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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| 1 | The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025) | Dave Crealy | - | - |
| 2 | Spellbound (2024) | Bolinar (voice) | 7 | |
| 3 | Conclave (2024) | Tremblay | 7.3 | |
| 4 | Cabrini (2024) | Mayor Gould | 8 | |
| 5 | Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Most waited movies 2023 and after | Prosecutor Peter Leaward | 7.8 | |
| 6 | Sharper (2023) | Richard Hobbes | 6.7 | |
| 7 | The Bubble (2022) | Tom the Studio Chairman | 5.4 | |
| 8 | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes (2021) | Philip Drummond | - | - |
| 9 | Late Night (2019) | Walter Lovell | 7.1 | |
| 10 | The Tomorrow Man (2019) | Ed Hemsler | - | - |
| 11 | Bombshell (2019) | Roger Ailes | 6.7 | |
| 12 | Pet Sematary (2019) | Jud Crandall | 6.3 | |
| 13 | Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman (2018) | Jud Crandall | 3 | |
| 14 | Beatriz at Dinner (2017) | Doug Strutt | 6.4 | |
| 15 | Pitch Perfect 3 (2017) | Fergus | 6.8 | |
| 16 | Daddy's Home 2 (2017) | Don | 6.6 | |
| 17 | Miss Sloane (2016) | Senator Ronald Sperling | 7.7 | |
| 18 | The Accountant (2016) | Lamar Blackburn | 7.5 | |
| 19 | Best of Enemies (2015) | Voice of Gore Vidal | - | - |
| 20 | The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest (2014) | Maurice (voice) | - | - |
| 21 | Interstellar (2014) Top 100 by FilmGator | Donald | 8.5 | |
| 22 | 9 Kisses (2014) | Man in Club | - | - |
| 23 | Love Is Strange (2014) | Ben | 5.4 | |
| 24 | The Homesman (2014) | Reverend Alfred Dowd | 6.1 | |
| 25 | Shrek Stories (2013) | Lord Farquaad (voice) | 7 | |
| 26 | The Campaign (2012) | Glen Motch | 6.7 | |
| 27 | Casting By (2012) | Self | - | - |
| 28 | This Is 40 (2012) | Oliver | 6.6 | |
| 29 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Oscars 2012 | Charles Rodman | 7.5 | |
| 30 | New Year's Eve (2011) | Jonathan Cox (uncredited) | 5.9 | |
| 31 | Leap Year (2010) | Jack Brady | 6.8 | |
| 32 | Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) | Edgar West | 5.9 | |
| 33 | Dreamgirls (2006) Oscars 2007 | Jerry Harris | 7 | |
| 34 | Shrek 3-D (2004) | Ghost of Farquaad (voice) | 6.2 | |
| 35 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) | Blake Edwards | 7 | |
| 36 | Kinsey (2004) Oscars 2005 | Alfred Seguine Kinsey | 5.3 | |
| 37 | Buckaroo Banzai Declassified (2002) | Self | 7 | |
| 38 | Orange County (2002) | Bud Brumder | 6.7 | |
| 39 | Shrek (2001) Oscars 2002 | Lord Farquaad (voice) | 7.9 | |
| 40 | Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party (2001) | Lord Farquaad (singing voice) | 6 | |
| 41 | Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) | Jean-Claude (voice) | 6 | |
| 42 | Don Quixote (2000) | Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano | 4 | |
| 43 | Homegrown (1998) | Malcolm / Robert Stockman | - | - |
| 44 | A Civil Action (1998) Oscars 1999 | Judge Walter J. Skinner | 5.5 | |
| 45 | Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (1996) | Narrator | - | - |
| 46 | Hollow Point (1996) | Thomas Livingston | - | - |
| 47 | The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) | Senator Conyers | 7 | |
| 48 | Silent Fall (1994) | Dr. Rene Harlinger | 8 | |
| 49 | Cliffhanger (1993) | Qualen | 6.2 | |
| 50 | The Pelican Brief (1993) | Smith Keen | 6.9 | |
| 51 | Love, Cheat & Steal (1993) | Paul Harrington | - | - |
| 52 | Raising Cain (1992) | Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo | 7 | |
| 53 | Ricochet (1991) | Earl Talbott Blake | 7.5 | |
| 54 | Memphis Belle (1990) | Bruce Derringer | 6.7 | |
| 55 | Out Cold (1989) | Dave | - | - |
| 56 | Harry and the Hendersons (1987) | George Henderson | 6.2 | |
| 57 | The Manhattan Project (1986) | John Mathewson | - | - |
| 58 | Mesmerized (1985) | Oliver Thompson | 5 | |
| 59 | Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) | B.Z. | 7 | |
| 60 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) | Lord John Whorfin | 6.4 | |
| 61 | Footloose (1984) | Rev. Shaw Moore | 7.1 | |
| 62 | Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1984) | Goldilocks' Father | - | - |
| 63 | 2010 (1984) | Dr. Walter Curnow | 7 | |
| 64 | The Day After (1983) | Joe Huxley | 7 | |
| 65 | Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) | Valentine | 7.1 | |
| 66 | Terms of Endearment (1983) | Sam Burns | 7.7 | |
| 67 | The World According to Garp (1982) | Roberta Muldoon | 7.3 | |
| 68 | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982) | Mr. Brunner | - | - |
| 69 | Blow Out (1981) | Burke | 7 | |
| 70 | All That Jazz (1979) | Lucas Sergeant | 7 | |
| 71 | Rich Kids (1979) | Paul Philips | - | - |
| 72 | Obsession (1976) | Robert Lasalle | 7 |
