John Lithgow

John Lithgow, born in Rochester on October 19 1945, is one of our "Famous Residents". Lithgow was a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard and a Fulbright Scholar who was probably best known as the head alien on 3rd Rock From the Sun (1996-2001).

Maybe his experiences in Rochester lent a hand in his superior acting in the following movies:

• Memphis Belle
  

• Footloose
  

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
  

• Blow Out
  

• Twilight Zone: The Movie
  

• All That Jazz
  

• Raising Cain
  

• The Manhattan Project
  

• Harry and the Hendersons
  

• Distant Thunder
  

• At Play in the Fields of the Lord
  

• Cliffhanger
  

• A Good Man in Africa
  

• The Pelican Brief
  

• Don Quixote
  

• Kinsey
  

• The World According to Garp
  

• Shrek

Lithgow is also an accomplished actor on the stage, recent roles include:

• The Sweet Smell of Success
  

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels -Tony Nominated

He has expanded his creative contribution as the author of a number of children's books .

Notes and References

• Refer to hisBiography on IMDB (the Internet Movie Data Base)
  

• LithgowForKids.com - see his interesting collection of kids books
  

• You've Got to Have Pep - YouTube Video
  

• Other YouTube Videos