FrameThrower · Actors · John Lithgow
John Lithgow
13 films · 1,106 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1981–2024
Born 19 October 1945 · Rochester, New York, USA
John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Grammy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Lithgow won two Tony Awards, his first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut in The Changing Room (1972) and his second for Best Actor in a Musical for the musical Sweet Smell of Success (2002).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 13 films · 1,106 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1981–2024
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy1997
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series2017
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series2010
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series1999
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series1997
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series1996
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series1986
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical2002
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play1973
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,106 frames from the 13 films we hold. This is the look of the work John takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 13 films we hold, 42% of their frames are night, 45% natural — the look of the work John takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Conclave
2024 · Tremblay
Pet Sematary
2019 · Jud Crandall
Beatriz at Dinner
2017 · Doug Strutt
This Is 40
2012 · Oliver
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984 · Lord John Whorfin
Blow Out
1981 · Burke
Raising Cain
· Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · Prosecutor Peter Leaward
The Homesman
2014 · Reverend Alfred Dowd
Interstellar
2014 · Donald
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · Charles Rodman
Shrek
2001 · Lord Farquaad (voice)
The Day After
· Joe Huxley
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,106 frames from John Lithgow's 13 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.