Arthur Washington Lithgow III was an Dominican-American actor and director.
13 Facts About Arthur Lithgow
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Arthur Lithgow helped pioneer the regional theater movement in the United States and founded two Shakespeare festivals.
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Lithgow was born in Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic, the son of Ina Berenice, an American nurse, and Arthur Washington Lithgow II, an American-Dominican entrepreneur born to Ellen Prentiss Peirce, American, and Washington G Lithgow, a Dominican of American descent, who was a vice consul and vice commercial agent in the country.
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Arthur Lithgow first appeared onstage in December 1920 at age 5 as a cherub in a Christmas pageant at the Unitarian Church in Melrose, Massachusetts.
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Arthur Lithgow appeared in student productions at Antioch College, where he founded the Antioch Summer Theater in 1935 and where he received his BA in 1938.
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Arthur Lithgow made his New York City debut in November 1938, as a soldier in Jacques Deval's anti-Nazi drama, Lorelei.
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Arthur Lithgow received his MA from Cornell University on playwriting in 1948 and served as assistant professor of dramatics at Antioch from 1947 to 1956.
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Arthur Lithgow first began directing Shakespeare at Antioch College in 1952, when he became the Founder and Artistic Director of the Antioch Shakespeare Festival, or "Shakespeare under the Stars," as it came to be known.
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Arthur Lithgow produced a summer Shakespeare festival in 1960, but was fired from Stan Hywet in May 1961.
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Arthur Lithgow appeared on Broadway in A Cure for Matrimony, Steel and the musical Lorelei.
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Arthur Lithgow served as administrative director of the Brattleboro Center for the Performing Arts in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Arthur Lithgow returned to Antioch College to direct two summer Shakespeare festivals in 1981 and 1982.
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Arthur Lithgow died of heart failure at age 88 in Amherst, Massachusetts.