John Lithgow

ActorProducer Oct 19 (age 80) Rochester, New York, USA 1951–2026 (75 year career)

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Biography

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 …

Known For

Film

Interstellar

Donald

Film

Shrek

Lord Farquaad (voice)

Film

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Charles Rodman

Film

The Crown

Winston Churchill

Film

The Accountant

Lamar Blackburn

Film

Killers of the Flower Moon

Prosecutor Peter Leaward

Film

Conclave

Tremblay

Film

Miss Sloane

Senator Ronald Sperling

Filmography

Acting (210)

Movies (142)

Jimpa

2026

as Jimpa

7.2

The Rule of Jenny Pen

as Dave Crealy

Conclave

as Tremblay

Spellbound

as Bolinar (voice)

Cabrini

as Mayor Gould

Art Happens Here with John Lithgow

2024

as Self

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

as Prosecutor Peter Leaward

7.4

Sharper

2023

as Richard Hobbes

6.9

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

2023

as Self

7.8

The Bubble

2022

as Tom the Studio Chairman

4.6

Chez Bob

2022

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

2021

as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)

Show of Titles

2021

as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes

2021

as Philip Drummond

7.5

Myths and Hymns

2021

Give My Regards to Broadway

2020

as Self

Pet Sematary

as Jud Crandall

Late Night

as Walter Lovell

Bombshell

as Roger Ailes

The Tomorrow Man

as Ed Hemsler

On Broadway

as Self

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

2019

as President Donald J. Trump

7.6

Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman

2018

as Jud Crandall

7.0

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

as Self

Daddy's Home 2

as Don

Pitch Perfect 3

as Fergus

The Pulitzer At 100

as Self

Broadway: The Next Generation

2017

as Self

Beatriz at Dinner

2017

as Doug Strutt

5.8

Hickory Dickory Doc

2017

as Himself

They All Saw a Cat

The Accountant

as Lamar Blackburn

Miss Sloane

as Senator Ronald Sperling

7.4

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016

as Self - Performer

7.2

Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

2016

as Narrator

Inside 'Interstellar'

2015

as Self

6.9

Best of Enemies

2015

as Voice of Gore Vidal

7.2

Lord John

2015

Projections of America

2015

as Self - Narrator (voice)

5.0

Interstellar

2014

as Donald

8.5

The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest

as Maurice (voice)

Love Is Strange

as Ben

The Homesman

as Reverend Alfred Dowd

6.5

9 Kisses

2014

as Man in Club

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

2013

as Self

9.0

National Theatre Live: The Magistrate

as Posket

Timms Valley

as Ol' Gregory Timms

Shrek Stories

as Lord Farquaad (voice)

This Is 40

as Oliver

The Campaign

as Glen Motch

Casting By

as Self

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011

as Charles Rodman

7.3

New Year's Eve

2011

as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)

5.9

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

as Self

Leap Year

as Jack Brady

Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009

as Edgar West

6.5

Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn

2009

as Narrator

The Macabre World of Lavender Williams

as God

Car of the Future

as Narrator

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

as Self

Dreamgirls

as Jerry Harris

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")

Sangre

2006

as Cafe chef and owner

The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge

2006

as Narrator

Einstein's Big Idea

2005

as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition

7.2

Kinsey

2004

as Alfred Seguine Kinsey

6.6

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

as Blake Edwards

Dogs and More Dogs

as Narrator

The Ghost of Lord Farquaad

2003

as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)

6.0

Bark, George

2003

Shrek 3-D

2003

as Lord Farquaad

Orange County

2002

as Bud Brumder

6.0

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

2002

as Self

8.4

Shrek

2001

as Lord Farquaad (voice)

7.8

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

2001

as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)

6.3

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

2000

as Jean-Claude (voice)

6.7

95 Worlds and Counting

2000

as Narrator

Don Quixote

2000

as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano

6.3

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

1999

as Dr. Oscar Charles

8.7

A Civil Action

1998

as Judge Walter J. Skinner

6.5

Johnny Skidmarks

1998

as Sergeant Larry Skovik

5.4

Homegrown

1998

as Malcolm / Robert Stockman

5.6

Officer Buckle and Gloria

as Narrator (voice)

Hollow Point

as Thomas Livingston

Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

1996

as Narrator

Redwood Curtain

as Laird Riordan

The Tuskegee Airmen

as Senator Conyers

My Brother's Keeper

as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley

1.0

Princess Caraboo

1994

as Professor Wilkinson

5.5

Silent Fall

1994

as Dr. Rene Harlinger

5.3

A Good Man in Africa

1994

as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner

4.9

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

1994

as Self

The Wrong Man

as Phillip Mills

Cliffhanger

as Qualen

The Pelican Brief

as Smith Keen

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

as Narrator

Love, Cheat & Steal

as Paul Harrington

The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale

1993

as Alexander (voice)

