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Article: `Glory Road' coach is Jon Voight's latest impersonation.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2006
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Byline: Roger Moore
Jon Voight collected Oscars and Oscar nominations early in his career. His Joe Buck in "Midnight Cowboy," Ed Gentry in "Deliverance," Luke Martin in "Coming Home" and Manny Manheim in "Runaway Train" were acting standards, the sorts of performances that led people such as film scholar David Thomson to call him "easily ... one of the best actors of his generation."
But of late, Voight has become the movies' Great Impersonator, a gifted actor turning his skills to recreating well-known figures for the movies and TV.
He did Howard Cosell for "Ali," Pope John Paul II for a recent TV movie, and President Franklin Delano ...
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