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John Lithgow

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John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor


Who is John Lithgow?

John Lithgow is an American stage, television and movie actor. He is also a children's book author and has recorded children's music albums. John Lithgow has received many awards throughout his career including, but not limited to, two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and an American Comedy Award. He has also been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards.

Famous Kin

John Lithgow is a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers John Billington and William Bradford. He also has an accused witch in the family with a connection to Mary (Perkins) Bradbury who was convicted of witchcraft at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. John Lithgow has a number of U.S. Presidents in his family tree including James Garfield, Millard Fillmore, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, Howard Taft, Grover Cleveland, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and both Presidents Bush. U.S. First Ladies are also represented in his family tree with kinship to Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman, and Nancy Reagan. There is also a royal connection for John Lithgow with kinship to the late Princess Diana

John Lithgow's literary kin include author Harriet Beecher Stowe, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, author Louisa May Alcott, poet Emily Dickinson, playwright Tennessee Williams, and poet Robert Frost. Celebrity kin for John Lithgow include actress Katharine Hepburn, singer Janis Joplin, actor Henry Fonda, TV personality and chef Julia Child, actor Humphrey Bogart, actress Jodie Foster, actor Clint Eastwood, actress Sally Field, singer Amy Grant, actor Ed Helms, actor James Dean, and the Wilson brothers of The Beach Boys..


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for John Lithgow

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George Palmer Putnam

Founder, G.P. Putnam's Sons

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Thomas Richards

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Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier

Inventor of Muzak

8th cousin 3 times removed
via Thomas Bourne

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Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier

Inventor of Muzak

6th cousin 3 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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Allison Janney

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Richards

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Roger B. Chaffee

Apollo 1 Astronaut

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Francis Billington

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Roger B. Chaffee

Apollo 1 Astronaut

9th cousin
via William Carpenter

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

9th cousin 2 times removed
via Henry Howland

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

8th cousin 1 time removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Tupper

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Brig. Gen. Henry Clay Wood

Medal of Honor Recipient
U.S. Civil War

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Howland

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

4th cousin 5 times removed
via Isaac Sheldon

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

4th cousin 5 times removed
via William Bradford Jr.

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Richard Baldwin

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John L. Barstow

39th Governor of Vermont

3rd cousin 4 times removed
via Hezekiah Newcomb

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William A. Barstow

3rd Governor of Wisconsin

2nd cousin 5 times removed
via Hezekiah Newcomb

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Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

8th cousin 1 time removed
via Andrew Warner

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Richard A. Snelling

76th and 78th Governor of Vermont

9th cousin
via William Bradford Jr.

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Hoyt Vandenberg

2nd Director Central Intelligence

8th cousin 1 time removed
via William Carpenter

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Orson Bean

TV Actor

9th cousin
via William Bradford Jr.

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

10th cousin 1 time removed
via John Howland

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William H. Avery

37th Governor of Kansas

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Clap

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Stephen King

Author of The Stand

11th cousin
via Alexander Carpenter

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Frank W. Woolworth

Founder of F.W. Woolworth Company

9th cousin
via John Warner

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Barbara Hutton

Socialite (aka “Poor Little Rich Girl”)

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Warner

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Chester B. Jordan

48th Governor of New Hampshire

8th cousin 1 time removed
via John Warner

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John Lithgow photo by David Shankbone (CC BY-SA 3.0)