Coming Home: Directed by Hal Ashby. With Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford. In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

Jon Voight is an American actor of German and Slovak descent. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Luke Martin in the war film "Coming Home" (1978).

'Coming Home' is a great film, but it is no where near as brilliant as Michael Cimino's one-hit wonder 'Deer Hunter'. Despite this competition, 'Coming Home' managed to win two Academy Awards for the lead actors -- Jon Voight and Jane Fonda.

Coming Home (1978) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Coming Home: Directed by Hal Ashby. With Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford. In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

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Coming Home (1978) - Awards, nominations, and wins

Jon Voight presented the 2011 Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award -- named after Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov --honoring Jean Vigo for Zero for Conduct (1933) to Luce Vigo.

Sally Hyde : Hi. Luke Martin : [Hands Sally a letter] It's from Bob. I opened it. He's coming home.

Jon Voight 's role of Luke Martin was loosely inspired by paralyzed Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, who Jane Fonda had met at an antiwar rally and become friends with.