Raising Cain

1992

as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo

6.1

Ricochet

1991

as Earl Talbott Blake

6.1

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

1991

as Leslie Huben

6.4

The Boys

1991

as Artie Margulies

Memphis Belle

1990

as Bruce Derringer

6.7

Amazing Stories: The Movie II

1990

as John Walters (archive footage)

Night of 100 Stars III

as Self

Ivory Hunters

as Robert Carter

John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert

Out Cold

as Dave

Traveling Man

as Ben Cluett

Distant Thunder

as Mark Lambert

Harry and the Hendersons

1987

as George Henderson

6.1

The Amazing Bone

1987

as Narrator

Baby Girl Scott

1987

as Neil Scott

6.0

Resting Place

1986

as Maj. Kendall Laird

6.1

The Manhattan Project

1986

as John Mathewson

6.2

Santa Claus: The Movie

as B.Z.

Mesmerized

as Oliver Thompson

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

as Self

Footloose

as Rev. Shaw Moore

2010

as Dr. Walter Curnow

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

1984

as Lord John Whorfin

6.0

The Glitter Dome

1984

as Sgt. Marty Wellborn

4.1

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

1984

as Himself

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

1984

as Goldilocks' Father

5.0

Twilight Zone: The Movie

as Valentine

The Day After

as Joe Huxley

Terms of Endearment

as Sam Burns

The World According to Garp

1982

as Roberta Muldoon

6.7

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

1982

as Mr. Brunner

6.0

Not in Front of the Children

1982

as Richard Carruthers

6.0

Blow Out

1981

as Burke

7.4

Mom, the Wolfman and Me

1980

as Wally

Big Blonde

1980

as Herbie Morse

5.0

The Oldest Living Graduate

as Clarence

All That Jazz

as Lucas Sergeant

Rich Kids

as Paul Philips

The Big Fix

as Sam Sebastian

Secret Service

as Capt. Thorne

Obsession

1976

as Robert Lasalle

6.7

The Country Girl

1974

as Paul Unger

Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

1972

as John

4.8

Sequestered - Inside Conclave

as Self

Television (68)

Harry Potter

2026 Upcoming

as Albus Dumbledore

Dec 25

Dexter: Resurrection

2025

as Arthur Mitchell

8.5

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

2025

as Self

7.8

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

as Self

Sherri

as Self - Guest

The Old Man

as Harold Harper

Dexter: New Blood

as Arthur Mitchell

Ultra City Smiths

as Ol' Gregory Timms

Perry Mason

as Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan

7.2

Stars in the House

2020

as Self - Special Guest

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019

as Self

6.4

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

2018

7.5

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

2018

as Self - Guest

7.4

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

as Self

Trial & Error

as Larry Henderson

The Crown

as Winston Churchill

The Crown

as Winston Churchill

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

6.2

The Late Late Show with James Corden

2015

as Self - Guest

5.2

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015

as Self

6.2

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self

5.2

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

2014

as Self

4.5

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

2014

as James Roosevelt (voice)

7.7

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

2013

as The White Rabbit (voice)

Finding Your Roots

as Self

Prohibition

as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)

7.9

Conan

2010

as Self

7.1

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

as Self - Guest

5.1

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Dexter

as Arthur Mitchell

The One Show

as Self

30 Rock

as John Lithgow

Twenty Good Years

as John Mason

How I Met Your Mother

as Jerry Whittaker

The Colbert Report

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart

The Tony Danza Show

as Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection

2003

as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)

VH1 Goes Inside

Live from E!

as Self

The Early Show

as Self

The View

as Self

The Daily Show

as Self

3rd Rock from the Sun

1996

as Dick Solomon

7.5

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self - Guest

Cosby

as John Lithgow

The West

as Self

The West

as Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)

8.4

American Cinema

1994

as Self - Host

8.0

World War II: When Lions Roared

1994

as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

6.5

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993

as Self - Guest

7.2

Frasier

1993

as Madman Martinez (voice)

7.7

Tales from the Crypt - Uncut

1992

The Simpsons

1989

as John Lithgow (voice)

Tales from the Crypt

as Dr. Oscar Charles

Amazing Stories

as John Walters

Faerie Tale Theatre

as Goldilocks' Father

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

NOVA

as Narrator

Great Performances

as Capt. Thorne

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

The Oscars

as Self - Presenter

Today

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Paul Unger

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

The Rule of Jenny Pen

2025

Executive Producer

6.2

Art Happens Here with John Lithgow

2024

Executive Producer

Don Quixote

2000

Executive Producer

6.3