How old was John Lithgow in the movie Terms of Endearment?

John Lithgow was 37 in Terms of Endearment when he played the character 'Sam Burns'.

That was over 40 years ago in 1983.

Today he is 78, and has starred in 126 movies in total, 104 of those since Terms of Endearment was released.

How old do you think he looks in the movie?

In Terms of Endearment, I think John Lithgow looks:

Did you know?

  • Director James L. Brooks has worked with John Lithgow just once in his career.
  • John Lithgow's first movie was as 'John' in Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues, released in 1972 when he was 25
  • Terms of Endearment scores 7.1 out of 10 on TMDB.

The cast of Terms of Endearment

John Lithgow's other movies