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John Lithgow
Lithgow in 2007
Born
John Arthur Lithgow

(1945-10-19) October 19, 1945 (age 78)
Alma materHarvard College
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation(s)Actor, musician, poet, author
Years active1972–present
Spouse(s)Jean Taynton (1966–1980)
Mary Yeager (1981–present)
ChildrenIan Lithgow
Phoebe Lithgow
Nathan Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow (/ˈlɪθɡ/ LITH-goh; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, musician, and author. Lithgow has received acclaim and many accolades in his career including two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and was also nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards.[1][2] Lithgow was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and American Theater Hall of Fame.

Lithgow is well known for his television roles as Dick Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun and Arthur Mitchell in Dexter as well as for his roles in films Obsession, Blow Out, The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Footloose, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Harry and the Hendersons, Raising Cain, Cliffhanger, The Pelican Brief, Shrek, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Kinsey, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Homesman, Love is Strange and Interstellar.

On the stage, he appeared in many Broadway productions including the musical adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In 2007, he made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Malvolio in Neil Bartlett's production of Twelfth Night. He has also recorded music, such as the 1999 album of children's music, Singin' in the Bathtub, and has written poetry and short stories, such as Marsupial Sue, for children. His work for children earned him Grammy Award nominations and two Parents' Choice Silver Honor Awards.

Early life

Lithgow was born in Rochester, New York. His mother, Sarah Jane (née Price), was a retired actress. His father, Arthur Washington Lithgow III, was a theatrical producer and director who ran the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.[3][4] Because of his father's job, the family moved frequently during Lithgow's childhood; he spent his teenage years in Akron (living at Stan Hywet Hall[5]) and Lakewood, Ohio.[6]

Lithgow attended Harvard College, and graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in 1967, in history and literature. He lived in Adams House as an undergraduate. Lithgow later served on Harvard's Board of Overseers. Lithgow credits a performance at Harvard of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited with helping him decide to become an actor.[7] After graduation, Lithgow won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Also, after graduation, he served as the Director of the Arts and Literature Department at WBAI, the Pacifica radio station in New York City.

Stage career

In 1973, Lithgow debuted on Broadway in David Storey's The Changing Room, for which he received both the Tony and Drama Desk Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play. The following year he starred opposite Lynn Redgrave in My Fat Friend, and in 1976 he starred opposite Meryl Streep in Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. He was nominated for the Best Actor Tony Awards for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985) and M. Butterfly (directed by John Dexter, 1988).

In 2002, Lithgow won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of J.J. Hunsecker in the Broadway adaptation of the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success. In 2005, Lithgow was elected into the American Theater Hall of Fame for his work on Broadway.[8] He was also nominated for a Best Leading Actor in a Musical Tony for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

In 2004 and 2007, Lithgow debuted Carnival of the Animals' elephant character — nurse Mabel Buntz — with the New York City Ballet and Houston Ballet, respectively.[9]

In 2007, Lithgow played Malvolio in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Twelfth Night, at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.[10]

In 2008 through 2009, Lithgow played Joe Keller in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons.[11]

Lithgow starred alongside Jennifer Ehle in Douglas Carter Beane's comedy Mr & Mrs Fitch presented Off-Broadway by Second Stage Theatre from February 22, 2010 to April 4, 2010.[12]

Lithgow returned to Broadway as Joseph Alsop in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of David Auburn's new play The Columnist, with previews starting on April 4, 2012.[13]

The National Theatre tempted Lithgow to appear on the London stage in the winter of 2012/13 as Police Magistrate Aeneas Posket in a revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Magistrate.

It was announced in February 2014 that he would return to Central Park's Delacorte Theater and Shakespeare in the Park for the 2014 summer season in the title role of Shakespeare's King Lear directed by Tony Award Winner Daniel Sullivan. The production was the play's first there since 1973 and Lithgow's first time there since 1975, when he had played Laertes.[14]

In Fall 2014, Lithgow returns to Broadway as Tobias in a revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance. He stars opposite Glenn Close, Martha Plimpton, Lindsay Duncan, Bob Balaban and Clare Higgins. Tony winner Pam MacKinnon directs the limited 18-week production running at the Golden Theatre.[15]

Film career

In 1979, Lithgow portrayed Lucas Sergeant in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical movie All That Jazz. The character was loosely based on the real-life director/choreographer Michael Bennett, best known for his work on Dreamgirls and A Chorus Line.

