John Lithgow

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-10-19 (80 years old)

Place of Birth

Rochester, New York, USA

John Lithgow

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...

Acting

2001

Shrek

as Lord Farquaad (voice)

1984

Footloose

as Rev. Shaw Moore

2023

Sharper

as Richard Hobbes

1984

2010

as Dr. Walter Curnow

1976

Obsession

as Robert Lasalle

1986

The Manhattan Project

as John Mathewson

1983

2004

Kinsey

as Alfred Seguine Kinsey

1982

The World According to Garp

as Roberta Muldoon

1981

Blow Out

as Burke

1983

The Day After

as Joe Huxley

1995

The Tuskegee Airmen

as Senator Conyers

2010

Leap Year

as Jack Brady

2003

The Ghost of Lord Farquaad

as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)

1987

Harry and the Hendersons

as George Henderson

1998

A Civil Action

as Judge Walter J. Skinner

1991

Ricochet

as Earl Talbott Blake

1993

The Pelican Brief

as Smith Keen

1993

Cliffhanger

as Eric Qualen

1994

A Good Man in Africa

as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner

1992

Raising Cain

as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo

1978

The Big Fix

as Sam Sebastian

1993

The Wrong Man

as Phillip Mills

2004

1997

Officer Buckle and Gloria

as Narrator (voice)

1994

Princess Caraboo

as Professor Wilkinson

2000

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

as Jean-Claude (voice)

1979

All That Jazz

as Lucas Sergeant

1998

Homegrown

as Malcolm / Robert Stockman

1994

Silent Fall

as Dr. Rene Harlinger

2012

Casting By

as Self

1986

Resting Place

as Maj. Kendall Laird

1985

Mesmerized

as Oliver Thompson

1993

Love, Cheat & Steal

as Paul Harrington

1996

Hollow Point

as Thomas Livingston

1979

Rich Kids

as Paul Philips

2015

Projections of America

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2012

The Campaign

as Glen Motch

2012

This Is 40

as Oliver

1989

Out Cold

as Dave

2008

2022

The Bubble

as Tom the Studio Chairman

1995

Redwood Curtain

as Laird Riordan

2014

Interstellar

as Donald

2000

2000

Don Quixote

as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano

1988

Distant Thunder

as Mark Lambert

2024

Cabrini

as Mayor Gould

1987

Baby Girl Scott

as Neil Scott

2014

2002

Orange County

as Bud Brumder

2024

Spellbound

as Bolinar (voice)

1995

My Brother's Keeper

as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley

2011

1983

1990

Memphis Belle

as Bruce Derringer

2025

The Rule of Jenny Pen

as Dave Crealy

1990

Ivory Hunters

as Robert Carter

2014

The Homesman

as Reverend Alfred Dowd

2006

Sangre

as Cafe chef and owner

1998

Johnny Skidmarks

as Sergeant Larry Skovik

2016

The Accountant

as Lamar Blackburn

2014

9 Kisses

as Man in Club

2006

Dreamgirls

as Jerry Harris

2015

2013

Shrek Stories

as Lord Farquaad (voice)

2013

Timms Valley

as Ol' Gregory Timms

1984

The Glitter Dome

as Sgt. Marty Wellborn

2025

Jimpa

as Jimpa

2016

Miss Sloane

as Senator Ronald Sperling

-

Amazing Stories: The Movie II

as John Walters (archive footage)

2016

2017

Beatriz at Dinner

as Doug Strutt

1984

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

as Goldilocks' Father

2017

2005

Einstein's Big Idea

as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition

2001

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)

2017

1977

Secret Service

as Capt. Thorne

2019

Late Night

as Walter Lovell

2019

Pet Sematary

as Jud Crandall

1989

Traveling Man

as Ben Cluett

2019

Bombshell

as Roger Ailes

1987

The Amazing Bone

as Narrator

2017

1982

Not in Front of the Children

as Richard Carruthers

2019

The Tomorrow Man

as Ed Hemsler

2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")

1980

Big Blonde

as Herbie Morse

1991

The Boys

as Artie Margulies

2011

New Year's Eve

as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)

1995

American Cinema

as Narrator

1974

The Country Girl

as Paul Unger

2021

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)

2023

Killers of the Flower Moon

as Prosecutor Peter Leaward

2019

2024

Conclave

as Tremblay

2021

Show of Titles

as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer

1995

Production

2000

Don Quixote

as Executive Producer

2024

2025

The Rule of Jenny Pen

as Executive Producer

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