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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…

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 11% - 100%
Number of Movies: 79
Box Office Since 2001: $1417.5M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Rivals
  • Actor
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2011 83% Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  • Charles Rodman
$176.7M
2010 21% Leap Year
  • Jack
$25.9M
2010 58% 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
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2006 78% Dreamgirls
  • Jerry Harris
$103.3M
2005 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble ... and More Magical Tales
  • Actor
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2005 The Emperor's New Clothes ... and More Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
  • Actor
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2005 Bark, George... and More Doggie Tails
  • Actor
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2004 90% Kinsey
  • Alfred Seguine Kinsey
$10.2M
2004 75% The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  • Blake Edwards
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2004 89% Shrek 2
  • Lord Farquaad
$436.5M
2003 Harry the Dirty Dog...and More Playful Puppy Stories
  • Actor
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2003 Shrek 4-D (Shrek 3-D)
  • Actor
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2002 Secret Service
  • Actor
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2002 46% Orange County
  • Bud Brumder
$41.0M
2002 Secret Service
  • Actor
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2001 Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
  • Actor
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2001 89% Shrek
  • Lord Farquaad
$267.0M
2001 Creating a Fairy Tale World: The Making of Shrek
  • Actor
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2000 Don Quixote
  • Don Quixote
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2000 75% Rugrats in Paris - The Movie
  • Jean-Claude
$74.2M
1998 47% Homegrown
  • Malcolm
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1998 Johnny Skidmarks
  • Sgt. Larry Skovik
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1998 60% A Civil Action
  • Judge Skinner
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1996 Hollow Point
  • Thomas Livingston
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1996 Special Effects
  • Narrator
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1995 Redwood Curtain
  • Laird Riordan
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1995 My Brother's Keeper
  • Actor
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1995 83% The Tuskegee Airmen
  • Senator Conyers
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1994 World War II
  • Actor
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1994 World War II - When Lions Roared
  • Actor
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1994 60% Princess Caraboo
  • Professor Wilkinson
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1994 24% Silent Fall
  • Dr. Harlinger
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1994 Love, Cheat and Steal
  • Paul Harrington
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1993 52% The Pelican Brief
  • Smith Keen
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1993 11% A Good Man in Africa
  • Arthur Fanshawe
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1993 82% Cliffhanger
  • Eric Qualen
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1993 65% Indian Summer
  • Actor
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1993 Country Mouse & the City Mouse, The: A Christmas Tale
  • Actor
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1993 The Wrong Man
  • Phillip Mills
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1993 Babysongs Presents - John Lithgow's Kid-Size Concert
  • Actor
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1992 55% Raising Cain
  • Carter
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1992 Baby Girl Scott
  • Actor
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1992 Amazing Bone and Other Stories
  • Actor
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1991 50% At Play in the Fields of the Lord
  • Leslie Huben
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1991 73% Ricochet
  • Earl Talbot Blake
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1990 75% Memphis Belle
  • Col. Bruce Derringer
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1990 Ivory Hunters
  • Actor
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1989 Mesmerized
  • Actor
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1989 Out Cold
  • Dave Geary
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1989 Traveling Man
  • Ben Cluett
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1988 50% Distant Thunder
  • Mark Lambert
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1987 Baby Girl Scott
  • Neil Scott
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1987 44% Harry and the Hendersons
  • George Henderson
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1986 Mesmerized (My Letter to George) (Shocked)
  • Oliver Thompson
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1986 47% The Manhattan Project
  • John Mathewson
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1986 Resting Place
  • Major Kendall Laird
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1985 18% Santa Claus - The Movie
  • B.Z.
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1984 57% Footloose
  • Rev. Shaw Moore
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1984 71% The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • Dr. Emilio Lizardo
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1984 63% 2010: The Year We Make Contact
  • Walter Curnow
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1984 Glitter Dome
  • Marty
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1983 100% The Day After
  • Joe Huxley
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1983 67% Twilight Zone: The Movie
  • Valentine
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1983 89% Terms of Endearment
  • Sam Burns
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1982 I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can
  • Mr. Brunner
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1982 79% The World According to Garp
  • Roberta Muldoon
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1981 90% Blow Out
  • Burke
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1980 Big Blonde
  • Actor
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1979 Rich Kids
  • Paul Philips
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1979 87% All That Jazz
  • Lucas Sergeant
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1978 The Big Fix
  • Sam Sebastian
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1976 79% Obsession
  • Actor
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1976 Pete's a Pizza
  • Actor
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1976 Obsession: Revisited
  • Robert La Salle
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1972 Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
  • John
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1961 Stars You Love - Sophia Loren and Jodie Foster
  • Actor
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Quotes from John Lithgow's Characters

    1. Don Quixote: Your life may change, Sancho.
    From Don Quixote. Submitted by Steve W (4 months ago)
    1. Joe Huxley: This is Lawrence. This is Lawrence Kansas, is anybody there, anybody at all?
    From The Day After. Submitted by Jerry T (10 months ago)
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