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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 19, 1945
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Also Known As
- 莊李富高
- John Arthur Lithgow
- 約翰.李斯高
- جان لیتگو
John Lithgow
3.8 Popularity
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 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
0.0
Jimpa
Jimpa
2026
8.5
Arthur Mitchell
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
5.9
Dave Crealy
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
7.8
Self
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
6.6
Bolinar (voice)
Spellbound
2024
7.2
Tremblay
Conclave
2024
0.0
Self
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
2024
7.9
Mayor Gould
Cabrini
2024
7.8
Self
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
7.4
Prosecutor Peter Leaward
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
Credits
Jimpa
as Jimpa
2026
0.0
Dexter: Resurrection
as Arthur Mitchell
2025
8.5
The Rule of Jenny Pen
as Dave Crealy
2025
5.9
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
as Self
2025
7.8
Spellbound
as Bolinar (voice)
2024
6.6
Conclave
as Tremblay
2024
7.2
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
as Self
2024
0.0
Cabrini
as Mayor Gould
2024
7.9
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
2023
7.8
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
2023
7.4
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
as Self
2023
7.7
Sharper
as Richard Hobbes
2023
6.9
Chez Bob
2022
0.0
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
3.0
The Old Man
as Harold Harper
2022
7.2
The Bubble
as Tom the Studio Chairman
2022
4.6
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as Philip Drummond
2021
7.5
Dexter: New Blood
as Arthur Mitchell
2021
7.9
Show of Titles
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2021
0.0
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
2021
0.0
Myths and Hymns
2021
0.0
Give My Regards to Broadway
as Self
2020
0.0
Perry Mason
as Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
2020
7.2
Stars in the House
as Self - Special Guest
2020
0.0
Bombshell
as Roger Ailes
2019
6.8
On Broadway
as Self
2019
8.7
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as President Donald J. Trump
2019
7.6
The Tomorrow Man
as Ed Hemsler
2019
5.7
Pet Sematary
as Jud Crandall
2019
5.7
Late Night
as Walter Lovell
2019
6.4
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
as Jud Crandall
2018
7.0
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
7.5
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
as Self
2018
6.8
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest
2018
7.4
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self
2018
7.9
Pitch Perfect 3
as Fergus
2017
6.5
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
2017
10.0
Daddy's Home 2
as Don
2017
6.3
The Pulitzer At 100
as Self
2017
6.0
Beatriz at Dinner
as Doug Strutt
2017
5.8
Trial & Error
as Larry Henderson
2017
7.1
Hickory Dickory Doc
as Himself
2017
0.0
They All Saw a Cat
2017
0.0
Miss Sloane
as Senator Ronald Sperling
2016
7.4
The Crown
as Winston Churchill
2016
8.2
The Accountant
as Lamar Blackburn
2016
7.1
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
2016
7.2
🎬
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
as Narrator
2016
0.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
Best of Enemies
as Voice of Gore Vidal
2015
7.2
🎬
Lord John
2015
0.0
Inside 'Interstellar'
as Self
2015
6.9
Projections of America
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
5.0
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Interstellar
as Donald
2014
8.5
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as James Roosevelt (voice)
2014
7.7
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
as Maurice (voice)
2014
5.7
Love Is Strange
as Ben
2014
6.3
The Homesman
as Reverend Alfred Dowd
2014
6.5
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Timms Valley
as Ol' Gregory Timms
2013
6.2
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
as Self
2013
9.0
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
as The White Rabbit (voice)
2013
6.9
Shrek Stories
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
2013
8.1
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
as Posket
2013
6.0
This Is 40
as Oliver
2012
5.9
Casting By
as Self
2012
6.9
The Campaign
as Glen Motch
2012
5.8
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.6
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
as Self
2011
7.5
New Year's Eve
as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
2011
5.9
Prohibition
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
2011
7.9
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Charles Rodman
2011
7.3
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
Leap Year
as Jack Brady
2010
6.9
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
as Narrator
2009
0.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
as God
2009
6.0
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Edgar West
2009
6.5
Car of the Future
as Narrator
2008
6.0
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Self
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Dreamgirls
as Jerry Harris
2006
6.7
30 Rock
as John Lithgow
2006
7.5
Twenty Good Years
as John Mason
2006
8.5
Dexter
as Arthur Mitchell
2006
8.2
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.4
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
2006
0.0
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
as Narrator
2006
0.0
🎬
Sangre
as Cafe chef and owner
2006
0.0
The Colbert Report
2005
6.9
Einstein's Big Idea
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
2005
7.2
🎬
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
2005
0.0
How I Met Your Mother
as Jerry Whittaker
2005
8.1
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Blake Edwards
2004
6.6
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
6.1
Kinsey
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
2004
6.6
🎬
Dogs and More Dogs
as Narrator
2004
5.2
🎬
VH1 Goes Inside
2003
10.0
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
2003
7.0
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
2003
6.0
Bark, George
2003
0.0
Live from E!
