Acting
—
Harry Potter
(
0 episodes
)
as
Albus Dumbledore
—
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
as
John Walters (archive footage)
2025
The Rule of Jenny Pen
as
Dave Crealy
2025
Jimpa
as
Jimpa
2025
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
(
4 episodes
)
as
Self
2024
Spellbound
as
Bolinar (voice)
2024
Conclave
as
Tremblay
2024
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
as
Self
2024
Cabrini
as
Mayor Gould
2023
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
as
Self
2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
as
Prosecutor Peter Leaward
2023
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
(
3 episodes
)
as
Self
2023
Sharper
as
Richard Hobbes
2022
Chez Bob
2022
Sherri
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Guest
2022
The Old Man
(
15 episodes
)
as
Harold Harper
2022
The Bubble
as
Tom the Studio Chairman
2021
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
as
Philip Drummond
2021
Dexter: New Blood
(
1 episode
)
as
Arthur Mitchell
2021
Ultra City Smiths
(
1 episode
)
as
Ol' Gregory Timms
2021
Show of Titles
as
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2021
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
as
Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
2021
Myths and Hymns
2020
Give My Regards to Broadway
as
Self
2020
Perry Mason
(
8 episodes
)
as
Elias Birchard 'E.B.' Jonathan
2020
Stars in the House
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Special Guest
2019
Bombshell
as
Roger Ailes
2019
On Broadway
as
Self
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
2019
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
as
President Donald J. Trump
2019
The Tomorrow Man
as
Ed Hemsler
2019
Pet Sematary
as
Jud Crandall
2019
Late Night
as
Walter Lovell
2018
Pet Sematary: The Tale of Timmy Baterman
as
Jud Crandall
2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
(
1 episode
)
2018
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
(
2 episodes
)
as
Self
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Guest
2018
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
as
Self
2017
Pitch Perfect 3
as
Fergus
2017
Broadway: The Next Generation
as
Self
2017
Daddy's Home 2
as
Don
2017
The Pulitzer At 100
as
Self
2017
Beatriz at Dinner
as
Doug Strutt
2017
Trial & Error
(
13 episodes
)
as
Larry Henderson
2017
Hickory Dickory Doc
as
Himself
2017
They All Saw a Cat
2016
Miss Sloane
as
Senator Ronald Sperling
2016
The Crown
(
12 episodes
)
as
Winston Churchill
2016
The Accountant
as
Lamar Blackburn
2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as
Self - Performer
2016
Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
as
Narrator
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(
2 episodes
)
as
Self
(
1 episode
)
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Guest
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
2015
Best of Enemies
as
Self
2015
Lord John
2015
Inside 'Interstellar'
as
Self
2015
Projections of America
as
Self - Narrator (voice)
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
2014
9 Kisses
as
Man in Club
2014
Interstellar
as
Donald
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
(
7 episodes
)
as
James Roosevelt (voice)
2014
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
as
Maurice (voice)
2014
Love Is Strange
as
Ben
2014
The Homesman
as
Reverend Alfred Dowd
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
(
2 episodes
)
as
Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
(
1 episode
)
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
2013
Timms Valley
as
Ol' Gregory Timms
2013
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
as
Self
2013
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
(
13 episodes
)
as
The White Rabbit (voice)
2013
Shrek Stories
as
Lord Farquaad (voice)
2013
National Theatre Live: The Magistrate
as
Posket
2012
This Is 40
as
Oliver
2012
Casting By
as
Self
2012
The Campaign
as
Glen Motch
2012
Finding Your Roots
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
2011
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
as
Self
2011
New Year's Eve
as
Jonathan Cox (uncredited)
2011
Prohibition
(
3 episodes
)
as
Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as
Charles Rodman
2010
Conan
(
2 episodes
)
as
Self
2010
Leap Year
as
Jack Brady
2009
Miracle in a Box: A Piano Reborn
as
Narrator
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Guest
2009
The Macabre World of Lavender Williams
as
God
2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as
Edgar West
2008
Car of the Future
as
Narrator
2007
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as
Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
2006
Dreamgirls
as
Jerry Harris
2006
30 Rock
(
1 episode
)
as
John Lithgow
2006
Twenty Good Years
(
9 episodes
)
2006
Dexter
(
12 episodes
)
as
Arthur Mitchell
2006
The One Show
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as
René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
2006
The Great Robot Race: The DARPA Grand Challenge
as
Narrator
2006
Sangre
as
Cafe chef and owner
2005
The Colbert Report
(
1 episode
)
2005
Einstein's Big Idea
as
Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
2005
The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
(
1 episode
)
2005
How I Met Your Mother
(
4 episodes
)
as
Jerry Whittaker
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as
Blake Edwards
2004
The Tony Danza Show
(
3 episodes
)
as
Self
2004
Kinsey
as
Alfred Seguine Kinsey
2004
Dogs and More Dogs
as
Narrator
2003
