John Lithgow
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 transsexual 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).
Known For
Acting
2001
asLord Farquaad (voice)
1984
asRev. Shaw Moore
2023
asRichard Hobbes
2004
asBlake Edwards
2009
asEdgar West
1984
asDr. Walter Curnow
1976
asRobert Lasalle
1986
asJohn Mathewson
1983
asSam Burns
2004
asAlfred Seguine Kinsey
1984
asLord John Whorfin
1982
asRoberta Muldoon
1981
asBurke
1983
asJoe Huxley
1995
asSenator Conyers
2020
asSelf
2010
asJack Brady
2003
asGhost of Farquaad (voice)
1987
asGeorge Henderson
1998
asJudge Walter J. Skinner
1991
asEarl Talbott Blake
2003
as
1993
asSmith Keen
1993
asEric Qualen
1985
asB.Z.
1994
asArthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
2015
asSelf
1992
asCarter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
1978
asSam Sebastian
1993
asPhillip Mills
2004
asNarrator
2021
asPhilip Drummond
1997
asNarrator (voice)
1994
asProfessor Wilkinson
2000
asJean-Claude (voice)
1979
asLucas Sergeant
1998
asMalcolm / Robert Stockman
1994
asDr. Rene Harlinger
2017
as
2012
asSelf
1991
asLeslie Huben
1986
asMaj. Kendall Laird
1985
asOliver Thompson
1993
asPaul Harrington
1996
asThomas Livingston
1979
asPaul Philips
2015
asSelf - Narrator (voice)
2012
asGlen Motch
2012
asOliver
1989
asDave
2022
as
2008
asNarrator
2022
asTom the Studio Chairman
1972
asJohn
1995
asLaird Riordan
2014
asDonald
2000
asNarrator
2000
asDon Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
2013
asSelf
1988
asMark Lambert
2024
asMayor Gould
1987
asNeil Scott
2014
asBen
1996
asNarrator
2013
asPosket
2002
asBud Brumder
2024
asBolinar (voice)
1995
asTom Bradley / Bob Bradley
2011
asCharles Rodman
1983
asValentine
1990
asBruce Derringer
2025
asDave Crealy
1990
asRobert Carter
2014
asReverend Alfred Dowd
2006
asCafe chef and owner
2023
asSelf
1990
asSelf
1998
asSergeant Larry Skovik
2024
asSelf
2016
asLamar Blackburn
2009
asNarrator
2014
asMaurice (voice)
2015
as
2006
asJerry Harris
2017
asSelf
2015
asVoice of Gore Vidal
2013
asLord Farquaad (voice)
2013
asOl' Gregory Timms
1980
asClarence
1984
asSgt. Marty Wellborn
2025
asJimpa
1982
asMr. Brunner
2016
asNarrator
2016
asSenator Ronald Sperling
1990
asJohn Walters (archive footage)
2016
asSelf - Performer
2017
asDoug Strutt
1984
asGoldilocks' Father
2017
asDon
2005
asNarrator (voice) U.S. edition
2002
asSelf
2007
asSelf
2001
asLord Farquaad (singing voice)
2017
asSelf
2017
asFergus
1977
asCapt. Thorne
2018
asSelf
2019
asWalter Lovell
2019
asJud Crandall
1989
asBen Cluett
2006
asNarrator
2019
asRoger Ailes
1987
asNarrator
2017
asHimself
1982
asRichard Carruthers
2019
asEd Hemsler
1993
asNarrator
2006
asRené Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
1985
asSelf
2019
asPresident Donald J. Trump
1980
asHerbie Morse
1991
asArtie Margulies
2011
asJonathan Cox (uncredited)
1990
as
2011
asSelf
2009
asGod
1980
asWally
1999
asDr. Oscar Charles
1993
asAlexander (voice)
2021
as
1974
asPaul Unger
2021
asSir Isaac Newton (voice)
2018
asJud Crandall
2023
asProsecutor Peter Leaward
2019
asSelf
1994
asSelf
2024
asTremblay
2021
as"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
1984
asHimself
asSelf
asDick Solomon
asJerry Whittaker
asSelf
as
asSelf
asDr. Oscar Charles
asSelf
asMadman Martinez (voice)
as 
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf - Guest
asGoldilocks' Father
asJohn Lithgow
as
asPaul Unger
asSelf - Guest
asJohn Lithgow
as 
asSelf
asSelf - Host
asThe White Rabbit (voice)
asArthur Mitchell
asSelf
asNarrator
asSelf
asSelf - Guest
asSelf - Presenter
asSelf - Guest
asJohn Walters
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf - Nominee / Performer
asSelf - Host
asSelf - Winner
asArthur Mitchell
asWinston Churchill
asFranklin Delano Roosevelt
asLarry Henderson
asSelf
asJames Roosevelt (voice)
asGus (voice)
asSelf
asSelf - Guest
asMajor Kendall Laird
asLaird Riordan
asSelf - Guest
asSelf - Guest
asElias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
as asSelf / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
asSelf
asSelf
asSelf - Special Guest
asSelf
as
asReader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
asSelf
asJohn Lithgow (voice)
asCapt. Thorne
asHarold Harper
asSelf
asSelf - Nominee
asSelf - Nominee/Performer
asSelf - Nominee
asSelf - Presenter
asSelf
asSelf
asAlbus Dumbledore
asSelf - Presenter
asSelf
asArthur Mitchell
asGhost of Farquaad (voice)
asasSelf - Winner
Production
Crew
Directing
