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).
★8.5
MOVIE2014
Interstellar
as Donald
★7.8
MOVIE2001
Shrek
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
★7.3
MOVIE2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Charles Rodman
★7.1
MOVIE2016
The Accountant
as Lamar Blackburn
★6.3
MOVIE2017
Daddy's Home 2
as Don
★7.2
MOVIE2024
Conclave
as Tremblay
★7.8
MOVIE2026
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
as Self
★6.6
MOVIE2024
Spellbound
as Bolinar (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1993
Cliffhanger
as Qualen
★5.9
MOVIE2011
New Year's Eve
as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE2019
Pet Sematary
as Jud Crandall
★6.7
MOVIE1984
2010
as Dr. Walter Curnow
★6.7
MOVIE1984
Footloose
as Rev. Shaw Moore
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Edgar West
★6.8
MOVIE2019
Bombshell
as Roger Ailes
★5.9
MOVIE2012
This Is 40
as Oliver
★6.6
MOVIE1993
The Pelican Brief
as Smith Keen
★6.5
MOVIE1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Valentine
★6.5
MOVIE2017
Pitch Perfect 3
as Fergus
★5.8
MOVIE2012
The Campaign
as Glen Motch
★7.4
MOVIE2016
Miss Sloane
as Senator Ronald Sperling
★6.2
MOVIE2025
The Rule of Jenny Pen
as Dave Crealy
★7.1
MOVIE1983
Terms of Endearment
as Sam Burns
★6.7
MOVIE1976
Obsession
as Robert Lasalle
★6.9
MOVIE2023
Sharper
as Richard Hobbes
★6.9
MOVIE2010
Leap Year
as Jack Brady
★6.7
MOVIE2006
Dreamgirls
as Jerry Harris
★6.1
MOVIE1987
Harry and the Hendersons
as George Henderson
★7.4
MOVIE1981
Blow Out
as Burke
★5.8
MOVIE1988
Distant Thunder
as Mark Lambert
★6.0
MOVIE1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
as Lord John Whorfin
★6.5
MOVIE2014
The Homesman
as Reverend Alfred Dowd
★6.1
MOVIE1991
Ricochet
as Earl Talbott Blake
★6.8
MOVIE1983
The Day After
as Joe Huxley
★6.3
MOVIE1986
Resting Place
as Maj. Kendall Laird
★6.4
MOVIE2019
Late Night
as Walter Lovell
★6.0
MOVIE2002
Orange County
as Bud Brumder
★6.0
MOVIE2004
Shrek 3-D
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE2004
Kinsey
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
★6.7
MOVIE2000
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
as Jean-Claude (voice)
★4.6
MOVIE2022
The Bubble
as Tom the Studio Chairman
★8.5
MOVIE2026
Jimpa
as Jimpa
★7.5
MOVIE1979
All That Jazz
as Lucas Sergeant
★6.3
MOVIE1985
Santa Claus: The Movie
as B.Z.
★7.7
MOVIE2024
Cabrini
as Mayor Gould
★6.5
MOVIE1998
A Civil Action
as Judge Walter J. Skinner
★6.7
MOVIE1990
Memphis Belle
as Bruce Derringer
★7.1
MOVIE1995
The Tuskegee Airmen
as Senator Conyers
★6.1
MOVIE1992
Raising Cain
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
★5.8
MOVIE2017
Beatriz at Dinner
as Doug Strutt
★6.7
MOVIE1982
The World According to Garp
as Roberta Muldoon
★5.5
MOVIE2014
9 Kisses
as Man in Club
★4.5
MOVIE1993
Love, Cheat & Steal
as Paul Harrington
★4.5
MOVIE1984
The Glitter Dome
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn
★5.7
MOVIE2019
The Tomorrow Man
as Ed Hemsler
★5.5
MOVIE1994
Princess Caraboo
as Professor Wilkinson
★6.2
MOVIE1986
The Manhattan Project
as John Mathewson
MOVIE2021
Show of Titles
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
★7.3
MOVIE2005
Einstein's Big Idea
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
★6.6
MOVIE2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Blake Edwards
★6.5
MOVIE1995
Redwood Curtain
as Laird Riordan
★6.3
MOVIE2014
Love Is Strange
as Ben
★7.5
MOVIE2011
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2015
Inside 'Interstellar'
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2012
Casting By
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE2000
Don Quixote
as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
MOVIE2026
Giant
as Roald Dahl
MOVIETBA
Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger
as Self
MOVIETBA
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
★8.1
MOVIE2013
Shrek Stories
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
★7.5
MOVIE1987
Baby Girl Scott
as Neil Scott
★4.9
MOVIE1994
A Good Man in Africa
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
★4.0
MOVIE1990
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
★1.0
MOVIE1995
My Brother's Keeper
as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
★7.3
MOVIE1982
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as Mr. Brunner
★5.6
MOVIE1998
Homegrown
