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John Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, poet, author, and singer. Lithgow is best known for his work in theater, television, and film. Lithgow studied at Harvard, then on a Fulbright scholarship got a chance to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

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Filmography

Spellbound

2023
as Minister Bolinar

Sharper

2023
as Richard Hobbes

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023
as Prosecutor Leaward

The Bubble

2022
as Tom the Studio Chairman

The Old Man

2022
as Harold Harper

Perry Mason (2020)

2020
as Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan

Pet Sematary

2019
as Jud Crandall

Bombshell

2019
as Roger Ailes

The Tomorrow Man

2019
as Ed Hemsler

Late Night

2019
as Walter Newbury

On Broadway

2019
as John Lithgow

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

2018
as Himself

Daddy's Home 2

2017
as Don Whitaker

Trial & Error

2017
as Larry Henderson

Pitch Perfect 3

2017
as Fergus

Beatriz at Dinner

2017
as Doug Strutt

The Crown

2016
as Winston Churchill

Miss Sloane

2016
as Senator Ronald Sperling

The Accountant

2016
as Lamar Black

Best of Enemies

2015
as Himself

The Homesman

2014
as Reverend Dowd

Love Is Strange

2014
as Ben

Projections of America

2014
as Narrator

Interstellar

2014
as Donald

9 Kisses

2014
as Man in Club

The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest

2014
as Maurice (voice)

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

2013
as White Rabbit

National Theatre Live: The Magistrate

2013
as Posket

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

2013
as Himself

Timms Valley

2013
as Ol' Gregory Timms

This Is 40

2012
as Oliver

The Real Revolutionaries

2012
as William Shockley

The Campaign

2012
as Glen Motch

Shrek's Thrilling Tales

2012
as Lord Farquad

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011
as Charles Rodman

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

2011
as John Lithgow

Leap Year

2010
as Jack Brady

Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009
as Edgar West

Car of the Future

2008
as Self - Narrator

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

2007

Dexter

2006
as Arthur Mitchell

Twenty Good Years

2006

Dreamgirls

2006
as Jerry Harris

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")

E=mc² – Einstein's Big Idea

2005
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

2004
as Blake Edwards

Kinsey

2004
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey

The Ghost of Lord Farquaad

2003
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)

Orange County

2002
as Bud Brumder

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

2002
as Himself

Creating a Fairy Tale World: The Making of Shrek

2001
as John Lithgow

Shrek

2001
as Lord Farquaad (voice)

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

2001
as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

2000
as Jean-Claude (voice)

Don Quixote

2000
as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano

95 Worlds and Counting

2000
as Narrator

A Civil Action

1998
as Judge Walter J. Skinner

Homegrown

1998
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman

Johnny Skidmarks

1998
as Sergeant Larry Skovik

Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

1996
as Narrator

Hollow Point

1996
as Thomas Livingston

3rd Rock from the Sun

1996
as Dick Solomon

Redwood Curtain

1995
as Laird Riordan

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995
as Senator Conyers

American Cinema

1995
as host

World War II: When Lions Roared

1994
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A Good Man in Africa

1994
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner

Silent Fall

1994
as Dr. Rene Harlinger

Princess Caraboo

1994
as Professor Wilkinson

The Pelican Brief

1993
as Smith Keen

The Wrong Man

1993
as Phillip Mills

Love, Cheat & Steal

1993
as Paul Harrington

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

1993
as Narrator

Cliffhanger

1993
as Eric Qualen

Raising Cain

1992
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

1991
as Leslie Huben

Ricochet

1991
as Earl Talbott Blake

Memphis Belle

1990
as Lt.Col. Bruce Derringer

Ivory Hunters

1990
as Robert Carter

Out Cold

1989
as Dave

Traveling Man

1989
as Ben Cluett

Distant Thunder

1988
as Mark Lambert

Baby Girl Scott

1987
as Neil Scott

Harry and the Hendersons

1987
as George Henderson

The Manhattan Project

1986
as John Mathewson

Resting Place

1986
as Maj. Kendall Laird

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

1985
as John Lithgow

Mesmerized

1985
as Oliver Thompson

Santa Claus: The Movie

1985
as B.Z.

