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How Jon Voight Landed His Big Break in ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (Guest Blog) Voight wasn’t the first choice to play the role of a male hustler opposite Dustin Hoffman, recounts writer Glenn Frankel Glenn Frankel Guest Writer Last Updated: March 15, 2021 @ 2:58 PM Photo: Getty Images Aspiring young actors in New York in the 1960s came in many shapes and psyches. There were angry ones and cynical ones and sincere ones and intense ones. But there weren’t many joyful ones. The road was too hard and it was strewn with failure. “No one starts at the top in the theater,�...

The making of a classic American film in ‘Shooting Midnight Cowboy’ By Abby McGanney Nolan Globe Correspondent,Updated March 11, 2021, 4:31 p.m. Email to a Friend A scene from "Midnight Cowboy" with Dustin Hoffman (left) and Jon Voight.COURTESY OF UNITED ARTISTS On a brutally hot Texas day in the summer of 1968, near the end of filming “Midnight Cowboy,” the British director John Schlesinger had a sort of fit. Visibly shaking, stirred by grievous doubts, he asked his lead actor Jon Voight, “Do you really think anyone’s going to pay money to see a movie about a d...