John Lithgow
John Lithgow (born October 19 1945 in Rochester, New York) is an actor best known for starring in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, about aliens who assume human form and examine humans in small-town Ohio.
He received a Tony award for his performance as J.J. Hunsecker in the musical Sweet Smell of Success, based on the film. He is currently starring on Broadway with Eileen Atkins in the new play, Retreat from Moscow.
Filmography
- 2004 Kinsey as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
- 2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- 2002 Orange County
- 2001 Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
- 2001 Shrek as Lord Farquaad (voice)
- 2000 C-Scam
- 2000 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
- 2000 Don Quixote
- 1998 Officer Buckle and Gloria | A Civil Action
- 1998 Homegrown | Johnny Skidmarks
- 1995 Hollow Point | The Tuskegee Airmen
- 1995 Redwood Curtain | My Brother's Keeper
- 1994 Silent Fall | Princess Caraboo | A Good Man in Africa
- 1993 The Pelican Brief | Love, Cheat & Steal
- 1993 The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
- 1993 The Wrong Man | Cliffhanger
- 1992 Raising Cain
- 1991 At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Ricochet
- 1991 The Boys | L.A. Story
- 1990 Memphis Belle | Ivory Hunters
- 1989 Traveling Man | Out Cold
- 1988 Distant Thunder
- 1987 Harry and the Hendersons | Baby Girl Scott
- 1986 Mesmerized | The Manhattan Project | Resting Place
- 1985 Santa Claus
- 1984 2010: Odyssey Two | The Glitter Dome
- 1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- 1984 Footloose
- 1983 Terms of Endearment | The Day After | Twilight Zone: The Movie
- 1982 Not in Front of the Children | The World According to Garp
- 1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
- 1981 Blow Out
- 1980 Big Blonde | Mom, the Wolfman and Me | The Oldest Living Graduate
- 1979 All That Jazz | Rich Kids
- 1978 The Big Fix
- 1977 Secret Service
- 1976 Obsession
- 1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
