John Lithgow
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, musician, and author. Presently, he is involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio. He also has written and published several books of poetry and children's literature. He appeared in the films The World According to Garp (1982) and Terms of Endearment (1983), receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for each. Lithgow is known for his roles as the Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose, Dick Solomon on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, the voice of Lord Farquaad in Shrek, and The Trinity Killer on Showtime's Dexter for which he won Golden Globe and Emmy awards. On the stage, he appeared in the musical adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success, winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. He again appeared in a musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, again receiving the Tony nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. He has also recorded music, such as the 1999 album of children's music, Singin' in the Bathtub, and has written poetry and short stories for children, such as Marsupial Sue. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Lithgow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Oct 19, 1945 In Rochester, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 117
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues 1972-02-25
- Latest Project:
- Movie Conclave 2024-10-25
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Conclave | Tremblay | 2024-10-25 |
| Movie | Cabrini | Mayor Gould | 2024-03-07 |
| Movie | Sharper | Richard Hobbes | 2023-02-10 |
| Movie | Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic | Self | 2023-12-21 |
| Movie | Killers of the Flower Moon | Prosecutor Peter Leaward | 2023-10-18 |
| Movie | The Bubble | Tom the Studio Chairman | 2022-03-25 |
| Series | The Old Man | Harold Harper | 2022-06-16 |
| Movie | Myths and Hymns | 2021-01-13 | |
| Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes | Philip Drummond | 2021-12-07 |
| Movie | Disclosure | Self (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 |
| Series | Perry Mason | Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan | 2020-06-21 |
| Movie | Pet Sematary | Jud Crandall | 2019-04-04 |
| Movie | Late Night | Walter Lovell | 2019-01-25 |
| Movie | The Tomorrow Man | Ed Hemsler | 2019-05-22 |
| Movie | Bombshell | Roger Ailes | 2019-12-13 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | Mister Rogers: It's You I Like | Self | 2018-03-06 |
| Movie | Beatriz at Dinner | Doug Strutt | 2017-06-09 |
| Series | Trial & Error | Larry Henderson | 2017-03-14 |
| Movie | The Pulitzer At 100 | Self | 2017-07-21 |
| Movie | Daddy's Home 2 | Don | 2017-11-09 |
| Movie | Pitch Perfect 3 | Fergus | 2017-12-20 |
| Movie | Broadway: The Next Generation | Self | 2017-11-16 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer | 2016-04-23 |
| Movie | The Accountant | Lamar Blackburn | 2016-10-13 |
| Movie | Miss Sloane | Senator Ronald Sperling | 2016-11-25 |
| Series | The Crown | Sir Winston Churchill | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | Inside 'Interstellar' | Self | 2015-03-31 |
| Movie | Best of Enemies | Self | 2015-07-31 |
| Movie | The Homesman | Reverend Alfred Dowd | 2014-05-18 |
| Movie | Love Is Strange | Ben | 2014-08-22 |
| Movie | The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest | Maurice (voice) | 2014-08-27 |
| Movie | 9 Kisses | Man in Club | 2014-12-11 |
| Movie | Interstellar | Donald | 2014-11-05 |
| Series | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | James Roosevelt (voice) | 2014-09-14 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: The Magistrate | Posket | 2013-01-17 |
| Series | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | The White Rabbit (voice) | 2013-10-10 |
| Movie | Timms Valley | Ol' Gregory Timms | 2013-12-31 |
| Movie | Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love | Self | 2013-10-12 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Glen Motch | 2012-08-09 |
| Movie | Casting By | Self | 2012-11-01 |
| Movie | This Is 40 | Oliver | 2012-12-20 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Charles Rodman | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | New Year's Eve | Jonathan Cox (uncredited) | 2011-12-08 |
| Series | Prohibition | Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice) | 2011-10-02 |
| Movie | Leap Year | Jack Brady | 2010-01-08 |
| Movie | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Edgar West | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | The Macabre World of Lavender Williams | God | 2009-05-31 |
