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10-19-2017, 05:09 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2017/10/19/october-19-happy-birthday-john-lithgow-and-john-le-carre/
Six-time Emmy winner John Lithgow is celebrating his 72nd birthday. He graduated from Harvard and then received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He made his Broadway debut in 1973 in David Storey’s The Changing Room, and won the Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He has received five additional Tony nominations, winning a second time as J. J. Hunsecker in the 2002 Broadway musical adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success. His other notable stage roles have include Harlan McClintock in Requiem for a Heavyweight, Walter Burns in The Front Page, Rene Gallimard in M. Butterfly, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
Lithgow began his screen career in the early 1970s as well. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in consecutive years in the early 1980s, for The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment. He has also had major roles in films such as Footloose, Cliffhanger, Kinsey, and many more. He received his first Emmy in the Outstanding Guest Actor for Amazing Stories in 1986, and won in that category a second time for an appearance on Season 4 of Dexter. His most recent Emmy was for playing Winston Churchill on Netflix’s The Crown. And the other three were for starring as Dick Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun.
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Six-time Emmy winner John Lithgow is celebrating his 72nd birthday. He graduated from Harvard and then received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He made his Broadway debut in 1973 in David Storey’s The Changing Room, and won the Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He has received five additional Tony nominations, winning a second time as J. J. Hunsecker in the 2002 Broadway musical adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success. His other notable stage roles have include Harlan McClintock in Requiem for a Heavyweight, Walter Burns in The Front Page, Rene Gallimard in M. Butterfly, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
Lithgow began his screen career in the early 1970s as well. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in consecutive years in the early 1980s, for The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment. He has also had major roles in films such as Footloose, Cliffhanger, Kinsey, and many more. He received his first Emmy in the Outstanding Guest Actor for Amazing Stories in 1986, and won in that category a second time for an appearance on Season 4 of Dexter. His most recent Emmy was for playing Winston Churchill on Netflix’s The Crown. And the other three were for starring as Dick Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun.
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