John Voight
I'm surprised to see him doing TV.
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He's 71 years old. He'll have to take whatever work he can get. Just like Rip Torn or Dennis Hopper (when he was alive). How many other actors in their seventies get a lot of theatrical roles? Nicholson, Freeman, Eastwood, Redford, Hoffman, Pacino, Duvall, Plummer, but not an awful lot of others.
I guess you're right about his age contributing, though I think he still has good enough chops to only do movies if he wanted to. It's not like the roles aren't coming at all, but at his age I would think the slower pace would be welcomed.
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Worth noting that he's gone into TV plenty of times before: the TV movies Noah's Ark, Uprising, Jasper, Texas John Paul II and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. His film career over the last 10 years hasn't exactly been impressive: he was good in Pride & Glory, The Manchurian Candidate, and Ali. That's about it.
shareWorth noting that he's gone into TV plenty of times before: the TV movies Noah's Ark, Uprising, Jasper, Texas John Paul II and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. His film career over the last 10 years hasn't exactly been impressive: he was good in Pride & Glory, The Manchurian Candidate, and Ali. That's about it.Thank you dab6 for listing those. I saw none of them.
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Yes but concidering that he was seen as a big star and dissappeared from Hollywood when he was in his prime with Oscar nom and Globe win(Runaway Train),it seems it didn´t matter what he did when he came back in Heat,ten years had passed. The reason he didn´t get billing and legends like DeNiro and Pacino does is cause it unfortunately reflects the audience view of the actor. You take the 2 names on the cover of Enemy of the state....the studio actually thought Less people would see the movie if they knew he was in it.A thing like that can turn a career around...WILL SMITH GENE HACKMAN JON VOIGHT for example.
Billed extremely low down in Pearl Harbor,as low as possible basically,despite delivering the films one good performance.AND Alec Baldwin...even Bay took a piss on him.
But still M:I,U-Turn,The General,Anaconda(intentional hilarious overacting)Enemy of the state,Ali,Pride and Glory,The rainmaker(Golden globe nommed),Rosewood,Ali,National treasure...not masterpieces but enjoyable films with several enjoyable performances.His resume post-Heat easily beats both Pacinos and DeNiros(Ok,that says nothing,none of them has been nominated for anything serious for 20 years moviewise and still get lead roles.Some can live on old resumes and others not.)...sad. He isn´t charismatic but unlike the two others he can still BECOME a character,which acting is mostly about.But give me the old Voight over the younger anyday,he was a bit overrated as a youngster,he needed to get ugly.
He made too many bad choices,career can´t recover.The end.