Acting
John Lithgow
EN, FR cinema · 146 credits
Born
19 October 1945 (age 81)
Birthplace
Rochester, New York, USA
Also known as 莊李富高 · John Arthur Lithgow · 約翰.李斯高 · جان لیتگو
John Arthur Lithgow (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 transgender 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
Filmography
Jimpa
as Jimpa
Giant
as Roald Dahl
The Rule of Jenny Pen
as Dave Crealy, Executive Producer
Cabrini
as Mayor Gould
Spellbound
as Bolinar (voice)
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
as Self, Executive Producer
Conclave
as Tremblay
Sharper
as Richard Hobbes
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
The Bubble
as Tom the Studio Chairman
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as Philip Drummond
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Show of Titles
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Late Night
as Walter Lovell
Pet Sematary
as Jud Crandall
Bombshell
as Roger Ailes
The Tomorrow Man
as Ed Hemsler
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as President Donald J. Trump
On Broadway
as Self
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
as Jud Crandall
Beatriz at Dinner
as Doug Strutt
Pitch Perfect 3
as Fergus
Hickory Dickory Doc
as Himself
The Accountant
as Lamar Blackburn
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
2016
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
as Narrator
Miss Sloane
as Senator Ronald Sperling
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
Projections of America
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Best of Enemies
as Voice of Gore Vidal
Interstellar
as Donald
The Homesman
as Reverend Alfred Dowd
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
as Maurice (voice)
9 Kisses
as Man in Club
Shrek Stories
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
Timms Valley
as Ol' Gregory Timms
Casting By
as Self
The Campaign
as Glen Motch
This Is 40
as Oliver
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Charles Rodman
New Year's Eve
as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
Leap Year
as Jack Brady
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Edgar West
Car of the Future
as Narrator
Sangre
2006
Sangre
as Cafe chef and owner
Dreamgirls
as Jerry Harris
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
Einstein's Big Idea
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Blake Edwards
Kinsey
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
Shrek 3-D
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Footloose: A Modern Musical
as Self, Thanks
Orange County
as Bud Brumder
Shrek
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
as Jean-Claude (voice)
95 Worlds and Counting
as Narrator
Don Quixote
as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano, Executive Producer
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
as Dr. Oscar Charles
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as (archive footage)
A Civil Action
as Judge Walter J. Skinner
Homegrown
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman
Johnny Skidmarks
as Sergeant Larry Skovik
Officer Buckle and Gloria
as Narrator (voice)
Hollow Point
as Thomas Livingston
The Tuskegee Airmen
as Senator Conyers
Redwood Curtain
as Laird Riordan
My Brother's Keeper
1995
My Brother's Keeper
as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
A Good Man in Africa
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
Princess Caraboo
as Professor Wilkinson
Silent Fall
as Dr. Rene Harlinger
The Pelican Brief
as Smith Keen
Cliffhanger
as Qualen
The Wrong Man
as Phillip Mills
Love, Cheat & Steal
as Paul Harrington
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
as Narrator
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
as Alexander (voice)
Raising Cain
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
Ricochet
as Earl Talbott Blake
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as Leslie Huben
The Boys
as Artie Margulies
Memphis Belle
as Bruce Derringer
Ivory Hunters
as Robert Carter
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
as John Walters
Out Cold
as Dave
Traveling Man
as Ben Cluett
Distant Thunder
as Mark Lambert
Harry and the Hendersons
as George Henderson
Baby Girl Scott
1987
Baby Girl Scott
as Neil Scott
The Amazing Bone
as Narrator
The Manhattan Project
as John Mathewson
Resting Place
as Maj. Kendall Laird
Mesmerized
as Oliver Thompson
Footloose
as Rev. Shaw Moore
2010
as Dr. Walter Curnow
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
as Lord John Whorfin
The Glitter Dome
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
as Goldilocks' Father
Terms of Endearment
as Sam Burns
The Day After
as Joe Huxley
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Valentine
The World According to Garp
as Roberta Muldoon
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as Mr. Brunner
Not in Front of the Children
1982
Not in Front of the Children
as Richard Carruthers
Blow Out
as Burke
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Clarence
Big Blonde
as Herbie Morse
All That Jazz
as Lucas Sergeant
Rich Kids
as Paul Philips
The Big Fix
as Sam Sebastian
Secret Service
as Capt. Thorne
Obsession
as Robert Lasalle
The Country Girl
as Paul Unger
