

In a July 28, 2008, [[op-ed]] in ''[[The Washington Times]],'' Voight wrote that he regretted his youthful [[anti-war]] activism, and claimed that the peace movement of that time was driven by "[[Marxist]] propaganda". He also claimed that the radicals in the peace movement were responsible for the communists coming to power in Vietnam and Cambodia and for failing to stop the subsequent slaughter of 1.5 million people in the [[Khmer Rouge Killing Fields|Killing Fields]].<ref name="wash" />

In the same op-ed, Voight also criticized the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and [[Barack Obama]]'s bid to become president, claiming that the Democrats had created "a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure (Obama)" who would "demoralize this country and help create a socialist America."<ref name="wash" /> He claimed that Obama had grown up with the teachings of very angry, militant white and black people around him.<ref name="wash">{{cite news |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/voight/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Times]] |title=My Concerns for America |date=July 28, 2008 |access-date=July 30, 2008 |archive-date=July 30, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080730100227/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/voight/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Voight endorsed [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] presidential nominees [[Mitt Romney]] and [[Donald Trump]] in the [[2012 United States presidential election|2012]] and [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]] presidential elections respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/01/jon-voight-endorses-mitt-romney-112761 |title=Jon Voight Endorses Mitt Romney |author=McDevitt, Caitlin |website=Politico |date=January 30, 2012 |access-date=November 21, 2017 |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201030426/https://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/01/jon-voight-endorses-mitt-romney-112761 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-voight-endorses-donald-trump-873931 |title=Jon Voight Endorses Donald Trump for president |author=Parker, Ryan |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=March 9, 2016 |access-date=November 21, 2017 |archive-date=November 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171125174754/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-voight-endorses-donald-trump-873931 |url-status=live }}</ref> Speaking at an inauguration rally for Trump in January 2017, Voight said, "God answered all our prayers" by granting Trump the White House. In May 2019, Voight released a short two-part video on Twitter supporting Trump's policies, and calling him "the greatest president since [[Abraham Lincoln]]."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Holcombe |first1=Madeline |title=Oscar winner calls Trump the greatest president since Lincoln |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/25/politics/jon-voight-trump-twitter-lincoln/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=May 25, 2019 |date=May 25, 2019 |archive-date=May 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525134712/https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/25/politics/jon-voight-trump-twitter-lincoln/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In November 2020, after the [[2020 United States presidential election|United States presidential election]], Voight released a statement through his [[Twitter]] account, in which he stated he was very angry that Joe Biden had won the election. He further implied that [[Republican reactions to Donald Trump's claims of 2020 election fraud|Biden had committed electoral fraud]] and proclaimed that the United States was engaged in "our greatest fight since the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] – the battle of righteousness versus [[Satan]], because these [[leftists]] are evil, corrupt, and they want to tear down this nation." He finished the statement by imploring his followers to not let the [[2021 United States Electoral College vote count|2020 presidential election be certified]] without attempting to make sure it was accurate first. After the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack]], and after Biden's victory was confirmed in Congress on January 7, Voight released one more video on his Twitter account for his followers, telling them to cease protesting.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=jonvoight |author-link=Jon Voight |number=1326323889417322497 |date=11 Nov 2020 |title=We all know the truth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/525454-jon-voight-says-fighting-lie-biden-won-is-greatest-fight-since |title=Jon Voight says fighting 'lie' Biden won is 'greatest fight since the Civil War' |first=Sarah |last=Polus |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=November 11, 2020 |access-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128131644/https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/525454-jon-voight-says-fighting-lie-biden-won-is-greatest-fight-since |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2022, following [[Robb Elementary School shooting|a mass shooting at an elementary school]] in [[Uvalde, Texas]], Voight posted a video in support of [[gun control]], arguing that "proper qualifications" and "testing" should be necessary for gun ownership.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kika |first1=Thomas |title=Trump ally Jon Voight calls for "proper qualifications for gun ownership" |url=https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ally-jon-voight-calls-proper-qualifications-gun-ownership-1711141 |website=Newsweek |access-date=29 May 2022 |language=en |date=28 May 2022 |archive-date=May 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529145510/https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ally-jon-voight-calls-proper-qualifications-gun-ownership-1711141 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Lily |title=Jon Voight calls for gun control in emotional Facebook video following Uvalde shooting |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jon-voight-uvalde-gun-control-171120067.html |website=Yahoo! News |date=May 28, 2022 |access-date=29 May 2022 |archive-date=May 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529145510/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jon-voight-uvalde-gun-control-171120067.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In November 2023, Voight expressed disappointment in his daughter Angelina Jolie, criticizing her views on the [[Gaza war]] and accusing her of spreading misinformation. Whereas Jolie had called for a ceasefire, Voight emphasized Israel's right to protect its people, stating that the conflict was about preserving the [[Holy Land]] and the Jewish people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insider.com/jon-voight-slams-daughter-angelina-jolie-palestine-israel-war-stance-2023-11 |title=Jon Voight slams daughter Angelina Jolie for her anti-Israel stance: 'I'm so disappointed' |publisher=Insider |date=5 November 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/11/07/jon-voight-disappointed-by-daughter-angelina-jolies-lies-about-israel-hamas-war |title=Jon Voight 'disappointed' by daughter Angelina Jolie's 'lies' about Israel Hamas war |publisher=Euronews |date=7 November 2023 |access-date=December 10, 2023 |archive-date=December 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210173729/https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/11/07/jon-voight-disappointed-by-daughter-angelina-jolies-lies-about-israel-hamas-war |url-status=live }}</ref> Reportedly this was one factor leading Jolie to once again cut off contact with him.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Angelina Jolie not on speaking terms with estranged father Jon Voight: Here's why |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1221329-angelina-jolie-not-on-speaking-terms-with-estranged-father-jon-voight-heres-why |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=www.thenews.com.pk |date=August 18, 2024 |language=en}}</ref> Voight again endorsed [[Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign|Donald Trump's candidacy for president in 2024]].<ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/14-influential-personalities-endorsing-trump-for-2024/ss-BB1h8MCI 14 Influential Personalities Endorsing Trump for 2024], ''[[MSN]]'', Michelle Harle, January 23, 2024. Retrieved May 8, 2024.</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1962, Voight married actress [[Lauri Peters]], whom he met when they both appeared in the original Broadway production of ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. They divorced in 1967. He married actress [[Marcheline Bertrand]] in 1971.<ref name=Fanbolt>{{cite web|url=https://www.fanbolt.com/127036/angelina-jolies-parents/|title=Angelina Jolie's Parents: A Look at the Lives of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand|author=Loggins, Emma|date=24 August 2022|publisher=Fanbolt|website=fanbolt.com}}</ref> They separated in 1976, filed for divorce in 1978, and finalized it in 1980. Their children, [[James Haven]] (born 1973) and [[Angelina Jolie]] (born 1975), went on to enter the film business as actors and producers. Through Jolie, he has six grandchildren.

Voight has not remarried since the divorce from his second wife. Over the decades, he has dated [[Linda Morand]], [[Rebecca De Mornay]], [[Eileen Davidson]], [[Barbra Streisand]], [[Nastassja Kinski]], and [[Diana Ross]].<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/199515%7C88501/Jon-Voight/#family-companions "Jon Voight Biography"], Turner Classic Movies (tcm.com)</ref><ref>[https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/angelina-jolie-parents-4589664 "Angelina Jolie’s Parents: Everything To Know About Jon Voight & Late Marcheline Bertrand"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719213107/https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/angelina-jolie-parents-4589664/ |date=July 19, 2023 }}, ''Hollywood Life''</ref>

Voight is a [[Kentucky Colonel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kycolonels.org/famous-colonels/|title=Famous Colonels|website=The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels|access-date=March 22, 2025}}</ref>

== Acting credits and accolades ==
{{Main|Jon Voight on screen and stage|List of awards and nominations received by Jon Voight}}
Over his career Voight has received several accolades, including an [[Academy Award]], a [[BAFTA Award]], and four [[Golden Globe Awards]] as well as nominations for four [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] and a [[Screen Actors Guild Award]]. In 2019 he was awarded with the [[National Medal of Arts]].

== See also ==
* [[List of actors with Academy Award nominations]]
* [[List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories]]
* [[List of Golden Globe winners]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite news |last=Potton |first=Ed |title=Jon Voight on making Deliverance |work=The Times |date=2007-09-22 |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article2483299.ece |access-date=2007-09-23 |location=London |archive-date=December 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205001235/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article2483299.ece |url-status=dead }}

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Mike Dickin

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1943|9|28|df=y}}
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'''Robert Michael Dickin''' (28 September 1943 – 18 December 2006), was an [[English people|English]] radio presenter best known as the late-night host on the [[radio]] station [[Talksport|talkSPORT]].

