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John Arthur Lithgow Wiki Biography

• John Arthur Lithgow was born in Rochester, New York State, USA, on 19 October 1945. 
• He is an actor, author, singer, and musician, best known for his different roles in TV shows such as Dexter. 
• In several movies, including “Shrek”, “Love is Strange”, “Interstellar” and “Footloose,” he has also appeared. 
• All his efforts have led to bringing his net worth where it is today. 
• Sources report a net value of $45 million as of mid-2016, largely earned through a prosperous career as an actor. 
• He has won several awards, including two Golden Globes, five Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and two Guild Awards for Screen Actors. 
• He is also very famous on stage, apart from his films, and all of these have ensured the current status of his wealth. 
• With his mother being a former actress and his father being a McCarter Theatre producer/director, Lithgow had parents who were very familiar with the industry. 
• During his childhood, they moved a lot, but he would later attend Harvard College, from where he graduated as a magna cum laude in 1967 with a degree in history and literature. 
• Lithgow has had several well-known television appearances in all of his productions and films. 
• One of his most memorable appearances was as the character Dick Solomon in “3rd Rock From the Sun”, winning three Primetime Emmy Awards during the broadcast. 
• He also did advertisements for the Campbell Soup Company, and made a cameo on “30 Rock”. 
• He won a Golden Globe Award for his role in “Dexter” as the serial killer Arthur Mitchell and he also made a guest appearance as Barney Stinson’s father in “How I Met Your Mother.“ 
• John has also been active in other projects, such as podcasts, books for children, and albums. 
• He’s heard on the radio as well, performing productions like dramatic readings. 
• It is known that John married Jean Taynton in 1966 for his own personal life and the marriage lasted until 1980. 
• He married Mary Yeager the next year. 
• He has three children, one of whom is Ian Lithgow who made regular appearances on “3rd Rock from the Sun”. 
• IMDB Wikipedia “Dexter” (2006-2013) “All My Sons” “Interstellar” “Love is Strange” “My Fat Friend” “The Changing Room” “The Changing Room” “Shrek” (2001) “Twelfth Night” (2007) $45 Million 1945-10-19 A Delicate Balance Analgesic Anthony Mackie Associated Press Author Broadway theatre Clare Higgins Deaf West Theatre Footloose Harvard College Ian Lithgow Jean Taynton Jean Taynton (m. 

John Arthur Lithgow Quick Info

John Arthur Lithgow Trademarks

1. Receding hairline and bold blue eyes
2. Wild, over-the-top acting.
3. Often plays fathers and family men
4. Often plays villains or mentally unstable characters
5. Towering height and slender frame
6. Distinctive dramatic voice

John Arthur Lithgow Quotes

• [on working with Saul Zaentz on At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)] Saul loves being answerable to nobody. That’s the most extraordinary thing about him. The dailies didn’t get sent anywhere for anybody else’s approval and cost overruns weren’t monitored by a bunch of executives thousand of miles away. He owns it all. He does it the way he wants it. It’s incredible how that affects every aspect of production. I’ve never really worked with anyone like him. Being on the set, playing hearts with Saul, I realised the secret to his success: he can spot everyone’s strengths and weaknesses right away. He was a killer. He’d shoot the moon three out of every four games. I don’t know if it was the giant bugs or the humidity, but I couldn’t sleep for weeks. We had terrible weather and horrible actor-director arguments, but Saul was unflappable. He went through all the same hardships we did, but he behaved as if there was no other place he’d rather be.
• No bad guy thinks he’s a bad guy. He thinks he’s a good guy.
• My sense of myself is that I’m a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That’s my job, to be ready. I’m some kind of first responder.
• One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I’m sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.
• We deal in very volatile chemicals. We’re in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life. We all have our secrets and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and that makes it all the more interesting to us.
• [from a 1984 interview] My career just happened to me. I didn’t manage it. My plate is full all the time, but I never have the opportunity to choose from ten parts. I do turn down junk. I’ve played important parts in movies but I haven’t yet played the person the story is about. The joy is in the work. You can get too hung up on where you are. I’m not preoccupied with the desire to be top banana, but I do want to play bigger parts.
• I’ve had parallel careers in the theatre and in movies. In the theatre, I often play characters with a strong sense of innocence who aren’t as intelligent as I am. The reason: my size. I seem sort of big and good-natured on stage. It would be too much for a big man to play a forbidding character on stage. So I play big people who are fairly gentle. It’s a wonderful thing to build a career on. What I offer to movie-makers is that I can put a tremendous amount of theatrical background and technical equipment at their disposal. I can make believable the over-the-top characters.
• In general, my basic rule of thumb is just act in things you would want to see yourself in. I have a taste for all kinds of movies. Usually, it’s a question of whether it will be fun, whether I respect the people behind it, whether I would like to work with them. I’m sure I’m a serious-minded actor, but I still value the frivolity of acting. It’s a real exuberant, entertaining thing to do. I never lose track of that.
• [on the constant time-slot changes and ultimate cancellation of 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)] If NBC had set out to ruin it, they couldn’t have done a better job. They kept trying to use us as a weapon instead of a show to be taken care of. It would have been nice to have stayed a big hit, but I’d rather be a great show that nobody was watching than a lousy show that was a big hit, which is the case for most of the others.

