John Lithgow
Acting
🎂 1945-10-19
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.
Cast credits(216)
Self - Guest
2015
2015
Self
2015
Self
2010
Self
1996
Self
2019
Self
2014
2014
Self
2014
Self - Guest
2009
Self
2007
Gus (voice)
1989
John Lithgow (voice)
1989
Self - Guest
2022
2005
Self
2004
Self
1997
Self - Guest
1997
Jerry Whittaker
2005
Narrator
1974
Arthur Mitchell
2006
Self - Guest
1993
Capt. Thorne
1971
Self
2002
Madman Martinez (voice)
1993
Dick Solomon
1996
Self - Nominee
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Winner
1944
Winston Churchill
2016
John Walters
1985
John Lithgow
2006
Self - Special Guest
2020
Self
2015
Self
2014
Goldilocks' Father
1982
Dr. Oscar Charles
1989
Harold Harper
2022
Self - Host
1975
Arthur Mitchell
2021
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Nominee & Performer
1956
Self - Winner
1956
Self - Nominee
1956
Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
Self
2012
Donald
2014
Self - Presenter
1953
Lord Farquaad (voice)
2001
Self
2006
Paul Unger
1951
Major Kendall Laird
1951
Laird Riordan
1951
Lamar Blackburn
2016
Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
2020
John Lithgow
1996
Self
1952
Self
1996
Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
1996
Self - Guest
2018
Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
2011
Self
2023
Tremblay
2024
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1994
2005
The White Rabbit (voice)
2013
Larry Henderson
2017
Prosecutor Peter Leaward
2023
Albus Dumbledore
Self - Guest
1996
James Roosevelt (voice)
2014
2018
Self
1999
Self
2018
Charles Rodman
2011
Bolinar (voice)
2024
2006
Self
2025
Jud Crandall
2019
2003
1994
Richard Hobbes
2023
Don
2017
Eric Qualen
1993
Rev. Shaw Moore
1984
Oliver
2012
Jack Brady
2010
Walter Lovell
2019
Edgar West
2009
Fergus
2017
Valentine
1983
Dave Crealy
2025
Roger Ailes
2019
Smith Keen
1993
Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
2011
Lord John Whorfin
1984
Dr. Walter Curnow
1984
Burke
1981
Lucas Sergeant
1979
Robert Lasalle
1976
Mayor Gould
2024
Senator Ronald Sperling
2016
Jerry Harris
2006
Glen Motch
2012
Senator Conyers
1995
Tom the Studio Chairman
2022
George Henderson
1987
Sam Burns
1983
Judge Walter J. Skinner
1998
Reverend Alfred Dowd
2014
Joe Huxley
1983
Jean-Claude (voice)
2000
Earl Talbott Blake
1991
Bud Brumder
2002
Bruce Derringer
1990
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
2003
Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
1992
Philip Drummond
2021
Alfred Seguine Kinsey
2004
Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
2001
Ben
2014
B.Z.
1985
Roberta Muldoon
1982
Maurice (voice)
2014
Paul Harrington
1993
Blake Edwards
2004
Professor Wilkinson
1994
Maj. Kendall Laird
1986
Malcolm / Robert Stockman
1998
Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
2000
Dr. Rene Harlinger
1994
Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
1994
Oliver Thompson
1985
Lord Farquaad (voice)
2013
Leslie Huben
1991
Self
2015
Ed Hemsler
2019
John Mathewson
1986
Self
2015
Doug Strutt
2017
Paul Philips
1979
Self
2023
John Walters (archive footage)
Dave
1989
Sam Sebastian
1978
Self
1990
Sergeant Larry Skovik
1998
Self
2019
Ol' Gregory Timms
2013
Mark Lambert
1988
Clarence
1980
Self
2017
Self
2007
Artie Margulies
1991
Self
2013
Jimpa
2025
Neil Scott
1987
Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
2005
Dr. Oscar Charles
1999
Self
2012
Mr. Brunner
1982
Man in Club
2014
Goldilocks' Father
1984
Sgt. Marty Wellborn
1984
Thomas Livingston
1996
Herbie Morse
1980
Self - Performer
2016
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2021
Alexander (voice)
1993
2021
Self
2002
2003
Phillip Mills
1993
Ben Cluett
1989
Himself
1984
Self
2018
Self
1994
Self
2011
Narrator (voice)
1997
Narrator
1987
Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
2021
Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
1995
2017
John
1972
Robert Carter
1990
Wally
1980
God
2009
Self
René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
2006
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
President Donald J. Trump
2019
Cafe chef and owner
2006
Richard Carruthers
1982
2015
Posket
2013
Narrator
2006
Laird Riordan
1995
Self
2017
Narrator
1995
Jud Crandall
2018
Self
2020
Narrator
1996
Narrator
1993
Narrator
2008
Narrator
2004
Paul Unger
1974
Dr. Oscar Charles
1995
Capt. Thorne
1977
Narrator
2009
2022
Self
1985
Himself
2017
Self
2024
Narrator
2000
1990
Narrator
2016