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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
+11
as Donald 
3rd Rock from the Sun
as Dick Solomon 
Shrek
+5
as Lord Farquaad (voice) 
Killers of the Flower Moon
+6
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward 
The Accountant
+8
as Lamar Blackburn 
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
+6
as Charles Rodman 
The Old Man
+2
as Harold Harper 
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
+2
as The White Rabbit (voice) 
Conclave
+4
as Tremblay 
The Pelican Brief
+4
as Smith Keen 
Daddy's Home 2
+9
as Don 
Pet Sematary
+9
as Jud Crandall 
Miss Sloane
+6
as Senator Ronald Sperling 
Leap Year
+3
as Jack Brady 
Pitch Perfect 3
+6
as Fergus 
Terms of Endearment
+11
as Sam Burns 
Cliffhanger
+4
as Qualen 
This Is 40
+2
as Oliver 
Footloose
+11
as Rev. Shaw Moore 
Blow Out
+12
as Burke 
Confessions of a Shopaholic
+3
as Edgar West 
Twilight Zone: The Movie
+10
as Valentine 
Late Night
+1
as Walter Lovell 
Bombshell
+6
as Roger Ailes 
Spellbound
as Bolinar (voice) 
The Campaign
+2
as Glen Motch 
2010
+3
as Dr. Walter Curnow 
The Homesman
+18
as Reverend Alfred Dowd 
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
+7
as Jean-Claude (voice) 
Sharper
as Richard Hobbes 
Orange County
+3
as Bud Brumder 
The Day After
as Joe Huxley 
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
+11
as Lord John Whorfin 
Dreamgirls
+8
as Jerry Harris 
Shrek 3-D
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice) 
Prohibition
+7
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice) 
A Civil Action
+2
as Judge Walter J. Skinner 
The West
+2
as Self 
Harry and the Hendersons
+2
as George Henderson 
Ricochet
as Earl Talbott Blake 
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
+4
as James Roosevelt (voice) 
American Cinema
as Self - Host 
Memphis Belle
+2
as Bruce Derringer 
Raising Cain
+4
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo 
The Rule of Jenny Pen
+12
as Dave Crealy 
Santa Claus: The Movie
+6
as B.Z. 
Kinsey
+3
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey 
The World According to Garp
+4
as Roberta Muldoon 
Obsession
+4
as Robert Lasalle 
The Tuskegee Airmen
+5
as Senator Conyers 
The Tomorrow Man
+9
as Ed Hemsler 
Love Is Strange
+2
as Ben 
Beatriz at Dinner
+8
as Doug Strutt 
A Good Man in Africa
+2
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner 
The Big Fix
+1
as Sam Sebastian 
Cabrini
+1
as Mayor Gould 
The Manhattan Project
as John Mathewson 
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Blake Edwards 
The Oldest Living Graduate
+6
as Clarence 
Princess Caraboo
+12
as Professor Wilkinson 
World War II: When Lions Roared
+2
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
Resting Place
as Maj. Kendall Laird 
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as Leslie Huben 
Redwood Curtain
+7
as Laird Riordan 
Jimpa
+5
as Jimpa 
Love, Cheat & Steal
+5
as Paul Harrington 
Homegrown
+3
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman 
On Broadway
+5
as Self 
+3
as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley 
Silent Fall
+9
as Dr. Rene Harlinger 
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as Philip Drummond 
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
as John Walters 
Best of Enemies
+11
as Voice of Gore Vidal 
The Pulitzer At 100
as Self 
Distant Thunder
+3
as Mark Lambert 
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
as Maurice (voice) 
Traveling Man
as Ben Cluett 
Officer Buckle and Gloria
+1
as Narrator (voice) 
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
+3
as Mr. Brunner 
Out Cold
+7
as Dave 
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
+2
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice) 
Mesmerized
+16
as Oliver Thompson 
Johnny Skidmarks
as Sergeant Larry Skovik 