==Early life==

Dickin was born in 1943 in [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]], [[Berkshire]].

==Career==

Dickin started out as a musician in the 1960s: he was a bass player and singer who found he preferred playing records to making them when he joined the [[BBC]] in 1970 as the first presenter on air at [[Radio Oxford]].<ref name="guardian">{{cite web |last1=Plunkett |first1=John |title=Talk radio host Mike Dickin dies |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/dec/19/commercialradio.radio |website=The Guardian|access-date=13 August 2022 |language=en |date=19 December 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=TalkSport presenter Mike Dickin has died |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/talksport-presenter-mike-dickin-has-died/ |website=Press Gazette |access-date=13 August 2022 |date=19 December 2006}}</ref>

Dickin liked motor racing. He was a stunt driver in the 1969 film ''[[The Italian Job]]''.<ref name="independent obit" />
In 1977, he competed in the [[London–Sydney Marathon]] in a Mini 1275GT, co-driven by musician [[Simon Park Orchestra|Simon Park]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The 1977 London to Sydney Marathon Rally – Rally Bulletins |url=http://www.londonsydney77.com/bulletinone.html |website=londonsydney77.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Park |first1=Simon |title=A little goes a long way : the story of car no. 19, 'the Post Office mini' (aka 'the Buzby Special'), which finished an honourable last on the longest car rally in history |date=2009 |publisher=Trafford |location=Victoria, BC |isbn=9781425185084}}</ref> The same year, Dickin moved to [[Australia]] where he worked for [[Sydney]]'s biggest radio station, [[2UE]]. Upon returning to Britain in the late 1970s, he spent 17 years working for [[BBC Radio 4]], [[LBC]], and [[Capital London|Capital Radio]]. He started at Talksport (then Talk Radio UK) in 1995.

Dickin used to present the 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. slot at weekends on [[Talksport#Talk Radio era|Talk Radio]] from 1995 to 2001. He returned, filling in for [[James Whale (radio presenter)|James Whale]] during Whale's battle with [[kidney cancer]]. He was given the morning show slot soon afterwards, and then moved to the 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. show on weekends before his death.

Dickin was on air in the UK overnight when news was broken of the car crash that subsequently killed [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], and he was still on air to make the announcement of her death as a newsflash.<ref name="independent obit">{{cite web |title=Mike Dickin |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mike-dickin-431255.html |website=The Independent |language=en |access-date=12 August 2022 |date=8 January 2007}}</ref>

He won a Golden Rose award for his coverage of the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie disaster]] in 1988.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hall of Fame |website=The Radio Academy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205051058/http://www.radioacademy.org/hall-of-fame/ |archive-date=5 December 2011 |url=http://www.radioacademy.org/hall-of-fame/}}</ref><ref name="telegraph"/>

Dickin was known for his strongly-held views. His passion led to him being labelled "Britain's angriest man" by talkSPORT listeners. Typical discussions on his show included crime, cars, trains, taxis, the problems of young people, the downfall of Britain, the incompetence of people in the service industry, speed cameras, parking tickets, and call centres. He was also known for his catchphrases, such as, "My health is not in question", when asked how he was. Other catchphrases included: "If you were constipated, you'd be speechless",<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web |title=Mike Dickin |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1537477/Mike-Dickin.html |website=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=12 August 2022 |date=21 December 2006}}</ref> and "You don't have two brain cells to rub together".{{cn|date=May 2018}}

Some of his shows were broadcast from a studio in Bodmin, Cornwall, a few miles from his home. A staunch atheist, Dickin's last show was about the [[afterlife]] and the existence of God; famous atheist and author of ''[[The God Delusion]]'', [[Richard Dawkins]], was Dickin's guest on his last show.

Mike Dickin was killed in a car crash while driving on the [[A30 road|A30]] near his home in [[Cornwall]], on 18 December 2006, at the age of 63. James Whale presented his tribute show. Dickin left a wife (second marriage) and 5 children, including two from his first marriage.{{citation needed|date=August 2025}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131022043950/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/36492 TalkSport presenter Mike Dickin has died], Press Gazette coverage of death
*[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6194773.stm Radio host Dickin dies in crash], BBC News article about his death
*[http://www.meldrum.co.uk/cgi/ra.asp?file=diana_death/diana_talkradio2.ra Audio of Mike Dickin's newsflash on death of Diana, Princess of Wales], extracted from the MHP Media Service, at [https://web.archive.org/web/20060102221926/http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/ www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/]

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Graham Farish

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'''Graham Farish''' is a Chinese-owned brand of [[N scale|N gauge]] British railway models. The Graham Farish Ltd company was founded in 1928 in the UK and [[Kader Group]] of Hong Kong bought the firm in 2001. Kader's subsidiary, [[Bachmann Industries]] absorbed its operations and the models are made in China.

