John Lithgow
Acting
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).
Jimpa
Jimpa
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Dave Crealy
Spellbound
Bolinar (voice)
Conclave
Tremblay
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
Self
Cabrini
Mayor Gould
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Self
Killers of the Flower Moon
Prosecutor Peter Leaward
Sharper
Richard Hobbes
Chez Bob
The Bubble
Tom the Studio Chairman
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Philip Drummond
Show of Titles
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Myths and Hymns
Give My Regards to Broadway
Self
Bombshell
Roger Ailes
On Broadway
Self
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
President Donald J. Trump
The Tomorrow Man
Ed Hemsler
Pet Sematary
Jud Crandall
Late Night
Walter Lovell
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
Jud Crandall
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Self
Pitch Perfect 3
Fergus
Daddy's Home 2
Don
The Pulitzer At 100
Self
Beatriz at Dinner
Doug Strutt
Hickory Dickory Doc
Himself
They All Saw a Cat
Miss Sloane
Senator Ronald Sperling
The Accountant
Lamar Blackburn
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Narrator
Best of Enemies
Voice of Gore Vidal
Lord John
Inside 'Interstellar'
Self
Projections of America
Self - Narrator (voice)
Interstellar
Donald
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
Maurice (voice)
Love Is Strange
Ben
The Homesman
Reverend Alfred Dowd
9 Kisses
Man in Club
Timms Valley
Ol' Gregory Timms
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Self
Shrek Stories
Lord Farquaad (voice)
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
Posket
This Is 40
Oliver
Casting By
Self
The Campaign
Glen Motch
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Self
New Year's Eve
Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Charles Rodman
Leap Year
Jack Brady
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
Narrator
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
God
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Edgar West
Car of the Future
Narrator
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
Dreamgirls
Jerry Harris
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
Narrator
Sangre
Cafe chef and owner
Einstein's Big Idea
Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Blake Edwards
Kinsey
Alfred Seguine Kinsey
Dogs and More Dogs
Narrator
Shrek 3-D
Lord Farquaad
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Bark, George
Orange County
Bud Brumder
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
Self
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
Shrek
Lord Farquaad (voice)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Jean-Claude (voice)
Don Quixote
Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
95 Worlds and Counting
Narrator
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Dr. Oscar Charles
A Civil Action
Judge Walter J. Skinner
Homegrown
Malcolm / Robert Stockman
Johnny Skidmarks
Sergeant Larry Skovik
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Narrator (voice)
Hollow Point
Thomas Livingston
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
Narrator
The Tuskegee Airmen
Senator Conyers
Redwood Curtain
Laird Riordan
My Brother's Keeper
Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
Silent Fall
Dr. Rene Harlinger
Princess Caraboo
Professor Wilkinson
A Good Man in Africa
Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Self
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
Alexander (voice)
Love, Cheat & Steal
Paul Harrington
The Pelican Brief
Smith Keen
The Wrong Man
Phillip Mills
Cliffhanger
Qualen
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Narrator
Raising Cain
Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Leslie Huben
Ricochet
Earl Talbott Blake
The Boys
Artie Margulies
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
John Walters (archive footage)
Memphis Belle
Bruce Derringer
Ivory Hunters
Robert Carter
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Traveling Man
Ben Cluett
Out Cold
Dave
Distant Thunder
Mark Lambert
Harry and the Hendersons
George Henderson
The Amazing Bone
Narrator
Baby Girl Scott
Neil Scott
The Manhattan Project
John Mathewson
Resting Place
Maj. Kendall Laird
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Self
Mesmerized
Oliver Thompson
Santa Claus: The Movie
B.Z.
2010
Dr. Walter Curnow
The Glitter Dome
Sgt. Marty Wellborn
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Lord John Whorfin
Footloose
Rev. Shaw Moore
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Goldilocks' Father
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Himself
The Day After
Joe Huxley
Terms of Endearment
Sam Burns
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Valentine
Not in Front of the Children
Richard Carruthers
The World According to Garp
Roberta Muldoon
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Mr. Brunner
Blow Out
Burke
Big Blonde
Herbie Morse
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Wally
The Oldest Living Graduate
Clarence
All That Jazz
Lucas Sergeant
Rich Kids
Paul Philips
The Big Fix
Sam Sebastian
Secret Service
Capt. Thorne
Obsession
Robert Lasalle
The Country Girl
Paul Unger
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
John