John Lithgow
Born October 19, 1945 (Age: 80)
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Rochester, New York, USA
Biography
John Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) 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). He was Tony-nominated for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). He has acted in the plays The Columnist (2012), A Delicate Balance (2014), and Hillary and Clinton (2019). He portrayed Roald Dahl in the play Giant on the West End, for which he was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor. He starred as Dick Solomon in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He received further Primetime Emmy Awards for his performances as Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009) and as Winston Churchill in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2019). He also starred in HBO's Perry Mason (2020) and FX's The Old Man (2022). On film, he has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his roles as a transgender ex-football player in The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in Terms of Endearment (1983). He also acted in All That Jazz (1979), Blow Out (1981), Footloose (1984), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), A Civil Action (1998), Shrek (2001), Kinsey (2004), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Love Is Strange (2014), Interstellar (2014), Late Night (2019), Bombshell (2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), and Conclave (2024).
John Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) 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). He was Tony-nominated for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). He has acted in the plays The Columnist (2012), A Delicate Balance (2014), and Hillary and Clinton (2019). He portrayed Roald Dahl in the play Giant on the West End, for which he was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor.
He starred as Dick Solomon in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He received further Primetime Emmy Awards for his performances as Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009) and as Winston Churchill in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2019). He also starred in HBO's Perry Mason (2020) and FX's The Old Man (2022).
On film, he has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his roles as a transgender ex-football player in The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in Terms of Endearment (1983). He also acted in All That Jazz (1979), Blow Out (1981), Footloose (1984), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), A Civil Action (1998), Shrek (2001), Kinsey (2004), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Love Is Strange (2014), Interstellar (2014), Late Night (2019), Bombshell (2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), and Conclave (2024).
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Filmography
The Rule of Jenny Pen
2025
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as Dave Crealy
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Age: 79
Spellbound
2024
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as Bolinar (voice)
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Age: 79
Conclave
2024
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as Tremblay
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Age: 79
Cabrini
2024
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as Mayor Gould
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Age: 78
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
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as Prosecutor Peter Leaward
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Age: 77
Show of Titles
2021
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as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
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Age: 75
Give My Regards to Broadway
2020
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as Self
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Age: 74
Bombshell
2019
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as Roger Ailes
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Age: 74
Pet Sematary
2019
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as Jud Crandall
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Age: 73
Late Night
2019
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as Walter Lovell
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Age: 73
Pitch Perfect 3
2017
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as Fergus
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Age: 72
Daddy's Home 2
2017
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as Don
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Age: 72
Beatriz at Dinner
2017
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as Doug Strutt
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Age: 71
They All Saw a Cat
2017
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as
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Age: 71
Miss Sloane
2016
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as Senator Ronald Sperling
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Age: 71
The Accountant
2016
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as Lamar Blackburn
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Age: 70
No Image
Lord John
2015
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as
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Age: 69
Interstellar
2014
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as Donald
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Age: 69
Love Is Strange
2014
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as Ben
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Age: 68
The Homesman
2014
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as Reverend Alfred Dowd
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Age: 68
9 Kisses
2014
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as Man in Club
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Age: 68
This Is 40
2012
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as Oliver
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Age: 67
Casting By
2012
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as Self
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Age: 67
The Campaign
2012
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as Glen Motch
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Age: 66
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011
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as Self
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Age: 66
New Year's Eve
2011
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as Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
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Age: 66
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
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as Charles Rodman
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Age: 65
Leap Year
2010
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as Jack Brady
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Age: 64
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
2009
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as Narrator
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Age: 63
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
2009
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as God
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Age: 63
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
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as Edgar West
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Age: 63
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
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as Self
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Age: 61
Dreamgirls
2006
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as Jerry Harris
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Age: 61
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
2006
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as Narrator
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Age: 60
No Image
Sangre
2006
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as Cafe chef and owner
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Age: 60
Kinsey
2004
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as Alfred Seguine Kinsey
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Age: 58
Orange County
2002
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as Bud Brumder
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Age: 56
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
2002
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as Self
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Age: 56
Shrek
2001
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as Lord Farquaad (voice)
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Age: 55
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2000
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as Jean-Claude (voice)
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Age: 55
Don Quixote
2000
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as Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
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Age: 54
95 Worlds and Counting
2000
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as Narrator
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Age: 54
A Civil Action
1998
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as Judge Walter J. Skinner
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Age: 53
Homegrown
1998
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as Malcolm / Robert Stockman
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Age: 52
Johnny Skidmarks
1998
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as Sergeant Larry Skovik
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Age: 52
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1997
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 51
Hollow Point
1996
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as Thomas Livingston
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Age: 51
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
1996
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as Narrator
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Age: 50
Silent Fall
1994
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as Dr. Rene Harlinger
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Age: 49
Princess Caraboo
1994
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as Professor Wilkinson
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Age: 48
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
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as Self
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Age: 48
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
1993
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as Alexander (voice)
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Age: 48
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993
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as Paul Harrington
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Age: 48
The Pelican Brief
1993
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as Smith Keen
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Age: 47
The Wrong Man
1993
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as Phillip Mills
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Age: 47
Cliffhanger
1993
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as Qualen
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Age: 47
Raising Cain
1992
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as Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
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Age: 46
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991
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as Leslie Huben
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Age: 46
Ricochet
1991
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as Earl Talbott Blake
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Age: 45
The Boys
1991
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as Artie Margulies
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Age: 45
Memphis Belle
1990
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as Bruce Derringer
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Age: 44
Ivory Hunters
1990
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as Robert Carter
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Age: 44
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
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as Self
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Age: 44
Traveling Man
1989
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as Ben Cluett
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Age: 43
Out Cold
1989
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as Dave
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Age: 43
Distant Thunder
1988
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as Mark Lambert
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Age: 43
Harry and the Hendersons
1987
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as George Henderson
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Age: 41
The Amazing Bone
1987
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as Narrator
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Age: 41
No Image
Baby Girl Scott
1987
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as Neil Scott
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Age: 41
The Manhattan Project
1986
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as John Mathewson
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Age: 40
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
1985
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as Self
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Age: 40
Mesmerized
1985
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as Oliver Thompson
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Age: 40
Santa Claus: The Movie
1985
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as B.Z.
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Age: 40
2010
1984
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as Dr. Walter Curnow
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Age: 39
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
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as Lord John Whorfin
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Age: 38
Footloose
1984
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as Rev. Shaw Moore
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Age: 38
Terms of Endearment
1983
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as Sam Burns
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Age: 38
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
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as Valentine
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Age: 37
The World According to Garp
1982
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as Roberta Muldoon
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Age: 36
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
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as Mr. Brunner
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Age: 36
Blow Out
1981
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as Burke
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Age: 35
Big Blonde
1980
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as Herbie Morse
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Age: 35
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
1980
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as Wally
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Age: 35
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
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as Clarence
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Age: 34
All That Jazz
1979
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as Lucas Sergeant
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Age: 34
Rich Kids
1979
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as Paul Philips
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Age: 33
The Big Fix
1978
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as Sam Sebastian
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Age: 32
Obsession
1976
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as Robert Lasalle
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Age: 30
The Country Girl
1974
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as Paul Unger
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Age: 28
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
1972
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as John
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Age: 26