John Lithgow
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 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).
Known for
The Simpsons
Gus (voice)
The Simpsons
John Lithgow (voice)
Dexter
Arthur Mitchell
Interstellar
Donald
How I Met Your Mother
Jerry Whittaker
Frasier
Madman Martinez (voice)
30 Rock
John Lithgow
The Crown
Winston Churchill
NOVA
Narrator
Shrek
Lord Farquaad (voice)
Great Performances
Capt. Thorne
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Performer
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee/Performer
3rd Rock from the Sun
Dick Solomon
Dexter: New Blood
Arthur Mitchell
Amazing Stories
John Walters
Dexter: Resurrection
Arthur Mitchell
Tales from the Crypt
Dr. Oscar Charles
Shrek Stories
Lord Farquaad (voice)
The Oscars
Self - Presenter
Perry Mason
Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
The Old Man
Harold Harper
Stars in the House
Self - Special Guest
Killers of the Flower Moon
Prosecutor Peter Leaward
The Accountant
Lamar Blackburn
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Charles Rodman
Conclave
Tremblay
Spellbound
Bolinar (voice)
Finding Your Roots
Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
Goldilocks' Father
The Wrong Man
Phillip Mills
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Wally
Give My Regards to Broadway
Self
Cliffhanger
Eric Qualen
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Self
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Self
Pet Sematary
Jud Crandall
Hollow Point
Thomas Livingston
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Dave Crealy
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Self
Footloose
Rev. Shaw Moore
Bombshell
Roger Ailes
Daddy's Home 2
Don
Trial & Error
Larry Henderson
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
The White Rabbit (voice)
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Dreamgirls
Jerry Harris
The Tomorrow Man
Ed Hemsler
Pitch Perfect 3
Fergus
The Pelican Brief
Smith Keen
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Edgar West
This Is 40
Oliver
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Self
Memphis Belle
Bruce Derringer
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
Narrator
Cabrini
Mayor Gould
Traveling Man
Ben Cluett
Cosby
John Lithgow
Leap Year
Jack Brady
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Valentine
2010
Dr. Walter Curnow
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Narrator
Sharper
Richard Hobbes
Harry and the Hendersons
George Henderson
New Year's Eve
Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
Terms of Endearment
Sam Burns
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
95 Worlds and Counting
Narrator
Miss Sloane
Senator Ronald Sperling
Late Night
Walter Lovell
Secret Service
Capt. Thorne
Orange County
Bud Brumder
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
The Campaign
Glen Motch
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Jean-Claude (voice)
Prohibition
Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
Obsession
Robert Lasalle
Harry Potter
Albus Dumbledore
Blow Out
Burke
A Civil Action
Judge Walter J. Skinner
Timms Valley
Ol' Gregory Timms
My Brother's Keeper
Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
All That Jazz
Lucas Sergeant
The Pulitzer At 100
Self
Resting Place
Maj. Kendall Laird
The Homesman
Reverend Alfred Dowd
Santa Claus: The Movie
B.Z.
Ricochet
Earl Talbott Blake
The West
Self
The West
Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
Beatriz at Dinner
Doug Strutt
Johnny Skidmarks
Sergeant Larry Skovik
Kinsey
Alfred Seguine Kinsey
The Day After
Joe Huxley
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Lord John Whorfin
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Paul Unger
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Major Kendall Laird
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Laird Riordan
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Self
Redwood Curtain
Laird Riordan
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
Self
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
James Roosevelt (voice)
Tales from the Crypt - Uncut
Homegrown
Malcolm / Robert Stockman
The Bubble
Tom the Studio Chairman
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
The Tuskegee Airmen
Senator Conyers
Jimpa
Jimpa
Chez Bob
The World According to Garp
Roberta Muldoon
Distant Thunder
Mark Lambert
Bark, George
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Best of Enemies
Voice of Gore Vidal
Casting By
Self
Twenty Good Years
John Mason
Princess Caraboo
Professor Wilkinson
The Big Fix
Sam Sebastian
Show of Titles
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Inside 'Interstellar'
Self
Einstein's Big Idea
Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Narrator
Raising Cain
Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
World War II: When Lions Roared
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
The Glitter Dome
Sgt. Marty Wellborn
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
Narrator
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
Self
Mesmerized
Oliver Thompson
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Dr. Oscar Charles
American Cinema
Self - Host
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Blake Edwards
The Manhattan Project
John Mathewson
Broadway: The Next Generation
Self
The Boys
Artie Margulies
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Self
Silent Fall
Dr. Rene Harlinger
Love, Cheat & Steal
Paul Harrington
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
Rich Kids
Paul Philips
Love Is Strange
Ben
The Oldest Living Graduate
Clarence
A Good Man in Africa
Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
Dogs and More Dogs
Narrator
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Self
Car of the Future
Narrator
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Self
The Amazing Bone
Narrator
The Country Girl
Paul Unger
Out Cold
Dave
Don Quixote
Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
Big Blonde
Herbie Morse
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Leslie Huben
On Broadway
Self
Hickory Dickory Doc
Himself
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Narrator (voice)
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
Maurice (voice)
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Mr. Brunner
Baby Girl Scott
Neil Scott
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Philip Drummond
Not in Front of the Children
Richard Carruthers
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
John
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Himself
They All Saw a Cat
Sangre
Cafe chef and owner
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
John Walters (archive footage)
Lord John
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Goldilocks' Father
Ivory Hunters
Robert Carter
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
Jud Crandall
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
Self
Projections of America
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
President Donald J. Trump
Myths and Hymns
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
Posket
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Self
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
God
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
Alexander (voice)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
The Daily Show
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
Narrator
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Conan
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The Colbert Report
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
The View
Self
The View
Self - Guest
The One Show
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Sherri
Self - Guest
The Tony Danza Show
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Live from E!
Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
Today
Self
The Early Show
Self