In 1983 and 1984, Lithgow was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances as Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp and as Sam Burns in Terms of Endearment. Both films were screen adaptations of popular novels. Lithgow originated the character of Dr. Emilio Lizardo/Lord John Whorfin, an Italian physicist inhabited by an evil alien, which he played in the 1984 cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. In 1984, Lithgow also played a pastor who condemns dancing in Footloose. He later played the role of American space engineer Walter Curnow in 2010, the sequel to the science fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

John Lithgow on the red carpet at the 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on August 28, 1988.

In 1983, Lithgow appeared in a remake of the classic Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" in Twilight Zone: The Movie as the paranoid passenger made famous on the television show by William Shatner. In an interview with Bill Moyers Lithgow reveals this role as his favorite of his film career.[16] In 1991, he starred in the movie Ricochet opposite Denzel Washington as Earl Talbot Blake, a criminal seeking revenge against the policeman who sent him to prison. In 1992, he starred as a man with multiple personality disorder in Brian De Palma's film Raising Cain and the narrator in Doctor Seuss Video Classics: Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, and in 1993, starred as the villainous Eric Qualen in the Sylvester Stallone movie Cliffhanger.

In 1987, Lithgow starred in the Bigfoot-themed family comedy Harry and the Hendersons. In 2002, he narrated Life's Greatest Miracle, a documentary about human embryonic development, while in 2004, he portrayed the moralistic, rigid father of Alfred Kinsey in that year's biopic Kinsey. In 2006, Lithgow had a small role in the Academy Award-winning film Dreamgirls, as Jerry Harris, a film producer offering Deena Jones (Beyoncé Knowles) a film role.[17] He starred in a lead role in the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes.[18]

As a voice actor, Lithgow voiced the evil Lord Farquaad in the Shrek movie franchise who also appears in Shrek, Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party, Shrek 4-D which was originally Shrek 3-D and used as an amusement park attraction and Shrek the Third. He also was in Confessions of a Shopaholic as Edgar West.

Television career

In terms of his television career, Lithgow is probably most widely known for his starring role as Dick Solomon in the 1996–2001 NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in each of the program's six seasons and won three times, in 1996, 1997, and 1999. His son Ian regularly appeared alongside him as Leon, one of his physics students.

In 1986, Lithgow received a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series for his appearance in the episode The Doll of the Amazing Stories anthology series.

Additionally, Lithgow has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for The Day After (1983), and two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for Resting Place (1986) and My Brother's Keeper (1995). Lithgow was approached about playing Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers, but turned it down. Lithgow starred with Jeffrey Tambor in the NBC sitcom Twenty Good Years.

Since 2006 he has starred in Campbell Soup Company's commercials advertising their Campbell's Select premium soup brand.

On March 5, 2009, Lithgow made a cameo on NBC's 30 Rock, in the episode "Goodbye, My Friend," with several references to his role in Harry and the Hendersons.

In September 2009, Lithgow joined the cast of Dexter as Arthur Mitchell, a serial killer and Dexter Morgan's nemesis.[19] He won a Golden Globe Award for this role,[20] and won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series.[21]

He guest starred on How I Met Your Mother in the role of Barney Stinson's father, Jerry.[22] John briefly portrayed The White Rabbit in the now cancelled ABC TV series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.

Children's entertainment

Lithgow reading a book to children in 2007

Lithgow has done extensive work for children, including several books and albums. Some of his book titles are Marsupial Sue, Marsupial Sue Presents "The Runaway Pancake," Lithgow Party Paloozas!: 52 Unexpected Ways to Make a Birthday, Holiday, or Any Day a Celebration for Kids, Carnival of the Animals, A Lithgow Palooza: 101 Ways to Entertain and Inspire Your Kids, I'm a Manatee, Micawber, The Remarkable Farkle McBride, Mahalia Mouse Goes to College and I Got Two Dogs. He also appeared as a guest on the Canadian children's program, Ants in Your Pants.

