John Lithgow
Acting
Born: Oct 19, 1945
From: Rochester, New York, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharper | Richard Hobbes | 2023 | 6.851 |
| Give My Regards to Broadway | Self | 2020 | — |
| Inside 'Interstellar' | Self | 2015 | 6.917 |
| Leap Year | Jack Brady | 2010 | 6.9 |
| Confessions of a Shopaholic | Edgar West | 2009 | 6.483 |
| The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Blake Edwards | 2004 | 6.578 |
| Kinsey | Alfred Seguine Kinsey | 2004 | 6.605 |
| Shrek 3-D | Ghost of Farquaad (voice) | 2004 | 5.976 |
| Bark, George | 2003 | — | |
| Shrek | Lord Farquaad (voice) | 2001 | 7.759 |
| A Civil Action | Judge Walter J. Skinner | 1998 | 6.469 |
| The Tuskegee Airmen | Senator Conyers | 1995 | 7.077 |
| A Good Man in Africa | Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner | 1994 | 4.953 |
| The Pelican Brief | Smith Keen | 1993 | 6.598 |
| Cliffhanger | Qualen | 1993 | 6.514 |
| The Wrong Man | Phillip Mills | 1993 | 5.095 |
| Raising Cain | Carter Nix / Cain / … | 1992 | 6.08 |
| Ricochet | Earl Talbott Blake | 1991 | 6.095 |
| Harry and the Hendersons | George Henderson | 1987 | 6.1 |
| The Manhattan Project | John Mathewson | 1986 | 6.203 |
| Santa Claus: The Movie | B.Z. | 1985 | 6.296 |
| Footloose | Rev. Shaw Moore | 1984 | 6.688 |
| 2010 | Dr. Walter Curnow | 1984 | 6.647 |
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Lord John Whorfin | 1984 | 5.964 |
| Terms of Endearment | Sam Burns | 1983 | 7.1 |
| The Day After | Joe Huxley | 1983 | 6.78 |
| The World According to Garp | Roberta Muldoon | 1982 | 6.672 |
| Blow Out | Burke | 1981 | 7.364 |
| The Big Fix | Sam Sebastian | 1978 | 5.769 |
| Obsession | Robert Lasalle | 1976 | 6.663 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1945 |
| From | Rochester, New York, … |