6/17/2023 0 Comments The remarkable farkle mcbride![]() ![]() Hunsecker in the Broadway adaptation of the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success alongside Brian D'Arcy James. Wong (in his Broadway debut) at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play losing to Derek Jacobi in Much Ado About Nothing. In 1985 he starred in Requiem for a Heavyweight written by Rod Serling at the Martin Beck Theatre. ![]() In 1976 he starred on Broadway in Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays opposite Meryl Streep and Tom Hulce at the Playhouse Theatre. The following year he starred again on Broadway in the comedy play My Fat Friend opposite Lynn Redgrave at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Lithgow received his first Tony and win for his performance for Featured Actor in a Play. In 1973, Lithgow debuted on Broadway in David Storey's The Changing Room at the Morosco Theatre. Also, after graduation, he served as the Director of the Arts and Literature Department at WBAI, the Pacifica radio station in New York City. After graduation, Lithgow won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He credits a performance at Harvard of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited with helping him decide to become an actor. Lithgow lived in Adams House as an undergraduate, and later served on Harvard's Board of Overseers. magna cum laude in 1967, in history and literature. He attended Harvard College, and graduated with an A.B. Lithgow graduated from Princeton High School in Princeton. Because of his father's job, the family moved frequently during Lithgow's childhood he spent his childhood years in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where activist Coretta Scott King babysat him and his siblings he spent his teenage years in Akron (living at Stan Hywet Hall) and Lakewood, Ohio. Lithgow is descended from Mayflower passenger and colonial governor William Bradford. His father was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, to an American-Dominican family of Scottish, English and French descent. His father, Arthur Washington Lithgow III, was a theatrical producer and director who ran the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. His mother, Sarah Jane (née Price), was a retired actress. In 2007, he made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Malvolio in Neil Bartlett's production of Twelfth Night. ![]() On the stage, he has appeared in many Broadway productions including the musical adaptations of Sweet Smell of Success and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. His performances in the films The World According to Garp (1982) and Terms of Endearment (1983) each earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In film, he is also well known for his film roles in Blow Out (1981), Footloose (1984), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Shrek (2001) and Love is Strange (2014). Lithgow is best known for his television roles as Dick Solomon in the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009), and Sir Winston Churchill in the drama The Crown (2016), for each of which he won Emmy Awards. Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. He has received two Tony Awards, six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. ˈ l ɪ θ ɡ oʊ/ Template:Respell born October 19, 1945) is an American character actor, musician, comedian, poet, author, and singer. ![]()
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