John Lithgow

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Oct 19, 1945 (79 years old)

John Lithgow

Known For

The Rule of Jenny Pen
1h 44m
Movie 2025

The Rule of Jenny Pen

Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.

Jimpa
2h 3m
Movie 2025

Jimpa

Hannah takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim — lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances’ desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
TV Show 2025

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

This docuseries explores the iconic Saturday Night Live, showcasing the audition process, writing, infamous sketches, and the pivotal 11th season that cemented the show's DNA under Lorne Michaels' leadership.

Spellbound
1h 51m
Movie 2024

Spellbound

When a powerful spell turns her parents into giant monsters, a teenage princess must journey into the wild to reverse the curse before it's too late.

Conclave
2h 0m
Movie 2024

Conclave

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.

Cabrini
2h 22m
Movie 2024

Cabrini

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
1h 28m
Movie 2023

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

CBS presents DICK VAN DYKE 98 YEARS OF MAGIC, an unforgettable special celebrating the legendary career of the iconic entertainer for his 98th birthday.

Killers of the Flower Moon
3h 26m
Movie 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

Sharper
1h 55m
Movie 2023

Sharper

A small, wealthy family in New York City gets progressively torn apart by secrets, lies, and the theft that orchestrates all of it.

Chez Bob
0h 9m
Movie 2022

Chez Bob

Bob the alligator has an ingenious idea to attract birds for his dinner. He creates a restaurant on his nose, and the birds come from all over. But when the time is right, will Bob make the right choice?

Biography

John Arthur Lithgow (/ˈlɪθɡoʊ/ LITH-goh; 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Lithgow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

2025
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
Jimpa
2025
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2024
Spellbound
2024
Conclave
2024
Cabrini
2023
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
Sharper
2022
Chez Bob
2022
The Old Man
2022
The Bubble
2021
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021
Show of Titles
2021
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
2021
Myths and Hymns
2020
Give My Regards to Broadway
2019
Bombshell
2019
On Broadway
2019
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019
The Tomorrow Man
2019
Late Night
2018
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2017
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
Daddy's Home 2
2017
The Pulitzer At 100
2017
Beatriz at Dinner
2017
Hickory Dickory Doc
2017
They All Saw a Cat
2016
Miss Sloane
2016
The Accountant
2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
2015
Best of Enemies
2015
Lord John
2015
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015
Projections of America
2014
9 Kisses
2014
Interstellar
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
The Homesman
2013
Timms Valley
2013
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2012
This Is 40
2012
The Campaign
2011
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011
Prohibition
2010
Leap Year
2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2006
Twenty Good Years
1996
The West
1994
World War II: When Lions Roared
1994
American Cinema
1993
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
1993
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
The Pelican Brief
1993
The Wrong Man
1993
Cliffhanger
1992
Raising Cain
1991
Ricochet
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
1989
Traveling Man
1987
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
The Amazing Bone
1986
Resting Place
1985
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
1985
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