John Lithgow

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John Lithgow

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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).

Films Featuring John Lithgow

Shrek

20017.8

Footloose

19846.7

Sharper

20236.9

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

20046.6

Confessions of a Shopaholic

20096.5

2010

19846.7

Obsession

19766.7

The Manhattan Project

19866.2

Terms of Endearment

19837.1

Kinsey

20046.6

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

19846.0

The World According to Garp

19826.7

Blow Out

19817.4

The Day After

19836.8

The Tuskegee Airmen

19957.1

Give My Regards to Broadway

2020

Leap Year

20106.9

Shrek 3-D

20045.9

Harry and the Hendersons

19876.1

A Civil Action

19986.5

Ricochet

19916.1

Bark, George

2003

The Pelican Brief

19936.6

Cliffhanger

19936.5

Santa Claus: The Movie

19856.3

A Good Man in Africa

19944.9

Inside 'Interstellar'

20156.9

Raising Cain

19926.0

The Big Fix

19785.8

The Wrong Man

19935.1

Dogs and More Dogs

Dogs and More Dogs

20045.2

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

20217.5

Officer Buckle and Gloria

19978.5

Princess Caraboo

19945.5

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

20006.7

All That Jazz

19797.5

Homegrown

19985.6

Silent Fall

19945.3

They All Saw a Cat

2017

Casting By

20126.9

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

19916.6

Resting Place

19866.3

Mesmerized

19854.8

Love, Cheat & Steal

19934.5

Hollow Point

19965.3

Rich Kids

19794.9

Projections of America

20155.0

The Campaign

20125.8

This Is 40

20125.9

Out Cold

19895.9

Chez Bob

2022

Car of the Future

20086.0

The Bubble

20224.6

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

19725.3

Redwood Curtain

19956.5

Interstellar

20148.5

95 Worlds and Counting

20007.0

Don Quixote

20006.3

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

20139.0

Distant Thunder

19885.8

Cabrini

20247.7

Baby Girl Scott

Baby Girl Scott

19877.5

Love Is Strange

20146.3

Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

199610.0

National Theatre Live: The Magistrate

20136.0

Orange County

20026.0

Spellbound

20246.6

My Brother's Keeper

My Brother's Keeper

19951.0

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

20117.4

Twilight Zone: The Movie

19836.5

Memphis Belle

19906.7

The Rule of Jenny Pen

20256.2

Ivory Hunters

19904.9

The Homesman

20146.5

Sangre

2006

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

20237.0

Night of 100 Stars III

19904.3

Johnny Skidmarks

19985.4

Art Happens Here with John Lithgow

2024

The Accountant

20167.1

Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn

2009

The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest

20145.7

Lord John

2015

Dreamgirls

20066.7

Broadway: The Next Generation

Best of Enemies

20157.2

Shrek Stories

20138.1

Timms Valley

20136.2

The Oldest Living Graduate

19804.0

The Glitter Dome

19844.5

Jimpa

20267.2

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

19827.0

Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

2016

Miss Sloane

20167.4

Amazing Stories: The Movie II

1990

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

20167.2

Beatriz at Dinner

20175.8

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

19846.3

Daddy's Home 2

20176.3

Einstein's Big Idea

20057.4

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

20028.5

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

20077.2

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

20016.3

The Pulitzer At 100

20176.0

Pitch Perfect 3

20176.5

Secret Service

19779.0

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

20187.8

Late Night

20196.4

Pet Sematary

20195.7

Traveling Man

19894.0

The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge

2006

Bombshell

20196.8

The Amazing Bone

1987

Hickory Dickory Doc

2017

Not in Front of the Children

Not in Front of the Children

19827.5

The Tomorrow Man

20195.7

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

199310.0

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

19855.4

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

20197.6

Big Blonde

19806.0

The Boys

19917.0

New Year's Eve

20115.9

John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert

19905.0

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

20117.5

The Macabre World of Lavender Williams

20094.7

Mom, the Wolfman and Me

19807.0

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

19998.7

The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale

19938.0

Myths and Hymns

2021

The Country Girl

197410.0

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

2021

Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman

20187.0

Killers of the Flower Moon

20237.4

On Broadway

20198.7

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

19949.0

Conclave

20247.2

Show of Titles

2021

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

198410.0

9 Kisses

20145.5

Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic

20267.6

Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger

19936.0

Giant

2026

Footloose: A Modern Musical

2004

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years

19907.2