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 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).
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Movies (146)
Giant
2026 · Roald Dahl
En busca de Harry: El arte detrás de la magia
2026 · Self
Jimpa
2026 · Jimpa
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025 · Dave Crealy, Executive Producer
Hechizados
2024 · Bolinar (voice)
Conclave
2024 · Tremblay
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
2024 · Self, Executive Producer
Cabrini
2024 · Mayor Gould
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023 · Self
Los asesinos de la luna
2023 · Prosecutor Peter Leaward
Sharper: Un plan perfecto
2023 · Richard Hobbes
Chez Bob
2022
La burbuja
2022 · Tom the Studio Chairman
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021 · Philip Drummond
Show of Titles
2021 · "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
2021 · Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Myths and Hymns
2021
Give My Regards to Broadway
2020 · Self
El escándalo
2019 · Roger Ailes
On Broadway
2019 · Self
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019 · President Donald J. Trump
El hombre del mañana
2019 · Ed Hemsler
Cementerio de animales
2019 · Jud Crandall
Ellas mandan
2019 · Walter Lovell
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
2018 · Jud Crandall
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018 · Self
Notas Perfectas 3
2017 · Fergus
Guerra de Papás 2
2017 · Don
The Pulitzer At 100
2017 · Self
Una Cena Incómoda
2017 · Doug Strutt
Hickory Dickory Doc
2017 · Himself
They All Saw a Cat
2017
Sola contra el poder
2016 · Senator Ronald Sperling
El contador
2016 · Lamar Blackburn
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 · Self - Performer
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
2016 · Narrator
Best of Enemies
2015 · Voice of Gore Vidal
Lord John
2015
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015 · Self
Projections of America
2015 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Interstellar
2014 · Donald
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
2014 · Maurice (voice)
El amor es extraño
2014 · Ben
Deuda de Honor
2014 · Reverend Alfred Dowd
9 Kisses
2014 · Man in Club
Timms Valley
2013 · Ol' Gregory Timms
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013 · Self
Shrek Stories
2013 · Lord Farquaad (voice)
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
2013 · Posket
Bienvenido a los 40
2012 · Oliver
Casting By
2012 · Self
Locos por los votos
2012 · Glen Motch
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011 · Self
Año Nuevo
2011 · Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
El planeta de los simios: (R)evolución
2011 · Charles Rodman
Propuesta de Año Bisiesto
2010 · Jack Brady
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
2009 · Narrator
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
2009 · God
Loca por las compras
2009 · Edgar West
Car of the Future
2008 · Narrator
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007 · Self
Soñadoras
2006 · Jerry Harris
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
2006 · Narrator
Sangre
2006 · Cafe chef and owner
Einstein's Big Idea
2005 · Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004 · Blake Edwards
Footloose: A Modern Musical
2004 · Self, Thanks
Kinsey, el científico del sexo
2004 · Alfred Seguine Kinsey
El fantasma de Lord Farquaad
2004 · Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Dogs and More Dogs
2004 · Narrator
Bark, George
2003
Orange County
2002 · Bud Brumder
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
2002 · Self
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
2001 · Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
Shrek
2001 · Lord Farquaad (voice)
Rugrats en París
2000 · Jean-Claude (voice)
Don Quixote
2000 · Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano, Executive Producer
95 Worlds and Counting
2000 · Narrator
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999 · (archive footage)
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
1999 · Dr. Oscar Charles
A Civil Action
1998 · Judge Walter J. Skinner
Homegrown
1998 · Malcolm / Robert Stockman
Johnny Skidmarks
1998 · Sergeant Larry Skovik
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1997 · Narrator (voice)
Hollow Point
1996 · Thomas Livingston
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
1996 · Narrator
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995 · Senator Conyers
Redwood Curtain
1995 · Laird Riordan
My Brother's Keeper
1995 · Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
Silent Fall
1994 · Dr. Rene Harlinger
Princess Caraboo
1994 · Professor Wilkinson
A Good Man in Africa
1994 · Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994 · Self
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
1993 · Alexander (voice)
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993 · Paul Harrington
The Pelican Brief
1993 · Smith Keen
The Wrong Man
1993 · Phillip Mills
Cliffhanger
1993 · Qualen
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1993 · Narrator
Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger
1993 · Self
Raising Cain
1992 · Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991 · Leslie Huben
Ricochet
1991 · Earl Talbott Blake
The Boys
1991 · Artie Margulies
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
1990 · John Walters
Memphis Belle
1990 · Bruce Derringer
Ivory Hunters
1990 · Robert Carter
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
1990 · Self
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
1990 · Self
Traveling Man
1989 · Ben Cluett
Out Cold
1989 · Dave
Distant Thunder
1988 · Mark Lambert
Harry and the Hendersons
1987 · George Henderson
The Amazing Bone
1987 · Narrator
Baby Girl Scott
1987 · Neil Scott
The Manhattan Project
1986 · John Mathewson
Resting Place
1986 · Maj. Kendall Laird
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
1985 · Self
Mesmerized
1985 · Oliver Thompson
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985 · B.Z.
