It has been nearly four decades since the great actor Jon Voight and father of actress Angelina Jolie has set foot on a television set to do a series as a recurring character.
The four-time Academy Award nominee and winner of the Oscar for his performance in “Coming Home” will join the cast of “24” and become a real baddie. His character will be one of the new season’s worst and deadliest nemesis that Agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has ever faced in the 6-full seasons of the show.
Voight has played good guys in the last string of movies he has done but he is always delicious when he puts on the cloak of fear and terror. Everyone remembers his memorable performance as the cold, calculating and ready to kill boss of the NSA in “Enemy of the State.”
Fans of the show and Voight will get to meet his character during “24’s” prequel (airing November 23, 2008) to the start of Season 7. He will show up several times during the season, but most prominately during the last half of the season. Season 7 gets underway in ernest in January 2009.
Voight can currently be seen on the recently released DVD edition of “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” with Nicholas Cage, Helen Mirren and Ed Harris.
Voight has a busy film plate over the next couple of years with “Pride and Glory,” “An American Carol,” “The Uninvited” and the highly anticipated “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.”
Sounds interesting, although the guy who played Jacks Dad last season was a great actor but didn’t really bring much to the show. I really hope they can do something to revive 24. The first 2 seasons were amazing with a story ark which had a lot of potential, I still don’t know how they managed to do such a bad job of it (apart from the excellent 5th season).