John Lithgow
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-10-19
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
John Lithgow
Biography
John Arthur Lithgow (/ˈlɪθɡoʊ/ LITH-goh; 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Lithgow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
Shrek
May 18, 2001
Footloose
Feb 17, 1984
Sharper
Feb 10, 2023
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Oct 01, 2004
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Feb 05, 2009
2010
Dec 06, 1984
Obsession
Aug 01, 1976
The Manhattan Project
Jun 13, 1986
Terms of Endearment
Nov 20, 1983
Kinsey
Sep 04, 2004
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Aug 10, 1984
The World According to Garp
Jul 23, 1982
Blow Out
Jul 24, 1981
The Day After
Nov 20, 1983
The Tuskegee Airmen
Aug 25, 1995
Give My Regards to Broadway
Jul 16, 2020
Leap Year
Jan 08, 2010
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
May 23, 2003
Harry and the Hendersons
Jun 05, 1987
A Civil Action
Dec 25, 1998
Ricochet
Oct 04, 1991
Bark, George
Jan 01, 2003
The Pelican Brief
Sep 17, 1993
Cliffhanger
May 28, 1993
Santa Claus: The Movie
Oct 29, 1985
A Good Man in Africa
Jul 14, 1994
Inside 'Interstellar'
Mar 31, 2015
Raising Cain
Aug 07, 1992
The Big Fix
Oct 06, 1978
The Wrong Man
Sep 05, 1993
Dogs and More Dogs
Feb 03, 2004
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Dec 07, 2021
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Jan 01, 1997
Princess Caraboo
Sep 16, 1994
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Nov 17, 2000
All That Jazz
Dec 16, 1979
Homegrown
Apr 17, 1998
Silent Fall
Oct 28, 1994
They All Saw a Cat
Jan 01, 2017
Casting By
Nov 01, 2012
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Dec 06, 1991
Resting Place
Apr 27, 1986
Mesmerized
Nov 18, 1985
Love, Cheat & Steal
Dec 05, 1993
Hollow Point
Oct 21, 1996
Rich Kids
Aug 17, 1979
Projections of America
Feb 10, 2015
The Campaign
Aug 09, 2012
This Is 40
Dec 20, 2012
Out Cold
Mar 03, 1989
Chez Bob
Dec 15, 2022
Car of the Future
Apr 22, 2008
The Bubble
Mar 25, 2022
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Feb 25, 1972
Redwood Curtain
Jan 01, 1995
Interstellar
Nov 05, 2014
95 Worlds and Counting
Jan 01, 2000
Don Quixote
Apr 09, 2000
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Oct 12, 2013
Distant Thunder
Nov 11, 1988
Cabrini
Mar 07, 2024
Baby Girl Scott
Jan 01, 1987
Love Is Strange
Aug 22, 2014
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
Jul 04, 1996
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
Jan 17, 2013
Orange County
Jan 11, 2002
Spellbound
Nov 22, 2024
My Brother's Keeper
Mar 19, 1995
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Aug 03, 2011
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Jun 24, 1983
Memphis Belle
Sep 07, 1990
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Mar 07, 2025
Ivory Hunters
Aug 20, 1990
The Homesman
May 18, 2014
Sangre
Jan 01, 2006
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Dec 21, 2023
Night of 100 Stars III
May 21, 1990
Johnny Skidmarks
Jan 18, 1998
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
Apr 26, 2024
The Accountant
Oct 13, 2016
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
Oct 10, 2009
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
Aug 27, 2014
Lord John
Jul 20, 2015
9 Kisses
Dec 11, 2014
Dreamgirls
Dec 25, 2006
Broadway: The Next Generation
Nov 16, 2017
Best of Enemies
Jul 31, 2015
Shrek Stories
Oct 01, 2013
Timms Valley
Dec 31, 2013
The Oldest Living Graduate
Apr 07, 1980
The Glitter Dome
Nov 18, 1984
Jimpa
Nov 06, 2025
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Mar 05, 1982
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Apr 05, 2016
Miss Sloane
Nov 25, 2016
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Apr 23, 2016
Beatriz at Dinner
Jun 09, 2017
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Jan 09, 1984
Daddy's Home 2
Nov 09, 2017
Einstein's Big Idea
Oct 11, 2005
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
Jan 04, 2002
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Apr 19, 2007
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
Nov 02, 2001
The Pulitzer At 100
Jul 21, 2017
Pitch Perfect 3
Dec 20, 2017
Secret Service
Jan 12, 1977
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Mar 06, 2018
Late Night
Jan 25, 2019
Pet Sematary
Apr 04, 2019
Traveling Man
Jun 25, 1989
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
Mar 28, 2006
Bombshell
Dec 13, 2019
The Amazing Bone
Jun 01, 1987
Hickory Dickory Doc
Jan 30, 2017
Not in Front of the Children
Oct 26, 1982
The Tomorrow Man
May 22, 2019
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Jan 01, 1993
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
May 02, 2006
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Dec 01, 1985
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
Jun 24, 2019
Big Blonde
Dec 01, 1980
The Boys
Apr 15, 1991
New Year's Eve
Dec 08, 2011
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
Jun 01, 1990
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Dec 30, 2011
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
May 31, 2009
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Oct 20, 1980
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Sep 07, 1999
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
Dec 08, 1993
American Cinema
Jan 23, 1995
Myths and Hymns
Jan 13, 2021
The Country Girl
Feb 05, 1974
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
May 07, 2021
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
Nov 13, 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oct 18, 2023
On Broadway
Oct 12, 2019
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
May 22, 1994
Conclave
Oct 25, 2024
Show of Titles
Jun 13, 2021
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Jan 01, 1984
Tales from the Crypt: You, Murderer
Jan 25, 1995
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
3rd Rock from the Sun
Jan 09, 1996
How I Met Your Mother
Sep 19, 2005
The Tony Danza Show
Sep 13, 2004
Twenty Good Years
Oct 11, 2006
Today
Jan 14, 1952
Tales from the Crypt
Jun 10, 1989
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Frasier
Sep 16, 1993
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
Sep 21, 2005
The Early Show
Nov 01, 1999
Finding Your Roots
Mar 24, 2012
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Mar 06, 2018
Faerie Tale Theatre
Sep 11, 1982
30 Rock
Oct 11, 2006
The Colbert Report
Oct 17, 2005
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Cosby
Sep 16, 1996
VH1 Goes Inside
Jun 20, 2003
The West
Sep 15, 1996
American Cinema
Jan 01, 1994
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Oct 10, 2013
Dexter
Oct 01, 2006
E! Live from the Red Carpet
Jan 13, 2002
NOVA
Mar 03, 1974
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Amazing Stories
Sep 29, 1985
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
May 21, 2023
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Dexter: New Blood
Nov 07, 2021
The Crown
Nov 04, 2016
World War II: When Lions Roared
Apr 19, 1994
Trial & Error
Mar 14, 2017
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Sep 14, 2014
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Sherri
Sep 12, 2022
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Jun 10, 1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
Perry Mason
Jun 21, 2020
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
The West
Sep 15, 1996
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Apr 29, 2018
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
Stars in the House
Mar 16, 2020
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Jun 22, 2018
Prohibition
Oct 02, 2011
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
The Old Man
Jun 16, 2022
Conan
Nov 08, 2010
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Jan 16, 2025
Harry Potter
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
