John Lithgow is an American actor.
Biography[]
Born in Rochester, New York, Lithgow studied at both Harvard and the London Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his Tony and Drama Desk Award winning Broadway debut in 1973's The Changing Room. He would later branch out into films and receive a Best Supporting Actor nomination for The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment.
Whilst continuing to appear in such films as Footloose and Twilight Zone: The Movie, Lithgow also appeared in a number of television shows, most prominently as Dr. Dick Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun. He also worked as a voice actor, and played the diminutive Lord Farquaad in Shrek.
Singing[]
A veteran singer of both the stage and screen, Lithgow made his musical debut in the play Spokesong and later sang a number of times in his roles on 3rd Rock from the Sun and Dexter.
Lithgow's most prominent singing roles were on stage however, originating the roles of J.J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success and Lawrence Jamieson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Film[]
Shrek (2001)[]
- Stayin' Alive (solo)
Love is Strange (2014)[]
- (Baby) You've Got What it Takes (contains solo lines)
- Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here (duet)
Television[]
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)[]
- Danny Boy (solo)
- Oklahoma! (contains solo lines)
- I'll Be There for You
- That's Amore (contains solo lines)
- Another One Bites the Dust
- Night and Day
- We're Badgers
- How High the Moon (duet)
Dexter (2009)[]
- Are You Washed in the Blood? (solo)
How I Met Your Mother (2013)[]
- Reunited Song (Version 1)
- Reunited Song (Version 2)
Stage[]
Spokesong (1979)[]
Sweet Smell of Success (2002)(originated the role)[]
- The Column (contains solo lines)
- Welcome to the Night (contains solo lines)
- Psalm 151 (duet)
- For Susan (solo)
- Break It Up (contains solo lines)
- Don't Look Now (contains solo lines)
- End of Act II (contains solo lines)
My Fair Lady (2003)[]
- Why Can't the English? (solo)
- I'm an Ordinary Man (solo)
- The Rain in Spain (contains solo lines)
- You Did It (contains solo lines)
- A Hymn to Him (duet)
- Without You (duet)
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (solo)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2004)(originated the role)[]
- Give Them What They Want (contains solo lines)
- Oklahoma? (contains solo lines)
- All About Ruprecht (contains solo lines)
- Ruffhousin' Mit Shüffhausen (contains solo lines)
- The More We Dance (contains solo lines)
- Love Sneaks In (solo)
- The Reckoning (contains solo lines)
- Dirty Rotten Number (duet)
- Finale (contains solo lines)
Albums[]
NBC Celebrity Christmas (2001)[]
- Baby, It's Cold Outside (duet)
Gallery[]
