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