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:
- 138
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Killers of the Flower Moon
- Latest Project:
- Movie Sharper 2023-02-10
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Killers of the Flower Moon | Prosecutor Leaward | 2024 |
| Movie | Sharper | Richard Hobbes | 2023-02-10 |
| Series | The Old Man | Harold Harper | 2022-06-16 |
| Movie | The Bubble | Tom the Studio Chairman | 2022-03-25 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self | 2021-08-20 |
| Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes | Philip Drummond | 2021-12-07 |
| Series | Perry Mason | Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan | 2020-06-21 |
| Movie | No Easy Truths: The Making of Bombshell | Himself | 2020-03-10 |
| Movie | Disclosure | Self (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 |
| Movie | Late Night | Walter Newbury | 2019-01-25 |
| Movie | The Tomorrow Man | Ed Hemsler | 2019-05-22 |
| Movie | Pet Sematary | Jud Crandall | 2019-04-04 |
| Movie | Bombshell | Roger Ailes | 2019-12-13 |
| Movie | Mister Rogers: It's You I Like | Self | 2018-03-06 |
| Movie | Beatriz at Dinner | Doug Strutt | 2017-06-09 |
| Movie | Daddy's Home 2 | Don Whitaker | 2017-11-09 |
| Movie | The Pulitzer At 100 | Himself | 2017-07-21 |
| Movie | Pitch Perfect 3 | Fergus | 2017-12-20 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | 2016-04-23 | |
| Movie | Miss Sloane | Senator Ronald Sperling | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | The Accountant | Lamar Black | 2016-10-13 |
| 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 | Love Is Strange | Ben | 2014-02-07 |
| Movie | The Jungle Bunch 2 - The Great Treasure Quest | Maurice (voice) | 2014-08-27 |
| Movie | The Homesman | Reverend Alfred Dowd | 2014-05-18 |
| Series | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | James Roosevelt (voice) | 2014-09-14 |
| Movie | 9 Kisses | Man in Club | 2014-12-11 |
| Movie | Interstellar | Donald | 2014-11-05 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: The Magistrate | Posket | 2013-01-17 |
| Movie | Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love | Himself | 2013-10-12 |
| Series | Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | The White Rabbit (voice) | 2013-10-10 |
| Movie | Timms Valley | Ol' Gregory Timms | 2013-12-31 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Glen Motch | 2012-08-09 |
| Movie | This Is 40 | Oliver | 2012-12-20 |
| Movie | Casting By | Self | 2012-09-09 |
| Movie | Shrek: Once Upon a Time | Self | 2011-12-30 |
| 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 | The Macabre World of Lavender Williams | God | 2009-05-31 |
| Movie | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Edgar West | 2009-02-05 |
| Movie | Car of the Future | Narrator | 2008-04-22 |
| Movie | ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway | 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 | Dexter | Arthur Mitchell | 2006-10-01 |
| Series | Twenty Good Years | 2006-10-11 | |
| Series | 30 Rock | Unknown | 2006-10-11 |
| Series | How I Met Your Mother | Jerry Whitaker | 2005-09-19 |
| Movie | Einstein's Big Idea | Narrator (voice) U.S. edition | 2005-10-11 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Series | The Apprentice: Martha Stewart | Unknown | 2005-09-21 |
| Movie | The Ghost of Lord Farquaad | Ghost of Farquaad (voice) | 2004-04-03 |
| Movie | Kinsey | Alfred Seguine Kinsey | 2004-09-04 |
| Movie | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Blake Edwards | 2004-10-01 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | 2004-09-13 | |
| Series | VH1 Goes Inside | Unknown | 2003-06-20 |
| Movie | Buckaroo Banzai Declassified | Himself | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | Orange County | Bud Brumder | 2002-01-10 |
| Series | E! Live from the Red Carpet | Himself | 2002-01-13 |
| Movie | Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party | Lord Farquaad (singing voice) | 2001-11-02 |
| Movie | Shrek | Lord Farquaad (voice) | 2001-05-18 |
