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