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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
A treia planetă de la Soare
as Dick Solomon 
Interstellar: Călătorind prin univers
as Donald 
Crimele din Osage County: Bani însângerați
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward 
Shrek
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as Lord Farquaad (voice) 
Bătrânul
as Harold Harper 
The Accountant: Cifre periculoase
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as Lamar Blackburn 
Planeta maimuțelor: Invazia
as Charles Rodman 
Tata în război cu... tata 2
as Don 
Vrăjiți
as Bolinar (voice) 
Tonul perfect 3
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as Fergus 
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
as The White Rabbit (voice) 
Conclav
as Tremblay 
Dosarul Pelican
as Smith Keen 
Cimitirul animalelor
as Jud Crandall 
Domnișoara Sloane
as Senator Ronald Sperling 
An bisect
as Jack Brady 
Înscenarea
as Earl Talbott Blake 
Cabrini
as Mayor Gould 
Cuvinte de alint
as Sam Burns 
Așa-i la 40 de ani!
as Oliver 
Pe cont propriu
as Rev. Shaw Moore 
Expulzarea
as Burke 
Mă dau în vânt după cumpărături
as Edgar West 
Zona crepusculară: Filmul artistic
as Valentine 
Luptă la înălțime
as Qualen 
Campania
as Glen Motch 
Talk show de seară
as Walter Lovell 
Județul portocalelor
as Bud Brumder 
Bombshell: Scandalul
as Roger Ailes 
Prohibition
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice) 
Bărbatul de casă
as Reverend Alfred Dowd 
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
as Jean-Claude (voice) 
În căutarea lui Cain
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo 
Ziua de după
as Joe Huxley 
Bărbatul de mâine
as Ed Hemsler 
2010
as Dr. Walter Curnow 
Aventurile lui Buckaroo Banzai
as Lord John Whorfin 
Fete de vis
as Jerry Harris 
Sharper
as Richard Hobbes 
Shrek 4-D
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice) 
Avocatul
as Judge Walter J. Skinner 
Uriașul Harry
as George Henderson 
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as James Roosevelt (voice) 
The West
as Self 
Jimpa
as Jimpa 
American Cinema
as Self - Host 
Memphis Belle
as Bruce Derringer 
The Rule of Jenny Pen
as Dave Crealy 
Moș Crăciun: Filmul artistic
as B.Z. 
Kinsey
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey 
The World According to Garp
as Roberta Muldoon 
Mesmerized
as Oliver Thompson 
Obsesia
as Robert Lasalle 
The Tuskegee Airmen
as Senator Conyers 
Ciudată mai e dragostea
as Ben 
Silent Fall
as Dr. Rene Harlinger 
Beatriz la cina
as Doug Strutt 
Singur în Africa
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner 
O combinație dură
as Sam Sebastian 
The Manhattan Project
as John Mathewson 
Viața și moartea lui Peter Sellers
as Blake Edwards 
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Clarence 
Princess Caraboo
as Professor Wilkinson 
Resting Place
as Maj. Kendall Laird 
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as Leslie Huben 
Redwood Curtain
as Laird Riordan 
Love, Cheat & Steal
as Paul Harrington 
World War II: When Lions Roared
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
Homegrown
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman 
On Broadway
as Self 
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as Philip Drummond 
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 
Out Cold
as Dave 
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 
