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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Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Jimpa | Jimpa | 2025 |
| Movie | Conclave | Tremblay | 2024-10-25 |
| Movie | Cabrini | Mayor Gould | 2024-03-07 |
| Movie | Sharper | Richard Hobbes | 2023-02-10 |
| Movie | Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic | Self | 2023-12-21 |
| Movie | Killers of the Flower Moon | Prosecutor Peter Leaward | 2023-10-18 |
| Series | The Old Man | Harold Harper | 2022-06-16 |
| Movie | The Bubble | Tom the Studio Chairman | 2022-03-25 |
| Movie | Myths and Hymns | 2021-01-13 | |
| Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes | Philip Drummond | 2021-12-07 |
| Movie | Disclosure | Self (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 |
| Series | Perry Mason | Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan | 2020-06-21 |
| Movie | Give My Regards to Broadway | Self | 2020-07-16 |
| Movie | Bombshell | Roger Ailes | 2019-12-13 |
| Movie | Pet Sematary | Jud Crandall | 2019-04-04 |
| Movie | Late Night | Walter Lovell | 2019-01-25 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | The Tomorrow Man | Ed Hemsler | 2019-05-22 |
| Movie | Mister Rogers: It's You I Like | Self | 2018-03-06 |
| Series | Trial & Error | Larry Henderson | 2017-03-14 |
| Movie | Beatriz at Dinner | Doug Strutt | 2017-06-09 |
| Movie | Broadway: The Next Generation | Self | 2017-11-16 |
| Movie | The Pulitzer At 100 | Self | 2017-07-21 |
| Movie | Pitch Perfect 3 | Fergus | 2017-12-20 |
| Movie | Daddy's Home 2 | Don | 2017-11-09 |
| Movie | Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 | Narrator | 2016-04-05 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer | 2016-04-23 |
| Series | The Crown | Sir Winston Churchill | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | Miss Sloane | Senator Ronald Sperling | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | The Accountant | Lamar Blackburn | 2016-10-13 |
| 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 Homesman | Reverend Alfred Dowd | 2014-05-18 |
| Movie | The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest | Maurice (voice) | 2014-08-27 |
| Movie | Interstellar | Donald | 2014-11-05 |
| Series | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | James Roosevelt (voice) | 2014-09-14 |
| Movie | 9 Kisses | Man in Club | 2014-12-11 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: The Magistrate | Posket | 2013-01-17 |
| Movie | Timms Valley | Ol' Gregory Timms | 2013-12-31 |
| 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 | The Campaign | Glen Motch | 2012-08-09 |
| Movie | Casting By | Self | 2012-11-01 |
| Movie | This Is 40 | Oliver | 2012-12-20 |
| Series | Prohibition | Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice) | 2011-10-02 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Charles Rodman | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | New Year's Eve | Jonathan Cox (uncredited) | 2011-12-08 |
| Movie | Shrek: Once Upon a Time | Self | 2011-12-30 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Himself | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway | Self | 2007-04-19 |
| Movie | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly") | 2006-05-02 |
| Series | Dexter | Arthur Mitchell | 2006-10-01 |
| Series | Twenty Good Years | 2006-10-11 | |
| Movie | Dreamgirls | Jerry Harris | 2006-12-25 |
| 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 Apprentice: Martha Stewart | Unknown | 2005-09-21 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | The Ghost of Lord Farquaad | Ghost of Farquaad (voice) | 2004-04-03 |
| Movie | Kinsey | Alfred Seguine Kinsey | 2004-09-04 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | Unknown | 2004-09-13 |
| Movie | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Blake Edwards | 2004-10-01 |
| Series | VH1 Goes Inside | Unknown | 2003-06-20 |
| Movie | Buckaroo Banzai Declassified | Self | 2002-01-04 |
| Series | E! Live from the Red Carpet | Himself | 2002-01-13 |
| Movie | Orange County | Bud Brumder | 2002-01-11 |
| Movie | Shrek | Lord Farquaad (voice) | 2001-05-18 |
| Movie | Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party | Lord Farquaad (singing voice) | 2001-11-02 |
| 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 | 2000-04-09 |
| Movie | Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection | Dr. Oscar Charles | 1999-09-07 |
| Series | The Early Show | Unknown | 1999-11-01 |
| Movie | Johnny Skidmarks | Sergeant Larry Skovik | 1998-01-18 |
| Movie | A Civil Action | Judge Walter J. Skinner | 1998-12-25 |
| Movie | Homegrown | Malcolm / Robert Stockman | 1998-04-17 |
| 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 | The West | Self | 1996-09-15 |
| Movie | Hollow Point | Thomas Livingston | 1996-10-21 |
| Series | Cosby | Unknown | 1996-09-16 |
| 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 |
| Series | American Cinema | 1994-01-01 | |
| Series | World War II: When Lions Roared | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self | 1994-05-22 |
| Movie | Silent Fall | Dr. Rene Harlinger | 1994-10-28 |
| 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 | The Wrong Man | Phillip Mills | 1993-09-05 |
| Series | Frasier | Guest Caller - Madman Martinez | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | Love, Cheat & Steal | Paul Harrington | 1993-12-05 |
| Movie | The Pelican Brief | Smith Keen | 1993-09-17 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Out Cold | Dave | 1989-03-03 |
| Series | Tales from the Crypt | Unknown | 1989-06-10 |
| Movie | Traveling Man | Ben Cluett | 1989-06-25 |
| Movie | Distant Thunder | Mark Lambert | 1988-11-11 |
| Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
| Movie | Baby Girl Scott | Neil Scott | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Harry and the Hendersons | George Henderson | 1987-06-05 |
| Movie | The Manhattan Project | John Mathewson | 1986-06-13 |
| Movie | Resting Place | Maj. Kendall Laird | 1986-04-27 |
| Movie | Santa Claus: The Movie | B.Z. | 1985-10-29 |
| Movie | Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie | Self | 1985-12-01 |
| Movie | Mesmerized | Oliver Thompson | 1985-11-18 |
| Movie | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Goldilocks' Father | 1984-01-09 |
| Movie | Footloose | Rev. Shaw Moore | 1984-02-17 |
| Movie | The Glitter Dome | Sgt. Marty Wellborn | 1984-11-18 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Lord John Whorfin | 1984-08-10 |
| Movie | 2010 | Dr. Walter Curnow | 1984-12-06 |
| Movie | Twilight Zone: The Movie | Valentine | 1983-06-24 |
| Movie | The Day After | Joe Huxley | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | Terms of Endearment | Sam Burns | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Mr. Brunner | 1982-03-05 |
| Movie | The World According to Garp | Roberta Muldoon | 1982-08-13 |
| Movie | Not in Front of the Children | Richard Carruthers | 1982-10-26 |
| Series | Faerie Tale Theatre | Goldilocks' Father | 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 | 1979-08-17 |
| 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 |