John Lithgow
Biography
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
Lord Farquaad (voice)
Shrek
Rev. Shaw Moore
Footloose
Richard Hobbes
Sharper
Blake Edwards
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Edgar West
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Dr. Walter Curnow
2010
Robert Lasalle
Obsession
John Mathewson
The Manhattan Project
Sam Burns
Terms of Endearment
Alfred Seguine Kinsey
Kinsey
Lord John Whorfin
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Roberta Muldoon
The World According to Garp
Burke
Blow Out
Joe Huxley
The Day After
Senator Conyers
The Tuskegee Airmen
Self
Give My Regards to Broadway
Jack Brady
Leap Year
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
George Henderson
Harry and the Hendersons
Judge Walter J. Skinner
A Civil Action
Earl Talbott Blake
Ricochet
Bark, George
Smith Keen
The Pelican Brief
Eric Qualen
Cliffhanger
B.Z.
Santa Claus: The Movie
Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
A Good Man in Africa
Self
Inside 'Interstellar'
Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
Raising Cain
Sam Sebastian
The Big Fix
Phillip Mills
The Wrong Man
Narrator
Dogs and More Dogs
Philip Drummond
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Narrator (voice)
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Professor Wilkinson
Princess Caraboo
Jean-Claude (voice)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Lucas Sergeant
All That Jazz
Malcolm / Robert Stockman
Homegrown
Dr. Rene Harlinger
Silent Fall
They All Saw a Cat
Self
Casting By
Leslie Huben
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Maj. Kendall Laird
Resting Place
Oliver Thompson
Mesmerized
Paul Harrington
Love, Cheat & Steal
Thomas Livingston
Hollow Point
Paul Philips
Rich Kids
Self - Narrator (voice)
Projections of America
Glen Motch
The Campaign
Oliver
This Is 40
Dave
Out Cold
Chez Bob
Narrator
Car of the Future
Tom the Studio Chairman
The Bubble
John
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Laird Riordan
Redwood Curtain
Donald
Interstellar
Narrator
95 Worlds and Counting
Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
Don Quixote
Self
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Mark Lambert
Distant Thunder
Mayor Gould
Cabrini
Neil Scott
Baby Girl Scott
Ben
Love Is Strange
Narrator
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
Posket
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
Bud Brumder
Orange County
Bolinar (voice)
Spellbound
Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
My Brother's Keeper
Charles Rodman
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Valentine
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Bruce Derringer
Memphis Belle
Dave Crealy
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Robert Carter
Ivory Hunters
Reverend Alfred Dowd
The Homesman
Cafe chef and owner
Sangre
Self
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Self
Night of 100 Stars III
Sergeant Larry Skovik
Johnny Skidmarks
Self
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
Lamar Blackburn
The Accountant
Narrator
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
Maurice (voice)
Les As de la Jungle 2 : Le Trésor du Vieux Jim
Lord John
Man in Club
9 Kisses
Jerry Harris
Dreamgirls
Self
Broadway: The Next Generation
Self
Best of Enemies
Lord Farquaad (voice)
Shrek Stories
Ol' Gregory Timms
Timms Valley
Clarence
The Oldest Living Graduate
Sgt. Marty Wellborn
The Glitter Dome
Jimpa
Jimpa
Mr. Brunner
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Narrator
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Senator Ronald Sperling
Miss Sloane
John Walters (archive footage)
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
Self - Performer
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Doug Strutt
Beatriz at Dinner
Goldilocks' Father
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Don
Daddy's Home 2
Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
Einstein's Big Idea
Self
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
Self
The Pulitzer At 100
Fergus
Pitch Perfect 3
Capt. Thorne
Secret Service
Self
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Walter Lovell
Late Night
Jud Crandall
Pet Sematary
Ben Cluett
Traveling Man
Narrator
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
Roger Ailes
Bombshell
Narrator
The Amazing Bone
Himself
Hickory Dickory Doc
Richard Carruthers
Not in Front of the Children
Ed Hemsler
The Tomorrow Man
Narrator
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Self
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
President Donald J. Trump
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
Herbie Morse
Big Blonde
The Boys
Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
New Year's Eve
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
Self
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
God
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
Wally
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Dr. Oscar Charles
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Alexander (voice)
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
Narrator
American Cinema
Myths and Hymns
Paul Unger
The Country Girl
Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
Jud Crandall
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
Prosecutor Peter Leaward
Killers of the Flower Moon
Self
On Broadway
Self
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Tremblay
Conclave
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Show of Titles
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
140
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-10-19
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Also Known As
莊李富高