John Arthur Lithgow Important Facts

• $200,000 /episode (1999-2000 season)
• $75,000 /episode (1996-1997 season)
• He was awarded the 1973 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for “The Changing Room” on Broadway in New York City.
• He was awarded the 1989 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Achievement, Lead Performance, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” at Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre production at the James A. Doolittle Theatre (University of California) in Los Angeles, California.
• Was considered for the role of The Joker in Batman (1989).
• The role of Frasier Craine (first on Cheers then the spin-off) was written with Lithgow in mind. He’s said years later, “Kelsey [Grammer] did a fine job!”.
• Lives in Los Angeles, California.
• Is an accomplished guitar player.
• Celebrity spokesperson for Campbell Select soups since 2006.
• Has said that Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) is his favorite film.
• Has two grandchildren through his son, Ian Lithgow.
• Despite being known for playing characters who are often pompous and unlikable or outright villainous, he has been described by many of his co-stars as an extremely kind and friendly man and a pleasure to work with.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6666 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on May 2, 2001.
• His ancestry includes Welsh (from his maternal grandfather), English, as well as French, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and Scottish. His father was born in the Dominican Republic, where the white American Lithgow family had lived for a few generations.
• Even though his parents were both actors, he was inspired to get into acting by Peter Sellers.
• Is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
• Is a registered pastor of Rose Ministries, and has officiated the wedding of his goddaughter.
• Three of his non-film roles have been based on movies involving Frank Oz and Ian McDiarmid. Most of Oz’s and McDiarmid’s collaborations are the Star Wars films, in which they play Yoda and Darth Sidious, respectively. Lithgow played Yoda on the radio. Oz also directed McDiarmid in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988). Lithgow appeared in the stage musical.
• Was called in to replace another actor in Terms of Endearment (1983), and his role was filmed in three days during a break from filming Footloose (1984).
• Has won two Tony Awards: in 1973, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for David Storey’s “The Changing Room”; and in 2002, as Best Actor (Musical) for “Sweet Smell of Success.” He has also been nominated on three occasions for Tonys — two for Best Actor (Play): for “Requiem for a Heavyweight” (1985) and “M. Butterfly.” (1988), and once for Best Actor (Musical): for “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” (2005).
• Has provided the voice of Yoda in the NPR radio dramatizations of “The Empire Strikes Back” (1983) and “Return of the Jedi” (1996).
• Was considered for the role of Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown in Back to the Future (1985), which went to Christopher Lloyd.
• Biography in: “Contemporary Authors”. Volume 217, pg. 219-223. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2004.
• Parents are Sarah Jane Price (born 1917) and theater director/producer Arthur Lithgow (1915-2004).
• His father ran a Shakespearian Acting company in the 1950s which included David Carradine.
• His wife Mary Yeager is an economics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
• Has won both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award as Best Actor in a Broadway musical, for performance in “Sweet Smell of Success”. [May 2002]
• Was considered for the role of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), which went to Anthony Hopkins.
• Was the original voice of Hades in Disney’s Hercules (1997) and recorded all the dialogue, but his performance was then replaced by the performance of James Woods.
• Claims that his most difficult performance was in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) because he had to portray fear of the monster, although he could not really see it.
• Hosted the Welcoming Reception for UCLA’s new Chancellor Carnesale.
• Parent of Ian Lithgow with Jean Taynton, and Phoebe Lithgow and Nathan Lithgow with Mary Yeager.
• Was named a Fulbright scholar.
• Studied at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
• Attended Harvard College and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in history and literature (1967). He lived in Adams House as an undergraduate. Lithgow later served on Harvard’s Board of Overseers.
• Attended and graduated from Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey.

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