10.0
10.0
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1993
as Narrator
John Lithgow
Also known as: John Arthur Lithgow
Acting
Born:October 19, 1945(age 80)
Birthplace:Rochester, New York, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Harvard College, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Princeton High School
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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 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).
Filmography (134 movies)
9.0
9.0
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013
as Self
8.7
8.7
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
1999
as Dr. Oscar Charles
8.7
8.7
On Broadway
2019
as Self
8.5
8.5
Interstellar
2014
as Donald
8.4
8.4
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
2002
as Self
8.1
8.1
Jimpa
2026
as Jimpa
8.1
8.1
Shrek Stories
2013
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
7.9
7.9
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
as Self
7.9
7.9
Cabrini
2024
as Mayor Gould
7.8
7.8
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
2026
as Self
7.8
7.8
Shrek
2001
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
7.6
7.6
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019
as President Donald J. Trump
7.5
7.5
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011
as Self
7.5
7.5
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021
as Philip Drummond
7.4
7.4
Miss Sloane
2016
as Senator Ronald Sperling
7.4
7.4
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
7.4
7.4
Blow Out
1981
as Burke
7.3
7.3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as Charles Rodman
7.2
7.2
Conclave
2024
as Tremblay
7.2
7.2
Einstein's Big Idea
2005
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
7.2
7.2
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
7.2
7.2
Best of Enemies
2015
as Voice of Gore Vidal
7.1
7.1
The Accountant
2016
as Lamar Blackburn
7.1
7.1
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
as Senator Conyers
7.1
7.1
Terms of Endearment
1983
as Sam Burns
7.0
7.0
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
2018
as Jud Crandall
7.0
7.0
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1997
as Narrator (voice)
6.9
6.9
Leap Year
2010
as Jack Brady
6.9
6.9
Sharper
2023
as Richard Hobbes
6.8
6.8
Bombshell
2019
as Roger Ailes
6.8
6.8
The Day After
1983
as Joe Huxley
6.7
6.7
Memphis Belle
1990
as Bruce Derringer
6.7
6.7
Dreamgirls
2006
as Jerry Harris
6.7
6.7
Spellbound
2024
as Bolinar (voice)
6.7
6.7
Footloose
1984
as Rev. Shaw Moore
6.7
6.7
The World According to Garp
1982
as Roberta Muldoon
6.7
6.7
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000
as Jean-Claude (voice)
6.6
6.6
Obsession
1976
as Robert Lasalle
6.6
6.6
Kinsey
2004
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
6.6
6.6
2010
1984
as Dr. Walter Curnow
6.6
6.6
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
as Blake Edwards
6.6
6.6
The Pelican Brief
1993
as Smith Keen
6.5
6.5
The Homesman
2014
as Reverend Alfred Dowd
6.5
6.5
Cliffhanger
1993
as Eric Qualen
6.5
6.5
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
as Edgar West
6.5
6.5
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
as Fergus
6.5
6.5
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
as Valentine
6.5
6.5
A Civil Action
1998
as Judge Walter J. Skinner
6.4
6.4
Late Night
2019
as Walter Lovell
6.3
6.3
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991
as Leslie Huben
6.3
6.3
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
2001
as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
6.3
6.3
Love Is Strange
2014
as Ben
6.3
6.3
Daddy's Home 2
2017
as Don
6.3
6.3
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985
as B.Z.
6.3
6.3
Don Quixote
2000
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Timms Valley
2013
as Ol' Gregory Timms
6.2
6.2
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
The Manhattan Project
1986
as John Mathewson
6.1
6.1
Resting Place
1986
as Maj. Kendall Laird
6.1
6.1
Raising Cain
1992
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
6.1
6.1
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
as George Henderson
6.1
6.1
Ricochet
1991
as Earl Talbott Blake
6.0
6.0
Orange County
2002
as Bud Brumder
6.0
6.0
Baby Girl Scott
1987
as Neil Scott
6.0
6.0
Car of the Future
2008
as Narrator
6.0
6.0
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
as Lord John Whorfin
6.0
6.0
Not in Front of the Children
1982
as Richard Carruthers
6.0
6.0
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
2013
as Posket
6.0
6.0
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
as Mr. Brunner
6.0
6.0
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
2009
as God
6.0
6.0
The Pulitzer At 100
2017
as Self
6.0
6.0
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
2003
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
5.9
5.9
This Is 40
2012
as Oliver
5.9
5.9
Out Cold
1989
as Dave
5.8
5.8
The Campaign
2012
as Glen Motch
5.8
5.8
Redwood Curtain
1995
as Laird Riordan
5.8
5.8
Beatriz at Dinner
2017
as Doug Strutt
5.7
5.7
Pet Sematary
2019
as Jud Crandall
5.7
5.7
The Big Fix
1978
as Sam Sebastian
5.7
5.7
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
2014
as Maurice (voice)
5.7
5.7
The Tomorrow Man
2019
as Ed Hemsler
5.6
5.6
Distant Thunder
1988
as Mark Lambert
5.6
5.6
Homegrown
1998
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman
5.4
5.4
Johnny Skidmarks
1998
as Sergeant Larry Skovik
5.4
5.4
Princess Caraboo
1994
as Professor Wilkinson
5.3
5.3
Silent Fall
1994
as Dr. Rene Harlinger
5.2
5.2
Dogs and More Dogs
2004
as Narrator
5.0
5.0
Hollow Point
1996
as Thomas Livingston
5.0
5.0
Projections of America
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
5.0
5.0
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
1985
as Self
5.0
5.0
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1984
as Goldilocks' Father
5.0
5.0
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
1990
5.0
5.0
Big Blonde
1980
as Herbie Morse
5.0
5.0
The Wrong Man
1993
as Phillip Mills
4.9
4.9
A Good Man in Africa
1994
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
4.8
4.8
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972
as John
4.8
4.8
Rich Kids
1979
as Paul Philips
4.7
4.7
Mesmerized
1985
as Oliver Thompson
4.2
4.2
Ivory Hunters
1990
as Robert Carter
4.1
4.1
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
as Paul Harrington
4.1
4.1
The Glitter Dome
1984
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn
4.0
4.0
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
as Clarence
2.8
2.8
Traveling Man
1989
as Ben Cluett
1.0
1.0
My Brother's Keeper
1995
as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
The Amazing Bone
1987
as Narrator
Hickory Dickory Doc
2017
as Himself
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
2006
as Narrator
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
1993
as Alexander (voice)
Myths and Hymns
2021
American Cinema
1995
as Narrator
The Country Girl
1974
as Paul Unger
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
2021
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
1996
as Narrator
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
1980
as Wally
Bark, George
2003
Secret Service
1977
as Capt. Thorne
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
TBA
as Self
Sangre
2006
as Cafe chef and owner
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
2009
as Narrator
Lord John
2015
Give My Regards to Broadway
2020
as Self
Chez Bob
2022
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
2024
Executive Producer
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
1990
as John Walters (archive footage)
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
as Self
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
2016
as Narrator
Shrek 5
2027
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
Tales from the Crypt: You, Murderer
1995
as Dr. Oscar Charles
They All Saw a Cat
2017
The Boys
1991
as Artie Margulies
95 Worlds and Counting
2000
as Narrator
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984
as Himself
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