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John Lithgow

Musician / Poet / Actor | * 10/19/1945 (78) | Rochester, New York (United States of America (USA))
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John Arthur Lithgow ( 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 Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards. Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2005. Lithgow made his Broadway debut in The Changing Room (1972) for which he received his first Tony Award. In 1976 Lithgow acted alongside Meryl Streep in the plays 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, A Memory of Two Mondays and Secret Service at The Public Theatre. He received Tony Award nominations for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). In 2002, Lithgow received his second Tony Award, this time for a musical, Sweet Smell of Success. In 2007, he made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Malvolio in Twelfth Night. He returned to Broadway in the plays The Columnist (2012), A Delicate Balance (2014), and Hillary and Cl... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Documentaries

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After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family t ...

Love Is Strange

R

2014 | 3.2/5 | 1h 38min
Drama
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A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn ...

Cliffhanger

R

1993 | 3.2/5 | 1h 52min
Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension. ...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

PG

1984 | 3.0/5 | 1h 43min
Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Romance / Love
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A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon. ...

The World According to Garp

R

1982 | 3.4/5 | 2h 16min
Drama
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3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignific ...

3rd Rock from the Sun

TV-PG

1996 | 3.7/5 | 30min per episode
Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for John Lithgow

Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical Fulbright Program Golden Globe Awards Honorary Doctor of Harvard University 3x Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series 2x Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical 2x Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 3x Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
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Movies with John Lithgow as Actor(120)

as Cardinal Tremblay2024 Conclave
as himself2024 Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
as Mayor Gould2024 Cabrini
as Richard Hobbes2023 Sharper
as Minister Bolinar (voice)2023 Spellbound
as Prosecutor Leaward2023 Killers of the Flower Moon
as Tom the Studio Chairman2022 The Bubble
as himself2021 On Broadway
as Philip Drummond2021 Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)2021 Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
as Self (archive footage)2020 Disclosure
as himself2020 Give My Regards to Broadway
as Jud Crandall2019 Pet Sematary
as Walter Newbury2019 Late Night
as President Donald J. Trump2019 The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as Roger Ailes2019 Bombshell
as Ed Hemsler2019 The Tomorrow Man
as Jud2019 The Tale of Timmy Baterman
as himself2018 Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Don Whitaker2017 Daddy's Home 2
as Fergus2017 Pitch Perfect 3
as himself2017 The Pulitzer At 100
as Doug Strutt2017 Beatriz at Dinner
2016 Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Senator Ronald Sperling2016 Miss Sloane
as Lamar Black2016 The Accountant
2015 Lord John
as himself2015 Inside Interstellar
as himself2015 Best of Enemies
as Ben2014 Love Is Strange
as Maurice (voice)2014 The Jungle Bunch 2 - The Great Treasure Quest
as Reverend Alfred Dowd2014 The Homesman
as Donald2014 Interstellar
as Man in Club2014 9 Kisses
as Posket2013 National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
as Lord Farquaad (voice)2013 Shrek Stories
as Ol' Gregory Timms2013 Timms Valley
as himself2013 Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
as Glen Motch2012 The Campaign
as Oliver2012 This Is 40
as himself2012 Casting By
as Charles Rodman2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as himself2011 Shrek: Once Upon a Time
as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)2011 New Year's Eve
as Jack Brady2010 Leap Year
as Edgar West2009 Confessions of a Shopaholic
as God2009 The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
as Narrator2009 Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
as Narrator2008 Car of the Future
2007 ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Jerry Harris2006 Dreamgirls
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition2005 Einstein's Big Idea
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey2004 Kinsey
as Blake Edwards2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)2003 The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
as himself2002 Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
as Bud Brumder2002 Orange County
as Lord Farquaad (voice)2001 Shrek
as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)2001 Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
as Jean-Claude (voice)2000 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
as Narrator2000 95 Worlds and Counting
as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano2000 Don Quixote
as Judge Walter J. Skinner1998 A Civil Action
as Sergeant Larry Skovik1998 Johnny Skidmarks
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman1998 Homegrown
as Narrator (voice)1997 Officer Buckle and Gloria
as Narrator1996 Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
as Thomas Livingston1996 Hollow Point
as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley1995 My Brother's Keeper
as Senator Conyers1995 The Tuskegee Airmen
as Laird Riordan1995 Redwood Curtain
as Dr. Rene Harlinger1994 Silent Fall
as Professor Wilkinson1994 Princess Caraboo
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner1994 A Good Man in Africa
as Paul Harrington1993 Love, Cheat & Steal
as Eric Qualen1993 Cliffhanger
as Smith Keen1993 The Pelican Brief
as Phillip Mills1993 The Wrong Man
as Narrator1993 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo1992 Raising Cain
as Leslie Huben1991 At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991 The Boys
as Earl Talbott Blake1991 Ricochet
as himself1990 Night Of 100 Stars III
1990 John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
as Robert Carter1990 Ivory Hunters
as Bruce Derringer1990 Memphis Belle
as Dave1989 Out Cold
as Ben Cluett1989 Traveling Man
as Mark Lambert1988 Distant Thunder
as Narrator1987 The Amazing Bone
as Neil Scott1987 Baby Girl Scott
as George Henderson1987 Harry and the Hendersons
as Maj. Kendall Laird1986 Resting Place
as John Mathewson1986 The Manhattan Project
as himself1985 Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
as Oliver Thompson1985 Mesmerized
as B.Z.1985 Santa Claus: The Movie
as Reverend Shaw Moore1984 Footloose
as Lord John Whorfin1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
as Dr. Walter Curnow1984 2010
as Goldilocks' Father1984 Goldilocks and the Three Bears
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn1984 The Glitter Dome
as Joe Huxley1983 The Day After
as John Valentine (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Sam Burns1983 Terms of Endearment
as Mr. Brunner1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as Roberta Muldoon1982 The World According to Garp
as Richard Carruthers1982 Not in Front of the Children
as Burke1981 Blow Out
as Clarence1980 The Oldest Living Graduate
as Herbie Morse1980 Big Blonde
as Wally1980 Mom, the Wolfman and Me
as Paul Philips1979 Rich Kids
as Lucas Sergeant1979 All That Jazz
as Sam Sebastian1978 The Big Fix
as Capt. Thorne1977 Secret Service
as Robert Lasalle1976 Obsession
as Paul Unger1974 The Country Girl
as John1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