Lithgow launched into a career as a recording artist with the 1999 album of children's music, Singin' in the Bathtub. In June 2002, Lithgow released his second children's album Farkle and Friends. It was the musical companion to his book The Remarkable Farkle McBride, which tells the story of a young musical genius. Farkle and Friends features the vocal talents of Lithgow and Bebe Neuwirth backed by the Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra. In August 2006, Lithgow released The Sunny Side of the Street, his third children's album and first with Razor & Tie. This album features versions of classic songs from The Great American Songbook including “Getting to Know You” and “Ya Gotta Have Pep”. Produced by JC Hopkins, the album features guest appearances by Madeleine Peyroux, Wayne Knight, Sherie Rene Scott and Maude Maggart. Lithgow also makes occasional appearances on stage and television singing children's songs and accompanying himself on guitar.

Podcasts

On October 1, 2010, Lithgow appeared on Doug Benson's podcast Doug Loves Movies, along with fellow guests Paul F. Tompkins and Jimmy Pardo. He has also appeared on Chris Hardwick's show The Nerdist Podcast.

Other appearances

Lithgow voiced the character of Yoda in the National Public Radio adaptations of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He provided narration for the IMAX film Special Effects: Anything Can Happen. He hosts Paloozaville, a children's Video on Demand program on Mag Rack based on his best-selling children's books. He appeared in the most recent Campbell's SelectSoups commercials, portraying a restaurant waiter serving "customers" in their own household. He often delivers commencement addresses at American universities. Lithgow also appears in Books By You, a children's computer game, and guides them through the steps to finish a pre-designed book.[23]

In 2005, Lithgow became the first actor ever to deliver a commencement speech at Harvard University[24] and received an honorary Doctor of Arts from his alma mater.[25][26][27] He was featured at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 4–6, 2009 for performances of Mozart's Requiem with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He narrated some letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, some poems, and sections from the Book of Revelation in certain parts of the performance.[28]

In 2011, he performed a dramatic reading of a Newt Gingrich press release on The Colbert Report[29] and made a call to Colbert's annual Atone Phone "by mistake."[30] He also voiced a South Carolina TV ad for Colbert Super PAC humorously attacking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.[31]

In September 2011, Lithgow was featured in a one-night only production of Dustin Lance Black's play, 8 — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Attorney Theodore Olson to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.[32]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues John
1974 The Country Girl Paul Unger Television film
1976 Obsession Robert Laselle
1978 The Big Fix Sam Sebastian
1979 All That Jazz Lucas Sargent
Rich Kids Paul Phillips
1980 The Oldest Living Graduate Clarence Television film
Mom, the Wolfman and Me Wally
Big Blonde Herbie Morse
1981 Blow Out Burke
1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can Mr. Brunner
Not in Front of the Children Richard Carruthers Television film
The World According to Garp Roberta Muldoon
1983 Terms of Endearment Sam Burns
The Day After Joe Huxley Television film
Twilight Zone: The Movie John Valentine Segment: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
1984 Footloose Reverend Shaw Moore
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Dr. Emilio Lizardo / Lord John Whorfin
2010: The Year We Make Contact Dr. Walter Curnow
The Glitter Dome Marty Wellborn Television film
1985 Santa Claus: The Movie B.Z.
1986 Mesmerized Unknown
The Manhattan Project John Mathewson
Resting Place Kendall Laird Television film
1987 Harry and the Hendersons George Henderson
Baby Girl Scott Neil Scott Television film
1988 Distant Thunder Mark Lambert
1989 Traveling Man Ben Cluett Television film
Out Cold Dave
1990 Memphis Belle Bruce Derringer
Ivory Hunters Robert Carter Television film
1991 L.A. Story Harry Zell Scenes deleted
The Boys Artie Marguiles Television film
At Play in the Fields of the Lord Leslie Huben
Ricochet Earl Talbot Blake
1992 Raising Cain Dr. Carter Nix
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories Narrator
1993 The Wrong Man Phillip Mills
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse Alexander
The Pelican Brief Smith Keen
Love, Cheat & Steal Paul Harrington
Cliffhanger Eric Qualen
1994 World War II: When Lions Roared Franklin Delano Roosevelt Television film
Silent Fall Dr. Rene Harlinger
Princess Caraboo Professor Wilkinson
A Good Man in Africa Arthur Fanshawe
1995 Redwood Curtain Laird Television film
My Brother's Keeper Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
The Tuskegee Airmen Senator Conyers
1996 Hollow Point Thomas Livingston
1998 Homegrown Robert Stockman
Johnny Skidmarks Larry Skovik
Officer Buckle and Gloria Narrator
A Civil Action Judge Walter Skinner
2000 Don Quixote Don Quixote de la Mancha/Alonso Quijano Television film
Also executive producer
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie Jean-Claude Voice
2001 Shrek Lord Farquaad
2002 Orange County Bud Brumder
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Blake Edwards
Kinsey Alfred Seguine Kinsey
2006 Dreamgirls Jerry Harris
2007 Shrek the Third Lord Farquaad Voice
2009 Confessions of a Shopaholic Edgar West
2010 Leap Year Jack Brady
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Charles Rodman
New Year's Eve Jonathan Cox Uncredited
2012 The Campaign Glenn Motch
The Jungle Bunch Maurice Direct-to-DVD, voice
This Is 40 Oliver
2014 Love Is Strange Ben
The Homesman Reverend Dowd
Interstellar Donald
2015 The Good Dinosaur Poppa Voice, filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1977 Great Performances Capt. Thorne Episode: "Secret Service"
1984 Faerie Tale Theatre Goldilocks' father Episode: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
1986 Amazing Stories John Walters Episode: "The Doll"
1995 Tales from the Crypt Dr. Oscar Charles Episode: "You, Murderer"
1995 Frasier Madman Martinez Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Me"
1996–2001 3rd Rock from the Sun Dr. Dick Solomon 139 episodes
1999 Cosby Himself Episode: "Superstar"
2003 Freedom: A History of Us Various roles 4 episodes
2004 My Life, Inc. Jan van de Bunt Voice
Pilot
2005 Nova Narrator Voice
Episode: " E=mc²: Einstein's Big Idea"
2006–2008 Twenty Good Years John Mason 13 episodes
2009 Dexter Arthur Mitchell 12 episodes
2009 The National Parks: America's Best Idea Himself 2 episodes
2009 30 Rock Himself Episode: "Goodbye, My Friend"
2011–2014 How I Met Your Mother Jerry Whitaker 4 episodes
2011 Prohibition HL Mencken 3 episodes
2013 Timms Valley Ol' Gregory Timms Voice
Pilot
2013–2014 Once Upon a Time in Wonderland Percy the White Rabbit Voice
9 episodes
2014 Drunk History William Randolph Hearst and George Washington (Benedict Arnold) Episode: "Hollywood" and "Philadelphia"

Stage

Discography

Bibliography

Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Nominated work Result
1973 Tony Award Best Featured Actor in a Play The Changing Room Won
1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actor The World According to Garp Won
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Supporting Actor Won
1983 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actor Terms of Endearment Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Twilight Zone: The Movie Nominated
1984 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor Terms of Endearment Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie The Day After Nominated
Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actor Twilight Zone: The Movie Won
1985 Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actor The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Across the 8th Dimension
Nominated
Tony Award Best Actor in a Play Requiem for a Heavyweight Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Play Won
1986 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Amazing Stories Won
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Resting Place Nominated
1988 Tony Award Best Actor in a Play M. Butterfly Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Play Nominated
1993 Saturn Awards Best Actor Raising Cain Nominated
1994 Razzie Awards Worst Supporting Actor Cliffhanger Nominated
1995 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie My Brother's Keeper Nominated
1996 People's Choice Awards Favorite Male Television Performer 3rd Rock from the Sun Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Won
Viewers for Quality Television Best Actor in a Quality Comedy Series Nominated
1997 American Comedy Awards Funniest Male Performer in a Television Series Won
Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Won
People's Choice Awards Favorite Male Television Performer Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Won
Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Won
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Won
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated
Television Critics Association Awards Individual Achievement in Comedy Nominated
Viewers for Quality Television Best Actor in a Quality Comedy Series Nominated
1998 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Nominated
People's Choice Awards Favorite Male Television Performer Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Won
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated
Viewers for Quality Television Best Actor in a Quality Comedy Series Nominated
1999 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Nominated
People's Choice Awards Favorite Male Television Performer Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Won
Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated
Viewers for Quality Television Best Actor in a Quality Comedy Series Nominated
2000 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated
2001 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film Don Quixote Nominated
2002 Tony Award Best Actor in a Musical Sweet Smell of Success Won
2005 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Nominated
2009 Satellite Awards Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Dexter Won
2010 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Won
Monte-Carlo Television Festival Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series Won
Saturn Awards Best Guest Starring Role on Television Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated
Television Critics Association Awards Individual Achievement in Drama Nominated
2015 Independent Spirit Awards Best Male Lead Love is Strange Pending

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