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John Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, poet, author, and singer. Lithgow is best known for his work in theater, television, and film. Lithgow studied at Harvard, then on a Fulbright scholarship got a chance to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

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Filmography

Interstellar

2014
as Donald

Shrek

2001
as Lord Farquaad (voice)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011
as Charles Rodman

Pitch Perfect 3

2017
as Fergus

Pet Sematary

2019
as Jud Crandall

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023
as Prosecutor Leaward

Leap Year

2010
as Jack Brady

Bombshell

2019
as Roger Ailes

The Accountant

2016
as Lamar Black

Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009
as Edgar West

Footloose

1984
as Reverend Shaw Moore

Sharper

2023
as Richard Hobbes

Miss Sloane

2016
as Senator Ronald Sperling

This Is 40

2012
as Oliver

Late Night

2019
as Walter Newbury

Daddy's Home 2

2017
as Don Whitaker

The Pelican Brief

1993
as Smith Keen

The Ghost of Lord Farquaad

2003
as Ghost of Farquaad (voice)

Dreamgirls

2006
as Jerry Harris

The Bubble

2022
as Tom the Studio Chairman

Shrek's Thrilling Tales

2012
as Lord Farquad

Raising Cain

1992
as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

2004
as Blake Edwards

Cabrini

2024
as Mayor Gould

The Wrong Man

1993
as Phillip Mills

Timms Valley

2013
as Ol' Gregory Timms

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

2000
as Jean-Claude (voice)

Silent Fall

1994
as Dr. Rene Harlinger

Buckaroo Banzai Declassified

2002
as Himself

Spellbound

2024
as Minister Bolinar

9 Kisses

2014
as Man in Club

The Tomorrow Man

2019
as Ed Hemsler

Hollow Point

1996
as Thomas Livingston

Not in Front of the Children

1982
as Richard Carruthers

Obsession

1976
as Robert Lasalle

Harry and the Hendersons

1987
as George Henderson

The Homesman

2014
as Reverend Dowd

Baby Girl Scott

1987
as Neil Scott

The Campaign

2012
as Glen Motch

Santa Claus: The Movie

1985
as B.Z.

Memphis Belle

1990
as Lt.Col. Bruce Derringer

A Good Man in Africa

1994
as Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner

The Tuskegee Airmen

1995
as Senator Conyers

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

1982
as Mr. Brunner

Distant Thunder

1988
as Mark Lambert

Johnny Skidmarks

1998
as Sergeant Larry Skovik

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

2001
as Lord Farquaad (singing voice)

The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest

2014
as Maurice (voice)

On Broadway

2019
as John Lithgow

The Glitter Dome

1984
as Sgt. Marty Wellborn

The Big Fix

1978
as Sam Sebastian

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

2007

Projections of America

2014
as Narrator

Car of the Future

2008
as Self - Narrator

Love, Cheat & Steal

1993
as Paul Harrington

Terms of Endearment

1983
as Sam Burns

Creating a Fairy Tale World: The Making of Shrek

2001
as John Lithgow

95 Worlds and Counting

2000
as Narrator

The Amazing Bone

1985
as Narrator

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

1984
as John Lithgow

E=mc² – Einstein's Big Idea

2005
as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition

The Manhattan Project

1986
as John Mathewson

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

2013
as Himself

Resting Place

1986
as Maj. Kendall Laird

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

1993
as Narrator

The World According to Garp

1982
as Roberta Muldoon

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983
as John Valentine (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")

2010: The Year We Make Contact

1984
as Dr. Walter Curnow

Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie

1985
as John Lithgow

Blow Out

1981
as Burke

Princess Caraboo

1994
as Professor Wilkinson

Homegrown

1998
as Malcolm / Robert Stockman

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like

2018
as Himself

Secret Service

1977
as Capt. Thorne

Conclave

2024
as Joseph Cardinal Tremblay

Redwood Curtain

1995
as Laird Riordan

The Day After

1983
as Joe Huxley

Best of Enemies

2015
as Himself

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

1984
as Lord John Whorfin

Big Blonde

1980
as Herbie Morse

Rich Kids

1979
as Paul Philips

Traveling Man

1989
as Ben Cluett

Mesmerized

1985
as Oliver Thompson

Cliffhanger

1993
as Eric Qualen

Ricochet

1991
as Earl Talbott Blake

Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

1972
as John

A Civil Action

1998
as Judge Walter J. Skinner

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

2011
as John Lithgow

Love Is Strange

2014
as Ben

The Oldest Living Graduate

1980
as Clarence

Kinsey

2004
as Alfred Seguine Kinsey

All That Jazz

1979
as Lucas Sergeant

The Real Revolutionaries

2012
as William Shockley

Orange County

2002
as Bud Brumder

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

1991
as Leslie Huben

Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

1996
as Narrator

National Theatre Live: The Magistrate

2013
as Posket

Don Quixote

2000
as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano

Out Cold

1989
as Dave

Ivory Hunters

1990
as Robert Carter

Beatriz at Dinner

2017
as Doug Strutt