TV Shows/Series with John Lithgow as Actor(54)

as Harold Harper2022 The Old Man
as Ol' Gregory Timms2021 Ultra City Smiths
as Arthur Mitchell2021 Dexter: New Blood
as Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan2020 Perry Mason
2018 James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
as himself2018 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Larry Henderson2017 Trial & Error
as Winston Churchill2016 The Crown
as himself2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as himself2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as James Roosevelt (voice)2014 The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as himself2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
as The White Rabbit (voice)2013 Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
as himself2012 Finding Your Roots
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)2011 Prohibition
as himself2010 Conan
as himself2007 The Graham Norton Show
as Arthur Mitchell2006 Dexter
2006 Twenty Good Years
as himself2006 30 Rock
2005 The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
2005 The Colbert Report
as Jerry Whittaker2005 How I Met Your Mother
2004 The Tony Danza Show
2003 VH1 Goes Inside
as himself2002 E! Live from the Red Carpet
as himself1999 The Early Show
as himself1997 The View
as Self - Guest1997 The View
as Self - Guest1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Dick Solomon1996 3rd Rock from the Sun
as himself1996 The West
as himself1996 The Daily Show
as himself1996 Cosby
1994 American Cinema
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt1994 World War II: When Lions Roared
as Madman Martinez (voice)1993 Frasier
as Self - Guest1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1989 Tales from the Crypt
1989 The Simpsons
as Gus (voice)1989 The Simpsons
as John Walters1985 Amazing Stories
as Goldilocks' Father1982 Faerie Tale Theatre
as Self - Host1975 Saturday Night Live
as Narrator1974 NOVA
as Capt. Thorne1971 Great Performances
as himself1952 Today
as Paul Unger1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Major Kendall Laird1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Laird Riordan1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame

Movies with John Lithgow as Crew(1)

Production/Executive Producer2024 Art Happens Here with John Lithgow

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Full Name: John Lithgow
Born: Friday, 10/19 1945 (October) in Rochester, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 78 years + 351 days)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Harvard College, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Princeton High School
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Spouses (current/former): Mary Yeager
Children: Ian Lithgow
Father: Arthur Lithgow
Mother: Sara Jane Lithgow
Other names for John Lithgow (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"莊李富高"
"존 리스고"
"John Arthur Lithgow"
John Lithgow frequently works together with these people:
Andy Samberg (36x, Actor)
Tress MacNeille (36x, Actress)
Bill Hader (31x, Actor)
Fred Armisen (28x, Actor)
Kenan Thompson (25x, Actor)
Kristen Wiig (24x, Actress)
Will Forte (24x, Actor)
Pamela Hayden (23x, Actress)
Tom Hanks (22x, Actor)
Rachel Dratch (22x, Actress)
Tina Fey (21x, Actress)
Judd Apatow (7x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:520, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 10/03/2024