John Lithgow

Acting · Born 1945-10-19 in Rochester, New York, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Shrek as Lord Farquaad (voice)
• Terms of Endearment as Sam Burns
• Blow Out as Burke
• All That Jazz as Lucas Sergeant
• This Is 40 as Oliver
• Interstellar as Donald
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes as Charles Rodman
• The Accountant as Lamar Blackburn
• Miss Sloane as Senator Ronald Sperling
• Killers of the Flower Moon as Prosecutor Peter Leaward

TV

• How I Met Your Mother as Jerry Whittaker
• Tales from the Crypt as Dr. Oscar Charles
• Frasier as Madman Martinez (voice)
• Dexter as Arthur Mitchell
• Dexter: New Blood as Arthur Mitchell
• The Crown as Winston Churchill
• The Simpsons as Gus (voice)
• The Simpsons as John Lithgow (voice)
• Dexter: Resurrection as Arthur Mitchell
• 3rd Rock from the Sun as Dick Solomon