John Lithgow

Acting · 3.5 popularity

Age

Movies

145

Born: October 19, 1945
From: Rochester, New York, USA

Biography

John 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).

Works

145 films

Interstellar

20148.5

Shrek

20017.8

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

20117.3

Conclave

20247.2

Killers of the Flower Moon

20237.4

The Accountant

20167.1

This Is 40

20125.9

Leap Year

20106.9

Miss Sloane

20167.4

Pet Sematary

20195.7

Cliffhanger

19936.5

Daddy's Home 2

20176.3

2010

19846.7

Confessions of a Shopaholic

20096.5

The Campaign

20125.8

The Pelican Brief

19936.6

Blow Out

19817.4

New Year's Eve

20115.9

Pitch Perfect 3

20176.5

Twilight Zone: The Movie

19836.5

Spellbound

20246.6

Late Night

20196.4

Footloose

19846.7

Dreamgirls

20066.7

Terms of Endearment

19837.1

Bombshell

20196.8

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

20006.7

Ricochet

19916.1

The Homesman

20146.5

Harry and the Hendersons

19876.1

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

19846.0

Sharper

20236.9

The Bubble

20224.6

The Day After

19836.8

Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic

20267.8

Shrek 3-D

20046.0

Orange County

20026.0

The Rule of Jenny Pen

20256.2

All That Jazz

19797.5

A Civil Action

19986.5

Obsession

19766.7

Distant Thunder

19885.8

Memphis Belle

19906.7

Raising Cain

19926.0

Kinsey

20046.6

The World According to Garp

19826.7

Beatriz at Dinner

20175.8

Cabrini

20247.7

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

20046.6

Resting Place

19866.3

Santa Claus: The Movie

19856.3

The Tomorrow Man

20195.7

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

20077.2

Princess Caraboo

19945.5

The Tuskegee Airmen

19957.1

The Big Fix

19785.8

Jimpa

20268.5

The Manhattan Project

19866.2

Out Cold

19895.9

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

20237.0

Love Is Strange

20146.3

Inside 'Interstellar'

20156.9

Show of Titles

2021

Broadway: The Next Generation

2026

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

20016.3

Best of Enemies

20157.2

Don Quixote

20006.3

Silent Fall

19945.3

On Broadway

20198.7

9 Kisses

20145.5

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

19949.0

Redwood Curtain

19956.5

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

19916.5

Einstein's Big Idea

20057.3

Night of 100 Stars III

19904.0

Homegrown

19985.6

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes

20217.5

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

20028.5

The Glitter Dome

19844.5

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

19827.3

Baby Girl Scott

19877.5

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

20117.5

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years

19907.2

Not in Front of the Children

19827.5

Amazing Stories: The Movie II

1990

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

20167.2

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

Johnny Skidmarks

19985.5

Love, Cheat & Steal

19934.5

Casting By

20126.9

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

19846.7

Giant

2026

Rich Kids

19794.9

Mesmerized

19854.8

A Good Man in Africa

19944.9

The Oldest Living Graduate

19804.0

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

19998.7

Art Happens Here with John Lithgow

2024

Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

199610.0

The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest

20145.7

Hollow Point

19965.3

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

2021

Lord John

2015

The Boys

19917.0

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

20139.0

The Macabre World of Lavender Williams

20094.7

The Wrong Man

19935.1

My Brother's Keeper

19951.0

Timms Valley

20136.2

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

20187.9

Big Blonde

19806.0

Secret Service

19779.0

Officer Buckle and Gloria

19978.5

Chez Bob

2022

Sangre

2006

Footloose: A Modern Musical

2004

The Country Girl

197410.0

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

198410.0

Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman

20187.0

The Amazing Bone

1987

Traveling Man

19894.0

Bark, George

2003

The Pulitzer At 100

20176.0

Shrek Stories

20138.1

Mom, the Wolfman and Me

19807.0

Ivory Hunters

19904.9

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

19855.4

Myths and Hymns

2021

95 Worlds and Counting

20007.0

Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger

1993

Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

19725.3

John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert

19905.0

National Theatre Live: The Magistrate

20136.0

Give My Regards to Broadway

2020

Car of the Future

20086.0

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

199310.0

Hickory Dickory Doc

2017

Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn

2009

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

20197.6

They All Saw a Cat

2017

The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge

2006

Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

2016

The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale

19938.0

Projections of America

20155.0

Dogs and More Dogs

20045.2