Acting
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 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).
Movies with John Lithgow
Interstellar
2014
Shrek
2001
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
Cliffhanger
1993
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Pet Sematary
2019
The Accountant
2016
The Pelican Brief
1993
Conclave
2024
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
Dreamgirls
2006
Spellbound
2024
Daddy's Home 2
2017
Leap Year
2010
Obsession
1976
Footloose
1984
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
Late Night
2019
Orange County
2002
This Is 40
2012
Blow Out
1981
New Year's Eve
2011
Miss Sloane
2016
2010
1984
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
2026
Bombshell
2019
The Campaign
2012
All That Jazz
1979
The Day After
1983
The Homesman
2014
Sharper
2023
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
Ricochet
1991
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000
Princess Caraboo
1994
Shrek 3-D
2004
A Civil Action
1998
Resting Place
1986
Raising Cain
1992
Kinsey
2004
9 Kisses
2014
Terms of Endearment
1983
The Bubble
2022
Memphis Belle
1990
Jimpa
2026
Beatriz at Dinner
2017
Show of Titles
2021
Distant Thunder
1988
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985
Love Is Strange
2014
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015
The World According to Garp
1982
Big Blonde
1980
Redwood Curtain
1995
Cabrini
2024
Casting By
2012
On Broadway
2019
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Shrek Stories
2013
The Manhattan Project
1986
Silent Fall
1994
Don Quixote
2000
The Glitter Dome
1984
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
The Wrong Man
1993
Homegrown
1998
Einstein's Big Idea
2005
Johnny Skidmarks
1998
Timms Valley
2013
The Big Fix
1978
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
Sangre
2006
The Tomorrow Man
2019
The Boys
1991
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
1990
Broadway: The Next Generation
Hollow Point
1996
Out Cold
1989
Chez Bob
2022
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Lord John
2015
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
2002
Best of Enemies
2015
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011
Baby Girl Scott
1987
A Good Man in Africa
1994
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
2001
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021
Giant
2026
Bark, George
2003
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Rich Kids
1979
Secret Service
1977
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
2014
Footloose: A Modern Musical
2004
Mesmerized
1985
Traveling Man
1989
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972
The Country Girl
1974
Myths and Hymns
2021
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
1996
Ivory Hunters
1990
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
2021
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
My Brother's Keeper
1995
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
1990
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
2009
The Pulitzer At 100
2017
They All Saw a Cat
2017
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984
Dogs and More Dogs
2004
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
2024
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
1999
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
1980
Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
1985
Not in Front of the Children
1982
The Amazing Bone
1987
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
2009
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1984
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
1990
95 Worlds and Counting
2000
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
2018
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
2016
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
Hickory Dickory Doc
2017
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1993
Car of the Future
2008
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1997
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
2013
Projections of America
2015
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
1993
Give My Regards to Broadway
2020
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
2006
TV Shows with John Lithgow
The Simpsons
1989
Dexter
2006
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
NOVA
1974
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Conan
2010
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Frasier
1993
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Crown
2016
The Colbert Report
2005
The View
1997
Golden Globe Awards
1944
30 Rock
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Great Performances
1971
Sherri
2022
Tony Awards
1956
The One Show
2006
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Amazing Stories
1985
Today
1952
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Oscars
1953
Perry Mason
2020
Dexter: New Blood
2021
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Stars in the House
2020
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
The Old Man
2022
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Finding Your Roots
2012
Trial & Error
2017
Film '72
1971
Cosby
1996
Live from E!
2002
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
Harry Potter
2026
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Prohibition
2011
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
American Cinema
1994
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
2003
The Early Show
1999
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The West
1996
VH1 Goes Inside
2003
Twenty Good Years
2006
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
2005
World War II: When Lions Roared
1994
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic
2026
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023