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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 Lithgow
Winston Churchill
for Winston Churchill in 1. The Invaders
Suggested by williamlyon
In WW2 the allied forces seek champions to defend against Hitler's sciense division- HYDRA. HYDRA leader Red Skull searches for a weapon of Asgardian lore. Captain America is created by Project Rebirth (the weapons program) and eventually forms a team which includes his second in command Bucky, Human Torch, Toro, Union Jack, Spitfire, Miss America, Blazing Skull and Whizzer. Namor joins the team when the war starts affecting Atlantis. Wolverine cameos in one action sequence (pre-adamantium, with bone claws) Bem Grimm cameos as a WW2 pilot. Max Eisenhardt cameos as a child in a concentration camp, discovering his Magnetism powers and using them to kill his parents' killers. Charles Xavier cameos as a child as well. In the final battle Red Skull uses the Asgardian weapon to summon and control Thor to fight The Invaders. Cap and Bucky both seemingly die. END CREDIT SCENES: Cap discovered frozen under ice. Ben Grimm returns to New York.
