John Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow (/ˈlɪθɡoʊ/ LITH-goh; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Grammy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Lithgow won two Tony Awards, his first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut in The Changing Room (1972) and his second for Best Actor in a Musical for the musical Sweet Smell of Success (2002). He was Tony-nominated for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). He has acted in the plays The Columnist (2012), A Delicate Balance (2014), and Hillary and Clinton (2019). He portrayed Roald Dahl in the play Giant on the West End, for which he was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor. He starred as Dick Solomon in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He received further Primetime Emmy Awards for his performances as Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009) and as Winston Churchill in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2019). He also starred in HBO's Perry Mason (2020) and FX's The Old Man (2022). On film, he has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his roles as a transsexual ex-football player in The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in Terms of Endearment (1983). He also acted in All That Jazz (1979), Blow Out (1981), Footloose (1984), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), A Civil Action (1998), Shrek (2001), Kinsey (2004), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Love Is Strange (2014), Interstellar (2014), Late Night (2019), Bombshell (2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), and Conclave (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Lithgow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Rochester, New York, USA, 1945-10-19

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues	John	40
2	1976	Obsession	Robert Lasalle	66
3	1977	Secret Service	Capt. Thorne	0
4	1978	The Big Fix	Sam Sebastian	57
5	1979	Rich Kids	Paul Philips	50
6	1979	All That Jazz	Lucas Sergeant	75
7	1980	The Oldest Living Graduate	Clarence	0
8	1981	Blow Out	Burke	74
9	1982	I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can	Mr. Brunner	60
10	1982	The World According to Garp	Roberta Muldoon	67
11	1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Valentine	65
12	1983	Terms of Endearment	Sam Burns	71
13	1983	The Day After	Joe Huxley	67
14	1984	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Goldilocks' Father	50
15	1984	Footloose	Rev. Shaw Moore	67
16	1984	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	Lord John Whorfin	60
17	1984	The Glitter Dome	Sgt. Marty Wellborn	45
18	1984	2010	Dr. Walter Curnow	66
19	1985	Santa Claus: The Movie	B.Z.	63
20	1985	Mesmerized	Oliver Thompson	48
21	1986	Resting Place	Maj. Kendall Laird	61
22	1986	The Manhattan Project	John Mathewson	62
23	1987	Baby Girl Scott	Neil Scott	60
24	1987	Harry and the Hendersons	George Henderson	61
25	1988	Distant Thunder	Mark Lambert	56
26	1989	Out Cold	Dave	59
27	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
28	1990	Ivory Hunters	Robert Carter	42
29	1990	Memphis Belle	Bruce Derringer	67
30	1991	Ricochet	Earl Talbott Blake	61
31	1991	At Play in the Fields of the Lord	Leslie Huben	65
32	1992	Raising Cain	Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo	61
33	1993	Cliffhanger	Eric Qualen	65
34	1993	The Wrong Man	Phillip Mills	48
35	1993	The Pelican Brief	Smith Keen	66
36	1993	Love, Cheat & Steal	Paul Harrington	44
37	1994	A Good Man in Africa	Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner	51
38	1994	Princess Caraboo	Professor Wilkinson	54
39	1994	Silent Fall	Dr. Rene Harlinger	52
40	1995	Redwood Curtain	Laird Riordan	58
41	1995	My Brother's Keeper	Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley	10
42	1995	The Tuskegee Airmen	Senator Conyers	71
43	1996	Special Effects: Anything Can Happen	Narrator	0
44	1996	Hollow Point	Thomas Livingston	51
45	1997	Officer Buckle and Gloria	Narrator (voice)	70
46	1998	Johnny Skidmarks	Sergeant Larry Skovik	58
47	1998	Homegrown	Malcolm / Robert Stockman	56
48	1998	A Civil Action	Judge Walter J. Skinner	65
49	2000	95 Worlds and Counting	Narrator	0
50	2000	Don Quixote	Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano	62
51	2000	Rugrats in Paris: The Movie	Jean-Claude (voice)	66
52	2001	Shrek	Lord Farquaad (voice)	78
53	2001	Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party	Lord Farquaad (singing voice)	64
54	2002	Buckaroo Banzai Declassified	Self	84
55	2002	Orange County	Bud Brumder	60
56	2003	Bark, George		0
57	2003	The Ghost of Lord Farquaad	Ghost of Farquaad (voice)	60
58	2004	Dogs and More Dogs	Narrator	52
59	2004	Kinsey	Alfred Seguine Kinsey	66
60	2004	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Blake Edwards	66
61	2005	Einstein's Big Idea	Narrator (voice) U.S. edition	72
62	2006	Sangre	Cafe chef and owner	0
63	2006	Dreamgirls	Jerry Harris	67
64	2007	ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway	Self	72
65	2008	Car of the Future	Narrator	60
66	2009	Confessions of a Shopaholic	Edgar West	65
67	2009	Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn	Narrator	0
68	2010	Leap Year	Jack Brady	69
69	2011	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	Charles Rodman	73
70	2012	The Campaign	Glen Motch	58
71	2012	Casting By	Self	71
72	2012	This Is 40	Oliver	59
73	2013	National Theatre Live: The Magistrate	Posket	60
74	2013	Shrek Stories	Lord Farquaad (voice)	81
75	2013	Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love	Self	90
76	2013	Timms Valley	Ol' Gregory Timms	62
77	2014	The Homesman	Reverend Alfred Dowd	65
78	2014	Love Is Strange	Ben	64
79	2014	The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest	Maurice (voice)	57
80	2014	Interstellar	Donald	85
81	2014	9 Kisses	Man in Club	62
82	2015	Projections of America	Self - Narrator (voice)	50
83	2015	Inside 'Interstellar'	Self	69
84	2015	Lord John		0
85	2015	Best of Enemies	Self	72
86	2016	Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9	Narrator	0
87	2016	Shakespeare Live! From the RSC	Self - Performer	75
88	2016	The Accountant	Lamar Blackburn	71
89	2016	Miss Sloane	Senator Ronald Sperling	74
90	2017	They All Saw a Cat		0
91	2017	Beatriz at Dinner	Doug Strutt	58
92	2017	The Pulitzer At 100	Self	60
93	2017	Daddy's Home 2	Don	63
94	2017	Broadway: The Next Generation	Self	100
95	2017	Pitch Perfect 3	Fergus	65
