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Lithgow, John (Arthur)

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | Copyright

Lithgow, John [Arthur] (b. 1945), actor. Born in Rochester, New York, he studied at Harvard and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. The tall, versatile, Everyman‐type actor made his debut at the Antioch Shakespeare Festival in 1953 and was praised for his Broadway bow as the athlete Kenny Kendal in The Changing Room (1973) earning a Tony Award. Active on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in regional theatres (as well as in films and television), Lithgow has appeared as seaman Mat Burke in Anna Christie (1977), the ex‐radical Chris in Division Street (1980), boxer McClintock in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), newspaper editor Walter Burns in The Front Page (1986), French diplomat René Gallimard in M. Butterfly (1988), and columnist J. J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (2002).

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