John Lithgow
Known for: Acting
Born: October 19, 1945
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 Manhattan Project
1986
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
Bark, George
2003
Raising Cain
1992
Dogs and More Dogs
2004
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1997
They All Saw a Cat
2017
Resting Place
1986
Mesmerized
1985
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
Projections of America
2015
Out Cold
1989
Chez Bob
2022
95 Worlds and Counting
2000
Don Quixote
2000
Baby Girl Scott
1987
Love Is Strange
2014
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
1996
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
2013
My Brother's Keeper
1995
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
Ivory Hunters
1990
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
2024
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
2009
Lord John
2015
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
2016
Traveling Man
1989
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
2006
The Amazing Bone
1987
Hickory Dickory Doc
2017
The Tomorrow Man
2019
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1993
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
1990
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
2018
Giant
2026
2010
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
Ricochet
1991
Cliffhanger
1993
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991
Hollow Point
1996
Distant Thunder
1988
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
2014
Beatriz at Dinner
2017
Secret Service
1977
The Boys
1991
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
1993
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
2021
Stallone on the Edge: The Making of Cliffhanger
Footloose
1984
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Obsession
1976
Blow Out
1981
A Good Man in Africa
1994
The Wrong Man
1993
Silent Fall
1994
This Is 40
2012
Car of the Future
2008
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972
Sangre
2006
Johnny Skidmarks
1998
The Glitter Dome
1984
Jimpa
2026
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
1990
Pet Sematary
2019
Not in Front of the Children
1982
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2019
Conclave
2024
Shrek
2001
The World According to Garp
1982
Leap Year
2010
Shrek 3-D
2004
The Big Fix
1978
Rich Kids
1979
Cabrini
2024
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
Best of Enemies
2015
Daddy's Home 2
2017
The Pulitzer At 100
2017
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
2018
Bombshell
2019
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
1985
The Country Girl
1974
Sharper
2023
The Day After
1983
Give My Regards to Broadway
2020
Princess Caraboo
1994
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000
Redwood Curtain
1995
Orange County
2002
Shrek Stories
2013
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
2009
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
2026
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
Terms of Endearment
1983
Kinsey
2004
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1984
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
A Civil Action
1998
Homegrown
1998
The Campaign
2012
The Accountant
2016
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
2002
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
1980
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
The Homesman
2014
On Broadway
2019
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Footloose: A Modern Musical
2004
Interstellar
2014
Spellbound
2024
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
2001
Late Night
2019
The Pelican Brief
1993
Timms Valley
2013
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011
Big Blonde
1980
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2013
Memphis Belle
1990
Miss Sloane
2016
Myths and Hymns
2021
Dreamgirls
2006
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
1999
9 Kisses
2014
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years
1990
Einstein's Big Idea
2005
All That Jazz
1979
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
The Bubble
2022
Inside 'Interstellar'
2015
Broadway: The Next Generation
Show of Titles
2021
Casting By
2012
New Year's Eve
2011
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
How I Met Your Mother
2005
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Twenty Good Years
2006
Today
1952
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The View
1997
Frasier
1993
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
2005
The Early Show
1999
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
30 Rock
2006
The Colbert Report
2005
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Cosby
1996
VH1 Goes Inside
2003
The West
1996
American Cinema
1994
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
2013
Dexter
2006
Live from E!
2002
NOVA
1974
The Daily Show
1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Amazing Stories
1985
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Saturday Night Live
1975
Dexter: New Blood
2021
The Crown
2016
World War II: When Lions Roared
1994
Trial & Error
2017
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
The Simpsons
1989
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Sherri
2022
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Perry Mason
2020
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Stars in the House
2020
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Prohibition
2011
Great Performances
1971
The Old Man
2022
Conan
2010
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Harry Potter
2026
The Oscars
1953
The One Show
2006
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection
2003
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Tony Awards
1956
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic
2026
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Film '72
1971