John Lithgow is known for his role as Dick Solomon on the NBC TV sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun (1996-2001)".

He played Arthur Mitchell (2009) on the Showtime TV show "Dexter (2006-2013)" and Professor Larry Henderson on the NBC TV sitcom "Trial & Error (2017-)".

Some other TV shows he appeared on are "Great Performances", "Faerie Tale Theatre", "Amazing Stories", "Tales from the Crypt ", "Frasier", "Cosby", "Twenty Good Years", "30 Rock", "The Colbert Report", "How I Met Your Mother", "Drunk History", "Louie" and "The Crown".

He played Roberta Muldoon in the movie "The World According to Garp (1982)", Sam Burns in "Terms of Endearment (1983)", Reverend Shaw Moore in "Footloose (1984)", B.Z. in "Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)", John Mathewson in "The Manhattan Project (1986)", George Henderson in "Harry and the Hendersons (1987)", Earl Talbot Blake in "Ricochet (1991)", Eric Qualen in "Cliffhanger (1993)", Smith Keen in "The Pelican Brief (1993)", Blake Edwards in "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)", Jerry Harris in "Dreamgirls (2006)", Charles Rodman in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)" and Donald in "Interstellar (2014)".

Some other movies he appeared in are "Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)", "The Country Girl (1974)", "Obsession (1976)", "The Big Fix (1978)", "Rich Kids (1979)", "All That Jazz (1979)", "The Oldest Living Graduate (1980)", "Big Blonde (1980)", "Blow Out (1981)", "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)", "Not in Front of the Children (1982)", "Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)", "The Day After (1983)", "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)", "The Glitter Dome (1984)", "2010 (1984)", "Mesmerized (1985)", "Baby Girl Scott (1987)", "Distant Thunder (1988)", "Out Cold (1989)", "Traveling Man (1989)", "Ivory Hunters (1990)", "Memphis Belle (1990)", "The Boys (1991)", "At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)", "Raising Cain (1992)", "The Wrong Man (1993)", "Love, Cheat & Steal (1993)", "World War II: When Lions Roared (1994)", "A Good Man in Africa (1994)", "Princess Caraboo (1994)", "Silent Fall (1994)", "My Brother's Keeper (1995)", "Redwood Curtain (1995)", "The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)", "Hollow Point (1996)", "Johnny Skidmarks (1998)", "Homegrown (1998)", "A Civil Action (1998)", "Don Quixote (2000)", "Orange County (2002)", "Kinsey (2004)", "Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)", "Leap Year (2010)", "New Year's Eve (2011)", "The Campaign (2012)", "This Is 40 (2012)", "Love Is Strange (2014)", "The Homesman (2014)", "The Accountant (2016)", "Miss Sloane (2016)" and "Beatriz at Dinner (2017)".

He was the voice of Lord Farquaad in the "Shrek" movies.

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