Acting credits
200
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
John Lithgow
Acting
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TMDB popularity
3.2
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Movies: 139Series: 61Crew credits: 4
TMDB ID: 12074
IMDb ID: nm0001475
Known for: Acting
Born: October 19, 1945
Age: 80
Place of birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2026
Years active: 83
Average TMDB rating: 6.57
Wikidata: Q311271
Also known as
莊李富高 • John Arthur Lithgow • 約翰.李斯高 • جان لیتگو
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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 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 transgender 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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Movies
Movie credits linked with John Lithgow.
Nov 19
as Roald Dahl
Giant
2026 • Movie
as Self
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
2026 • Movie
as Jimpa
Jimpa
2026 • Movie
as Dave Crealy
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025 • Movie
as Bolinar (voice)
Spellbound
2024 • Movie
as Tremblay
Conclave
2024 • Movie
as Self
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
2024 • Movie
as Mayor Gould
Cabrini
2024 • Movie
as Self
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023 • Movie
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 • Movie
as Richard Hobbes
Sharper
2023 • Movie
Chez Bob
2022 • Movie
as Tom the Studio Chairman
The Bubble
2022 • Movie
as Philip Drummond
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021 • Movie
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Show of Titles
2021 • Movie
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
2021 • Movie
Myths and Hymns
2021 • Movie
as Self
Give My Regards to Broadway
2020 • Movie
as Roger Ailes
Bombshell
2019 • Movie
as Self
On Broadway
2019 • Movie
as President Donald J. Trump
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019 • Movie
as Ed Hemsler
The Tomorrow Man
2019 • Movie
as Jud Crandall
Pet Sematary
2019 • Movie
as Walter Lovell
Late Night
2019 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with John Lithgow.
Dec 25
as Albus Dumbledore • 1 eps
Harry Potter
2026 • Series
as Arthur Mitchell • 1 eps
Dexter: Resurrection
2025 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025 • Series
as Self • 3 eps
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
Sherri
2022 • Series
as Harold Harper • 15 eps
The Old Man
2022 • Series
as Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan • 8 eps
Perry Mason
2020 • Series
as Self - Special Guest • 1 eps
Stars in the House
2020 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 • Series
1 eps
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 • Series
as Larry Henderson • 13 eps
Trial & Error
2017 • Series
as Winston Churchill • 12 eps
The Crown
2016 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
2016 • Series
as Self - Guest • 3 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 • Series
as James Roosevelt (voice) • 7 eps
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 • Series
as Self - Guest • 4 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 • Series
as The White Rabbit (voice) • 13 eps
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Finding Your Roots
2012 • Series