
John Lithgow
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 …
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Filmography
Acting (210)
Movies (142)
Jimpa
2026as Jimpa
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025as Dave Crealy
Conclave
2024as Tremblay
Spellbound
2024as Bolinar (voice)
Cabrini
2024as Mayor Gould
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
2024as Self
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
Sharper
2023as Richard Hobbes
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023as Self
The Bubble
2022as Tom the Studio Chairman
Chez Bob
2022
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
2021as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Show of Titles
2021as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021as Philip Drummond
Myths and Hymns
2021
Give My Regards to Broadway
2020as Self
Pet Sematary
2019as Jud Crandall
Late Night
2019as Walter Lovell
Bombshell
2019as Roger Ailes
The Tomorrow Man
2019as Ed Hemsler
On Broadway
2019as Self
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019as President Donald J. Trump
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
2018as Jud Crandall
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018as Self
Daddy's Home 2
2017as Don
Pitch Perfect 3
2017as Fergus
The Pulitzer At 100
2017as Self
Broadway: The Next Generation
2017as Self
Beatriz at Dinner
2017as Doug Strutt
Hickory Dickory Doc
2017as Himself
They All Saw a Cat
2017
The Accountant
2016as Lamar Blackburn
Miss Sloane
2016as Senator Ronald Sperling
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016as Self - Performer
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
2016as Narrator
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015as Self
Best of Enemies
2015as Voice of Gore Vidal
Lord John
2015
Projections of America
2015as Self - Narrator (voice)
Interstellar
2014as Donald
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
2014as Maurice (voice)
Love Is Strange
2014as Ben
The Homesman
2014as Reverend Alfred Dowd
9 Kisses
2014as Man in Club
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013as Self
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
2013as Posket
Timms Valley
2013as Ol' Gregory Timms
Shrek Stories
2013as Lord Farquaad (voice)
This Is 40
2012as Oliver
The Campaign
2012as Glen Motch
Casting By
2012as Self
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011as Charles Rodman
New Year's Eve
2011as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011as Self
Leap Year
2010as Jack Brady
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009as Edgar West
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
2009as Narrator
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
2009as God
Car of the Future
2008as Narrator
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007as Self
Dreamgirls
2006as Jerry Harris
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
Sangre
2006as Cafe chef and owner
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
2006as Narrator
Einstein's Big Idea
2005as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
Kinsey
2004as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004as Blake Edwards
Dogs and More Dogs
2004as Narrator
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
2003as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Bark, George
2003
Shrek 3-D
2003as Lord Farquaad
Orange County
2002as Bud Brumder
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
2002as Self
Shrek
2001as Lord Farquaad (voice)
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
2001as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000as Jean-Claude (voice)
95 Worlds and Counting
2000as Narrator
Don Quixote
2000as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
1999as Dr. Oscar Charles
A Civil Action
1998as Judge Walter J. Skinner
Johnny Skidmarks
1998as Sergeant Larry Skovik
Homegrown
1998as Malcolm / Robert Stockman
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1997as Narrator (voice)
Hollow Point
1996as Thomas Livingston
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
1996as Narrator
Redwood Curtain
1995as Laird Riordan
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995as Senator Conyers
My Brother's Keeper
1995as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
Princess Caraboo
1994as Professor Wilkinson
Silent Fall
1994as Dr. Rene Harlinger
A Good Man in Africa
1994as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994as Self
The Wrong Man
1993as Phillip Mills
Cliffhanger
1993as Qualen
The Pelican Brief
1993as Smith Keen
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1993as Narrator
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993as Paul Harrington
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
1993as Alexander (voice)
Raising Cain
1992as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
Ricochet
1991as Earl Talbott Blake
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991as Leslie Huben
The Boys
1991as Artie Margulies
Memphis Belle
1990as Bruce Derringer
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
1990as John Walters (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars III
1990as Self
Ivory Hunters
1990as Robert Carter
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
1990
Out Cold
1989as Dave
Traveling Man
1989as Ben Cluett
Distant Thunder
1988as Mark Lambert
Harry and the Hendersons
1987as George Henderson
The Amazing Bone
1987as Narrator
Baby Girl Scott
1987as Neil Scott
Resting Place
1986as Maj. Kendall Laird
The Manhattan Project
1986as John Mathewson
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985as B.Z.
Mesmerized
1985as Oliver Thompson
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
1985as Self
Footloose
1984as Rev. Shaw Moore
2010
1984as Dr. Walter Curnow
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984as Lord John Whorfin
The Glitter Dome
1984as Sgt. Marty Wellborn
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984as Himself
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1984as Goldilocks' Father
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983as Valentine
The Day After
1983as Joe Huxley
Terms of Endearment
1983as Sam Burns
The World According to Garp
1982as Roberta Muldoon
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982as Mr. Brunner
Not in Front of the Children
1982as Richard Carruthers
Blow Out
1981as Burke
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
1980as Wally
Big Blonde
1980as Herbie Morse
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980as Clarence
All That Jazz
1979as Lucas Sergeant
Rich Kids
1979as Paul Philips
The Big Fix
1978as Sam Sebastian
Secret Service
1977as Capt. Thorne
Obsession
1976as Robert Lasalle
The Country Girl
1974as Paul Unger
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972as John
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
as Self
Television (68)
Harry Potter
2026 Upcomingas Albus Dumbledore
Dec 25
Dexter: Resurrection
2025as Arthur Mitchell
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025as Self
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023as Self
Sherri
2022as Self - Guest
The Old Man
2022as Harold Harper
Dexter: New Blood
2021as Arthur Mitchell
Ultra City Smiths
2021as Ol' Gregory Timms
Perry Mason
2020as Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
Stars in the House
2020as Self - Special Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019as Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018as Self - Guest
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018as Self
Trial & Error
2017as Larry Henderson
The Crown
2016as Winston Churchill
The Crown
2016as Winston Churchill
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014as Self
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014as James Roosevelt (voice)
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013as The White Rabbit (voice)
Finding Your Roots
2012as Self
Prohibition
2011as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
Conan
2010as Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009as Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
2007as Self
Dexter
2006as Arthur Mitchell
The One Show
2006as Self
30 Rock
2006as John Lithgow
Twenty Good Years
2006as John Mason
How I Met Your Mother
2005as Jerry Whittaker
The Colbert Report
2005The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
2005The Tony Danza Show
2004as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003as Self - Guest
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
2003as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
VH1 Goes Inside
2003
Live from E!
2002as Self
The Early Show
1999as Self
The View
1997as Self
The Daily Show
1996as Self
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996as Dick Solomon
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996as Self - Guest
Cosby
1996as John Lithgow
The West
1996as Self
The West
1996as Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
American Cinema
1994as Self - Host
World War II: When Lions Roared
1994as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993as Self - Guest
Frasier
1993as Madman Martinez (voice)
Tales from the Crypt - Uncut
1992
The Simpsons
1989as John Lithgow (voice)
Tales from the Crypt
1989as Dr. Oscar Charles
Amazing Stories
1985as John Walters
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982as Goldilocks' Father
Saturday Night Live
1975as Self - Host
NOVA
1974as Narrator
Great Performances
1971as Capt. Thorne
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962as Self
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Winner
The Oscars
1953as Self - Presenter
Today
1952as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Paul Unger
Golden Globe Awards
1944as Self - Presenter
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