Actor
John Lithgow
Biography

John Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor. Prolific in films, television and on stage, Lithgow is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Tony Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame and has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Lithgow studied at Harvard University winning a Fulbrigh ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- The Rule of Jenny Pen |
2025 -- Jimpa | Jimpa
2024 -- Spellbound | Bolinar (voice)
2024 -- Conclave | Tremblay
2024 -- Art Happens Here with John Lithgow | Self
2024 -- Cabrini | Mayor Gould
2023 -- Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic | Self
2023 -- Killers of the Flower Moon | Prosecutor Peter Leaward
2023 -- Sharper | Richard Hobbes
2022 -- Chez Bob |
2022 -- The Bubble | Tom the Studio Chairman
2021 -- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes | Philip Drummond
2021 -- Emily @ the Edge of Chaos | Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
2021 -- Myths and Hymns |
2020 -- Give My Regards to Broadway | Self
2019 -- Bombshell | Roger Ailes
2019 -- On Broadway | Self
2019 -- The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts | President Donald J. Trump
2019 -- The Tomorrow Man | Ed Hemsler
2019 -- Pet Sematary | Jud Crandall
2019 -- Late Night | Walter Lovell
2018 -- Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman | Jud Crandall
2018 -- Mister Rogers: It's You I Like | Self
2017 -- Pitch Perfect 3 | Fergus
2017 -- Broadway: The Next Generation | Self
2017 -- Daddy's Home 2 | Don
2017 -- The Pulitzer At 100 | Self
2017 -- Beatriz at Dinner | Doug Strutt
2017 -- Hickory Dickory Doc | Himself
2017 -- They All Saw a Cat |
2016 -- Miss Sloane | Senator Ronald Sperling
2016 -- The Accountant | Lamar Blackburn
2016 -- Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer
2016 -- Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 | Narrator
2015 -- Best of Enemies | Self
2015 -- Lord John |
2015 -- Inside 'Interstellar' | Self
2015 -- Projections of America | Self - Narrator (voice)
2014 -- 9 Kisses | Man in Club
2014 -- Interstellar | Donald
2014 -- The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest | Maurice (voice)
2014 -- Love Is Strange | Ben
2014 -- The Homesman | Reverend Alfred Dowd
2013 -- Timms Valley | Ol' Gregory Timms
2013 -- Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love | Self
2013 -- Shrek Stories | Lord Farquaad (voice)
2013 -- National Theatre Live: The Magistrate | Posket
2012 -- This Is 40 | Oliver
2012 -- Casting By | Self
2012 -- The Campaign | Glen Motch
2011 -- Shrek: Once Upon a Time | Self
2011 -- New Year's Eve | Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
2011 -- Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Charles Rodman
2010 -- Leap Year | Jack Brady
2009 -- Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn | Narrator
2009 -- The Macabre World of Lavender Williams | God
2009 -- Confessions of a Shopaholic | Edgar West
2008 -- Car of the Future | Narrator
2007 -- ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway | Self
2006 -- Dreamgirls | Jerry Harris
2006 -- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
2006 -- The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge | Narrator
2006 -- Sangre | Cafe chef and owner
2005 -- Einstein's Big Idea | Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
2004 -- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Blake Edwards
2004 -- Kinsey | Alfred Seguine Kinsey
2004 -- The Ghost of Lord Farquaad | Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
2004 -- Dogs and More Dogs | Narrator
2003 -- Bark, George |
2002 -- Orange County | Bud Brumder
2002 -- Buckaroo Banzai Declassified | Self
2001 -- Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party | Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
2001 -- Shrek | Lord Farquaad (voice)
2000 -- Rugrats in Paris: The Movie | Jean-Claude (voice)
2000 -- Don Quixote | Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
2000 -- 95 Worlds and Counting | Narrator
1999 -- Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection | Dr. Oscar Charles
1998 -- A Civil Action | Judge Walter J. Skinner
1998 -- Homegrown | Malcolm / Robert Stockman
1998 -- Johnny Skidmarks | Sergeant Larry Skovik
1997 -- Officer Buckle and Gloria | Narrator (voice)
1996 -- Hollow Point | Thomas Livingston
1996 -- Special Effects: Anything Can Happen | Narrator
1995 -- The Tuskegee Airmen | Senator Conyers
1995 -- My Brother's Keeper | Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
1995 -- American Cinema | Narrator
1995 -- Redwood Curtain | Laird Riordan
1994 -- Silent Fall | Dr. Rene Harlinger
1994 -- Princess Caraboo | Professor Wilkinson
1994 -- A Good Man in Africa | Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
1994 -- Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self
1993 -- The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale | Alexander (voice)
1993 -- Love, Cheat & Steal | Paul Harrington
1993 -- The Pelican Brief | Smith Keen
1993 -- The Wrong Man | Phillip Mills
1993 -- Cliffhanger | Eric Qualen
1993 -- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Narrator
1992 -- Raising Cain | Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
1991 -- At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Leslie Huben
1991 -- Ricochet | Earl Talbott Blake
1991 -- The Boys |
1990 -- Memphis Belle | Bruce Derringer
1990 -- Ivory Hunters | Robert Carter
1990 -- John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert |
1990 -- Night of 100 Stars III | Self
1989 -- Traveling Man | Ben Cluett
1989 -- Out Cold | Dave
1988 -- Distant Thunder | Mark Lambert
1987 -- Harry and the Hendersons | George Henderson
1987 -- The Amazing Bone | Narrator
1987 -- Baby Girl Scott | Neil Scott
1986 -- The Manhattan Project | John Mathewson
1986 -- Resting Place | Maj. Kendall Laird
1985 -- Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie | Self
1985 -- Mesmerized | Oliver Thompson
1985 -- Santa Claus: The Movie | B.Z.
1984 -- 2010 | Dr. Walter Curnow
1984 -- The Glitter Dome | Sgt. Marty Wellborn
1984 -- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Lord John Whorfin
1984 -- Footloose | Rev. Shaw Moore
1984 -- Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Goldilocks' Father
1983 -- The Day After | Joe Huxley
1983 -- Terms of Endearment | Sam Burns
1983 -- Twilight Zone: The Movie | Valentine
1982 -- Not in Front of the Children | Richard Carruthers
1982 -- The World According to Garp | Roberta Muldoon
1982 -- I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Mr. Brunner
1981 -- Blow Out | Burke
1980 -- Big Blonde | Herbie Morse
1980 -- Mom, the Wolfman and Me | Wally
1980 -- The Oldest Living Graduate | Clarence
1979 -- All That Jazz | Lucas Sergeant
1979 -- Rich Kids | Paul Philips
1978 -- The Big Fix | Sam Sebastian
1977 -- Secret Service | Capt. Thorne
1976 -- Obsession | Robert Lasalle
1974 -- The Country Girl | Paul Unger
1972 -- Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues | John
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