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John Lithgow
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 d…
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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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2026
Harry Potter
TV show Albus Dumbledore
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2026
Giant
Movie Roald Dahl
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2026
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
Movie Self
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2026
Jimpa
Movie Jimpa
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2025
Dexter: Resurrection
TV show Arthur Mitchell
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2025
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Movie Dave Crealy
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2025
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
TV show Self
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2024
Spellbound
Movie Bolinar (voice)
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2024
Conclave
Movie Tremblay
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2024
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
Movie Self
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2024
Cabrini
Movie Mayor Gould
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2023
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Movie Self
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2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
Movie Prosecutor Peter Leaward
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2023
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
TV show Self
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2023
Sharper
Movie Richard Hobbes
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2022
Chez Bob
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
The Old Man
TV show Harold Harper
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2022
The Bubble
Movie Tom the Studio Chairman
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2021
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Movie Philip Drummond
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2021
Dexter: New Blood
TV show Arthur Mitchell
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2021
Show of Titles
Movie "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
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2021
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
Movie Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
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2021
Myths and Hymns
Movie
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2020
Give My Regards to Broadway
Movie Self
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2020
Perry Mason
TV show Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
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2020
Stars in the House
TV show Self - Special Guest
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2019
Bombshell
Movie Roger Ailes
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2019
On Broadway
Movie Self
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
Movie President Donald J. Trump
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2019
The Tomorrow Man
Movie Ed Hemsler
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2019
Pet Sematary
Movie Jud Crandall
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2019
Late Night
Movie Walter Lovell
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2018
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
Movie Jud Crandall
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2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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2018
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
TV show Self
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2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
TV show Self - Guest
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2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Movie Self
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2017
Pitch Perfect 3
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