John Lithgow
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
The Simpsons
Gus (voice)
Filmography
Jimpa
2026
as Jimpa
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
2026
as Self
Giant
2026
as Roald Dahl
Harry Potter
2026
as Albus Dumbledore
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
as Dave Crealy
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
as Arthur Mitchell
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
as Self
Cabrini
2024
as Mayor Gould
Spellbound
2024
as Bolinar (voice)
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
2024
as Self
Conclave
2024
as Tremblay
Sharper
2023
as Richard Hobbes
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
as Self
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023
as Self
Chez Bob
2022
The Bubble
2022
as Tom the Studio Chairman
The Sherri Shepherd Show
2022
as Self - Guest
The Old Man
2022
as Harold Harper
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021
as Philip Drummond
Myths and Hymns
2021
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
2021
as Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Show of Titles
2021
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Dexter: New Blood
2021
as Arthur Mitchell
Give My Regards to Broadway
2020
as Self
Perry Mason
2020
as Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
Stars in the House
2020
as Self - Special Guest
Late Night
2019
as Walter Lovell
Pet Sematary
2019
as Jud Crandall
Bombshell
2019
as Roger Ailes
The Tomorrow Man
2019
as Ed Hemsler
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019
as President Donald J. Trump
On Broadway
2019
as Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
as Self
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
2018
as Jud Crandall
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018
as Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
They All Saw a Cat
2017
Beatriz at Dinner
2017
as Doug Strutt
Daddy's Home 2
2017
as Don
The Pulitzer At 100
2017
as Self
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
as Fergus
Hickory Dickory Doc
2017
as Himself
Trial & Error
2017
as Larry Henderson
The Accountant
2016
as Lamar Blackburn
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
2016
as Narrator
Miss Sloane
2016
as Senator Ronald Sperling
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
The Crown
2016
as Winston Churchill
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015
as Self
Projections of America
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Lord John
2015
Best of Enemies
2015
as Voice of Gore Vidal
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self - Guest
Interstellar
2014
as Donald
Love Is Strange
2014
as Ben
The Homesman
2014
as Reverend Alfred Dowd
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
2014
as Maurice (voice)
9 Kisses
2014
as Man in Club
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
as James Roosevelt (voice)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013
as Self
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
2013
as Posket
Shrek Stories
2013
as Lord Farquaad (voice)
Timms Valley
2013
as Ol' Gregory Timms
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013
as The White Rabbit (voice)
Casting By
2012
as Self
The Campaign
2012
as Glen Motch
This Is 40
2012
as Oliver
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as Charles Rodman
New Year's Eve
2011
as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011
as Self
Prohibition
2011
as Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
Leap Year
2010
as Jack Brady
Conan
2010
as Self
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
as Edgar West
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
2009
as Narrator
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
2009
as God
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
Car of the Future
2008
as Narrator
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Sangre
2006
as Cafe chef and owner
Dreamgirls
2006
as Jerry Harris
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
2006
as Narrator
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
Twenty Good Years
2006
as John Mason
30 Rock
2006
as John Lithgow
Dexter
2006
as Arthur Mitchell
The One Show
2006
as Self
Einstein's Big Idea
2005
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
How I Met Your Mother
2005
as Jerry Whittaker
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
2005
The Colbert Report
2005
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
as Blake Edwards
Kinsey
2004
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
Shrek 3-D
2004
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Dogs and More Dogs
2004
as Narrator
Footloose: A Modern Musical
2004
as Self
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self
Bark, George
2003
VH1 Goes Inside
2003
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
2003
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
Orange County
2002
as Bud Brumder
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
2002
as Self
Live from E!
2002
as Self
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)
95 Worlds and Counting
2000
as Narrator
Don Quixote
2000
as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
1999
as Dr. Oscar Charles
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
as (archive footage)
The Early Show
1999
as Self
A Civil Action
1998
as Judge Walter J. Skinner
Homegrown
1998
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman
Johnny Skidmarks
1998
as Sergeant Larry Skovik
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1997
as Narrator (voice)
The View
1997
as Self
The View
1997
as Self - Guest
Hollow Point
1996
as Thomas Livingston
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
1996
as Narrator
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
as Dick Solomon
Cosby
1996
as John Lithgow
The West
1996
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
The West
1996
as Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
as Senator Conyers
Redwood Curtain
1995
as Laird Riordan
My Brother's Keeper
1995
as Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
A Good Man in Africa
1994
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
Princess Caraboo
1994
as Professor Wilkinson
Silent Fall
1994
as Dr. Rene Harlinger
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
as Self
American Cinema
1994
as Self - Host
World War II: When Lions Roared
1994
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Pelican Brief
1993
as Smith Keen
Cliffhanger
1993
as Qualen
The Wrong Man
1993
as Phillip Mills
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
as Paul Harrington
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1993
as Narrator
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
1993
as Alexander (voice)
Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger
1993
as Self
Frasier
1993
as Madman Martinez (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Raising Cain
1992
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
Ricochet
1991
as Earl Talbott Blake
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991
as Leslie Huben
The Boys
1991
as Artie Margulies
Memphis Belle
1990
as Bruce Derringer
Ivory Hunters
1990
as Robert Carter
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
1990
as John Walters
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
1990
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
1990
as Self
Out Cold
1989
as Dave
Traveling Man
1989
as Ben Cluett
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Dr. Oscar Charles
The Simpsons
1989
as Gus (voice)
The Simpsons
1989
as John Lithgow (voice)
Distant Thunder
1988
as Mark Lambert
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
as George Henderson
Baby Girl Scott
1987
as Neil Scott
The Amazing Bone
1987
as Narrator
The Manhattan Project
1986
as John Mathewson
Resting Place
1986
as Maj. Kendall Laird
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985
as B.Z.
Mesmerized
1985
as Oliver Thompson
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
1985
as Self
Amazing Stories
1985
as John Walters
Footloose
1984
as Rev. Shaw Moore
2010
1984
as Dr. Walter Curnow
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
as Lord John Whorfin
The Glitter Dome
1984
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1984
as Goldilocks' Father
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984
as Himself
Terms of Endearment
1983
as Sam Burns
The Day After
1983
as Joe Huxley
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
as Valentine
The World According to Garp
1982
as Roberta Muldoon
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
as Mr. Brunner
Not in Front of the Children
1982
as Richard Carruthers
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Goldilocks' Father
Blow Out
1981
as Burke
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
as Clarence
Big Blonde
1980
as Herbie Morse
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
1980
as Wally
All That Jazz
1979
as Lucas Sergeant
Rich Kids
1979
as Paul Philips
The Big Fix
1978
as Sam Sebastian
Secret Service
1977
as Capt. Thorne
Obsession
1976
as Robert Lasalle
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
The Country Girl
1974
as Paul Unger
NOVA
1974
as Narrator
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972
as John
Great Performances
1971
as Capt. Thorne
Film '72
1971
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee / Performer
The Oscars
1953
as Self - Presenter
Today
1952
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Paul Unger
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Major Kendall Laird
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Laird Riordan
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Winner