==History==
The [[Poole]], [[Dorset]] based manufacturer of radio parts and kits entered the model railway business in the late 1940s, after the need for radio sets dropped post [[World War II]]. The early 1950s models focused on British OO gauge, and they manufactured track, wagons and other supporting items. Many of the more obscure items such as the Graham Farish Coronation figures (by Russell Gammage) from 1953 are considered collector's items.

Originally the OO railway locomotives were powered by an unconventional 2 pole DC electric motor. Many of their diecast items were manufactured with impure mazac, which was all that was available immediately after the War. MZAC is an alloy of [[magnesium|'''M'''agnesium]], [[aluminium|'''A'''luminium]], [[zinc|'''Z'''inc]] and [[copper|'''C'''opper]], in a similar vein to [[Zamak]], which later crumbled due to [[Zinc pest]].

Graham Farish really found its market niche with the arrival of [[N scale]] becoming the major supplier of British outline N scale models under the GRAFAR label at a time when the market was shrinking and the other OO gauge players were suffering badly. The initial range in 1970, started with the 9400 Pannier Tank loco, 4 wheel coaches, bogie 'suburban' stock (based on Period 2 LMS suburban stock) and 'Mainline' bogie stock (based on Southern coaches); which have appeared in Caledonian, LMS, GWR, LNER and SR liveries.

After the withdrawal of two competitive mass-market manufacturers, the Italy-based [[Lima (models)|Lima]] and German based [[Minitrix]], from the late 1980s Grafar was the only major supplier of British outline models in N scale - predicating its withdrawal from the OO scale market in light of greater competition in the developing collector scale market. Early 1970s products were made with three pole armature motors. They were also equipped with all brass gears. In the early 1980s the motors were improved with five pole armatures. At about the same the gears were replaced with white nylon gears, which were only produced for a short time. The nylon gears were replaced with thin black plastic gears; these could suffer from splits, making the models run badly or not at all. These gears were eventually all replaced by thicker plastic gears, to produce a much more reliable and popular range of locomotives. By the late 1990s the GRAHAM FARISH N Gauge Range 350 lines including a huge variety of Locomotives, Coaches, Wagons, Buildings and complete train sets from starter sets all the way up to the 8 ft x 2 ft 6in Magnum Layouts which came complete with all track laid, and a full set of building kits to complete it.

==Takeover by Kader==
In 2001, Graham Farish was purchased by [[Kader Group|Kader Industries]] of [[Hong Kong]], and absorbed by its subsidiary [[Bachmann Industries]]. Bachmann immediately closed the Poole facility and moved production to [[China]], setting about improving the at times poor model robustness of the products by redesigning and latterly reintroducing the entire range.

Bachmann have since increased the size of the Farish range, by duplicating models introduced to the Bachmann OO range: the detail investigation and pre-production of an original railway vehicle is more detailed for an OO scale model, while for production into N scale there is a simply a down-scaling of most components for production. Hence normally, an OO scale [[Bachmann Branchline]] model is followed between 6 months to a year later by an N scale Graham Farish model – with the [[British Rail Class 220|Voyager diesel set]] being an example.

Bachmann have introduced a selection of models; the BR Standard 3MT 2-6-2T, the LMS Jubilee, Rebuilt Scot, Black 5, [[LMS Stanier Class 8F|Stanier Class 8F]], B1 4-6-0, 4MT 2-6-0, A1 (including new-build Tornado 60163), Period 3 coaches and LMS brake (or guards) van; for the modern era, classes 03, 04, 08 and 14 diesel shunters, class 42 'Warship', class 24 class 37, class 47, class 66 freight locos, prototype Deltic, classes 108, 101, 153 [[Diesel multiple unit|DMU]] and a variety of freight wagons.

==Comparison==
Graham Farish products are generally divided into two categories. British made equipment is sought more by collectors because it is older and British, while model railway users generally prefer the more robust and detailed Chinese-built models. The way to tell these two types apart is that UK built models have a yellow sticker on the ends of the box and models built in China have a white sticker on the end.

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.bachmann.co.uk/category/model-railway/graham-farish/ Graham Farish website]

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