as Self
2002
3.7
Orange County
as Bud Brumder
2002
6.0
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
as Self
2002
8.4
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
2001
6.3
Shrek
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
2001
7.8
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
as Jean-Claude (voice)
2000
6.7
Don Quixote
as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
2000
6.3
95 Worlds and Counting
as Narrator
2000
0.0
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
as Dr. Oscar Charles
1999
8.7
A Civil Action
as Judge Walter J. Skinner
1998
6.5
Homegrown
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman
1998
5.6
Johnny Skidmarks
as Sergeant Larry Skovik
1998
5.4
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
Officer Buckle and Gloria
as Narrator (voice)
1997
7.0
Hollow Point
as Thomas Livingston
1996
5.0
Cosby
as John Lithgow
1996
6.1
The West
as Self
1996
8.4
The West
as Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
1996
8.4
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
as Narrator
1996
0.0
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
3.9
3rd Rock from the Sun
as Dick Solomon
1996
7.5
The Tuskegee Airmen
as Senator Conyers
1995
7.1
Redwood Curtain
as Laird Riordan
1995
5.8
🎬
My Brother's Keeper
as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
1995
1.0
Silent Fall
as Dr. Rene Harlinger
1994
5.3
Princess Caraboo
as Professor Wilkinson
1994
5.4
A Good Man in Africa
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
1994
4.9
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
as Self
1994
0.0
World War II: When Lions Roared
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1994
6.5
American Cinema
as Self - Host
1994
8.0
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
as Alexander (voice)
1993
0.0
Love, Cheat & Steal
as Paul Harrington
1993
4.1
The Pelican Brief
as Smith Keen
1993
6.6
Frasier
as Madman Martinez (voice)
1993
7.7
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
The Wrong Man
as Phillip Mills
1993
5.0
Cliffhanger
as Eric Qualen
1993
6.5
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
as Narrator
1993
10.0
Tales from the Crypt - Uncut
1992
0.0
Raising Cain
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
1992
6.1
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as Leslie Huben
1991
6.4
Ricochet
as Earl Talbott Blake
1991
6.1
The Boys
as Artie Margulies
1991
0.0
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
as John Walters (archive footage)
1990
0.0
Memphis Belle
as Bruce Derringer
1990
6.7
Ivory Hunters
as Robert Carter
1990
4.2
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
1990
5.0
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
4.0
The Simpsons
as Gus (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as John Lithgow (voice)
1989
8.0
Traveling Man
as Ben Cluett
1989
2.8
Tales from the Crypt
as Dr. Oscar Charles
1989
8.0
Out Cold
as Dave
1989
5.9
Distant Thunder
as Mark Lambert
1988
5.6
Harry and the Hendersons
as George Henderson
1987
6.1
The Amazing Bone
as Narrator
1987
0.0
🎬
Baby Girl Scott
as Neil Scott
1987
6.0
The Manhattan Project
as John Mathewson
1986
6.1
Resting Place
as Maj. Kendall Laird
1986
6.1
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
as Self
1985
5.0
Mesmerized
as Oliver Thompson
1985
4.7
Santa Claus: The Movie
as B.Z.
1985
6.3
Amazing Stories
as John Walters
1985
7.4
2010
as Dr. Walter Curnow
1984
6.6
The Glitter Dome
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn
1984
4.1
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
as Lord John Whorfin
1984
6.0
Footloose
as Rev. Shaw Moore
1984
6.7
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
as Goldilocks' Father
1984
5.0
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
as Himself
1984
0.0
The Day After
as Joe Huxley
1983
6.8
Terms of Endearment
as Sam Burns
1983
7.1
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Valentine
1983
6.5
🎬
Not in Front of the Children
as Richard Carruthers
1982
6.0
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Goldilocks' Father
1982
8.1
The World According to Garp
as Roberta Muldoon
1982
6.7
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as Mr. Brunner
1982
6.0
Blow Out
as Burke
1981
7.4
Big Blonde
as Herbie Morse
1980
5.0
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
as Wally
1980
0.0
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Clarence
1980
4.0
All That Jazz
as Lucas Sergeant
1979
7.5
Rich Kids
as Paul Philips
1979
4.8
The Big Fix
as Sam Sebastian
1978
5.7
Secret Service
as Capt. Thorne
1977
0.0
Obsession
as Robert Lasalle
1976
6.6
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
NOVA
as Narrator
1974
7.0
The Country Girl
as Paul Unger
1974
0.0
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
as John
1972
4.8
Great Performances
as Capt. Thorne
1971
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee / Performer
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
5.9
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Paul Unger
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Major Kendall Laird
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Laird Riordan
1951
8.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
1944
7.2
Harry Potter
as Albus Dumbledore
N/A
0.0
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
as Self
N/A
0.0