The Emmy-winning Fox drama, 24, is currently shooting on location in South Africa. It was announced in The Hollywood Reporter that Jon Voight has signed up for the upcoming seventh season of 24. The series represents Voight’s first role in 40 years on television. Voight is the first A-list villain casting on 24 since the first season when Dennis Hopper appeared in the final episodes as Serbian Nationalist Vitor Drazen.

Voight will play Jack Bauer’s (Kiefer Sutherland) uber-nemesis who is pulling the strings behind next season's terrorist threat

Voight did several TV guest spots early in his career between 1966-69 until his movie career took off with Midnight Cowboy in 1969.

He won the best actor Oscar for 1978's Coming Home.