96	2018	Mister Rogers: It's You I Like	Self	79
97	2020	Give My Regards to Broadway	Self	0
98	2021	Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes	Philip Drummond	76
99	2022	The Bubble	Tom the Studio Chairman	46
100	2022	Chez Bob		0
101	2023	Sharper	Richard Hobbes	69
102	2023	Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic	Self	74
103	2024	Cabrini	Mayor Gould	78
104	2024	Art Happens Here with John Lithgow	Self	0
105	2024	Spellbound	Bolinar (voice)	67
106	2025	Jimpa	Jimpa	0
107		Amazing Stories: The Movie II	John Walters (archive footage)	0
108	1974	The Country Girl	Paul Unger	0
109	1980	Mom, the Wolfman and Me	Wally	0
110	1980	Big Blonde	Herbie Morse	50
111	1982	Not in Front of the Children	Richard Carruthers	60
112	1984	2010 : The Odyssey Continues	Himself	0
113	1985	Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie	Self	50
114	1987	The Amazing Bone	Narrator	0
115	1989	Traveling Man	Ben Cluett	33
116	1990	John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert		50
117	1991	The Boys	Artie Margulies	0
118	1993	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble	Narrator	100
119	1993	The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale	Alexander (voice)	0
120	1994	Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects	Self	0
121	1995	American Cinema	Narrator	0
122	1995	Tales from the Crypt: You, Murderer	Dr. Oscar Charles	0
123	1999	Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection	Dr. Oscar Charles	87
124	2006	The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge	Narrator	0
125	2006	The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays	René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")	0
126	2009	The Macabre World of Lavender Williams	God	60
127	2011	New Year's Eve	Jonathan Cox (uncredited)	59
128	2011	Shrek: Once Upon a Time	Self	75
129	2017	Hickory Dickory Doc	Himself	0
130	2018	Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman	Jud Crandall	70
131	2019	Late Night	Walter Lovell	64
132	2019	Pet Sematary	Jud Crandall	57
133	2019	The Tomorrow Man	Ed Hemsler	57
134	2019	The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts	President Donald J. Trump	76
135	2019	On Broadway	Self	87
136	2019	Bombshell	Roger Ailes	68
137	2021	Myths and Hymns		0
138	2021	Emily @ the Edge of Chaos	Sir Isaac Newton (voice)	0
139	2021	Show of Titles	"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer	0
140	2023	Killers of the Flower Moon	Prosecutor Peter Leaward	74
141	2024	Conclave	Tremblay	72
142	2025	The Rule of Jenny Pen	Dave Crealy	61
143		Sequestered - Inside Conclave	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
3	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Paul Unger	86
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Major Kendall Laird	86
6	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Laird Riordan	86
7	1952	Today	Self	58
8	1953	The Oscars	Self - Presenter	71
9	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
10	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee & Performer	51
11	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
12	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
13	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee/Performer	51
14	1971	Great Performances	Capt. Thorne	53
15	1974	NOVA	Narrator	70
16	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
17	1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	Goldilocks' Father	81
18	1985	Amazing Stories	John Walters	75
19	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Dr. Oscar Charles	80
20	1989	The Simpsons	Gus (voice)	80
21	1989	The Simpsons	John Lithgow (voice)	80
22	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
23	1993	Frasier	Madman Martinez (voice)	77
24	1994	American Cinema		80
25	1994	World War II: When Lions Roared	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	65
26	1996	3rd Rock from the Sun	Dick Solomon	75
27	1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Self - Guest	35
28	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
29	1996	The West	Self	84
30	1996	The West	Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)	84
31	1996	Cosby	John Lithgow	59
32	1997	The View	Self	45
33	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
34	1999	The Early Show	Self	57
35	2002	E! Live from the Red Carpet	Self	32
36	2003	VH1 Goes Inside		100
37	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self	61
38	2005	How I Met Your Mother	Jerry Whittaker	81
39	2005	The Apprentice: Martha Stewart		0
40	2005	The Colbert Report		69
41	2006	The One Show	Self	45
42	2006	Dexter	Arthur Mitchell	82
43	2006	Twenty Good Years		85
44	2006	30 Rock	John Lithgow	75
45	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
46	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
47	2010	Conan	Self	71
48	2011	Prohibition	Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)	79
49	2012	Finding Your Roots	Self	62
50	2013	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland	The White Rabbit (voice)	69
51	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
52	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		59
53	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
54	2014	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History	James Roosevelt (voice)	79
55	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
56	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
57	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self - Guest	64
58	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		64
59	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
60	2016	The Crown	Winston Churchill	82
61	2017	Trial & Error	Larry Henderson	72
62	2018	The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer	Self - Guest	75
63	2018	James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction	Self	68
64	2018	Firing Line with Margaret Hoover		75
65	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self	65
66	2020	Stars in the House	Self - Special Guest	0
67	2020	Perry Mason	Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan	73
68	2021	Dexter: New Blood	Arthur Mitchell	80
69	2022	The Old Man	Harold Harper	72
70	2022	Sherri	Self - Guest	42
71	2023	Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled	Self	77
72	2025	SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night	Self	80
73		Harry Potter	Albus Dumbledore	0

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