
John Lithgow
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 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).
Also known as: 莊李富高, John Arthur Lithgow, 約翰.李斯高 +1 more
Filmography (31 movies)

Conclave
2024 • 2h 0m

Cabrini
2024 • 2h 22m

Spellbound
2024 • 1h 51m

Sharper
2023 • 1h 55m

Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 • 3h 26m

Daddy's Home 2
2017 • 1h 40m

The Homesman
2014 • 2h 2m

Interstellar
2014 • 2h 49m

Leap Year
2010 • 1h 40m

Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009 • 1h 44m

Orange County
2002 • 1h 22m

Shrek
2001 • 1h 30m

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000 • 1h 19m

A Civil Action
1998 • 1h 55m

Silent Fall
1994 • 1h 41m

Cliffhanger
1993 • 1h 53m

Raising Cain
1992 • 1h 32m

At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991 • 3h 9m

Ricochet
1991 • 1h 42m

Harry and the Hendersons
1987 • 1h 50m

The Manhattan Project
1986 • 1h 58m

Santa Claus: The Movie
1985 • 1h 48m

2010
1984 • 1h 56m

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984 • 1h 43m

Footloose
1984 • 1h 47m

Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 • 1h 41m

The Day After
1983 • 2h 7m

Terms of Endearment
1983 • 2h 12m

The World According to Garp
1982 • 2h 16m

Blow Out
1981 • 1h 48m

Obsession
1976 • 1h 39m










