
Actor
Born October 19, 1945 in Rochester, New York, USA
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.

Harry Potter
Albus Dumbledore

Giant
Roald Dahl

Broadway: The Next Generation
Self

Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger
Self

Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
Self

Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic
Himself

Jimpa
Jimpa

Dexter: Resurrection
Arthur Mitchell

The Rule of Jenny Pen
Dave Crealy

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Self

Spellbound
Bolinar (voice)

Conclave
Tremblay

Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
Self

Cabrini
Mayor Gould

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Self

Killers of the Flower Moon
Prosecutor Peter Leaward

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Self

Sharper
Richard Hobbes

Chez Bob

Sherri
Self - Guest

The Old Man
Harold Harper

The Bubble
Tom the Studio Chairman

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

Dexter: New Blood
Arthur Mitchell

Show of Titles
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
Sir Isaac Newton (voice)

Myths and Hymns

Give My Regards to Broadway
Self

Perry Mason
Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan

Stars in the House
Self - Special Guest

Bombshell
Roger Ailes

On Broadway
Self

The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
President Donald J. Trump

The Tomorrow Man
Ed Hemsler

Pet Sematary
Jud Crandall

Late Night
Walter Lovell

Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
Jud Crandall

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Self

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Self

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest

Pitch Perfect 3
Fergus

Daddy's Home 2
Don

The Pulitzer At 100
Self

Beatriz at Dinner
Doug Strutt

Trial & Error
Larry Henderson

Hickory Dickory Doc
Himself

They All Saw a Cat

Miss Sloane
Senator Ronald Sperling

The Crown
Winston Churchill

The Accountant
Lamar Blackburn

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self

Best of Enemies
Voice of Gore Vidal

Inside 'Interstellar'
Self

Projections of America
Self - Narrator (voice)

The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self

Interstellar
Donald

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
James Roosevelt (voice)

The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
Maurice (voice)

Love Is Strange
Ben

The Homesman
Reverend Alfred Dowd

Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest

9 Kisses
Man in Club

Timms Valley
Ol' Gregory Timms

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Self

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
The White Rabbit (voice)

Shrek Stories
Lord Farquaad (voice)

National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
Posket

This Is 40
Oliver

Casting By
Self

The Campaign
Glen Motch

Finding Your Roots
Self

Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Self

New Year's Eve
Jonathan Cox (uncredited)

Prohibition
Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Charles Rodman

Conan
Self

Leap Year
Jack Brady

Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
Narrator

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest

The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
God

Confessions of a Shopaholic
Edgar West

Car of the Future
Narrator

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self

The Graham Norton Show
Self

Dreamgirls
Jerry Harris

Twenty Good Years
John Mason

30 Rock
John Lithgow

Dexter
Arthur Mitchell

The One Show
Self

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")

The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
Narrator

The Colbert Report

Einstein's Big Idea
Narrator (voice) U.S. edition

How I Met Your Mother
Jerry Whittaker

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Blake Edwards

Footloose: A Modern Musical
Self

Kinsey
Alfred Seguine Kinsey

Shrek 3-D
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)

DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest

Bark, George

Live from E!
Self

Orange County
Bud Brumder

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
Self

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
Lord Farquaad (singing voice)

Shrek
Lord Farquaad (voice)

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Jean-Claude (voice)

Don Quixote
Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano

95 Worlds and Counting
Narrator

The Early Show
Self

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Dr. Oscar Charles

A Civil Action
Judge Walter J. Skinner

Homegrown
Malcolm / Robert Stockman

Johnny Skidmarks
Sergeant Larry Skovik

The View
Self

Officer Buckle and Gloria
Narrator (voice)

Hollow Point
Thomas Livingston

Cosby
John Lithgow

The West
Self

The Daily Show
Self

Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
Narrator

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest

3rd Rock from the Sun
Dick Solomon

The Tuskegee Airmen
Senator Conyers

Redwood Curtain
Laird Riordan

Silent Fall
Dr. Rene Harlinger

Princess Caraboo
Professor Wilkinson

A Good Man in Africa
Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Self

World War II: When Lions Roared
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

American Cinema
Self - Host

The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
Alexander (voice)

Love, Cheat & Steal
Paul Harrington

The Pelican Brief
Smith Keen

Frasier
Madman Martinez (voice)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest

The Wrong Man
Phillip Mills

Cliffhanger
Qualen

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Narrator

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

At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Leslie Huben

Ricochet
Earl Talbott Blake

The Boys
Artie Margulies

Amazing Stories: The Movie II
John Walters (archive footage)

Memphis Belle
Bruce Derringer

Ivory Hunters
Robert Carter

John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert

Night of 100 Stars III
Self

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
Self

The Simpsons
Gus (voice)

Traveling Man
Ben Cluett

Tales from the Crypt
Dr. Oscar Charles

Out Cold
Dave

Distant Thunder
Mark Lambert

Harry and the Hendersons
George Henderson

The Amazing Bone
Narrator

The Manhattan Project
John Mathewson

Resting Place
Maj. Kendall Laird

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
Self

Mesmerized
Oliver Thompson

Santa Claus: The Movie
B.Z.

Amazing Stories
John Walters

2010
Dr. Walter Curnow

The Glitter Dome
Sgt. Marty Wellborn

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Lord John Whorfin

Footloose
Rev. Shaw Moore

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Goldilocks' Father

2010 : The Odyssey Continues
Himself

The Day After
Joe Huxley

Terms of Endearment
Sam Burns

Twilight Zone: The Movie
Valentine

Faerie Tale Theatre
Goldilocks' Father

The World According to Garp
Roberta Muldoon

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Mr. Brunner

Blow Out
Burke

Big Blonde
Herbie Morse

Mom, the Wolfman and Me
Wally

The Oldest Living Graduate
Clarence

All That Jazz
Lucas Sergeant

Rich Kids
Paul Philips

The Big Fix
Sam Sebastian

Secret Service
Capt. Thorne

Obsession
Robert Lasalle

Saturday Night Live
Self - Host

NOVA
Narrator

The Country Girl
Paul Unger

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

Great Performances
Capt. Thorne

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self

Tony Awards
Self - Winner

The Oscars
Self - Presenter

Today
Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame
Paul Unger

Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee