John Lithgow

John Lithgow

acting Oct 19, 1945 80 years Rochester, New York, USA

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2 nominations

142 of 143 films rated

IMDb avg 6.6
IMDb median 6.5
RT avg 63%
RT median 68%

highest rated

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  1. Broadway: The Next Generation → Self
  2. Sequestered - Inside Conclave → Self
  3. 99 Nights in the Forest → Pelt Trader
  4. Harry Potter (TV) → Albus Dumbledore
  5. Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic → Self
  6. Jimpa → Jimpa
  7. Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic (TV) → Himself
  8. Dexter: Resurrection (TV) → Arthur Mitchell
  9. SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night (TV) → Self
  10. The Rule of Jenny Pen → Dave Crealy
  11. Conclave → Tremblay
  12. Spellbound → Bolinar (voice)
  13. Cabrini → Mayor Gould
  14. Art Happens Here with John Lithgow → Self
  15. Killers of the Flower Moon → Prosecutor Peter Leaward
  16. Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled (TV) → Self
  17. Sharper → Richard Hobbes
  18. Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic → Self
  19. Sherri (TV) → Self - Guest
  20. The Old Man (TV) → Harold Harper
  21. The Bubble → Tom the Studio Chairman
  22. Chez Bob
  23. Dexter: New Blood (TV) → Arthur Mitchell
  24. Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes → Philip Drummond
  25. Show of Titles → "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
  26. Myths and Hymns
  27. Emily @ the Edge of Chaos → Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
  28. Perry Mason (TV) → Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
  29. Stars in the House (TV) → Self - Special Guest
  30. Give My Regards to Broadway → Self
  31. The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV) → Self
  32. Bombshell → Roger Ailes
  33. Pet Sematary → Jud Crandall
  34. Late Night → Walter Lovell
  35. The Tomorrow Man → Ed Hemsler
  36. On Broadway → Self
  37. The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts → President Donald J. Trump
  38. Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (TV)
  39. The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer (TV) → Self - Guest
  40. James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (TV) → Self
  41. Mister Rogers: It's You I Like → Self
  42. Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman → Jud Crandall
  43. Trial & Error (TV) → Larry Henderson
  44. Pitch Perfect 3 → Fergus
  45. Daddy's Home 2 → Don
  46. Beatriz at Dinner → Doug Strutt
  47. The Pulitzer At 100 → Self
  48. They All Saw a Cat
  49. Hickory Dickory Doc → Himself
  50. The Crown (TV) → Winston Churchill
  51. The Accountant → Lamar Blackburn
  52. Miss Sloane → Senator Ronald Sperling
  53. Shakespeare Live! From the RSC → Self - Performer
  54. Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 → Narrator
  55. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV) → Self - Guest
  56. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV)
  57. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV) → Self
  58. The Late Late Show with James Corden (TV) → Self - Guest
  59. Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (TV) → Self
  60. Inside 'Interstellar' → Self
  61. Best of Enemies → Voice of Gore Vidal
  62. Lord John
  63. Projections of America → Self - Narrator (voice)
  64. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV) → Self
  65. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV) → Self - Guest
  66. Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV) → Self
  67. Interstellar → Donald
  68. Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (TV) → Self
  69. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (TV) → James Roosevelt (voice)
  70. The Homesman → Reverend Alfred Dowd
  71. Love Is Strange → Ben
  72. The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest → Maurice (voice)
  73. 9 Kisses → Man in Club
  74. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (TV) → The White Rabbit (voice)
  75. Timms Valley → Ol' Gregory Timms
  76. Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love → Self
  77. Shrek Stories → Lord Farquaad (voice)
  78. National Theatre Live: The Magistrate → Posket
  79. Finding Your Roots (TV) → Self
  80. This Is 40 → Oliver
  81. The Campaign → Glen Motch
  82. Casting By → Self
  83. Rise of the Planet of the Apes → Charles Rodman
  84. Prohibition (TV) → Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
  85. New Year's Eve → Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
  86. Shrek: Once Upon a Time → Self
  87. Conan (TV) → Self
  88. Leap Year → Jack Brady
  89. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (TV) → Self - Guest
  90. Confessions of a Shopaholic → Edgar West
  91. The Macabre World of Lavender Williams → God
  92. Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn → Narrator
  93. Car of the Future → Narrator
  94. The Graham Norton Show (TV) → Self
  95. ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway → Self
  96. Dexter (TV) → Arthur Mitchell
  97. 30 Rock (TV) → John Lithgow
  98. The One Show (TV) → Self
  99. Twenty Good Years (TV) → John Mason
  100. Dreamgirls → Jerry Harris
  101. The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays → René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
  102. Sangre → Cafe chef and owner
  103. The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge → Narrator
  104. How I Met Your Mother (TV) → Jerry Whittaker
  105. The Colbert Report (TV)
  106. The Apprentice: Martha Stewart (TV)
  107. Einstein's Big Idea → Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
  108. The Tony Danza Show (TV) → Self
  109. Shrek 3-D → Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
