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John Lithgow
Known for: ActingJohn 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).
Filmography 89
Interstellar
+5
as Donald 
Mælkevejen 1.th
as Dick Solomon 
Killers of the Flower Moon
+3
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward 
Shrek
+7
as Lord Farquaad (voice) 
Conclave
+5
as Tremblay 
Daddy's Home 2
+3
as Don 
The Old Man
as Harold Harper 
The Accountant
+5
as Lamar Blackburn 
Abernes planet: Oprindelsen
+4
as Charles Rodman 
Fortryllelsen
as Bolinar (voice) 
Ondskabens Kirkegård
+6
as Jud Crandall 
Pitch Perfect 3
+6
as Fergus 
Late Night
+1
as Walter Lovell 
Bombshell - Opgørets time
+5
as Roger Ailes 
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
as The White Rabbit (voice) 
Pelikan notatet
+4
as Smith Keen 
Cliffhanger
+4
as Qualen 
Miss Sloane
as Senator Ronald Sperling 
Leap Year
+2
as Jack Brady 
Psykopat på fri fod
as Earl Talbott Blake 
Bigfoot og familien Henderson
as George Henderson 
Tid til kærtegn
+1
as Sam Burns 
Døden sletter alle spor
as Burke 
Footloose
+5
as Rev. Shaw Moore 
Cabrini
as Mayor Gould 
Confessions of a Shopaholic
+4
as Edgar West 
På grænsen til det ukendte
+1
as Valentine 
This is 40
+2
as Oliver 
The Campaign
+4
as Glen Motch 
Orange County
as Bud Brumder 
Prohibition
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice) 
Memphis Belle
+1
as Bruce Derringer 
The Homesman
+4
as Reverend Alfred Dowd 
Det skjulte ansigt
+3
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo 
Buckaroo Banzai og det vilde eventyr
as Lord John Whorfin 
Dagen efter
as Joe Huxley 
The Tomorrow Man
+1
as Ed Hemsler 
2010: Den anden rumrejse
+2
as Dr. Walter Curnow 
Dreamgirls
+4
as Jerry Harris 
Sharper
as Richard Hobbes 
Shrek 3-D
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice) 
Civil Action
as Judge Walter J. Skinner 
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as Philip Drummond 
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as James Roosevelt (voice) 
Rollingerne i Paris
as Jean-Claude (voice) 
Sådan Blev Vesten Skabt
as Self 
American Cinema
as Self - Host 
The Rule of Jenny Pen
+1
as Dave Crealy 
Beatriz at Dinner
as Doug Strutt 
Julemanden i Knibe
as B.Z. 
Kinsey
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey 
Verden ifølge Garp
+1
as Roberta Muldoon 
Mesmerized
as Oliver Thompson 
Obsession
as Robert Lasalle 
The Tuskegee Airmen
as Senator Conyers 
Jimpa
as Jimpa 
Love Is Strange
+1
as Ben 
Når sandheden skal frem
as Dr. Rene Harlinger 
On Broadway
as Self 
En god mand i Afrika
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner 
The Big Fix
as Sam Sebastian 
Farligt legetøj
as John Mathewson 
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Blake Edwards 
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Clarence 
Prinsesse Caraboo
as Professor Wilkinson 
Resting Place
as Maj. Kendall Laird 
Redwood Curtain
as Laird Riordan 
Jungelens evangelium
as Leslie Huben 
Love, Cheat & Steal
as Paul Harrington 
World War II: When Lions Roared
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
Homegrown
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman 
Iskold
as Dave 
Distant Thunder
as Mark Lambert 
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
as John Walters 
Best of Enemies
as Voice of Gore Vidal 
The Pulitzer At 100
as Self 
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
as Maurice (voice) 
Traveling Man
as Ben Cluett 
Officer Buckle and Gloria
as Narrator (voice) 
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as Mr. Brunner 
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice) 
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self 
Johnny Skidmarks
as Sergeant Larry Skovik 