The Amazing Bone

1985
as Narrator

2010: The Year We Make Contact

1984
as Dr. Walter Curnow

Footloose

1984
as Reverend Shaw Moore

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

1984
as John Lithgow

The Glitter Dome

1984
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

1984
as Lord John Whorfin

Terms of Endearment

1983
as Sam Burns

The Day After

1983
as Joe Huxley

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983
as John Valentine (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

1982
as Mr. Brunner

The World According to Garp

1982
as Roberta Muldoon

Not in Front of the Children

1982
as Richard Carruthers

Blow Out

1981
as Burke

The Oldest Living Graduate

1980
as Clarence

Big Blonde

1980
as Herbie Morse

Rich Kids

1979
as Paul Philips

All That Jazz

1979
as Lucas Sergeant

The Big Fix

1978
as Sam Sebastian

Secret Service

1977
as Capt. Thorne

Obsession

1976
as Robert Lasalle

NOVA

1974
as Narrator

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

1972
as John

Creator

Episode The Trumpty Dumpty Cycle
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown 		2020

Producer

Episode The Trumpty Dumpty Cycle
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown 		2020

Guest Star

Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
John Lithgow, Noah Schnapp, 070 Shake 		2022
Episode Dexter: New Blood
Skin of Her Teeth 		2021
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
John Lithgow, Jack Whitehall, King Calaway 		2021
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
John Lithgow, Theo Croker, Wyclef Jean 		2021
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
John Lithgow, Gary Barlow 		2020
Episode The Trumpty Dumpty Cycle
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown 		2020
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
John Lithgow, Freddie Highmore, Giveon 		2020
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Shaquille O'Neal, John Lithgow, Ozuna 		2020
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Rob Corddry, John Lithgow, Chef José Andrés 		2020
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
John Lithgow, Jonathan Alter 		2020
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
John Lithgow, Louis Tomlinson, Rebecca Ferguson 		2019
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
John Lithgow, J Balvin, Sean Paul 		2019
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
John Lithgow, Liam Payne 		2019
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
John Lithgow, Kelly Clarkson, Kacey Musgraves 		2018
Episode Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Episode 124 		2018
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
John Lithgow, Riley Keough, Giles Martin, Thundercat ft. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins 		2017
Episode Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
Drama Actors 		2017
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
John Lithgow, Jay Baruchel, Diana Krall 		2017
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Episode 1 		2017
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Unknown 		2017
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Octavia Spencer, John Lithgow, Luke Bryan 		2017
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
John Lithgow, Ryan Phillippe, Kyra Sedgwick 		2016
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Anna Kendrick, John Lithgow, Iliza Shlesinger, Chick Corea 		2016
Episode Louie (2010)
Sleepover 		2015
Episode Today
October 24, 2014 		2014
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
John Lithgow, Miranda Kerr, Jason Mraz 		2014
Episode Moyers & Company
John Lithgow, 'King Lear' and Our Uncertain World 		2014
Episode Drunk History
Hollywood 		2014
Episode The Colbert Report
John Lithgow 		2014
Episode How I Met Your Mother
Mom and Dad 		2013
Episode How I Met Your Mother
Hopeless 		2011
Episode Prohibition
A Nation of Scofflaws 		2011
Episode How I Met Your Mother
Legendaddy 		2011
Episode The Colbert Report
John Lithgow 		2011
Episode Prohibition
A Nation of Hypocrites 		2011
Episode Prohibition
A Nation of Drunkards 		2011
Episode NOVA
Trapped in an Elevator 		2010
Episode 30 Rock
Goodbye, My Friend 		2009
Episode NOVA
Car Of The Future 		2008
Episode NOVA
The Great Robot Race 		2006
Episode NOVA
Einstein's Big Idea 		2005
Episode NOVA
Dogs And More Dogs 		2004
Episode NOVA
Life's Greatest Miracle 		2001
Episode Cosby
Superstar, Part 1 		1999
Episode Cosby
Superstar, Part 2 		1999
Episode National Geographic Documentaries
Beyond 2000 - The New Explorers 		1999
Episode Tales from the Crypt
You, Murderer 		1995
Episode Frasier
Someone to Watch Over Me 		1995
Episode Disneyland
Walt Disney World: Past, Present, and Future 		1991
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Nell Carter, John Lithgow, Rita Rudner, Tracy Wells 		1989
Episode Saturday Night Live
John Lithgow/Tracy Chapman 		1988
Episode Amazing Stories (1985)
The Doll 		1986
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Resting Place 		1986
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Buddy Hackett, John Lithgow 		1984