John Lithgow

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John Lithgow

John Lithgow AKA John Arthur Lithgow

Born: 19-Oct-1945
Birthplace: Rochester, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: TV sitcom star in Third Rock From The Sun

Movie actor, also Third Rock From the Sun TV sitcom.

Father: Arthur Lithgow (theater producer and director, b. 1915, d. 2004)
Mother: Sarah Jane Price (actress, b. 1917)
Wife: Jean Thaynton (m. 10-Sep-1966, div. 1980, one son)
Son: Ian Lithgow (actor, b. 1972)
Wife: Mary Yeager (m. 1981, one son, one daughter)
Son: Nathan George
Daughter: Phoebe (b. 1982)

High School: Princeton High School, Princeton, NJ
University: BA History and Literature, Harvard University (1967, magna cum laude)

Obama for America
Fulbright
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6666 Hollywood Blvd (television)

TELEVISION
Third Rock from the Sun

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Dreamgirls (15-Dec-2006)
Kinsey (12-Nov-2004)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (21-May-2004)
Orange County (7-Jan-2002)
Shrek (22-Apr-2001) [VOICE]
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (5-Nov-2000) [VOICE]
Don Quixote (9-Apr-2000)
A Civil Action (25-Dec-1998)
Homegrown (17-Apr-1998)
Johnny Skidmarks (18-Jan-1998)
Hollow Point (14-Aug-1996)
The Tuskegee Airmen (26-Aug-1995)
Redwood Curtain (23-Apr-1995)
Silent Fall (28-Oct-1994)
Princess Caraboo (16-Sep-1994)
A Good Man in Africa (14-Jul-1994)
The Pelican Brief (17-Dec-1993)
Love, Cheat & Steal (5-Dec-1993)
The Wrong Man (5-Sep-1993)
Cliffhanger (28-May-1993)
Raising Cain (7-Aug-1992)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (6-Dec-1991)
Ricochet (04-Oct-1991)
Memphis Belle (7-Sep-1990)
Out Cold (3-Mar-1989)
Distant Thunder (11-Nov-1988)
Harry and the Hendersons (5-Jun-1987)
The Manhattan Project (13-Jun-1986)
Mesmerized (1986)
Santa Claus (29-Nov-1985)
2010 (7-Dec-1984)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (15-Aug-1984)
Footloose (17-Feb-1984)
Terms of Endearment (23-Nov-1983)
The Day After (20-Nov-1983)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (24-Jun-1983)
The World According to Garp (23-Jul-1982)
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (5-Mar-1982)
Blow Out (24-Jul-1981)
The Oldest Living Graduate (7-Apr-1980)
All That Jazz (1979)
The Big Fix (6-Oct-1978)
Obsession (01-Aug-1976)

Author of books:
A Lithgow Palooza, 101 Ways to Entertain and Inspire Your Kids (6-Apr-2004)

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