  110. Kinsey → Alfred Seguine Kinsey
  111. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers → Blake Edwards
  112. Dogs and More Dogs → Narrator
  113. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV) → Self - Guest
  114. VH1 Goes Inside (TV)
  115. DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection (TV) → Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
  116. Bark, George
  117. Live from E! (TV) → Self
  118. Orange County → Bud Brumder
  119. Buckaroo Banzai Declassified → Self
  120. Shrek → Lord Farquaad (voice)
  121. Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party → Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
  122. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie → Jean-Claude (voice)
  123. Don Quixote → Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
  124. 95 Worlds and Counting → Narrator
  125. The Early Show (TV) → Self
  126. Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection → Dr. Oscar Charles
  127. A Civil Action → Judge Walter J. Skinner
  128. Homegrown → Malcolm / Robert Stockman
  129. Johnny Skidmarks → Sergeant Larry Skovik
  130. The View (TV) → Self
  131. The View (TV) → Self - Guest
  132. Officer Buckle and Gloria → Narrator (voice)
  133. The Daily Show (TV) → Self
  134. 3rd Rock from the Sun (TV) → Dick Solomon
  135. Cosby (TV) → John Lithgow
  136. The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV) → Self - Guest
  137. The West (TV) → Self
  138. The West (TV) → Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
  139. Hollow Point → Thomas Livingston
  140. Special Effects: Anything Can Happen → Narrator
  141. The Tuskegee Airmen → Senator Conyers
  142. Redwood Curtain → Laird Riordan
  143. My Brother's Keeper → Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
  144. American Cinema (TV) → Self - Host
  145. World War II: When Lions Roared (TV) → Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  146. Silent Fall → Dr. Rene Harlinger
  147. Princess Caraboo → Professor Wilkinson
  148. A Good Man in Africa → Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
  149. Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects → Self
  150. Frasier (TV) → Madman Martinez (voice)
  151. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV) → Self - Guest
  152. Cliffhanger → Qualen
  153. The Pelican Brief → Smith Keen
  154. Love, Cheat & Steal → Paul Harrington
  155. The Wrong Man → Phillip Mills
  156. The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale → Alexander (voice)
  157. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble → Narrator
  158. Raising Cain → Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
  159. Ricochet → Earl Talbott Blake
  160. The Boys → Artie Margulies
  161. At Play in the Fields of the Lord → Leslie Huben
  162. Memphis Belle → Bruce Derringer
  163. Night of 100 Stars III → Self
  164. Ivory Hunters → Robert Carter
  165. Amazing Stories: The Movie II → John Walters (archive footage)
  166. John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
  167. The Simpsons (TV) → Gus (voice)
  168. The Simpsons (TV) → John Lithgow (voice)
  169. Tales from the Crypt (TV) → Dr. Oscar Charles
  170. Out Cold → Dave
  171. Traveling Man → Ben Cluett
  172. Distant Thunder → Mark Lambert
  173. Harry and the Hendersons → George Henderson
  174. Baby Girl Scott → Neil Scott
  175. The Amazing Bone → Narrator
  176. The Manhattan Project → John Mathewson
  177. Resting Place → Maj. Kendall Laird
  178. Amazing Stories (TV) → John Walters
  179. Santa Claus: The Movie → B.Z.
  180. Mesmerized → Oliver Thompson
  181. Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie → Self
  182. Footloose → Rev. Shaw Moore
  183. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension → Lord John Whorfin
  184. 2010 → Dr. Walter Curnow
  185. Goldilocks and the Three Bears → Goldilocks' Father
  186. The Glitter Dome → Sgt. Marty Wellborn
  187. 2010 : The Odyssey Continues → Himself
  188. Twilight Zone: The Movie → Valentine
  189. Terms of Endearment → Sam Burns
  190. The Day After → Joe Huxley
  191. Faerie Tale Theatre (TV) → Goldilocks' Father
  192. The World According to Garp → Roberta Muldoon
  193. I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can → Mr. Brunner
  194. Not in Front of the Children → Richard Carruthers
  195. Blow Out → Burke
  196. The Oldest Living Graduate → Clarence
  197. Big Blonde → Herbie Morse
  198. Mom, the Wolfman and Me → Wally
  199. All That Jazz → Lucas Sergeant
  200. Rich Kids → Paul Philips
  201. The Big Fix → Sam Sebastian
  202. Secret Service → Capt. Thorne
  203. Obsession → Robert Lasalle
  204. Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Host
  205. NOVA (TV) → Narrator
  206. The Country Girl → Paul Unger
  207. Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues → John
  208. Great Performances (TV) → Capt. Thorne
  209. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self
  210. Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Winner
  211. Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee
  212. Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
  213. Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee / Performer
  214. The Oscars (TV) → Self - Presenter
  215. Today (TV) → Self
  216. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Paul Unger
  217. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Major Kendall Laird
  218. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Laird Riordan
  219. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee
  220. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
  221. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Winner

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