John Lithgow

John Lithgow

Birthday: 1945-10-19

Place of birth: Rochester, New York, USA

Also known as: 莊李富高, John Arthur Lithgow, 約翰.李斯高, جان لیتگو

imdb_id: nm0001475

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.

Played in movies:

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Score: 10.0

Broadway: The Next Generation

Score: 10.0

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

Score: 9.0

On Broadway

Score: 8.7

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

Score: 8.7

Interstellar

Score: 8.5

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

Score: 8.4

Shrek Stories

Score: 8.1

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

Score: 7.9

Cabrini

Score: 7.9

Shrek

Score: 7.8

The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts

Score: 7.6

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

Score: 7.6

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

Score: 7.5

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Score: 7.5

All That Jazz

Score: 7.5

Killers of the Flower Moon

Score: 7.4

Miss Sloane

Score: 7.4

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

Score: 7.4

Blow Out

Score: 7.4

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Score: 7.3

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Score: 7.2

Einstein's Big Idea

Score: 7.2

Conclave

Score: 7.2

Best of Enemies

Score: 7.2

Terms of Endearment

Score: 7.1

The Accountant

Score: 7.1

Casting By

Score: 7.1

The Tuskegee Airmen

Score: 7.1

Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman

Score: 7.0

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Score: 7.0

Inside 'Interstellar'

Score: 6.9

Sharper

Score: 6.9

Leap Year

Score: 6.9

Bombshell

Score: 6.8

The Day After

Score: 6.7

Dreamgirls

Score: 6.7

Memphis Belle

Score: 6.7

Spellbound

Score: 6.7

The World According to Garp

Score: 6.7

Footloose

Score: 6.7

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Score: 6.6

2010

Score: 6.6

Kinsey

Score: 6.6

The Pelican Brief

Score: 6.6

Obsession

Score: 6.6

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Score: 6.6

The Homesman

Score: 6.5

Pitch Perfect 3

Score: 6.5

The Rule of Jenny Pen

Score: 6.5

Cliffhanger

Score: 6.5

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Score: 6.5

A Civil Action

Score: 6.5

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Score: 6.5

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

Score: 6.4

Late Night

Score: 6.4

Love Is Strange

Score: 6.4

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Score: 6.4

Daddy's Home 2

Score: 6.3

Santa Claus: The Movie

Score: 6.3

The Manhattan Project

Score: 6.3

Timms Valley

Score: 6.2

9 Kisses

Score: 6.2

Resting Place

Score: 6.2

Don Quixote

Score: 6.1

Raising Cain

Score: 6.1

Ricochet

Score: 6.1

Harry and the Hendersons

Score: 6.1

Orange County

Score: 6.0

The Macabre World of Lavender Williams

Score: 6.0

Not in Front of the Children

Score: 6.0

The Pulitzer At 100

Score: 6.0

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

Score: 6.0

National Theatre Live: The Magistrate

Score: 6.0

Baby Girl Scott

Score: 6.0

Redwood Curtain

Score: 6.0

Car of the Future

Score: 6.0

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Score: 6.0

The Ghost of Lord Farquaad

Score: 6.0

Out Cold

Score: 5.9

New Year's Eve

Score: 5.9

This Is 40

Score: 5.9

The Campaign

Score: 5.8

Beatriz at Dinner

Score: 5.8

Johnny Skidmarks

Score: 5.8

Pet Sematary

Score: 5.7

The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest

Score: 5.7

The Tomorrow Man

Score: 5.7

The Big Fix

Score: 5.7

Distant Thunder

Score: 5.6

Homegrown

Score: 5.6

Princess Caraboo

Score: 5.4

Hollow Point

Score: 5.2

Silent Fall

Score: 5.2

Dogs and More Dogs

Score: 5.2

A Good Man in Africa

Score: 5.2

John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert

Score: 5.0

Big Blonde

Score: 5.0

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

Score: 5.0

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Score: 5.0

Projections of America

Score: 5.0

Rich Kids

Score: 5.0

Mesmerized

Score: 5.0

The Wrong Man

Score: 4.8

Love, Cheat & Steal

Score: 4.7

The Bubble

Score: 4.6

The Glitter Dome

Score: 4.5

Ivory Hunters

Score: 4.2

Night of 100 Stars III

Score: 4.0

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

Score: 4.0

Traveling Man

Score: 3.3

My Brother's Keeper

Score: 1.0

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

Score: 0.0

Show of Titles

Score: 0.0

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

Score: 0.0

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

Score: 0.0

The Country Girl

Score: 0.0

Myths and Hymns

Score: 0.0

American Cinema

Score: 0.0

The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale

Score: 0.0

Mom, the Wolfman and Me

Score: 0.0

The Boys

Score: 0.0

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

Score: 0.0

Hickory Dickory Doc

Score: 0.0

The Amazing Bone

Score: 0.0

The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge

Score: 0.0

Secret Service

Score: 0.0

Amazing Stories: The Movie II

Score: 0.0

Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Score: 0.0

Jimpa

Score: 0.0

The Oldest Living Graduate

Score: 0.0

Lord John

Score: 0.0

Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn

Score: 0.0

Art Happens Here with John Lithgow

Score: 0.0

Sangre

Score: 0.0

Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

Score: 0.0

95 Worlds and Counting

Score: 0.0

Chez Bob

Score: 0.0

They All Saw a Cat

Score: 0.0

Bark, George

Score: 0.0

Give My Regards to Broadway

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

VH1 Goes Inside

Score: 10.0

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Twenty Good Years

Score: 8.5

The West

Score: 8.4

The West

Score: 8.4

The Crown

Score: 8.2

Dexter

Score: 8.2

How I Met Your Mother

Score: 8.1

Faerie Tale Theatre

Score: 8.1

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

Score: 8.0

American Cinema

Score: 8.0

Tales from the Crypt

Score: 8.0

Dexter: New Blood

Score: 8.0

Prohibition

Score: 7.9

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

Score: 7.9

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

Score: 7.7

Frasier

Score: 7.7

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Score: 7.5

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Score: 7.5

3rd Rock from the Sun

Score: 7.5

Amazing Stories

Score: 7.4

30 Rock

Score: 7.4

Perry Mason

Score: 7.3

Trial & Error

Score: 7.3

The Old Man

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Score: 7.1

Conan

Score: 7.1

NOVA

Score: 7.0

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Score: 6.9

Saturday Night Live

Score: 6.9

The Oscars

Score: 6.9

The Colbert Report

Score: 6.8

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 6.8

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 6.8

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 6.8

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

Score: 6.8

World War II: When Lions Roared

Score: 6.7

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Score: 6.4

Ultra City Smiths

Score: 6.4

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.4

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.4

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.4

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

Finding Your Roots

Score: 6.2

The Tony Danza Show

Score: 6.1

Cosby

Score: 5.9

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.8

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.8

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Score: 5.7

The Early Show

Score: 5.7

Today

Score: 5.6

Great Performances

Score: 5.6

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6

The One Show

Score: 4.5

The View

Score: 4.5

The View

Score: 4.5

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 4.4

Sherri

Score: 4.2

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Score: 3.5

E! Live from the Red Carpet

Score: 3.2

Harry Potter

Score: 0.0

Stars in the House

Score: 0.0

The Apprentice: Martha Stewart

Score: 0.0