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman
MOVIE2006
Sangre
as Cafe chef and owner
★7.2
MOVIE1990
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
as Self
★7.2
MOVIE2007
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2023
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
MOVIE2004
Footloose: A Modern Musical
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1984
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
as Himself
★5.3
MOVIE1994
Silent Fall
as Dr. Rene Harlinger
★7.2
MOVIE2015
Best of Enemies
as Voice of Gore Vidal
★8.5
MOVIE2002
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
as Self
MOVIE1990
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
as John Walters (archive footage)
★5.5
MOVIE1998
Johnny Skidmarks
as Sergeant Larry Skovik
MOVIE2021
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
★5.3
MOVIE1996
Hollow Point
as Thomas Livingston
★5.9
MOVIE1989
Out Cold
as Dave
★6.5
MOVIE1991
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as Leslie Huben
★5.8
MOVIE1978
The Big Fix
as Sam Sebastian
★5.7
MOVIE2014
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
as Maurice (voice)
MOVIE2022
Chez Bob
MOVIE2015
Lord John
★7.0
MOVIE1991
The Boys
as Artie Margulies
★4.0
MOVIE1989
Traveling Man
as Ben Cluett
★6.2
MOVIE2013
Timms Valley
as Ol' Gregory Timms
★7.2
MOVIE2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
MOVIE2021
Myths and Hymns
MOVIE1987
The Amazing Bone
as Narrator
★4.8
MOVIE1985
Mesmerized
as Oliver Thompson
★8.7
MOVIE2019
On Broadway
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1994
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
as Self
★8.5
MOVIE1997
Officer Buckle and Gloria
as Narrator (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE1977
Secret Service
as Capt. Thorne
★6.0
MOVIE2017
The Pulitzer At 100
as Self
★4.9
MOVIE1979
Rich Kids
as Paul Philips
★6.0
MOVIE2008
Car of the Future
as Narrator
★6.0
MOVIE1980
Big Blonde
as Herbie Morse
★6.3
MOVIE2001
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
★5.3
MOVIE1972
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
as John
★7.5
MOVIE2021
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as Philip Drummond
★10.0
MOVIE1996
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
as Narrator
MOVIE2017
Hickory Dickory Doc
as Himself
★10.0
MOVIE1974
The Country Girl
as Paul Unger
MOVIE2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
★7.5
MOVIE1982
Not in Front of the Children
as Richard Carruthers
★5.1
MOVIE1993
The Wrong Man
as Phillip Mills
★4.0
MOVIE1980
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Clarence
★7.0
MOVIE1980
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
as Wally
★6.7
MOVIE1984
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
as Goldilocks' Father
★8.7
MOVIE1999
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
as Dr. Oscar Charles
★7.6
MOVIE2019
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as President Donald J. Trump
MOVIE2003
Bark, George
★5.4
MOVIE1985
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
as Self
★4.9
MOVIE1990
Ivory Hunters
as Robert Carter
★9.0
MOVIE2013
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
as Self
MOVIE2024
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
as Self
★7.9
MOVIE2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2013
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
as Posket
MOVIE2016
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
as Narrator
★4.7
MOVIE2009
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
as God
★5.0
MOVIE2015
Projections of America
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★5.2
MOVIE2004
Dogs and More Dogs
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE2018
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
as Jud Crandall
★7.0
MOVIE2000
95 Worlds and Counting
as Narrator
★5.0
MOVIE1990
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
MOVIE2009
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
as Narrator
MOVIE2017
They All Saw a Cat
MOVIE2020
Give My Regards to Broadway
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1993
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
as Narrator
MOVIE2006
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
as Narrator
★8.0
MOVIE1993
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
as Alexander (voice)