| Movie | Car of the Future | Narrator | 2008-04-22 |
| Movie | ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway | Self | 2007-04-19 |
| Movie | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly") | 2006-05-02 |
| Movie | Dreamgirls | Jerry Harris | 2006-12-25 |
| Series | Twenty Good Years | 2006-10-11 | |
| Movie | Einstein's Big Idea | Narrator (voice) U.S. edition | 2005-10-11 |
| Movie | The Ghost of Lord Farquaad | Ghost of Farquaad (voice) | 2004-04-03 |
| Movie | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Blake Edwards | 2004-10-01 |
| Movie | Kinsey | Alfred Seguine Kinsey | 2004-09-04 |
| Movie | Buckaroo Banzai Declassified | Self | 2002-01-04 |
| Movie | Orange County | Bud Brumder | 2002-01-11 |
| Movie | Shrek | Lord Farquaad (voice) | 2001-05-18 |
| Movie | Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party | Lord Farquaad (singing voice) | 2001-11-02 |
| Movie | Don Quixote | Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano | 2000-04-09 |
| Movie | Rugrats in Paris: The Movie | Jean-Claude (voice) | 2000-11-17 |
| Movie | Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection | Dr. Oscar Charles | 1999-09-07 |
| Movie | Johnny Skidmarks | Sergeant Larry Skovik | 1998-01-18 |
| Movie | A Civil Action | Judge Walter J. Skinner | 1998-12-25 |
| Movie | Homegrown | Malcolm / Robert Stockman | 1998-04-17 |
| Series | 3rd Rock from the Sun | Dick Solomon | 1996-01-09 |
| Series | The West | Self | 1996-09-15 |
| Movie | Hollow Point | Thomas Livingston | 1996-10-21 |
| Movie | Redwood Curtain | Laird Riordan | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | My Brother's Keeper | Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley | 1995-03-14 |
| Movie | The Tuskegee Airmen | Senator Conyers | 1995-08-25 |
| Series | World War II: When Lions Roared | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self | 1994-05-22 |
| Movie | A Good Man in Africa | Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner | 1994-07-14 |
| Movie | Silent Fall | Dr. Rene Harlinger | 1994-10-28 |
| Movie | Princess Caraboo | Professor Wilkinson | 1994-09-16 |
| Movie | Cliffhanger | Eric Qualen | 1993-05-28 |
| Movie | The Wrong Man | Phillip Mills | 1993-09-05 |
| Movie | Love, Cheat & Steal | Paul Harrington | 1993-12-05 |
| Movie | The Pelican Brief | Smith Keen | 1993-09-17 |
| Movie | Raising Cain | Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo | 1992-08-07 |
| Movie | Ricochet | Earl Talbott Blake | 1991-10-04 |
| Movie | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Leslie Huben | 1991-12-06 |
| Movie | Ivory Hunters | Robert Carter | 1990-08-20 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Movie | Memphis Belle | Bruce Derringer | 1990-09-07 |
| Movie | Out Cold | Dave | 1989-03-03 |
| Movie | Distant Thunder | Mark Lambert | 1988-11-11 |
| Movie | Baby Girl Scott | Neil Scott | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Harry and the Hendersons | George Henderson | 1987-06-05 |
| Movie | The Manhattan Project | John Mathewson | 1986-06-13 |
| Movie | Resting Place | Maj. Kendall Laird | 1986-04-27 |
| Movie | Santa Claus: The Movie | B.Z. | 1985-10-29 |
| Movie | Mesmerized | Oliver Thompson | 1985-11-18 |
| Movie | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Goldilocks' Father | 1984-01-09 |
| Movie | Footloose | Rev. Shaw Moore | 1984-02-17 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Lord John Whorfin | 1984-08-10 |
| Movie | 2010 | Dr. Walter Curnow | 1984-12-06 |
| Movie | The Glitter Dome | Sgt. Marty Wellborn | 1984-11-18 |
| Movie | Twilight Zone: The Movie | Valentine | 1983-06-24 |
| Movie | The Day After | Joe Huxley | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | Terms of Endearment | Sam Burns | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Mr. Brunner | 1982-03-05 |
| Movie | The World According to Garp | Roberta Muldoon | 1982-08-13 |
| Movie | Not in Front of the Children | Richard Carruthers | 1982-10-26 |
| Movie | Blow Out | Burke | 1981-07-24 |
| Movie | The Oldest Living Graduate | Clarence | 1980-04-07 |
| Movie | Mom, the Wolfman and Me | Wally | 1980-10-20 |
| Movie | Big Blonde | Herbie Morse | 1980-12-01 |
| Movie | Rich Kids | Paul Philips | 1979-08-17 |
| Movie | All That Jazz | Lucas Sergeant | 1979-12-16 |
| Movie | The Big Fix | Sam Sebastian | 1978-10-06 |
| Movie | Secret Service | Capt. Thorne | 1977-01-12 |
| Movie | Obsession | Robert Lasalle | 1976-08-01 |
| Movie | Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues | John | 1972-02-25 |