2010
1984 · Dr. Walter Curnow
The Glitter Dome
1984 · Sgt. Marty Wellborn
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984 · Lord John Whorfin
Footloose
1984 · Rev. Shaw Moore
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1984 · Goldilocks' Father
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984 · Himself
The Day After
1983 · Joe Huxley
Terms of Endearment
1983 · Sam Burns
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Valentine
Not in Front of the Children
1982 · Richard Carruthers
The World According to Garp
1982 · Roberta Muldoon
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982 · Mr. Brunner
Blow Out
1981 · Burke
Big Blonde
1980 · Herbie Morse
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
1980 · Wally
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980 · Clarence
All That Jazz
1979 · Lucas Sergeant
Rich Kids
1979 · Paul Philips
The Big Fix
1978 · Sam Sebastian
Secret Service
1977 · Capt. Thorne
Obsession
1976 · Robert Lasalle
The Country Girl
1974 · Paul Unger
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972 · John
Broadway: The Next Generation
· Self
TV shows (65)
Harry Potter
2026 · Albus Dumbledore
Dexter: Resurrection
2025 · Arthur Mitchell
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025 · Self
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023 · Self
Sherri
2022 · Self - Guest
The Old Man
2022 · Harold Harper
Dexter: New Blood
2021 · Arthur Mitchell
Perry Mason
2020 · Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
Stars in the House
2020 · Self - Special Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018 · Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · Self - Guest
Trial & Error
2017 · Larry Henderson
The Crown
2016 · Winston Churchill
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest, Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014 · James Roosevelt (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest
Érase una vez en el País de las Maravillas
2013 · The White Rabbit (voice)
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self
Prohibition
2011 · Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
Conan
2010 · Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
El show de Graham Norton
2007 · Self
Twenty Good Years
2006 · John Mason
30 Rock
2006 · John Lithgow
Dexter
2006 · Arthur Mitchell
The One Show
2006 · Self
The Colbert Report
2005
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
2005
Cómo conocí a tu madre
2005 · Jerry Whittaker
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Self
VH1 Goes Inside
2003
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
2003 · Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
Live from E!
2002 · Self
The Early Show
1999 · Self
The View
1997 · Self, Self - Guest
Cosby
1996 · John Lithgow
The West
1996 · Self, Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996 · Dick Solomon
World War II: When Lions Roared
1994 · Franklin Delano Roosevelt
American Cinema
1994 · Self - Host
Frasier
1993 · Madman Martinez (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Los Simpson
1989 · Gus (voice), John Lithgow (voice)
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Dr. Oscar Charles
Amazing Stories
1985 · John Walters
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Goldilocks' Father
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
NOVA
1974 · Narrator
Film '72
1971 · Self
Great Performances
1971 · Capt. Thorne
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Winner, Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee / Performer
The Oscars
1953 · Self - Presenter
Today
1952 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Paul Unger, Major Kendall Laird, Laird Riordan
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter, Self - Winner