John Lithgow
Age: N/A | From: Rochester, New York, USA
Person Details
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Aliases: 莊李富高 , John Arthur Lithgow , 約翰.李斯高 , جان لیتگو
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Rochester, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 94
TV Involvements: 26
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Dexter
(2006) Arthur Mitchell
Conclave
(2024) Tremblay
Interstellar
(2014) Donald
The Crown
(2016) Winston Churchill
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Nominee/Performer
NOVA
(1974) Narrator
The Old Man
(2022) Harold Harper
Dexter: New Blood
(2021) Arthur MitchellActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Bolinar (voice) | |
| Tremblay | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Mayor Gould | ||
| 2023 | Self | |
| Prosecutor Peter Leaward | ||
| Self | ||
| Richard Hobbes | ||
| 2022 | N/A | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| Harold Harper | ||
| Tom the Studio Chairman | ||
| 2021 | Philip Drummond | |
| Arthur Mitchell | ||
| Ol' Gregory Timms | ||
| Sir Isaac Newton (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2020 | Self | |
| Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan | ||
| Self - Special Guest | ||
| 2019 | Roger Ailes | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| President Donald J. Trump | ||
| Ed Hemsler | ||
| Jud Crandall | ||
| Walter Lovell | ||
| 2018 | Jud Crandall | |
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Self | ||
| 2017 | Fergus | |
| Self | ||
| Don | ||
| Self | ||
| Doug Strutt | ||
| Larry Henderson | ||
| Himself | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2016 | Senator Ronald Sperling | |
| Winston Churchill | ||
| Lamar Blackburn | ||
| Self - Performer | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2015 | Self - Guest | |
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Self - Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2014 | Self | |
| Man in Club | ||
| Donald | ||
| James Roosevelt (voice) | ||
| Maurice (voice) | ||
| Ben | ||
| Reverend Alfred Dowd | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2013 | Ol' Gregory Timms | |
| Self | ||
| The White Rabbit (voice) | ||
| Lord Farquaad (voice) | ||
| Posket | ||
| 2012 | Oliver | |
| Self | ||
| Glen Motch | ||
| Self | ||
| 2011 | Self | |
| Jonathan Cox (uncredited) | ||
| Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice) | ||
| Charles Rodman | ||
| 2010 | Self | |
| Jack Brady | ||
| 2009 | Narrator | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| God | ||
| Edgar West | ||
| 2008 | Narrator | |
| 2007 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Jerry Harris | |
| N/A | ||
| John Lithgow | ||
| Arthur Mitchell | ||
| René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly") | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Cafe chef and owner | ||
| 2005 | N/A | |
| Narrator (voice) U.S. edition | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jerry Whittaker | ||
| 2004 | Blake Edwards | |
| Self | ||
| Alfred Seguine Kinsey | ||
| Ghost of Farquaad (voice) | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2003 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| Bud Brumder | ||
| Self | ||
| 2001 | Lord Farquaad (singing voice) | |
| Lord Farquaad (voice) | ||
| 2000 | Jean-Claude (voice) | |
| Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1999 | Self | |
| Dr. Oscar Charles | ||
| 1998 | Judge Walter J. Skinner | |
| Malcolm / Robert Stockman | ||
| Sergeant Larry Skovik | ||
| 1997 | Self | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1996 | Thomas Livingston | |
| John Lithgow | ||
| Self | ||
| Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Dick Solomon | ||
| 1995 | Senator Conyers | |
| Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Laird Riordan | ||
| 1994 | Dr. Rene Harlinger | |
| Professor Wilkinson | ||
| Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | ||
| 1993 | Alexander (voice) | |
| Paul Harrington | ||
| Smith Keen | ||
| Madman Martinez (voice) | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Phillip Mills | ||
| Eric Qualen | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1992 | Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo | |
| 1991 | Leslie Huben | |
| Earl Talbott Blake | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1990 | Bruce Derringer | |
| Robert Carter | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| 1989 | Gus (voice) | |
| John Lithgow (voice) | ||
| Ben Cluett | ||
| Dr. Oscar Charles | ||
| Dave | ||
| 1988 | Mark Lambert | |
| 1987 | George Henderson | |
| Narrator | ||
| Neil Scott | ||
| 1986 | John Mathewson | |
| Maj. Kendall Laird | ||
| 1985 | Self | |
| Oliver Thompson | ||
| B.Z. | ||
| John Walters | ||
| 1984 | Dr. Walter Curnow | |
| Sgt. Marty Wellborn | ||
| Lord John Whorfin | ||
| Rev. Shaw Moore | ||
| Goldilocks' Father | ||
| 1983 | Sam Burns | |
| Joe Huxley | ||
| Valentine | ||
| 1982 | Richard Carruthers | |
| Goldilocks' Father | ||
| Roberta Muldoon | ||
| Mr. Brunner | ||
| 1981 | Burke | |
| 1980 | Herbie Morse | |
| Wally | ||
| Clarence | ||
| 1979 | Lucas Sergeant | |
| Paul Philips | ||
| 1978 | Sam Sebastian | |
| 1977 | Capt. Thorne | |
| 1976 | Robert Lasalle | |
| 1975 | Self - Host | |
| 1974 | Narrator | |
| Paul Unger | ||
| 1972 | John | |
| 1971 | Capt. Thorne | |
| 1956 | Self - Presenter | |
| Self - Nominee & Performer | ||
| Self - Winner | ||
| Self - Nominee | ||
| Self - Nominee/Performer | ||
| 1952 | Self | |
| 1951 | Paul Unger | |
| Major Kendall Laird | ||
| Laird Riordan | ||
| 1944 | Self - Nominee | |
| Self - Presenter | ||
| John Walters (archive footage) | ||
| Jimpa | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Executive Producer | |
| 2000 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |