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.
Shrek
(Lord Farquaad (voice))
Footloose
(Rev. Shaw Moore)
Sharper
(Richard Hobbes)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
(Blake Edwards)
Confessions of a Shopaholic
(Edgar West)
2010
(Dr. Walter Curnow)
Obsession
(Robert Lasalle)
The Manhattan Project
(John Mathewson)
Terms of Endearment
(Sam Burns)
Kinsey
(Alfred Seguine Kinsey)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
(Lord John Whorfin)
The World According to Garp
(Roberta Muldoon)
Blow Out
(Burke)
The Day After
(Joe Huxley)
The Tuskegee Airmen
(Senator Conyers)
Give My Regards to Broadway
(Self)
Leap Year
(Jack Brady)
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
(Ghost of Farquaad (voice))
Harry and the Hendersons
(George Henderson)
A Civil Action
(Judge Walter J. Skinner)
Ricochet
(Earl Talbott Blake)
Bark, George
The Pelican Brief
(Smith Keen)
Cliffhanger
(Eric Qualen)
Santa Claus: The Movie
(B.Z.)
A Good Man in Africa
(Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner)
Inside 'Interstellar'
(Self)
Raising Cain
(Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo)
The Big Fix
(Sam Sebastian)
The Wrong Man
(Phillip Mills)
Dogs and More Dogs
(Narrator)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
(Philip Drummond)
Officer Buckle and Gloria
(Narrator (voice))
Princess Caraboo
(Professor Wilkinson)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
(Jean-Claude (voice))
All That Jazz
(Lucas Sergeant)
Homegrown
(Malcolm / Robert Stockman)
Silent Fall
(Dr. Rene Harlinger)
They All Saw a Cat
Casting By
(Self)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
(Leslie Huben)
Resting Place
(Maj. Kendall Laird)
Mesmerized
(Oliver Thompson)
Love, Cheat & Steal
(Paul Harrington)
Hollow Point
(Thomas Livingston)
Rich Kids
(Paul Philips)
Projections of America
(Self - Narrator (voice))
The Campaign
(Glen Motch)
This Is 40
(Oliver)
Out Cold
(Dave)
Chez Bob
Car of the Future
(Narrator)
The Bubble
(Tom the Studio Chairman)
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
(John)
Redwood Curtain
(Laird Riordan)
Interstellar
(Donald)
95 Worlds and Counting
(Narrator)
Don Quixote
(Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano)
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
(Self)
Distant Thunder
(Mark Lambert)
Cabrini
(Mayor Gould)
Baby Girl Scott
(Neil Scott)
Love Is Strange
(Ben)
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
(Narrator)
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
(Posket)
Orange County
(Bud Brumder)
Spellbound
(Bolinar (voice))
My Brother's Keeper
(Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
(Charles Rodman)
Twilight Zone: The Movie
(Valentine)
Memphis Belle
(Bruce Derringer)
The Rule of Jenny Pen
(Dave Crealy)
Ivory Hunters
(Robert Carter)
The Homesman
(Reverend Alfred Dowd)
Sangre
(Cafe chef and owner)
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
(Self)
Night of 100 Stars III
(Self)
Johnny Skidmarks
(Sergeant Larry Skovik)
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
(Self)
The Accountant
(Lamar Blackburn)
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
(Narrator)
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
(Maurice (voice))
Lord John
9 Kisses
(Man in Club)
Dreamgirls
(Jerry Harris)
Broadway: The Next Generation
(Self)
Best of Enemies
(Self)
Shrek Stories
(Lord Farquaad (voice))
Timms Valley
(Ol' Gregory Timms)
The Oldest Living Graduate
(Clarence)
The Glitter Dome
(Sgt. Marty Wellborn)
Jimpa
(Jimpa)
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
(Mr. Brunner)
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
(Narrator)
Miss Sloane
(Senator Ronald Sperling)
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
(John Walters (archive footage))
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
(Self - Performer)
Beatriz at Dinner
(Doug Strutt)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
(Goldilocks' Father)
Daddy's Home 2
(Don)
Einstein's Big Idea
(Narrator (voice) U.S. edition)
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
(Self)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
(Self)
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
(Lord Farquaad (singing voice))
The Pulitzer At 100
(Self)
Pitch Perfect 3
(Fergus)
Secret Service
(Capt. Thorne)
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
(Self)
Late Night
(Walter Lovell)
Pet Sematary
(Jud Crandall)
Traveling Man
(Ben Cluett)
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
(Narrator)
Bombshell
(Roger Ailes)
The Amazing Bone
(Narrator)
Hickory Dickory Doc
(Himself)
Not in Front of the Children
(Richard Carruthers)
The Tomorrow Man
(Ed Hemsler)
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
(Narrator)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
(René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly"))
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
(Self)
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
(President Donald J. Trump)
Big Blonde
(Herbie Morse)
The Boys
(Artie Margulies)
New Year's Eve
(Jonathan Cox (uncredited))
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
(Self)
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
(God)
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
(Wally)
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
(Dr. Oscar Charles)
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
(Alexander (voice))
American Cinema
(Narrator)
Myths and Hymns
The Country Girl
(Paul Unger)
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
(Sir Isaac Newton (voice))
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
(Jud Crandall)
Killers of the Flower Moon
(Prosecutor Peter Leaward)
On Broadway
(Self)
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
(Self)
Conclave
(Tremblay)
Show of Titles
("There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer)
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
(Himself)
3rd Rock from the Sun
(Dick Solomon)
How I Met Your Mother
(Jerry Whittaker)
The Tony Danza Show
(Self)
Twenty Good Years
Today
(Self)
Tales from the Crypt
(Dr. Oscar Charles)
The View
(Self)
Frasier
(Madman Martinez (voice))
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
The Early Show
(Self)
Finding Your Roots
(Self)
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
(Self - Guest)
Faerie Tale Theatre
(Goldilocks' Father)
30 Rock
(John Lithgow)
The Colbert Report
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Paul Unger)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
(Self - Guest)
Cosby
(John Lithgow)
VH1 Goes Inside
The West
(Self)
American Cinema
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
(The White Rabbit (voice))
Dexter
(Arthur Mitchell)
E! Live from the Red Carpet
(Self)
NOVA
(Narrator)
The Daily Show
(Self)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(Self - Guest)
Tony Awards
(Self - Presenter)
The View
(Self - Guest)
Amazing Stories
(John Walters)
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
(Self)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
(Self)
Tony Awards
(Self - Nominee & Performer)
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Host)
Tony Awards
(Self - Winner)
Dexter: New Blood
(Arthur Mitchell)
The Crown
(Winston Churchill)
World War II: When Lions Roared
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Trial & Error
(Larry Henderson)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
(Self)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
(James Roosevelt (voice))
The Simpsons
(Gus (voice))
The Graham Norton Show
(Self)
Sherri
(Self - Guest)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Major Kendall Laird)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Laird Riordan)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
(Self - Guest)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
(Self - Guest)
Perry Mason
(Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The West
(Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice))
Ultra City Smiths
(Ol' Gregory Timms)
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
(Self)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
(Self)
Stars in the House
(Self - Special Guest)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Prohibition
(Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice))
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(Self)
The Simpsons
(John Lithgow (voice))
Great Performances
(Capt. Thorne)
The Old Man
(Harold Harper)
Conan
(Self)
Tony Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Tony Awards
(Self - Nominee/Performer)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Presenter)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
(Self)
Golden Globe Awards
(Self - Winner)
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
(Self)
Harry Potter
(Albus Dumbledore)
The Oscars
(Self - Presenter)