VH1 Goes Inside
(
1 episode
)
2003
The Ghost of Lord Farquaad
as
Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
2003
Bark, George
2002
E! Live from the Red Carpet
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
2002
Orange County
as
Bud Brumder
2002
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
as
Self
2001
Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party
as
Lord Farquaad (singing voice)
2001
Shrek
as
Lord Farquaad (voice)
2000
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
as
Jean-Claude (voice)
2000
Don Quixote
as
Don Quixote de La Mancha / Alonso Quixano
2000
95 Worlds and Counting
as
Narrator
1999
The Early Show
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
1999
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
as
Dr. Oscar Charles
1998
A Civil Action
as
Judge Walter J. Skinner
1998
Homegrown
as
Malcolm / Robert Stockman
1998
Johnny Skidmarks
as
Sergeant Larry Skovik
1997
The View
(
2 episodes
)
as
Self - Guest
(
7 episodes
)
as
Self
1997
Officer Buckle and Gloria
as
Narrator (voice)
1996
Hollow Point
as
Thomas Livingston
1996
Cosby
(
1 episode
)
as
John Lithgow
1996
The West
(
1 episode
)
as
Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)
(
9 episodes
)
as
Self
1996
The Daily Show
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
1996
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
as
Narrator
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Guest
1996
3rd Rock from the Sun
(
139 episodes
)
as
Dick Solomon
1995
The Tuskegee Airmen
as
Senator Conyers
1995
My Brother's Keeper
as
Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley
1995
American Cinema
as
Narrator
1995
Redwood Curtain
as
Laird Riordan
1994
Silent Fall
as
Dr. Rene Harlinger
1994
Princess Caraboo
as
Professor Wilkinson
1994
A Good Man in Africa
as
Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
1994
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
as
Self
1994
World War II: When Lions Roared
(
2 episodes
)
as
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1994
American Cinema
(
13 episodes
)
1993
The Country Mouse & the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale
as
Alexander (voice)
1993
Love, Cheat & Steal
as
Paul Harrington
1993
The Pelican Brief
as
Smith Keen
1993
Frasier
(
1 episode
)
as
Madman Martinez (voice)
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
(
4 episodes
)
as
Self - Guest
1993
The Wrong Man
as
Phillip Mills
1993
Cliffhanger
as
Eric Qualen
1993
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
as
Narrator
1992
Raising Cain
as
Carter Nix / Cain / Dr. Nix / Josh / Margo
1991
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
as
Leslie Huben
1991
Ricochet
as
Earl Talbott Blake
1991
The Boys
as
Artie Margulies
1990
Memphis Belle
as
Bruce Derringer
1990
Ivory Hunters
as
Robert Carter
1990
John Lithgow's Kid-Sized Concert
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
as
Self
1989
The Simpsons
(
1 episode
)
as
John Lithgow (voice)
(
1 episode
)
as
Gus (voice)
1989
Traveling Man
as
Ben Cluett
1989
Tales from the Crypt
(
1 episode
)
as
Dr. Oscar Charles
1989
Out Cold
as
Dave
1988
Distant Thunder
as
Mark Lambert
1987
Harry and the Hendersons
as
George Henderson
1987
The Amazing Bone
as
Narrator
1987
Baby Girl Scott
as
Neil Scott
1986
The Manhattan Project
as
John Mathewson
1986
Resting Place
as
Maj. Kendall Laird
1985
Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
as
Self
1985
Mesmerized
as
Oliver Thompson
1985
Santa Claus: The Movie
as
B.Z.
1985
Amazing Stories
(
1 episode
)
as
John Walters
1984
2010
as
Dr. Walter Curnow
1984
The Glitter Dome
as
Sgt. Marty Wellborn
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
as
Lord John Whorfin
1984
Footloose
as
Rev. Shaw Moore
1984
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
as
Goldilocks' Father
1984
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
as
Himself
1983
The Day After
as
Joe Huxley
1983
Terms of Endearment
as
Sam Burns
1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as
Valentine
1982
Not in Front of the Children
as
Richard Carruthers
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre
(
1 episode
)
as
Goldilocks' Father
1982
The World According to Garp
as
Roberta Muldoon
1982
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
as
Mr. Brunner
1981
Blow Out
as
Burke
1980
Big Blonde
as
Herbie Morse
1980
Mom, the Wolfman and Me
as
Wally
1980
The Oldest Living Graduate
as
Clarence
1979
All That Jazz
as
Lucas Sergeant
1979
Rich Kids
as
Paul Philips
1978
The Big Fix
as
Sam Sebastian
1977
Secret Service
as
Capt. Thorne
1976
Obsession
as
Robert Lasalle
1975
Saturday Night Live
(
3 episodes
)
as
Self - Host
1974
NOVA
(
6 episodes
)
as
Narrator
1974
The Country Girl
as
Paul Unger
1972
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
as
John
1971
Great Performances
(
1 episode
)
as
Capt. Thorne
1956
Tony Awards
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Nominee/Performer
(
2 episodes
)
as
Self - Nominee
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Winner
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Nominee & Performer
(
7 episodes
)
as
Self - Presenter
1953
The Oscars
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Presenter
1952
Today
(
1 episode
)
as
Self
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(
1 episode
)
as
Laird Riordan
(
1 episode
)
as
Major Kendall Laird
(
1 episode
)
as
Paul Unger
1944
Golden Globe Awards
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Winner
(
1 episode
)
as
Self - Presenter
(
2 episodes
)
as
Self - Nominee