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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
Arnold Wesker/The Ventriloquist
for Arnold Wesker/The Ventriloquist in Dark Knight: Betrayal of a Friend (2011)
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley
A year after stopping the League from "cleansing" Gotham, and failing to stop the Joker and the "Masters of Gotham" from fleeing, the dynamic duo are witnessing the rebuilding of Gotham. Encouraged by their image, several new vigilantes emerge from the shadows, also wishing to fight crime and help the city, with the Dark Knight having to make up his mind what to do with these individuals. But he can't deny that at the moment a little help would be welcome, given that Harvey Dent, the city's former mayor, is about to show his new face after being disfigured by Maroni with a blow. acid, killing the latter later. The good man has disappeared, leaving his place to a formidable new enemy: Two-Face. This develops an alliance with the Joker, who is partly responsible for his condition, as well as with Killer Croc and a certain "Ventriloquist", to fight what remains of the Falcone family, which he also wants to destroy. Finally, to make matters worse, a mysterious informant is ready to sell to the highest bidder, among the worst criminals in the city, information about Batman's true identity, something that Bruce cannot let do. Whatever happens from now on, the barriers between friendship and adversity will be changed forever !
