John Lithgow
Acting
🎂 1945-10-19
John Arthur Lithgow 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).
Cast credits(215)
Arthur Mitchell
2006
Gus (voice)
1989
John Lithgow (voice)
1989
Arthur Mitchell
2025
Self
1996
Jerry Whittaker
2005
Self
2014
Self
2007
Madman Martinez (voice)
1993
Donald
2014
Self
2014
Self
2019
Self - Host
1975
Self
2006
Self - Guest
2009
Self - Guest
2022
2005
Arthur Mitchell
2021
Winston Churchill
2016
Self
2010
Self - Guest
2015
2015
Self
2015
John Lithgow
2006
Narrator
1974
Lord Farquaad (voice)
2001
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Nominee & Performer
1956
Self - Winner
1956
Self - Nominee
1956
Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
Dick Solomon
1996
Capt. Thorne
1971
Self - Nominee
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Self
2014
Self
1997
Self - Guest
1997
Dr. Oscar Charles
1989
Self
2015
Lamar Blackburn
2016
John Walters
1985
Self
2004
Tremblay
2024
Self
2012
Self - Guest
1993
2018
Prosecutor Peter Leaward
2023
Self - Presenter
1953
Charles Rodman
2011
Harold Harper
2022
Self - Special Guest
2020
Self
2002
Goldilocks' Father
1982
Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
2020
Jack Brady
2010
Bolinar (voice)
2024
John Lithgow
1996
Eric Qualen
1993
Roger Ailes
2019
Fergus
2017
Richard Hobbes
2023
Jud Crandall
2019
Don
2017
Rev. Shaw Moore
1984
Edgar West
2009
Oliver
2012
Smith Keen
1993
The White Rabbit (voice)
2013
Glen Motch
2012
Larry Henderson
2017
Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
2011
Lord John Whorfin
1984
Senator Ronald Sperling
2016
Reverend Alfred Dowd
2014
Jerry Harris
2006
Burke
1981
Albus Dumbledore
Self
2025
Valentine
1983
Self
2018
George Henderson
1987
Judge Walter J. Skinner
1998
Jean-Claude (voice)
2000
Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
2011
Dr. Walter Curnow
1984
Joe Huxley
1983
Self - Guest
1996
Self
Self - Guest
2018
Bud Brumder
2002
Earl Talbott Blake
1991
Bruce Derringer
1990
Sam Burns
1983
Mayor Gould
2024
Walter Lovell
2019
Alfred Seguine Kinsey
2004
Dave Crealy
2025
Senator Conyers
1995
Lucas Sergeant
1979
Lord Farquaad (voice)
2013
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
2003
Dr. Oscar Charles
1995
Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
2001
Self
1990
Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
1992
Self
2012
Ben
2014
Dr. Rene Harlinger
1994
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
2003
Self
2011
Self
2015
2003
Paul Unger
1951
Major Kendall Laird
1951
Laird Riordan
1951
Roberta Muldoon
1982
Doug Strutt
2017
Maj. Kendall Laird
1986
Self
2017
René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
2006
Tom the Studio Chairman
2022
Ol' Gregory Timms
2013
Self
2019
Self
1952
Self
1996
Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
1996
Sam Sebastian
1978
Sergeant Larry Skovik
1998
Robert Lasalle
1976
Malcolm / Robert Stockman
1998
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1994
James Roosevelt (voice)
2014
Artie Margulies
1991
Professor Wilkinson
1994
B.Z.
1985
Paul Harrington
1993
Cafe chef and owner
2006
Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
1995
Ben Cluett
1989
2021
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2021
Sgt. Marty Wellborn
1984
Self
2015
John Mathewson
1986
Oliver Thompson
1985
Self
2007
Self
2023
Self - Performer
2016
Blake Edwards
2004
Ed Hemsler
2019
Dr. Oscar Charles
1999
Thomas Livingston
1996
Paul Philips
1979
Capt. Thorne
1977
2006
Richard Carruthers
1982
Self
1985
Mr. Brunner
1982
Philip Drummond
2021
Wally
1980
John Walters (archive footage)
1990
God
2009
Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
1994
Leslie Huben
1991
Self
2013
Herbie Morse
1980
Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
2005
Self
1999
Robert Carter
1990
2005
Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
2000
Narrator (voice)
1997
Phillip Mills
1993
Maurice (voice)
2014
Clarence
1980
Self
2002
John
1972
Goldilocks' Father
1984
Laird Riordan
1995
Narrator
1993
Jud Crandall
2018
Posket
2013
Narrator
1987
Self
1994
Dave
1989
Self
2023
Self
2018
Paul Unger
1974
1994
Self
2017
Mark Lambert
1988
Self
2020
Narrator
1996
Jimpa
2025
Narrator
1995
Neil Scott
1987
Himself
1984
Alexander (voice)
1993
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
Narrator
2016
Narrator
2004
Narrator
2008
Narrator
2006
1990
Narrator
2009
2022
Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
2021
2017
Narrator
2000
Himself
2017
2003
President Donald J. Trump
2019
Self
2024
2015