John Lithgow
Birthday: 1945-10-19
Birthplace: Rochester, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Drafted: 432
Drafted By: Zac E. Chan
Owned By: Zac E. Chan
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
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 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 transsexual 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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Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1983 | 38 | The World According to Garp (1982) | Supporting Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| 1984 | 39 | Terms of Endearment (1983) | Supporting Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
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Credits
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2025-03-07 | The Rule of Jenny Pen | Dave Crealy |
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2025-01-23 | Jimpa | Jimpa |
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2024-11-22 | Spellbound | Bolinar (voice) |
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2024-10-25 | Conclave | Tremblay |
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2024-03-07 | Cabrini | Mayor Gould |
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2023-10-18 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Prosecutor Peter Leaward |
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2023-02-10 | Sharper | Richard Hobbes |
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2022-12-15 | Chez Bob | |
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2022-03-25 | The Bubble | Tom the Studio Chairman |
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2021-12-07 | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes | Philip Drummond |
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2021-06-13 | Show of Titles | "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer |
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2021-05-07 | Emily @ the Edge of Chaos | Sir Isaac Newton (voice) |
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2021-01-13 | Myths and Hymns | |
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2019-12-13 | Bombshell | Roger Ailes |
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2019-06-24 | The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts | President Donald J. Trump |
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2019-05-22 | The Tomorrow Man | Ed Hemsler |
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2019-04-04 | Pet Sematary | Jud Crandall |
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2019-01-25 | Late Night | Walter Lovell |
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2018-11-13 | Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman | Jud Crandall |
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2017-12-20 | Pitch Perfect 3 | Fergus |
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2017-11-09 | Daddy's Home 2 | Don |
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2017-06-09 | Beatriz at Dinner | Doug Strutt |
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2017-01-01 | They All Saw a Cat | |
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2016-11-25 | Miss Sloane | Senator Ronald Sperling |
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2016-10-13 | The Accountant | Lamar Blackburn |
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2015-07-20 | Lord John | |
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2014-12-11 | 9 Kisses | Man in Club |
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2014-11-05 | Interstellar | Donald |
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2014-08-27 | The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest | Maurice (voice) |
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2014-08-22 | Love Is Strange | Ben |
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2014-05-18 | The Homesman | Reverend Alfred Dowd |
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2013-12-31 | Timms Valley | Ol' Gregory Timms |
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2013-10-01 | Shrek Stories | Lord Farquaad (voice) |
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2013-01-17 | National Theatre Live: The Magistrate | Posket |
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2012-12-20 | This Is 40 | Oliver |
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2012-08-09 | The Campaign | Glen Motch |
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2011-12-08 | New Year's Eve | Jonathan Cox (uncredited) |
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2011-08-03 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Charles Rodman |
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2010-01-08 | Leap Year | Jack Brady |
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2009-05-31 | The Macabre World of Lavender Williams | God |
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2009-02-05 | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Edgar West |
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2006-12-25 | Dreamgirls | Jerry Harris |
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2006-05-02 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly") |
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2006-01-01 | Sangre | Cafe chef and owner |
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2004-10-01 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Blake Edwards |
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2004-09-04 | Kinsey | Alfred Seguine Kinsey |
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2003-05-23 | The Ghost of Lord Farquaad | Ghost of Farquaad (voice) |
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2003-01-01 | Bark, George | |
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2002-01-11 | Orange County | Bud Brumder |
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2001-11-02 | Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party | Lord Farquaad (singing voice) |
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2001-05-18 | Shrek | Lord Farquaad (voice) |
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2000-11-17 | Rugrats in Paris: The Movie | Jean-Claude (voice) |
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2000-04-09 | Don Quixote | Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano |
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1999-09-07 | Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection | Dr. Oscar Charles |
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1998-12-25 | A Civil Action | Judge Walter J. Skinner |
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1998-04-17 | Homegrown | Malcolm / Robert Stockman |
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1998-01-18 | Johnny Skidmarks | Sergeant Larry Skovik |
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1996-10-21 | Hollow Point | Thomas Livingston |
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1995-08-25 | The Tuskegee Airmen | Senator Conyers |
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1995-03-19 | My Brother's Keeper | Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley |
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1995-01-01 | Redwood Curtain | Laird Riordan |
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1994-10-28 | Silent Fall | Dr. Rene Harlinger |
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1994-09-16 | Princess Caraboo | Professor Wilkinson |
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1994-07-14 | A Good Man in Africa | Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner |
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1993-12-08 | The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale | Alexander (voice) |
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1993-12-05 | Love, Cheat & Steal | Paul Harrington |
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1993-09-17 | The Pelican Brief | Smith Keen |
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1993-09-05 | The Wrong Man | Phillip Mills |
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1993-05-28 | Cliffhanger | Eric Qualen |
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1992-08-07 | Raising Cain | Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo |
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1991-12-06 | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Leslie Huben |
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1991-10-04 | Ricochet | Earl Talbott Blake |
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1991-04-15 | The Boys | Artie Margulies |
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1990-09-07 | Memphis Belle | Bruce Derringer |
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1990-08-20 | Ivory Hunters | Robert Carter |
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1990-06-01 | John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert | |
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1989-06-25 | Traveling Man | Ben Cluett |
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1989-03-03 | Out Cold | Dave |
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1988-11-11 | Distant Thunder | Mark Lambert |
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1987-06-05 | Harry and the Hendersons | George Henderson |
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1987-01-01 | Baby Girl Scott | Neil Scott |
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1986-06-13 | The Manhattan Project | John Mathewson |
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1986-04-27 | Resting Place | Maj. Kendall Laird |
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1985-11-18 | Mesmerized | Oliver Thompson |
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1985-10-29 | Santa Claus: The Movie | B.Z. |
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1984-12-06 | 2010 | Dr. Walter Curnow |
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1984-11-18 | The Glitter Dome | Sgt. Marty Wellborn |
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1984-08-10 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | Lord John Whorfin |
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1984-02-17 | Footloose | Rev. Shaw Moore |
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1984-01-09 | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Goldilocks' Father |
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1983-11-20 | Terms of Endearment | Sam Burns |
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1983-11-20 | The Day After | Joe Huxley |
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1983-06-24 | Twilight Zone: The Movie | Valentine |
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1982-10-26 | Not in Front of the Children | Richard Carruthers |
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1982-08-13 | The World According to Garp | Roberta Muldoon |
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1982-03-05 | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Mr. Brunner |
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1981-07-24 | Blow Out | Burke |
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1980-12-01 | Big Blonde | Herbie Morse |
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1980-10-20 | Mom, the Wolfman and Me | Wally |
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1980-04-07 | The Oldest Living Graduate | Clarence |
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1979-12-16 | All That Jazz | Lucas Sergeant |
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1979-08-17 | Rich Kids | Paul Philips |
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1978-10-06 | The Big Fix | Sam Sebastian |
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1977-01-12 | Secret Service | Capt. Thorne |
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1976-08-01 | Obsession | Robert Lasalle |
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1974-02-05 | The Country Girl | Paul Unger |
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1972-02-25 | Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues | John |