How old was John Lithgow in the movie Footloose?

John Lithgow was 37 in Footloose when he played the character 'Reverend Shaw Moore'.

That was over 40 years ago in 1984.

Today he is 78, and has starred in 126 movies in total, 101 of those since Footloose was released.

How old do you think he looks in the movie?

In Footloose, I think John Lithgow looks:

Did you know?

  • Director Herbert Ross 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
  • Footloose scores 6.65 out of 10 on TMDB.

The cast of Footloose

John Lithgow's other movies