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John Lithgow

Highest Rated:: 100% The Day After (1983)
Lowest Rated:: 11% A Good Man in Africa (1993)

Birthday:: Oct 19, 1945
Birthplace:: Rochester, New York, USA
Bio:: A distinguished actor of stage, television, and movies who is at home playing everything from menacing villains, big-hearted transsexuals, and loopy aliens, John Lithgow is also a composer and performer of children's songs, a Harvard graduate, a talented painter, and a devoted husband and father: in…

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Highest Rated Movies

The Day After
100%
Blow Out
90%
Kinsey
90%
Shrek 2
89%

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 11% - 100%

Number of Movies: 88

Box Office Since 2001: $1571.9M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2013		The Jungle Bunch: The Movie	Maurice	--
2013		National Theatre Live: The Magistrate, Encore	Actor	--
2012		Casting By	Actor	--
2012	52%	This is 40	Oliver	$67.5M
2012		National Theater Live: The Magistrate	Actor	--
2012		Mapping Errors	Lord Farquaad	--
2012	65%	The Campaign	Glen Motch	$86.9M
2011	82%	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	Charles Rodman	$176.7M
2010	21%	Leap Year	Jack	$25.9M
2010	57%	Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4)	Actor	$238.3M
2009	25%	Confessions of a Shopaholic	Edgar West	$44.2M
2009		Strega Nona ... and More Stories About Magic	Actor	--
2007		Nova - Car of the Future	Narrator	--
2006	78%	Dreamgirls	Jerry Harris	$103.3M
2005		Bark, George... and More Doggie Tails	Actor	--
2005		Sylvester and the Magic Pebble ... and More Magical Tales	Actor	--
2005		The Emperor's New Clothes ... and More Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales	Actor	--
2004	89%	Shrek 2	Lord Farquaad	$436.5M
2004	75%	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Blake Edwards	--
2004	90%	Kinsey	Alfred Seguine Kinsey	$10.2M
2003		Harry the Dirty Dog...and More Playful Puppy Stories	Actor	--
2003		Shrek 4-D (Shrek 3-D)	Actor	--
2002		Secret Service	Actor	--
2002	46%	Orange County	Bud Brumder	$41.0M
2001		Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party	Actor	--
2001	89%	Shrek	Lord Farquaad	$267.0M
2001		Nova - Life's Greatest Miracle	Narrator	--
2001		Creating a Fairy Tale World: The Making of Shrek	Actor	--
2000	75%	Rugrats in Paris - The Movie	Jean-Claude	$74.2M
2000		Don Quixote	Don Quixote	--
1998	47%	Homegrown	Malcolm	--
1998		Johnny Skidmarks	Sgt. Larry Skovik	--
1998	60%	A Civil Action	Judge Skinner	--
1996		Special Effects	Narrator	--
1996		Hollow Point	Thomas Livingston	--
1995		Redwood Curtain	Laird Riordan	--
1995		My Brother's Keeper	Actor	--
1995	83%	The Tuskegee Airmen	Senator Conyers	--
1994	60%	Princess Caraboo	Professor Wilkinson	--
1994		World War II - When Lions Roared	Actor	--
1994	24%	Silent Fall	Dr. Harlinger	--
1994		World War II	Actor	--
1994		Love, Cheat and Steal	Paul Harrington	--
1993		The Wrong Man	Phillip Mills	--
1993		Babysongs Presents - John Lithgow's Kid-Size Concert	Actor	--
1993	52%	The Pelican Brief	Smith Keen	--
1993	65%	Indian Summer	Actor	--
1993	11%	A Good Man in Africa	Arthur Fanshawe	--
1993	82%	Cliffhanger	Eric Qualen	--
1993		Country Mouse & the City Mouse, The: A Christmas Tale	Actor	--
1992	52%	Raising Cain	Carter	--
1992		Baby Girl Scott	Actor	--
1992		Amazing Bone and Other Stories	Actor	--
1991		Dr. Seuss - Yertle the Turtle	Narrator	--
1991	73%	Ricochet	Earl Talbot Blake	--
1991	50%	At Play in the Fields of the Lord	Leslie Huben	--
1990	75%	Memphis Belle	Col. Bruce Derringer	--
1990		Ivory Hunters	Actor	--
1989		Traveling Man	Ben Cluett	--
1989		Mesmerized	Actor	--
1989		Out Cold	Dave Geary	--
1988	50%	Distant Thunder	Mark Lambert	--
1987	44%	Harry and the Hendersons	George Henderson	--
1987		Baby Girl Scott	Neil Scott	--
1986		Resting Place	Major Kendall Laird	--
1986		Mesmerized (My Letter to George) (Shocked)	Oliver Thompson	--
1986	47%	The Manhattan Project	John Mathewson	--
1985	18%	Santa Claus - The Movie	B.Z.	--
1984	66%	2010: The Year We Make Contact	Walter Curnow	--
1984		Glitter Dome	Marty	--
1984	54%	Footloose	Rev. Shaw Moore	--
1984	71%	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	Dr. Emilio Lizardo	--
1983	68%	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Valentine	--
1983	87%	Terms of Endearment	Sam Burns	--
1983	100%	The Day After	Joe Huxley	--
1982		I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can	Mr. Brunner	--
1982	79%	The World According to Garp	Roberta Muldoon	--
1981	90%	Blow Out	Burke	--
1980		Big Blonde	Actor	--
1980		Oldest Living Graduate	Actor	--
1979	87%	All That Jazz	Lucas Sergeant	--
1979		Rich Kids	Paul Philips	--
1978		The Big Fix	Sam Sebastian	--
1977		Secret Service	Actor	--
1976		Pete's a Pizza	Actor	--
1976	79%	Obsession	Robert La Salle	--
1972		Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues	John	--
		This Is 40 (Unrated)	Actor	--

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Quotes from John Lithgow's Characters

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1. Senator Conyers: As God is my witness, those boys will never see combat.
From The Tuskegee Airmen. Submitted by Frances H (58 days ago)

1. Eric Qualen: I must say, you're a real piece of work.
2. Gabe Walker: I must say, you're a real piece of shit.
From Cliffhanger. Submitted by russell b (5 months ago)