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 Fulbright scholarship and getting a chance to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. From there he focused his training on the New York stage beginning a distinguished career on Broadway. In 1973, Lithgow received his first Tony Award for his performance in The Changing Room. In 1976 Lithgow acted alongside Meryl Streep in three plays 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, A Memory of Two Mondays and Secret Service. In the 1980s he continued to receive Tony Awards nominations for his performances in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985) and M. Butterfly (1988). In 2002, Lithgow received his second Tony Award, this time for a musical, The Sweet Smell of Success and another nomination for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). In 2007, he made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Malvolio in Neil Bartlett's production of Twelfth Night. He has also appeared on Broadway in the acclaimed plays The Columnist (2012) and A Delicate Balance (2014). He portrayed Bill Clinton in Hillary and Clinton (2019) alongside Laurie Metcalf as Hillary Clinton.
Lithgow is also known for his television roles such as Dick Solomon in the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance. He also played Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009) and he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama. In 2004, Lithgow played Blake Edwards in the HBO television movie, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. He has also appeared on 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Louie and Drunk History. Lithgow won great acclaim for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Peter Morgan's historical drama The Crown (2016–2019) on Netflix. For acting in The Crown he won a Primetime Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2020, he had a recurring role on the HBO period series Perry Mason.
He is also well known for his film roles. His early screen roles included Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979) and Brian De Palma's Blow Out (1981). He received his first Academy Award nomination for his breakout performance in The World According to Garp (1982) and received a second Academy Award nomination for Terms of Endearment (1983). He then starred in the films Footloose (1984), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), The Pelican Brief and Cliffhanger (1993), A Civil Action (1998), Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000), Shrek (2001), Kinsey (2004), Dreamgirls (2006), Love Is Strange (2014), Miss Sloane (2016) and Beatriz at Dinner (2017). In 2019 he appeared in Mindy Kaling's comedy Late Night and portrayed Roger Ailes in Bombshell.
Filmography
all 193
Movies 140
TV Shows 53
self 50
Narrator 12
Voice 9
Spellbound (2024)
Conclave (2024)
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow (2024)
Cabrini (2024)
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic (2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled (2023)
Sharper (2023)
Chez Bob (2022)
Sherri (2022)
The Old Man (2022)
The Bubble (2022)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes (2021)
Dexter: New Blood (2021)
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos (2021)
Myths and Hymns (2021)
Give My Regards to Broadway (2020)
Perry Mason (2020)
Disclosure (2020)
Bombshell (2019)
On Broadway (2019)
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman (2019)
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts (2019)
The Tomorrow Man (2019)
Pet Sematary (2019)
Late Night (2019)
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (2018)
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018)
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer (2018)
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like (2018)
Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
The Pulitzer At 100 (2017)
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Trial & Error (2017)
Hickory Dickory Doc (2017)
They All Saw a Cat (2017)
Miss Sloane (2016)
The Crown (2016)
The Accountant (2016)
Into the 8th Dimension (2016)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (2016)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Best of Enemies (2015)
Lord John (2015)
Inside 'Interstellar' (2015)
Projections of America (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
9 Kisses (2014)
Interstellar (2014)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest (2014)
The Homesman (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Love Is Strange (2014)
Timms Valley (2013)
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love (2013)
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013)
Shrek Stories (2013)
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate (2013)
This Is 40 (2012)
Casting By (2012)
The Campaign (2012)
Finding Your Roots (2012)
Shrek: Once Upon a Time (2011)
New Year's Eve (2011)
Prohibition (2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Through The Grape Vine (2011)
Conan (2010)
Leap Year (2010)
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams (2009)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
Car of the Future (2008)
Classical Baby: The Poetry Show (2008)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Dreamgirls (2006)
30 Rock (2006)
Twenty Good Years (2006)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge (2006)
Sangre (2006)
The Colbert Report (2005)
Einstein's Big Idea (2005)
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart (2005)
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
The Tony Danza Show (2004)
Kinsey (2004)
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad (2004)
Dogs and More Dogs (2004)
VH1 Goes Inside (2003)
Bark, George (2003)
E! Live from the Red Carpet (2002)
Orange County (2002)
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified (2002)
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party (2001)
Shrek (2001)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000)
Don Quixote (2000)
95 Worlds and Counting (2000)
Adventures in Time: The National Geographic Millennium Special (1999)
The Early Show (1999)
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection (1999)
A Civil Action (1998)
Homegrown (1998)
Johnny Skidmarks (1998)
The View (1997)
Officer Buckle and Gloria (1997)
Hollow Point (1996)
Cosby (1996)
The West (1996)
The Daily Show (1996)
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (1996)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996)
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
My Brother's Keeper (1995)
American Cinema (1995)
Redwood Curtain (1995)
Silent Fall (1994)
Princess Caraboo (1994)
A Good Man in Africa (1994)
World War II: When Lions Roared (1994)
American Cinema (1994)
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale (1993)
Love, Cheat & Steal (1993)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
Frasier (1993)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
The Wrong Man (1993)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1993)
Raising Cain (1992)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Ricochet (1991)
The Boys (1991)
Memphis Belle (1990)
Ivory Hunters (1990)
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert (1990)
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
The Simpsons (1989)
Traveling Man (1989)
Tales from the Crypt (1989)
Out Cold (1989)
Distant Thunder (1988)
Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
The Amazing Bone (1987)
Baby Girl Scott (1987)
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Resting Place (1986)
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie (1985)
Mesmerized (1985)
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
Amazing Stories (1985)
2010 (1984)
The Glitter Dome (1984)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Footloose (1984)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1984)
The Day After (1983)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Not in Front of the Children (1982)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
The World According to Garp (1982)
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
Blow Out (1981)
Big Blonde (1980)
Mom, the Wolfman and Me (1980)
The Oldest Living Graduate (1980)
All That Jazz (1979)
Rich Kids (1979)
The Big Fix (1978)
Secret Service (1977)
Obsession (1976)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
NOVA (1974)
The Country Girl (1974)
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
Great Performances (1971)
Tony Awards (1956)
Today (1952)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Broadway: The Next Generation
Don Quixote
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1945-10-19 (78 years old)
Birth PlaceRochester, New York, United States of America
Height
ChildrenIan Lithgow
FatherArthur Lithgow
MotherSara Jane Lithgow
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known As莊李富高, 존 리스고, John Arthur Lithgow, جان لیسگو
Awardshonorary doctor of Harvard University, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Fulbright Program, Fulbright Scholarship, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award
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