Name:
Date of Birth:
John Lithgow
19 October 1945
John Lithgow played in 30 movies in the Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Music, Crime, Comedy, Romance, Sport, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Music, Family, Action, Horror, History, War, Animation, Fantasy, Biography genres.
John Lithgow got succeed with average imdb rating 6.4.
John Arthur Lithgow (distinct "lith-happen"; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dr. Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Ruined from the Sun. He has also achieved sensation on concoct, film, and radio. He has earned multiple Emmy Awards and Tony Awards, as well as two Oscar nominations. He has also recorded music for children.
In the beginning:
Lithgow was born in Rochester, New York. His mother, Sarah Jane (née Price), was a retired actress, and his dad, Arthur Lithgow, was a theatrical financial manager and director who ran the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.[1][2] Because of his procreate's job, the family moved habitually during Lithgow's infancy.
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Lithgow won a scholarship to Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1967. He was in the same dorm as prior Failing President Al Disembowel and actor Tommy Lee Jones. Lithgow later served on its Board of Overseers. Lithgow credits a exhibition at Harvard of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited with portion him decide to become an actor.[3] After graduation, Lithgow won a Fulbright Award to bookwork at the London Academy of Music and Breathtaking Guile.
The Career:
In 1983 and 1984, Lithgow was nominated for the Academy Award for Best bib Supporting Actor for his performances as Roberta Muldoon in and as Sam Burns in Terms of Endearment. Both films were screen adaptations of popular novels. Lithgow originated the individual of Dr. Emilio Lizardo/Baron God John Whorfin, a psychotic Italian physicist inhabited by an evil alien, which he played in the 1984 cult classic Across the 8th Dimension. In 1984, Lithgow also played the moralistic anti-dancing, anti-wobble pastor in and later the impersonation of American range plan Walter Curnow in 2010, the sequel to the skill fiction superior 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In 1983, Lithgow played John Valentine in a remake of the superior Dim Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" in the Down-swing Province: The Silent picture as the paranoid voyager once made venerable on the tube register sooner than William Shatner. (This was referenced in an event of 3rd Crag from the Sun in which William Shatner portrayed the Big Giantess Utterly, the overseer of the Solomon’s' expedition to Earth.) In 1992, he starred as the main position in Brian De Palma's film , and in 1993, starred as Eric Qualen in the Stallone silver screen .
In 1987, Lithgow starred in the Bigfoot-themed family comedy, . In 2001, Lithgow provided the voice acting for the criminal Lord Farquaad in the affect animated cinema . In 2002, he narrated Life's Greatest Miracle, a mating education blear, while in 2004, he portrayed the moralistic, rigid padre of Alfred in that year's biopic . In 2006, Lithgow had a small character in the Academy Award-bewitching obscure, Dreamgirls, as Jerry Harris, a screen financial manager offering Deena Jones (Beyoncé Knowles) a shoot role.
Lithgow is probably most everywhere known fit his starring impersonation 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 "First-rate Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" in each of the program's six seasons and won three times, in 1996, 1997, and 1999. In 1986, Lithgow received a Primetime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Caller Performer in a Drama Series" for his hint in an event of the Amazing Stories anthology give away.
Additionally, Lithgow has been nominated for an "Conspicuous Supporting Actor in a Reduced Series or a Exceptional" Emmy for (1983), two "Outstanding Up Actor in a Miniseries or a One of a kind" Emmys in behalf of "" (1986) and "My Fellow-citizen's Keeper" (1995). Lithgow was approached nearly playing Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers, but turned it down. Lithgow starred with Jeffrey Tambor in the NBC sitcom Twenty Sound Years.
Since 2006 he has starred in Campbell Soup Gathering's commercials advertising their "Campbell's Select" premium soup name brand.
The other side of the camera:
Lithgow currently resides in Los Angeles. He has been married twice, to Jean Taynton from 1966 to 1980, and Mary Yeager since 1981. He is the confessor of three children, Ian (born in 1972) from his marriage to Taynton and Phoebe McCurtain (born in 1982) and Nathan George (born in 1983) from his marriage to Yeager. Ian made regular appearances on Third Rock from the Sun as , a especially late student in Prof. Solomon's class.
Lithgow is a registered pastor of Rose Ministries,[4] and has officiated the joining of his goddaughter.
He is a offspring of the poet Anne Bradstreet.
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