| Movie | 95 Worlds and Counting | Narrator | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Rugrats in Paris: The Movie | Jean-Claude (voice) | 2000-11-17 |
| Movie | Don Quixote | Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano | 2000-04-08 |
| Movie | Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection | Dr. Oscar Charles | 1999-09-07 |
| Series | The Early Show | Unknown | 1999-11-01 |
| Movie | A Civil Action | Judge Walter J. Skinner | 1998-12-25 |
| Movie | Homegrown | Malcolm / Robert Stockman | 1998-04-17 |
| Movie | Johnny Skidmarks | Sergeant Larry Skovik | 1998-01-18 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Series | 3rd Rock from the Sun | Dick Solomon | 1996-01-09 |
| Movie | Special Effects: Anything Can Happen | Narrator | 1996-07-04 |
| Series | Cosby | Unknown | 1996-09-16 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Silent Fall | Dr. Rene Harlinger | 1994-10-28 |
| Series | American Cinema | 1994-01-01 | |
| Series | World War II: When Lions Roared | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | A Good Man in Africa | Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner | 1994-07-14 |
| Movie | Princess Caraboo | Professor Wilkinson | 1994-09-16 |
| Movie | Cliffhanger | Eric Qualen | 1993-05-28 |
| Movie | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Narrator | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | The Wrong Man | Phillip Mills | 1993-09-05 |
| Movie | Love, Cheat & Steal | Paul Harrington | 1993-12-05 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Series | Frasier | Unknown | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | The Pelican Brief | Smith Keen | 1993-09-17 |
| Movie | Raising Cain | Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo | 1992-08-07 |
| Movie | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Leslie Huben | 1991-12-06 |
| Movie | Ricochet | Earl Talbott Blake | 1991-10-04 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Movie | Ivory Hunters | Robert Carter | 1990-08-20 |
| Movie | Memphis Belle | Bruce Derringer | 1990-09-07 |
| Series | Tales from the Crypt | Unknown | 1989-06-10 |
| Movie | Out Cold | Dave | 1989-03-03 |
| Movie | Distant Thunder | Mark Lambert | 1988-11-11 |
| Series | LIVE with Kelly and Ryan | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
| Movie | Harry and the Hendersons | George Henderson | 1987-06-05 |
| Movie | Baby Girl Scott | Neil Scott | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | The Manhattan Project | John Mathewson | 1986-06-13 |
| Movie | Resting Place | Maj. Kendall Laird | 1986-04-27 |
| Series | Amazing Stories | 1985-09-29 | |
| 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 | Reverend Shaw Moore | 1984-02-17 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Lord John Whorfin | 1984-08-15 |
| Movie | The Glitter Dome | Sgt. Marty Wellborn | 1984-11-18 |
| Movie | 2010 | Dr. Walter Curnow | 1984-12-06 |
| Movie | Twilight Zone: The Movie | John Valentine (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet") | 1983-06-24 |
| Movie | Terms of Endearment | Sam Burns | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | The Day After | Joe Huxley | 1983-11-28 |
| Movie | The World According to Garp | Roberta Muldoon | 1982-08-13 |
| Movie | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Mr. Brunner | 1982-03-05 |
| Movie | Not in Front of the Children | Richard Carruthers | 1982-10-26 |
| Series | Faerie Tale Theatre | Unknown | 1982-09-11 |
| Movie | Blow Out | Burke | 1981-07-24 |
| Movie | The Oldest Living Graduate | Clarence | 1980-04-07 |
| Movie | Big Blonde | Herbie Morse | 1980-12-01 |
| Movie | Mom, the Wolfman and Me | Wally | 1980-10-20 |
| Movie | Rich Kids | Paul Philips | 1979-08-01 |
| 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 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
| Series | NOVA | Narrator | 1974-03-03 |
| Movie | Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues | John | 1972-02-25 |
| Series | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Unknown | 1962-10-01 |
| Series | Today | Unknown | 1952-01-14 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |