In 1979, Lithgow portrayed Lucas Sergeant in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical movie All That Jazz. Lithgow returned to Broadway as Joseph Alsop in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of David Auburn's new play The Columnist, with previews starting on April 4, 2012.
Lithgow starred alongside Jennifer Ehle in Douglas Carter Beane's comedy Mr & Mrs Fitch presented Off-Broadway by Second Stage Theatre from Februto April 4, 2010. In 2008 through 2009, Lithgow played Joe Keller in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. In 2007, Lithgow played Malvolio in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Twelfth Night, at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. He was also nominated for a Best Leading Actor in a Musical Tony for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In 2005, Lithgow was elected into the American Theatre Hall of Fame for his work on Broadway. Hunsecker in the Broadway adaptation of the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success. In 2002, Lithgow won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of J.J. Butterfly (directed by John Dexter, 1988). He was nominated for the Best Actor Tony Awards for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985) and M. The following year he starred opposite Lynn Redgrave in My Fat Friend, and in 1976 he starred opposite Meryl Streep in Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. In 1973, Lithgow debuted on Broadway in David Storey's The Changing Room, for which he received both the Tony and Drama Desk Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play. After graduation, Lithgow won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Lithgow credits a performance at Harvard of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited with helping him decide to become an actor. Lithgow later served on Harvard's Board of Overseers. He lived in Adams House as an undergraduate. magna cum laude in 1967, in history and literature. Lithgow attended Harvard College, and graduated with an A.B. Because of his father's job, the family moved frequently during Lithgow's childhood he spent his teenage years in Akron and Lakewood, Ohio. His mother, Sarah Jane (née Price), was a retired actress, and his father, Arthur Washington Lithgow III, from Dominican Republic was a theatrical producer and director who ran the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. He has also recorded music, such as the 1999 album of children's music, Singin' in the Bathtub, and has written poetry and short stories for children, such as Marsupial Sue. He again appeared in a musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, again receiving a Tony nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. On the stage, he appeared in the musical adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success, winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.
Lithgow is well known for his roles as the Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose, Dick Solomon on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, the voice of Lord Farquaad in Shrek, and Arthur Mitchell on Showtime's Dexter, for which he won Golden Globe and Emmy awards. He appeared in the films The World According to Garp (1982) and Terms of Endearment (1983), receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for each. He also has written and published several books of poetry and children's literature. Lithgow has been involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio. John Arthur Lithgow, born October 19, 1945, is an American actor, musician, and author.
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