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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
Sheriff João Andretti (Sheriff Jack Andrews in Tarantula)
for Sheriff João Andretti (Sheriff Jack Andrews in Tarantula) in King Kong: Terror of the jungle
Suggested by jakubduda
In the jungle, a creature of its own form moves around. Its legs are very strong and its venom is extremely poisonous. Not only the predators inhabiting the jungle, but also humans become its prey. A unit led by the experienced Markus Cole and Major Michael Roberts is dropped into enemy territory, where it is supposed to free several American soldiers from partisan captivity in the middle of the jungle. After a successful operation, however, the American soldiers, instead of their longed-for vacation by the sea, have to fight a much more mysterious and dangerous enemy. The jungle turns into a trap from which there is no escape, and the American heroes learn for the first time in their lives what fear is when they face a giant tarantula. The central scientist responsible for this creature is actually a philanthropist trying to prevent a future catastrophe with overpopulation. However, its artificial and heavily irradiated nutrition causes another big problem instead of solving it. Specifically, a thirty-meter arachnid that enjoys anything that comes under its jaws. Not only this commando, but also a stubborn village doctor and a well-read lab technician, joins the fight against the oversized eight-legged vermin. When the going gets tough, the old friend King Kong appears and helps in the fight with the Tarantula.
