John Lithgow
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
Actor
as John Walters (archive footage)
as Inner Voice of Arthur (voice)
as Albus Dumbledore
as Dave Crealy
as Jimpa
as Self
as Bolinar (voice)
as Tremblay
as Mayor Gould
as Self
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
as Richard Hobbes
as Tom the Studio Chairman
as Self - Guest
as Harold Harper
as Philip Drummond
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
as Arthur Mitchell
as Ol' Gregory Timms
as Self
as Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
as Self - Special Guest
as Roger Ailes
as Self
as President Donald J. Trump
as Ed Hemsler
as Jud Crandall
as Walter Lovell
as Self
as Jud Crandall
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Fergus
as Self
as Don
as Self
as Doug Strutt
as Himself
as Larry Henderson
as Senator Ronald Sperling
as Lamar Blackburn
as Self - Performer
as Narrator
as Winston Churchill
as Self
as Self
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Man in Club
as Donald
as Maurice (voice)
as Ben
as Reverend Alfred Dowd
as Self
as James Roosevelt (voice)
as Self
as Ol' Gregory Timms
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
as Posket
as The White Rabbit (voice)
as Oliver
as Self
as Glen Motch
as Self
as Self
as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
as Charles Rodman
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
as Jack Brady
as Self
as Narrator
as Edgar West
as Self - Guest
as Narrator
as Self
as Jerry Harris
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
as Narrator
as Cafe chef and owner
as John Lithgow
as Arthur Mitchell
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
as Jerry Whittaker
as Blake Edwards
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
as Narrator
as Self
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
as Bud Brumder
as Self
as Self
as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
as Jean-Claude (voice)
as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
as Narrator
as Dr. Oscar Charles
as Self
as Judge Walter J. Skinner
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman
as Sergeant Larry Skovik
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Thomas Livingston
as Narrator
as John Lithgow
as Self
as Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Dick Solomon
as Senator Conyers
as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
as Narrator
as Laird Riordan
as Dr. Rene Harlinger
as Professor Wilkinson
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
as Alexander (voice)
as Paul Harrington
as Smith Keen
as Phillip Mills
as Eric Qualen
as Narrator
as Madman Martinez (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
as Leslie Huben
as Earl Talbott Blake
as Artie Margulies
as Bruce Derringer
as Robert Carter
as Self
as Ben Cluett
as Dave
as Gus (voice)
as John Lithgow (voice)
as Dr. Oscar Charles
as Mark Lambert
as George Henderson
as Narrator
as Neil Scott
as John Mathewson
as Maj. Kendall Laird
as Oliver Thompson
as B.Z.
as John Walters
as Dr. Walter Curnow
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn
as Lord John Whorfin
as Rev. Shaw Moore
as Goldilocks' Father
as Himself
as Sam Burns
as Joe Huxley
as Valentine
as Richard Carruthers
as Roberta Muldoon
as Mr. Brunner
as Goldilocks' Father
as Burke
as Herbie Morse
as Wally
as Clarence
as Lucas Sergeant
as Paul Philips
as Sam Sebastian
as Capt. Thorne
as Robert Lasalle
as Self - Host
as Paul Unger
as Narrator
as Capt. Thorne
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee & Performer
as Self - Winner
as Self - Nominee
as Self - Nominee/Performer
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Paul Unger
as Major Kendall Laird
as Laird Riordan
as Self - Nominee
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Winner
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer