Cast
John Lithgow
Acting
Cast
John Lithgow
Known for
Acting
Born
1945-10-19
From
Rochester, New York, USA
Also known as 莊李富高, John Arthur Lithgow, 約翰.李斯高
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).
Interstellar
as Donald
Shrek
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
Conclave
as Tremblay
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Charles Rodman
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
The Accountant
as Lamar Blackburn
Cliffhanger
as Qualen
Footloose
as Rev. Shaw Moore
Spellbound
as Bolinar (voice)
Leap Year
as Jack Brady
Blow Out
as Burke
Pitch Perfect 3
as Fergus
2010
as Dr. Walter Curnow
Daddy's Home 2
as Don
Miss Sloane
as Senator Ronald Sperling
Pet Sematary
as Jud Crandall
The Pelican Brief
as Smith Keen
The Campaign
as Glen Motch
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Edgar West
The Rule of Jenny Pen
as Dave Crealy
Bombshell
as Roger Ailes
The Homesman
as Reverend Alfred Dowd
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
as Lord John Whorfin
New Year's Eve
as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
Obsession
as Robert Lasalle
This Is 40
as Oliver
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Valentine
Dreamgirls
as Jerry Harris
Cabrini
as Mayor Gould
Beatriz at Dinner
as Doug Strutt
The Bubble
as Tom the Studio Chairman
All That Jazz
as Lucas Sergeant
Late Night
as Walter Lovell
Memphis Belle
as Bruce Derringer
Terms of Endearment
as Sam Burns
Ricochet
as Earl Talbott Blake
Sharper
as Richard Hobbes
Shrek 3-D
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Orange County
as Bud Brumder
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
as Self
Silent Fall
as Dr. Rene Harlinger
Harry and the Hendersons
as George Henderson
The Day After
as Joe Huxley
Hollow Point
as Thomas Livingston
Kinsey
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
Jimpa
as Jimpa
Resting Place
as Maj. Kendall Laird
The World According to Garp
as Roberta Muldoon
Raising Cain
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
as Jean-Claude (voice)
A Civil Action
as Judge Walter J. Skinner
The Manhattan Project
as John Mathewson
Homegrown
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman
Secret Service
as Capt. Thorne
The Tuskegee Airmen
as Senator Conyers
Santa Claus: The Movie
as B.Z.
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as Philip Drummond
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Blake Edwards
Princess Caraboo
as Professor Wilkinson
Traveling Man
as Ben Cluett
Casting By
as Self
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
Show of Titles
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
The Boys
as Artie Margulies
Inside 'Interstellar'
as Self
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
as Dr. Oscar Charles
Love, Cheat & Steal
as Paul Harrington
Rich Kids
as Paul Philips
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as Mr. Brunner
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Self
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
as John
Distant Thunder
as Mark Lambert
The Big Fix
as Sam Sebastian
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
as Self
Love Is Strange
as Ben
Einstein's Big Idea
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as Leslie Huben
Out Cold
as Dave
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
On Broadway
as Self
Don Quixote
as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
Mesmerized
as Oliver Thompson
Giant
as Roald Dahl
Best of Enemies
as Voice of Gore Vidal
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
as Self
Shrek Stories
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Clarence
Timms Valley
as Ol' Gregory Timms
Johnny Skidmarks
as Sergeant Larry Skovik
9 Kisses
as Man in Club
The Tomorrow Man
as Ed Hemsler
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
A Good Man in Africa
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
The Glitter Dome
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn
My Brother's Keeper
as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
The Pulitzer At 100
as Self
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
as Self
Big Blonde
as Herbie Morse
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
as Himself
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
as Goldilocks' Father
Not in Front of the Children
as Richard Carruthers
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
as Maurice (voice)
Redwood Curtain
as Laird Riordan
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
as John Walters (archive footage)
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
as Self
GIANT - The Play
as Roald Dahl
Ivory Hunters
as Robert Carter
The Wrong Man
as Phillip Mills
Dogs and More Dogs
as Narrator
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
as God
Hickory Dickory Doc
as Himself
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
as Self
Give My Regards to Broadway
as Self
95 Worlds and Counting
as Narrator
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
as Wally
Myths and Hymns
Sangre
as Cafe chef and owner
The Country Girl
as Paul Unger
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
as Alexander (voice)
Baby Girl Scott
as Neil Scott
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
as Posket
Projections of America
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as President Donald J. Trump
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
as Narrator
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
as Self
Bark, George
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
as Jud Crandall
Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger
as Self
Shrek 25 Aniversario
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
as Narrator
Car of the Future
as Narrator
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
as Narrator
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
as Narrator
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
as Self
Officer Buckle and Gloria
as Narrator (voice)
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
Lord John
Chez Bob
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
as Narrator
The Amazing Bone
as Narrator
