John Lithgow
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).
Born: 19 October 1945
Played In
Harry Potter
Albus Dumbledore
Giant
Roald Dahl
GIANT - The Play
Roald Dahl
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
Self
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic
Himself
Jimpa
Jimpa
Dexter: Resurrection
Arthur Mitchell
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Dave Crealy
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Self
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
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Self
Sharper
Richard Hobbes
Chez Bob
Sherri
Self - Guest
The Old Man
Harold Harper
The Bubble
Tom the Studio Chairman
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Philip Drummond
Dexter: New Blood
Arthur Mitchell
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
Perry Mason
Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
Stars in the House
Self - Special Guest
Bombshell
Roger Ailes
On Broadway
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
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
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Self
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
Pitch Perfect 3
Fergus
Daddy's Home 2
Don
The Pulitzer At 100
Self
Beatriz at Dinner
Doug Strutt
Trial & Error
Larry Henderson
Hickory Dickory Doc
Himself
They All Saw a Cat
Miss Sloane
Senator Ronald Sperling
The Crown
Winston Churchill
The Accountant
Lamar Blackburn
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Best of Enemies
Voice of Gore Vidal
Lord John
Inside 'Interstellar'
Self
Projections of America
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Interstellar
Donald
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
James Roosevelt (voice)
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
Maurice (voice)
Love Is Strange
Ben
The Homesman
Reverend Alfred Dowd
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
9 Kisses
Man in Club
Timms Valley
Ol' Gregory Timms
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Self
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
The White Rabbit (voice)
Shrek Stories
Lord Farquaad (voice)
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
Posket
This Is 40
Oliver
Casting By
Self
The Campaign
Glen Motch
Finding Your Roots
Self
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Self
New Year's Eve
Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
Prohibition
Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Charles Rodman
Conan
Self
Leap Year
Jack Brady
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
Narrator
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
God
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Edgar West
Car of the Future
Narrator
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Dreamgirls
Jerry Harris
Twenty Good Years
John Mason
30 Rock
John Lithgow
Dexter
Arthur Mitchell
The One Show
Self
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
The Colbert Report
Einstein's Big Idea
Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
How I Met Your Mother
Jerry Whittaker
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Blake Edwards
Footloose: A Modern Musical
Self
The Tony Danza Show
Self
Kinsey
Alfred Seguine Kinsey
Shrek 3-D
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Dogs and More Dogs
Narrator
VH1 Goes Inside
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Bark, George
Live from E!
Self
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
The Early Show
Self
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
The View
Self
The View
Self - Guest
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Narrator (voice)
Hollow Point
Thomas Livingston
Cosby
John Lithgow
The West
Self
The West
Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
The Daily Show
Self
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
Narrator
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
3rd Rock from the Sun
Dick Solomon
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
World War II: When Lions Roared
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
American Cinema
Self - Host
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
Alexander (voice)
Love, Cheat & Steal
Paul Harrington
The Pelican Brief
Smith Keen
Frasier
Madman Martinez (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
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
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
Self
The Simpsons
Gus (voice)
The Simpsons
John Lithgow (voice)
Traveling Man
Ben Cluett
Tales from the Crypt
Dr. Oscar Charles
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.
Amazing Stories
John Walters
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
Faerie Tale Theatre
Goldilocks' Father
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
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
NOVA
Narrator
The Country Girl
Paul Unger
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
John
Great Performances
Capt. Thorne
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Performer
The Oscars
Self - Presenter
Today
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Paul Unger
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Major Kendall Laird
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Laird Riordan
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
Broadway: The Next Generation
Self
Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger
Self