Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 19, 1945
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Credits
211 titles
John Lithgow
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 transgender 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
Filmography
Harry Potter
Albus Dumbledore
Giant
Roald Dahl
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
Self
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic
Himself
Jimpa
Jimpa
Dexter: Resurrection
Arthur Mitchell
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Dave Crealy
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Self
Spellbound
Bolinar (voice)
Conclave
Tremblay
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
Self
Cabrini
Mayor Gould
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Self
Killers of the Flower Moon
Prosecutor Peter Leaward
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Self
Sharper
Richard Hobbes
Chez Bob
Sherri
Self - Guest
The Old Man
Harold Harper
The Bubble
Tom the Studio Chairman
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Philip Drummond
Dexter: New Blood
Arthur Mitchell
Show of Titles
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Myths and Hymns
Give My Regards to Broadway
Self
Perry Mason
Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
Stars in the House
Self - Special Guest
Bombshell
Roger Ailes
On Broadway
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
President Donald J. Trump
The Tomorrow Man
Ed Hemsler
Pet Sematary
Jud Crandall
Late Night
Walter Lovell
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
Jud Crandall
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Self
Pitch Perfect 3
Fergus
Daddy's Home 2
Don
The Pulitzer At 100
Self
Beatriz at Dinner
Doug Strutt
Trial & Error
Larry Henderson
Hickory Dickory Doc
Himself
They All Saw a Cat
Miss Sloane
Senator Ronald Sperling
The Crown
Winston Churchill
The Accountant
Lamar Blackburn