Acting credits
196
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
John Lithgow
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.7
Moderate attention
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Movies: 136Series: 60Crew credits: 3
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: 6.61
Wikidata: Q311271
Also known as
莊李富高 • John Arthur Lithgow • 約翰.李斯高 • جان لیتگو
Other jobs
Executive Producer (3)
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 transsexual 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
Movies
Movie credits linked with John Lithgow.
Jimpa
as Jimpa
2026 Movie
6.0
The Rule of Jenny Pen
as Dave Crealy
2025 Movie
6.6
Spellbound
as Bolinar (voice)
2024 Movie
7.2
Conclave
as Tremblay
2024 Movie
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
as Self
2024 Movie
7.8
Cabrini
as Mayor Gould
2024 Movie
7.8
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as Self
2023 Movie
7.4
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
2023 Movie
6.9
Sharper
as Richard Hobbes
2023 Movie
Chez Bob
2022 Movie
4.6
The Bubble
as Tom the Studio Chairman
2022 Movie
7.5
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as Philip Drummond
2021 Movie
Show of Titles
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2021 Movie
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
2021 Movie
Myths and Hymns
2021 Movie
Give My Regards to Broadway
as Self
2020 Movie
6.8
Bombshell
as Roger Ailes
2019 Movie
8.7
On Broadway
as Self
2019 Movie
7.6
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as President Donald J. Trump
2019 Movie
5.7
The Tomorrow Man
as Ed Hemsler
2019 Movie
5.7
Pet Sematary
as Jud Crandall
2019 Movie
6.4
Late Night
as Walter Lovell
2019 Movie
7.0
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
as Jud Crandall
2018 Movie
7.9
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as Self
2018 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with John Lithgow.
8.5
Dexter: Resurrection
as Arthur Mitchell • 1 eps
2025 Series
7.8
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
as Self • 1 eps
2025 Series
7.7
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
as Self • 3 eps
2023 Series
2.7
Sherri
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2022 Series
7.2
The Old Man
as Harold Harper • 15 eps
2022 Series
7.9
Dexter: New Blood
as Arthur Mitchell • 1 eps
2021 Series
7.2
Perry Mason
as Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan • 8 eps
2020 Series
Stars in the House
as Self - Special Guest • 1 eps
2020 Series
6.4
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
7.5
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
1 eps
2018 Series
6.8
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
as Self • 2 eps
2018 Series
7.4
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2018 Series
7.1
Trial & Error
as Larry Henderson • 13 eps
2017 Series
8.2
The Crown
as Winston Churchill • 12 eps
2016 Series
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2015 Series
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
5.3
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2015 Series
4.5
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
7.7
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as James Roosevelt (voice) • 7 eps
2014 Series
5.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self • 2 eps
2014 Series
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self • 2 eps
2014 Series
6.9
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
as The White Rabbit (voice) • 13 eps
2013 Series
6.2
Finding Your Roots
as Self • 1 eps
2012 Series
7.9
Prohibition
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice) • 3 eps
2011 Series