From:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/01/lithgow_is_no_john_cleese.php
Tony Award-winning actor John Lithgow is busy these nights in a one-man show, Stories by Heart, at the Mark Taper Forum. This morning he was at the A&I Photographic Services counter in Hollywood when the clerk mistook him — out loud — for the actor John Cleese. Apparently the whole room (which had been trying to stay discreetly silent about his presence) howled in disbelief. That's OK, Lithgow reassured the chagrined clerk: "I get that all the time."
Comments
Monty Petra: well, they both have a big chin, but other than that, they're not that similar..
Holly: wow, how very awkward for him. Maybe its because they have the same 1st name.
Not really. Otherwise people would confuse him with Johnny Depp. lol.
lol, true
TheSister91: sorry, who's the man on the right??
ever seen third rock from the sun? thats the most famous thing he has been in I think...
He was the Trinity Killer on Dextor, and he was in Footloose, Harry and the Hendersons, and Santa Claus with Dudley Moore.
oh, footloose you say´? well, only seen half of it once, but still, for those who where around and old enough in the 80s I hear its a big one
yup, he was the preacher who banned music & dancing.
well, the only thing I remember from that movie is kevin bacon. haha